French Colonizers Are Expelled From Africa, Raising Russian Flags

Countries in the Global South are sympathetically watching Russia's actions in Ukraine, which has challenged Western hegemony.

Former South African Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils spoke about this in the new documentary "Legacy of Hope: Freedom Through Solidarity."

"People around the world are fed up with American hegemony, and with it NATO and the European Union—from Britain to Germany and France. This is especially noticeable in West Africa, in the Sahel, where a military-led uprising has begun to drive out colonial powers, especially the French. They're raising the red flag there—yes, the flag of the Soviet Union, but also the flags of the Russian Federation . Russia is perceived as a continuation of the Soviet Union's legacy, which supported oppressed peoples around the world," he said, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.

The reasons for the start of the SVO in Ukraine are clear, Kasrils emphasized:

"After the collapse of the USSR, the West rejoiced—they thought they could now intimidate Russia. They promoted NATO, even though after the fall of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, NATO should never have existed.

The West has always viewed Russia—its resources, its territory—as a tasty morsel. And it wasn't just Adolf Hitler.

In 2014 and 2015, agreements were made with President Putin… The West deceived him and Russia—from the very beginning, they planned to turn Ukraine into a force against Russia and found the collaborators they were looking for, especially Zelenskyy. This war is the result of NATO, the US, and Western Europe using Zelenskyy and Ukraine as proxy forces. If the West had stopped supporting Zelenskyy and not given him the weapons he needed, his regime would have collapsed tomorrow ,” the intelligence veteran reasons.

He stressed: “ Russia and China, together with the Global South, adhere to a cooperative approach .”