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Please let this intelligent woman inform you of the current mentality of Africans towards the West and the USA specifically.
The Central African Republic, Burkina Faso & Mali are essentially now fully Russian colonial states
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Please let this intelligent woman inform you of the current mentality of Africans towards the West and the USA specifically.
^^^^^^^^^^
literally had a full convo with someone regarding this situation yesterday.
And I’ll leave it at that.
Africa getting carved up for those natural resources. When will it end…
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fukk the Fulani
Russia now runs Burkina Faso...
Russians running Mali now too
www.nytimes.com
They Said They Went to Mali to Keep the Peace. Now They’re Jailed as Mercenaries.
Ivory Coast said its soldiers were in Mali to provide security for the United Nations peacekeeping mission. But Mali accused them of seeking to undermine its own security.
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You nikkaz say the dumbest shyt
A 1000 year old civilization with nuclear weapons and over 100 million people will vanish?
OK
I don’t blame West Africans for kicking the French out an allying with Russia. Look at how arrogant France is!
Africa's being petty, IMO.
Let's be honest. You don't get to have literal islamic radical insurgencies killing your own people then act like you got it under control. You don't.
Let's be honest. You don't get to have literal islamic radical insurgencies killing your own people then act like you got it under control. You don't.
The Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, and Mali are - if anything - neo-colonies of the French.
Hence why they are Francophone countries, were colonized by the French, and are explicitly tied to French-backed lending systems that have massively slowed their growth and development once they were able to break free of formal French colonial rule.
To claim that they're Russian colonial states is so absurd, that even the NYT had to juxtapose Russian mercenary activities with the U.S.'s already existing (and much more widespread) military activities in the region, the UN's continued presence there, and France's overt military presence and control there.
That isn't to say that Russian-government backed mercenary forces shouldn't be condemned across the board. They're a scourge. But the U.S. has failed to provide assistance to the governments there, and has actively undermined legitimate governments in these nations in the past - which allowed Russia to fill the void. For Burkina Faso in particular, the United States and France literally helped assassinate Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, and ushered in a period of austerity and reversal of policy.
Foreign military control needs to be wrought from the nations entirely, but that would require a reversal of decades of economic policy that keeps most of the goverments in power with Western backing.
Hence why they are Francophone countries, were colonized by the French, and are explicitly tied to French-backed lending systems that have massively slowed their growth and development once they were able to break free of formal French colonial rule.
To claim that they're Russian colonial states is so absurd, that even the NYT had to juxtapose Russian mercenary activities with the U.S.'s already existing (and much more widespread) military activities in the region, the UN's continued presence there, and France's overt military presence and control there.
That isn't to say that Russian-government backed mercenary forces shouldn't be condemned across the board. They're a scourge. But the U.S. has failed to provide assistance to the governments there, and has actively undermined legitimate governments in these nations in the past - which allowed Russia to fill the void. For Burkina Faso in particular, the United States and France literally helped assassinate Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, and ushered in a period of austerity and reversal of policy.
Foreign military control needs to be wrought from the nations entirely, but that would require a reversal of decades of economic policy that keeps most of the goverments in power with Western backing.
