and that's because if it's g, a strategic position on the gulf of aidan, i'm many countries have strategic interests that because of its location by kentucky the that the gulf of aidan itself. but also because of access to the hinterland, ethiopia. so i don't think that the evidence stacks up on, on rhetorical noun debt trap, which tends to be not only out of washington, although less so just recently. but japan and india tend to kind of use that rhetoric. but there's the, the research that we've done doesn't, doesn't support that. and what about what russia is, is doing in africa and 2019 president putin said that he was going to double investment to on the continent of has that materialized given the sanctions that are in place against russia given the war in ukraine. and so the russians have another, their 2nd russia, africa summit planned for july, this year in st. petersburg. so it'll be interesting to see who shows up and what the headlines are there, and particularly from the commercial side, the reality when i talk to, to russians as it's been very difficult for them in terms of in

and that's because if it's g, a strategic position on the gulf of aidan, i'm many countries have strategic interests that because of its location by consensus, the that the gulf of aidan itself. but also because of access to the hinterland, ethiopia. so i don't think that the evidence stacks up on, on rhetoric, on the, on deck trap, which tends to be not only out of washington, although less so just recently. but japan and india tend to kind of use that rhetoric. but there's the, the research that we've done doesn't, doesn't support that. and what about what russia is, is doing in africa and 2019 president putin said that he was going to double investment to on the continent. it has that materialized given the sanctions that are in place against russia given the war in ukraine. and so the russians have another, the 2nd russia, africa summit planned for july, this year in st. petersburg. so it'll be interesting to see who shows up and what the headlines are there, and particularly from the commercial side, the reality when i talked to, to russians as it's been very difficult for them in ter