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.
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France about to do a colonialism again
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.
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
Russian propaganda did a good job there. I lough if they think Russia will solve their problems.
They haven't overthrown any democratic elected leader, the only person they've overthrown was Bazoum.
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.
Honestly I wouldn't be able to tell which side is the good one here.
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
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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.
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...
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As a French I don't know either, especially looking at our history
Siding with the democratically elected leader is generally a good choice.
Not so simple when everyone in the country instantly started chanting that the coup liberated them from french influence and protesting at our embassies
Awaiting proper stats but just asking people in the streets what they think about it all tells a different story about the previous regime
Because there's never one?
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
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Niger's junta knows this how?
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians were feeding them intelligence
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.
Yeah I dunno why people find that so hard to believe. They have a clear interest in propping up this coup.
There is a difference between a clear interest and moral reason. There is a clear interest.
I realize now the lemmygrad folks are here so that prob explains the downvotes
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.
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.
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