South Africa’s Putin problem

Published July 21, 2023 10:00am ET



Just because Pretoria is over 7,000 miles away from the battlefields of Ukraine doesn’t mean the 17-month-long war hasn’t impacted South Africa. Those effects aren’t measured in bombs, bullets, and refugees, but rather by the increasingly precarious diplomatic juggling act South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has had to maintain ever since the first Russian missiles landed in Mariupol, Kyiv, and Kharkiv.

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