The US and France have threatened foreign intervention to re-install a pro-Western regime in Niger, which produces uranium needed for nuclear energy and host...
  • u_tamtam@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Hmm, so we have Russia sponsoring a coup and installing a military junta, and somehow this is western neocolonialism?
    Those mouthpieces and farmed trolls really don’t pretend to be trying hard anymore. Sure thing this is helping the population of Niger, one of the poorest in the world, right?

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 year ago

          Imagine being utterly ignorant of western colonization of Africa and the role USSR played in African liberation. People in Africa support Russia today because of that history. It’s not a mystery for anybody with even a modicum of historical literacy. Meanwhile, nice ad hominem there, are you disputing the factual content of the article or just making a clown of yourself as usual?

          • u_tamtam@programming.dev
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            1 year ago

            Imagine (insults put aside) being so out of touch with the real world to think 1940’s geopolitics constitutes a reasonable case to portray Russia, a different state, as a well-meaning player in the region today, all the while Russia, being in an open war of aggression with its neighbours, is very much exerting the kind of “neocolonialism” and expansionism it accuses its enemies of doing.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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              1 year ago

              These aren’t 1940s geopolitics. USSR provided education, built infrastructure, provided food, and helped Africa shake off western imperialism. People who got education in Patrice Lumumba university in Russia are still alive today. Meanwhile, the west continues to oppress and colonize Africa today. That’s why Africans are aligning with Russia. The fact that you don’t understand this shows profound ignorance on your part just as does your framing of the war in Ukraine.

        • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          So your theory is:

          1. Russia sponsors a coup, but
          2. Denies involvement, only to
          3. Supply locals with Russia flags and presumably pay them to wave them around?
          • u_tamtam@programming.dev
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            1 year ago

            Are you denying that Russia has been messing around in the region? Why is Wagner even there in the first place? Or is interventionism good when Russia does it?

            • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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              1 year ago

              I asked you what your theory is on the situation and you responded by putting words in my mouth.

              Again, do you think Russia engineered this, only to deny it, only to pay people to waive Russian flags around?

  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    France hasn’t threatened anyone. It states that it would défend its citizen and assets, should they be attacked. CDAO announced they would intervene if the elected president is not freed and reinstated.

    • birdcat@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Defend it’s asset huh?

      But isnt it weird that nigers uranium produces 40% of Frances electricity while only 11% of nigers citizens even have access to electricity?

      • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Disinformation. France sources 10% of its uranium supply from Niger. It has companies doing business with Niger, as many other countries do. But of course you can blame France for every issue in every African country. It is a really bad country with horrible people in it.

        • BunkerBusterKeaton@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          imagine being this user, and looking at a neo-colonized country that has suffered from appalling resource extraction by the french for decades and then saying

          It is a really bad country with horrible people in it.

          please stfu