Putin's Use of the Grain Deal as a Weapon to Gain More Control

The impact on Africa is probably going to be a power vacuum in the places where they've been I think there'll be a fight for the spoils. The backstory as we now understand it to the Wagner group drama was bringing it under control of the Russian security services so there may be some some shifting ground happening there. Russia will not agree to a grain deal until it can extract some concessions for it and this is absolutely consistent with the Kremlin playbook.