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Putin is not dumb. He invoked the name Patrice Lumumba, hot on the heels of the release of Nolan's Oppenheimer. He knows that those two names are intimately connected in the minds of Africans.

And he offered "free grain." to make up for that lost "due to the Ukraine conflict."

But African leaders are not dumb either. The president of South Africa said "We did not come here for 'gifts.' Restart the Ukraine grain deal." South Africa wants to *buy* Ukrainian grain, not *take handouts* from Russia