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Russia’s strategy to reenter Angola is more advanced than it appears, and its success cannot be explained solely by Moscow’s ability to operate through intermediaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is explained, above all, by the fact that within the Angolan state apparatus there are those who are willing to facilitate this agenda\u2014even when it clashes head-on with the country’s strategic interests and national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The combination of the African Bank of Oman, which acts as a front financial platform, and the Catoca Mining Company, where former Alrosa executives are being reintroduced under Omani cover, reveals a pattern too consistent to be ignored: Russia is returning through the front door, but with a borrowed passport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The succession of decisions that allowed this rapprochement is not the result of naivety. It is the result of alignment. ABO fills precisely the void left by VTB, replicating the financial control architecture that Moscow lost after the sanctions. At the same time, Catoca’s new Omani owner is proposing the reintegration of Russian technicians in key positions\u2014from financial management to diamond evaluation and marketing\u2014rebuilding, piece by piece, the operational ecosystem that previously guaranteed Russia direct influence over one of the most sensitive sectors of the Angolan economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
None of this would be possible without internal facilitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone at the government level is paving the way for this operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone at the government level is allowing critical state structures to be reoccupied by foreign interests that Angola had already removed for reasons of reputational, financial, and geopolitical risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone at the government level is placing the Russian agenda above the country’s economic sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when decisions of this magnitude are made without scrutiny, without transparency, and against the national interest, it is not just a matter of bad governance\u2014it is a matter of strategic compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is at stake is not just the re-entry of Russian executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the reconstitution of a corridor of influence that Angola had already dismantled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the ceding of strategic sectors to actors who operate through intermediaries precisely to avoid sanctions and international scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the vulnerability of a state that, by allowing these operations, relinquishes control over its own critical assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And above all, it is the realization that within the government there are those who are willing to sacrifice national security in the name of foreign interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a traitor to the nation (or several) in the government!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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