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Macron needs to be put on suicide watch!
There’s ANOTHER coup in Francophone Afrique: “… the Gabonese Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa…” another plundered hostage of the CFA Franc… Dominoes!
Viva la revolución
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It’s become too risky to sleep lately
Here’s the nice guy in Gabon just deposed ⬇️
Anyone who elicits such genuine pleasure on her face…..
W = wagner presence (assumed in Niger); sorry the “W” on Ghana should be on Burkina!
WB = the Central African Republic continental base of Wagner
NB. Note the cookie cutter pattern to start this coup: allied power branches around the microphone, all French tv/radio signals shut down, borders closed. Part is SOP, but the French signals immediately cut?? Quiz Friday: spontaneous or a gentle Siberian wind washing over Africa?
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https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-are-the-major-natural-resources-of-gabon.html
All of the elite of France should be put on suicide watch. In Gabon was more uranium, oil, and largest manganese mines in Africa. Good Lord! What is unfolding may exceed the impact of the guillotining of the Ancien Régime. The end of the 5th Republic! A polished leather jackboot drifts into view…
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Updates:
- This is a small country of close to 2 million
- Its puny military is about 5,000 men. (!) Zelensky uses that number up every 2-3 days, counting rear casualties
- Not part of crazed ECOWAS
- The local regional grouping ECCAS (I know 😅 — the French weren’t creative in 1990s) has only one significant military power — CHAD, itself a Junta which refused to invade Niger for France, lol
- HUGE crowds streamed onto streets to party with the new Bosses
- The Junta restored the internet cut over the weekend by the last regime whilst stealing the election (!!) Who enjoys popular legitimacy??
- Old Prez for life under house arrest. Same playbook! Smooth. In the good old days, he would be located in several provinces at the same time
- The West hasn’t reached the first of the five stages of Grief. They are numb atm; reportedly 2x dose of adrenochrome did not resuscitate
shellshocked German media forgets to display schadenfreude at French predicament :
Jungle Borrell happened to be in Toledo, Spain in a meeting with EU Defense Ministers. He quickly stuck his soft exploding head into the garden soil. Decisions, decisions… The Agony. 404 or neocolonial possessions? Maintenance of Plunder or pay fair market price? How many prepubescents can they extort outta Frenchie for the dungeons of Madrid (even second hand via Zelensky) in order to receive the help of “the international community?” Bend over a little more for Uncle Sam or keep a stiff upper lip as the master mansion burns? French fries or Freedom Fries?
I’ll soon provide a map of the new Junta/resistance belt which I count as seven (7) impacting the CFA franc. Does the Euro have a sole German leg to stand on? Can we send a chopper to Pepe to get him the hell outta France?!!
“Escape from Paris.”
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Wait. African Stream asked excellent question. Who does this serve? Is Frenchie sponsoring his own coups of compromised Prezidents for Life, being thrown under the bus, riding the new wave in the region? Preempting what is coming anyway in a more controlled fashion? Let’s watch how they behave and how the other Juntas behave towards them; they won’t fool the other Juntas.
And if this WAS instigated by Frenchie, they may find themselves as double crossed as Uncle Sam in Niger! 😅
Ok over to other thread — Niger is erupting too (maybe pan-Juntas thread next time? 😂)
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AFRICA FIGHTS BACK FOR ITS RESOURCES
In recent years, West Africa has become a political theatre of note. One military after another has moved from the barracks to the presidential palace. At the heart of these popular military takeovers is the contest over the vast resources that the continent is endowed with.
The African continent is blessed with abundant natural resources. It has 40% of the world’s gold, 65% of its diamonds, and almost 90% of the chromium and platinum. It boasts around a third of global mineral reserves in total. There’s heaps of ‘black gold’ too – 12% of the world’s oil reserves – plus 8% of the natural gas and around 20% of the uranium. On top of that, our continent embraces 40% of the planet’s arable land and 10% of its inland freshwater sources. Under normal circumstances, the resources should have been a blessing. Still, in the case of our continent, they have put it in the crosshairs of imperialists who, for centuries, have plundered with impunity and left a trail of destruction in their wake.
