GCostanzaStepOnMe ( @GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ) 25•10 months agoFrance about to do a colonialism again
GenEcon ( @GenEcon@lemm.ee ) 25•10 months agoSo far a leader of a military group, which has just overthrown a democratic elected leader, which cooperates with the Wagner group to secure their might, claims that France is doing that.
I would put a big question mark behind that claim and wait for reliable sources.
balls_expert ( @balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•10 months agoDemocratically elected my ass. The popular support for the coup, however misguided it is, seems overwhelming among the locals
We the french have no right to force a democracy upon them. Doesn’t matter how stupid we think this is
Pili ( @Pili@lemmy.ml ) 3•10 months agoThey haven’t overthrown any democratic elected leader, the only person they’ve overthrown was Bazoum.
Kbin_space_program ( @Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ) 20•10 months agoFrance about to depose a military coup? Recall this is the junta that deposed Niger’s president that is claiming France is going to invade.
GCostanzaStepOnMe ( @GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ) 12•10 months agoHonestly I wouldn’t be able to tell which side is the good one here.
Kbin_space_program ( @Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ) 12•10 months agoYeah, fully admit all I really know is that the deposed president was democratically elected, that the military junta was not, that Russia is suspected of BS, and that the migrant issue is potentially involved.
The first one is the important one to me, that its a Ecowas sanctioned military dictatorship making the claim that Ecowas is going to invade with France’s help.
Dreyns ( @Dreyns@lemmy.ml ) 7•10 months agoThe thing is europe and the west in general is bleeding africa of it’s ressources and even though it topples a democraticly elected president the goal they claim is to free themselves of postcolonialism wich could be very good for africa. But yeah always hard to know woch side tells the truth…
Tangentism ( @Tangentism@lemmy.ml ) 12•10 months agoIf the end goal of either side isnt the redistribution of the countries wealth, increasing health, education and housing programs then they can both get fucked
bingbong ( @bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•10 months agoBased
sederx ( @sederx@programming.dev ) 3•10 months agoBecause there’s never one?
HobbitFoot ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) English3•10 months agoFrance used to control Niger the same way that Russia controlled Ukraine. Now that Niger and Ukraine are independent countries, I’m sure the response to both will be consistent.
Pili ( @Pili@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 months agoLol what? Did you miss the leaked call revealing that the 2014 coup was to make Ukraine a US puppet state?
roguetrick ( @roguetrick@kbin.social ) 18•10 months agoIn the end all that matters is does Nigeria want to fight this war or not. They’re the ones that’ll be paying for it in blood and treasure. France is a sidenote. They’re not going to die over this.