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Today big news came from Niger. The military announced it had seized power and arrested the ProFrench President Mohamed Bazoum. The Constitution has been suspended and power transferred to a military junta. This was caused by increased unrest in the country, caused by the failure of the government to fight the ISIS insurgency and the endemic poverty that has gripped the country since independence from France.
Many nigeriens rightfully resent French neocolonialism over the country, especially since 2022 when huge amounts of French soldiers established bases in the country after they were kicked out of neighbouring Mali by a proRussia military junta.
After the coup was announced today, hundreds of procoup civilians came out in the center of the capital, waving flags of Russia and Wagner PMC and chanting antiFrench slogans. This seems to be signaling that Niger might be joining their neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso, who broke free of French control and established alliances with Russia after their French puppet governments were overthrown by military juntas.
Indeed, Mali recently removed French as an official language, demoting it to a "working language", while promoting only local languages to the official status. Like in Mali and Burkina Faso, this coup in Niger was followed by harsh western condemnation, and if the junta doesnt cave in to western demands, sanctions might soon follow like in Mali and Burkina Faso.
This is especially a problem for France, since Niger supplies up to 35% of its uranium. If Niger takes control of its natural resources like uranium, this could spell big trouble for French nuclear energy.
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>>584151Do we like Mugabe? I mean compare him with someone like Sankara or Lumumba and he just comes off rather lacking
No.584153
>>584152I wouldn't under sell the importance of smashing Rhodesian apartheid. I don't know enough about post-apartheid Zimbabwe to comment on his leadership though. We should at least consider the difficulties of leading the country through sanctions and the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
No.584154
>>584152he was a net good. not exactly an inspiring or remarkable leader, but his flaws are so exaggerated & taken wildly out of context
No.584155
>>584151>the hoodAfricans are not burgers.
No.584156
>>584155thats just the image macro format sir
No.584157
>>584156The original uses "streets". Someone burgerbrained changed it to reflect the HFCS in their DNA.
No.584158
>>584153True. People often neglect than when talking about Vietnam and Best Korea
No.584161
>>584152As a leader, Im not so sure- but apparently he wasn't that great. HOWEVER, smashing apartheid was far from a negative.
Problem is, is that because of his APPARENT less than stellar leadership, you have those "rhodesians never die" douchebags from /k/ shitting up the board, and trying to make the argument that "uhm ackshually RHODESIA was better under apartheid" etc. Of course, anyone with half a braincell would know to take /k/ope with a grain of salt, but still.
No.584162
>>584151>>584152>>584153>>584154>>584159>>584161>Mugabeone of the few world leaders retarded enough to go for an IMF structural adjustment program thinking it would help his people in any way whatsoever
he's great if you think Zelensky and Poroshenko and Yeltsin and Tsipras and Macri and any other neolib are also based leaders
No.584163
>>584162Still better than the apartheid regime led by Ian Smith
No.584167
What do we know about the military capabilities of the nations that will participate if a war were to start? What kind of armies do Niger, Nigeria and all the other ECOWAS nations have?
No.584170
>>584169The fact that they'll kill a bunch of people to overthrow a government with widespread approval is crazy. Anti-multipolaristas will sit on the fence with this one.
No.584174
>>584173Very nice, now do WWI
No.584175
>>584170>The fact that they'll kill a bunch of people to overthrow a government with widespread approval is crazyWhat do you think Russia was doing when they entered in Ukraine?
No.584176
>>584175Hardly relevant? Either way, the Ukrainian government was not popular in east Ukraine. The jnvasion wasn't "good", it was nothing but evil. It was also the logical outcome of the developing situation there and also what the US was working towards. Literally a successful US project.
No.584177
>>584176The Niger government isn't popular in the north and in the east either, coup or Bazoum.
No.584178
>>584174CHAD WW1 Socdems:
>We need to destroy Russia, the most reactionary state in the modern age that even Marx himself relentlessly complained about, in order to ensure the success of socialism worldwideCRINGE Whining Bolsheviks:
<NOOOO THIS IS INTER IMPERIALIST WAR YOU CAN'T FIGHT AGAINST RUSSIA AHHHHHHHH DEMAND PEACE NOWWWW THIS IS INEXCUSABLE STOP THE FIGHTINGGGGG1. Tsarist regime breaks under the pressure of WW1
2. SocDems are proven right but the Soviets ended up in charge in Russia because they avoided all the fighting and were living in exile like cowards
3. Doesn't matter anyways since new revolutionary Russia can now export the revolution worldwide
4. a lot of stuff happens here
5. Communists today bitch about WW1 and engage in revisionist history to try to shame socdems even though they were proven completely 100% correct in retrospect about their assumptions regarding WW1 in regards to how it would destroy the Tsarist regime and would also allow for socialism to flourish and that the war was thus progressive
debate me
No.584179
>>584178Based freikorps bro.
t. sucdem
No.584180
>>584179Everyone always complains about the Freikorps but no one ever mentions that not much later after Rosa was floating in a canal the German government was already actively cooperating with the Soviet military and helping modernize the Red Army and to speed up their industrialization process. Germany was the only country willing to break the embargo to bring the Soviet army up to speed on the latest military and technical developments.