For instance, resource-rich countries such as Niger and Gabon have suffered under French imperialism for decades due to Paris’s dependence on its resources for survival. It is Niger’s uranium that powers France’s electricity grid, while French companies such as TotalEnergies and Perenco control more than half of Gabon’s oil sector, the fifth largest on the continent. The timber harvested from Gabon’s rich forests adorns French homes, while most classrooms back home still lack desks.
Unsurprisingly, the military takeovers have early signs of support from many citizens because they are perceived as the only way of getting rid of the Western-aligned local elites, the enablers of the imperialist plunder of their national resources. Of course, Gabon is not Niger, and Niger is not Gabon, and in the coup in the latter, it’s not sure who is pulling the strings at this early stage. But many Africans across the continent are now asking if these uprisings will be how the continent finally manages to regain control of its abundant resources. Only time will tell.
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What an August, and there’s one more day. One for the history books.
This looks promising. The Gabon leader Nguema promoted by the Junta was a diplomat before becoming chief of Gabonese Republic Guard — and he’s touted as the “next strongman.” 😅 The last Strongman dynasty held on for almost 60 years.. but this guy was given a rockstar celebration and carried aloft on shoulders, so let us see. He’s reported to initially refuse the leadership spot, then accepted. If true, this is a good sign. He appears to have a sense of stewardship of his people. And they quickly needed a head. He’s now official transition leader. New measure ➡️ curfews 6pm to 6am.
White House: ‘The United States is monitoring the situation in Gabon and intends to “support democracy.”‘ 🤔Those two words, “Freeum and Demokracy” should make any civilized man run for his life… But the Sun is coming out from behind the Black Curtain of 500 years… Also note they no longer say, “We are with the people of Gabon, Niger, etc..” — it is the Situation, and how to return to unobtrusive Looting. No more pretense this is about the People.
France in Gabon. Reportedly in process to evacuate TotalEnergies oil giant (350 employees; Gabon’s main petrol distributor with 45 petrol stations) and other citizens.. Total has been sucking Gabon of its oil for 90 years (!). France has HUGE interests here. Before uranium was discovered in Niger, France’s top source was Gabon.. huge timber is extracted. A pleasant formerly docile “estate” with only 2.4 million population with top five oil reserves in sub Saharan Africa, all type of minerals, beautiful locations unlike big dusty Niger with 26M+ — so much more resource wealth was extracted to France … the King of Morocco owns an island next to the capital. This was supposed to be the inner province of France! Will this lasting bitterness cause a rupture with Anglo-Saxons, in not too distant future?
Niger: 🇳🇪🇫🇷⚡The “National Council for the Defense of the Fatherland”, formed by the military who carried out the coup in Niger, demanded the complete withdrawal of French troops from the country by September 3, the Arabic channel Sky News Arabia reported.
Borrell & EU: Moar Sanctions. Freedom fries it is….
Terminal myopia (pleonexia?) of the elite French is diagnosed by a French channel with 20-20 hind-vision:
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Overall quiet, scant news Gabon (no news hopefully = good news); Junta continues to consolidate, without much fuss from West so far..
🛢🇬🇦 TotalEnergies vs Carlyle Group
Hmm. Might explain better the US role and lack of condemnation of Gabon coup. Daddy Bush’s Carlyle Group’s Assala Energy continues to function normally while Total is being wound down….
Folks celebrate the end of old regime in Gabon. There was nauseating levels of inequality in Gabon leading to hate of former dynasty. Almost half lived below grinding poverty level in a nation with more resources than UAE and which could afford to make all prosperous and subsidized as Libya was during Gaddafi’s era. And the infrastructure of nation was not developed either, outside of narrow parts of the capital. It largely remained as in 19th century!
Thx to Pepe for kind message! 🙏🏼 I’ve read, learned from and loved him for 25 years, being a roving globetrotting nomad myself….
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The West has less leverage in Gabon compared to Niger. And the ground was shifted under them even in Niger due to Gabon.
- In Gabon, there are no easy Uncle Toms to instrumentalize and hide under as with ECOWAS — and they cannot afford the optics of open solo intervention (harkening to the “white man’s burden”). And do they even have the capabilities after being consumed in 404 and prior to regeneration of arms and combat effectiveness?? (See the below photo of dozens of generals lost!)
