China and Russia surpass the U.S. in approval ratings in Africa.
U.S. approval ratings in Africa at 56%, lagging behind China (58%) and Russia (64%).
Russia’s increasing popularity is attributed to arms sales, military training, and economic initiatives in Africa.
The survey which involved 130 countries globally saw a global increase in America’s disapproval ratings from 33% in 2022 to 36% in 2023. However, the US’s approval ratings between the same period remained the same at 41%.
In Africa however, the US’s approval rating stands at 56%, with China and Russia having 2% and 8% more respectively. ⠀
In Uganda, Gambia, and Kenya the approval rating of the US dropped by 29, 21 and 14 percentage points, respectively. With 23% and 25%, respectively, Libya and Somalia had the lowest scores. ⠀
As the US media recently claimed, citing an anonymous US source, Moscow may be able to address the continent’s urgent security demands through arms sales that exceed Washington’s capacity, which might account for Russia’s increasing popularity in Africa. ⠀
Russia has been on a mission to increase its influence in Africa. In addition to military ties, Russia has initiated a number of economic initiatives with the continent, including the building of a House of Africa in several of its states, shipments of free grains to the continent, nuclear deals, and more.
Africa: Liberates itself from imperialist colonisation in the decades after after WWII
USA: Takes advantage of the post-war European Imperialist vacuum to go and do some imperialism for itself in Latin America, Asia and later the Middle-East
Africa: Mistrusts USA
USA: Pikachu shocked face
Don’t forget France. France never stopped colonizing Africa, just changed their methods.
This might’ve hurt too.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/644222/loses-soft-power-edge-africa.aspx
America was up above 80% in 2009/2010, so this change can’t be because either of those
Unless people in Africa became more educated, so it feels a bit easy to just disregard them. Also, people often don’t change their mind overnight.
I don’t think anyone is saying anything happened overnight. We’re talking a fifty-sixty year delay on the events mentioned above. But also, I would want to see some evidence that Africans on average weren’t aware of the legacy of colonialism up until the 2010s, because that seems like an unreasonably low estimation of education on the continent.
Besides that, Russia and China also saw declines throughout the 2010s from peaks in 2009/2010. That would suggest to me that something in the 2010s made Africans on average less approving of the world’s major powers in general
This was a fascinating read
Why wouldn’t it?
What are the approval numbers for France and are they lower than Malaria’s
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Even if this was true (I’m not well-read on the topic but it seems like Western copium) it’s much better than the shit France does in West Africa and the US does everywhere.
Moscow may be able to address the continent’s urgent security demands through arms sales that exceed Washington’s capacity
Happens when you deindustrialize your own country to crush working-class movements
How much money has China invested in Africa?
‘Invested’ is a polite term. They’re granting loans in exchange for ports and land. Most of those loans will probably not be repaid and China will come to collect.
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Palestine isn’t a “now” issue, but otherwise yeah.
Psyop is a big word. Overblown, maybe, but definitely not a psyop. Just because there’s no evidence that they’re getting murdered doesn’t mean what’s happening is ok.
People are more likely just uniformed, like the vast majority of people everywhere. And it’s easy to distrust america when they’re all over the news with their fucked up stuff. And despite all that they’re still above 50% with russia and china not much higher, so… Whatever.
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
American Debunks All Major Western Propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang
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Wow, so many links and so much effort just to say: “enemy super smart and powerful that creates world-wide misinformation and controls the world”, but then they’re also super stupid and sends a “CIA agent” to do an ama on reddit. Fascism 101, isn’t it?
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invoking Umberto Eco with no evidence
Gold. I’m tempted to put this on a rules list somewhere.
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Yes it is check the Talk page. wikipedia had even changed their title from “Uyghur Genocide” to this in light of an actual Genocide going on in Gaza. Also the fact that RFA, ASPI and other openly funded by western government sources are allowed, but no Chinese sources is a heavy western bias in wikipedia…
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I don’t think that’s it
American aid USAID is the laziest thing Americans can do for Africa because 75% of the country is too fat to fly there and 100% are too stupid to know what to do.
The Chinese put in sweat equity while Americans avoid sweating at all costs because it’ll ruin their new Tee shirt or whatever.
Statistically speaking, 75% of people commenting in here are over 250lbs and never seen a flight longer than 3 hours. Thus making it impossible to help in any realistic way.
The Chinese are just taking over what colonials and Americans have abandoned because it let’s face it, they have a racism and fascism problem.
Americans think throwing worthless dollars at problems they can solve anything.
You guys really are fucking collapsing huh?
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One of the weirdest things about having a kbin account is we can see low effort trolling comments like this even after the mods removed it and the rest of the people in here can’t see it.
