Potential Implications of Russia-Ukraine Militarism and Diplomatic Actions on African States

Abstract

It is incontrovertible fact to construe war and its annihilation through the lenses of machination of military might as a continuation of political national interests. This postulation is a similitude of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war of militarism that has defied all diplomatic actions and strategies. The Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is the biggest military mobilisation in Europe since World War II, 1939-1945. Plethora of predisposing and precipitating forces that culminated to the war of annihilation could be deciphered in externally and internally induced factors. Consequently, the militaristic war become aggravated with US government unrestricted loan of $90 million for procurement of lethal weapons for war prosecution among other supports. This action and many others by the West have morphed up global social, economic, political and environment into unimaginable danger and influences that begs for diplomatic resolution. The intensity and profundity have subjected not only Europe, Middle East and Asia to disproportionate calamities through its containment, but its potential implications are evidently manifested in African States diplomatic actions in all human facets. Fundamentally, its cascading implications has negatively immersed African States’ emasculated economy to overbearing importation elsewhere where Russia has been playing apposite roles. In this ambience, Africa States are redirected towards excruciating inflation, poverty ambience, and sophisticated corruption, social and political accelerated instabilities in many areas. Its potential implications in international political system have continued to subject African States to the whims and caprices of democratic governance with the propensity to debase Afrocentrism. It is against the foregoing prism, the paper debriefed data from secondary source, while contextual qualitative historical data interpretation is adopted for analysis.