John Defterios: Russia has appealed to a select number of fragile African countries because it projects strength and competence in security matters. But if they're now looking at a regime that can't even ensure security at home, they might rethink whether it's good to be getting into business with Russia. Kina Faso, for instance, has long been looted as the next staging post for the Wagner group. If you're the regime there, are you really going to invite in a group that just staged a mutiny in its country of origin? So I think it's important as we speculate as to the future of the Wagner group that we don't lose sight that there's two sides to this
Its leader is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow that its murky African operations bring. The striking down of affirmative-action university-admissions policies in America may counterintuitively spur more-progressive and more-efficient alternatives (9:56). And the reinvention (again) of a beloved Chinese sweet treat (17:08).
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