Raw LLM Responses

Russia too. People act all surprised when half of Africa is selling all their resources to China (and an increasing amount are getting in bed with Russia too). They shouldn't be. As unethical as much of China's debt traps are, they get the job done and build infrastructure in places that previously had none with the only condition being paying back China. When a former colonial state of France, on the other hand, wants to do anything with France, if things go awry France will just invade them and instill a new dictator even worse than the last one. And nothing gets done in the end. EDIT: To give a personal example, the country I was born in, Kyrgyzstan, has very little political alliances conducted with Western countries, because alliances with them are always sleazy and have secret conditions. When we accepted United States aid money in the 90s, suddenly we had to build them military bases WITH that aid money and then cut ties to Russia. They wanted us to change the constitution for this and that reason. To support them. On the other hand, Russia gives us aid for literally nothing except providing them with easy immigration & emigration plus some weapons stockage. Nobody should be surprised we kicked the Americans out in favour of closer ties to Russia!