{"id":20507,"date":"2025-11-20T17:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20507"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:51:42","slug":"what-happened-to-russias-troops-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20507","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Russia\u2019s Troops in Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Russia intervenes in Africa not just for control over&nbsp;resources, but to compete against the&nbsp;West for influence. Russia can avoid sanctions and global condemnation by having African countries vote with them. Russia uses private&nbsp;military companies that in theory are independent, but in reality are arms of the Russian state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Happened to Russia\u2019s Troops in Africa?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVLBitv_A_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia intervenes in Africa not just for control over resources, but to compete against the West for influence. Russia can avoid sanctions and global condemnation by having African countries vote with them. Russia uses private military companies that in theory are independent, but in reality are arms of the Russian state. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVLBitv_A_4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[417,314,259,2264,316,2159,315],"class_list":["post-20507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-africa","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-private-military-organizations","tag-putin","tag-resources","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20508,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions\/20508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}