• roguetrick
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    610 months ago

    In 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.

    • @GenEcon@lemm.ee
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      So 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Democratically 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

        • @bouh@lemmy.world
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          -110 months ago

          Russian propaganda did a good job there. I lough if they think Russia will solve their problems.

      • @Pili@lemmy.ml
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        -110 months ago

        They haven’t overthrown any democratic elected leader, the only person they’ve overthrown was Bazoum.

    • Kbin_space_program
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      410 months ago

      France about to depose a military coup? Recall this is the junta that deposed Niger’s president that is claiming France is going to invade.

        • @Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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          510 months ago

          If 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

          • @whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works
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            110 months ago

            wonder why the downvote, we sure would like to thing that there’s a bad and a good one, much easier, but most nation are acting for their own profit first, not by pure heart

        • Kbin_space_program
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          Yeah, 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@lemmy.ml
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            The 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…

          • @Blursty@lemmygrad.ml
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            Yeah, fully admit all I really know is that the deposed president was democratically elected, that the military junta was not, that Russia the USA is suspected of BS…

            Just one change and you’ve got Ukraine.

            • dumdum666
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              210 months ago

              That’s just bullshit - but you already know that - don’t you?

              • @Blursty@lemmygrad.ml
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                -210 months ago

                So the Nazi military junta that seized power in Ukraine was democratically elected? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?

                Or that the illegally ousted president was never democratically elected?

                Explain yourself.

                • Skua
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                  110 months ago

                  Zelensky’s government was not the result of the 2014 revolution. It was elected in 2019.

    • HobbitFoot
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      France 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.

      • HobbitFoot
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        1110 months ago

        You’re getting downvoted, but the Wagner Group has a stake in this coup being successful and the group has ties to the Russian government.

        • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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          710 months ago

          Yeah I dunno why people find that so hard to believe. They have a clear interest in propping up this coup.

          • HobbitFoot
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            210 months ago

            There is a difference between a clear interest and moral reason. There is a clear interest.

              • HobbitFoot
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                310 months ago

                It is really hard to sell a liberation foreign policy when the group doing so is getting paid by strip mining the land in compensation for their services. Well, unless West is bad and always bad, but it is really hard to sell moral superiority by being mercenaries.

    • @freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      Because you don’t just have a coup after having a stroke of insight from a night of binge drinking?

      It’s a movement led military units that have deep political and intelligence connections. They know a lot of things that aren’t going to be admitted by the West.