Imagine if Hitler had gone up against peasant farmers using anarkiddie tactics like Makhno's horse infantry rather than the mechanized might of the Red Army.
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>Capitaine Ibrahim Traoré : « La vraie indépendance, il faut maintenant la conquérir »
>200,790 views Aug 7, 2023 #capitaineibrahimtraoré #faso7 #burkinafaso
>En marge de la cérémonie de sortie de la 22e promotion des élèves-officiers d’active de l’académie militaire Georges-Namoano le 5 août 2023, le Président de la Transition, le Capitaine Ibrahim Traoré a rencontré les forces vives de la région du Centre-Sud.
>🔴 « Aujourd'hui, c'est une date historique, la proclamation de l'indépendance. Mais dans nos discours, on ne cesse de le dire que la vraie indépendance, il faut maintenant la conquérir et je pense que ce combat a commencé », a déclaré le Capitaine Ibrahim Traoré, Président de la Transition.
>➡️ Recevez les infos par SMS en composant sur votre numéro Orange Burkina : *3368#
>#burkinafaso #faso7 #capitaineibrahimtraoré
No.584189
>EKULAKS threaten "d-day"
>thread is literally just posting yt vids
Is anything actually fucking happening or what?
No.584190
>>584189Based Nigerians are seeing their government get better that’s what’s happening.
No.584191
>>584189The yootoob links are mostly current news from regional media organisations
retard>>584188Good catch tankyoo, good coverage especially for a western NGO, but this clip from an indian media covers the sitation better.
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https://aaprp-intl.org/revolution-in-sahel/Excellent coverage on Coups in West Africa or the Sahel Region by the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party; essentially a communist pan-african organization, click and read for yourself.
These coups (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso) of West Africa are a positive movement in the direction of organization and revolution even if not exactly those things.
We have a world to win, it seems some here forget that, yes the situation is nuanced and deserves grey analysis, but weigh the positives and negatives here, what pushes and furthers the movement of communism, the direction as of current seems progressive in relation to recent events in West Africa.
Although I do not encourage war, and such bloodshed would developmentally regress the Sahel, I am logically not seeing anything other than conflict as the contradictions are too high: Nations A have all the resources nessecary for societal function, Nations B need said resources for societal function; what happens when Nations B cannot acquire these resources as Nations A refuse to let these resource be acquired… Add in context and it seems Nations A had imperialist policies of historical colonialism and now contemporarily continuing Neo-Colonialism for cheap or close to free resource extraction forced upon them, which allows Nations B society, its infrastructure, welfare state, cheap consumer goods too thrive and Nation B is also able to freely use Nations A Human Labour and extract value from them, and skim off its companies etc…
The contradictions are many, mainly that of exploitation on the global scale, historic or current, one has resources yet can't utilize them; you get the gist, and are negative contradictions, where the interests of the newly formed couped states are different to that of it aggressors, this seems to arise only in conflict.
However there is the positive too, such war could extend the consciousness of the masses of nations either side, a pointless war of resource extraction to serve imperialists (on the side of the ECOWAS bloc) or a war of liberation and a new start for a progressive federation of African States (newly couped west African states).
Thoughts?
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>>584192 (me)
On a side note: Maybe the statement on consciousness raising is idealistic, how or why after or during war could/can a masses class consciousness turn to a positive direction, does war do this in on of itself due to extremities, or can it also produce reactionary tendencies too.
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>>584192Tankyoo bookmarked
>>584193In regards to war some hopefully good news breaking from Al Jazeera
Englishh\ttps://youtu.be/KqzyOUSR-M0
The interim president of Niger proposes a three-year transition to civilian rule.
No.584197
>>584190you mean nigeriens right?
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>>584188Your channel is delivering
https://youtu.be/A1hZNSMzyVY<Niger's junta warns against military intervention, vows return to civilian rule within 3 years #AfNews>“I am convinced that … we will work together to find a way out of the crisis, in the interests of all,” Tchiani said, commenting after his first meeting with a regional delegation seeking to resolve the West African nation’s crisis.Published about an hour ago, so on par or perhaps even slightly ahead of us on the news curve.
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