- There’s a fear of inciting waves of Juntas elsewhere by any intervention whatsoever, which will enrage Africans everywhere even further. This Empire of the Mind requires consent, which has currently evaporated in Africa. There is real risk now. All western compradore Thrones are creaking and shifting. So the western approach to this new Gabon Junta will be intense personalized intrigue and cooption to keep them captive vassals.
- This Gabon crisis will dampen impetus to war on Niger. It has laid bare the shallowness of support of their criminal compradores everywhere. Tottering Ivorians, Senegalese, Nigerians and others of ECOWAS (all in power due to rigged elections, AKA “political coups“) will now likely refuse to further risk their necks at home, no matter how much kompromat the West has on them.. This is also confirmed by Borrell’s and EU’s decision following their Defense Ministers’ meeting in Toledo, Spain: their entire measure against Niger, in the setting of spread of rot to Central Africa, was personal sanctions of the Nigerien Junta…
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Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
Above photo: Bongo’s eldest son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin (Left)
Note as in the Ukraine, Washington, and with Agent Tinubu of Chicago-Nigeria, narcotics come into play. The deposed ruler’s son was charged with narcotics trafficking.. Mind-altering substances are most useful to ensnare and remote-control in countless ways, no??
The ostentatious and criminal corruption of the former Gabonese dynasty was such as became intolerable for its Praetorian Guard.
And indeed, throughout history, how many Praetorian Guards became so disgusted with their Caesar they cut him up and installed a less unsavory crook. And what can we expect to occur soon enough in Rome on the Potomac, given the exploits of another Prodigious Son??
PS — rumours abound the new Junta leader is a cousin of the deposed Bunga.. this is likely. The minister to the right of Noureddin Bongo Valentin has the same last name of Nguema. Apparently Gabon was and remains a family affair… that may inform USUK complacency. They may see it as internal redistribution of the family spoils. We hope they’re unpleasantly disabused!
PPS — Younger Alex (Christoforou) likes to say the Ukraine sought to become Europe but it is Europe now becoming the Ukraine. Can we say the Gabon sought to become like the Shining US City on the Hill, but it is US that is now a Gabon??
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Gabon. Yes, this is looking more and more like a “friendly coup” for the West. And pro-USA. As Roosevelt once said of Nicaragua’s Somoza: “Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” So case closed??
Jungle Borrell got the memo. He makes appropriate noises and kowtows to the four Winds. Unless it is false bravado, leading the new Junta on in the desired direction? Regardless, pobre Frenchie! The atmosphere cannot be pleasant at the Quai d’Orsay. Positively toxic.
Nevertheless, several African vassals rushed to clean house, lol — among them the very Cameroon that Capitaine Ibrahim Traore was checking his watch for. 🤣😂 This mafia style of the Americans, without any refinement or class or appreciation of local culture whatsoever, will come to bite them in the a$$ and melt western influence altogether, even among the Uncle Toms eager to play catch and stay docile.
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A review of the French business model in Africa
A reminder of the critical importance of Africa to France and why the atmosphere is so toxic and desperate, even in the suicidal defiance in the face of resistance by hundreds of millions, with sympathy by billions more worldwide. Francophone Africa is not merely (1) plundered of stupendous mineral and natural resource wealth, but there is (2) the CFA franc and vicious monetary relations, and (3) “a colonial tax” bringing in estimated $500 B annually…. How many trillions, most not counted in official GDP, enters the coffers of french elite and the black budgets, etc..?
So imagine being on the dole for a century and more, having lost most of your industrial capabilities, the know-how, skills, will for meaningful honest work, and now up to your gills in Debt and lack of markets for the overpriced luxury goods crap fewer and fewer folks want to buy?! And your remaining markets are being quickly eroded by China and USA. So they work to keep almost half of Africa embroiled in contrived wars to prevent development and use of own resources; a demand destruction with weakening of state structures to prevent organized resistance. Where peace is permitted, as in abject Gabon, a total vacuum extraction of resources exists with an iron grip that sees minimal to no input of education, infrastructure, public health or decent jobs that could allow neocolonial slaves to understand who is doing what to them, and the role of the local accomplices to these crimes.
So this paradigm is not for long in our world at all. We are truly a global village now. Youth, the new internet-savvy generation, arise that see all. And they lack the apathy of older generations content to exit direct colonial control and just survive in hovels. Will the new Junta smell the balmy breeze and draw the lessons??? If not, they could face the fate of Burkina Fasso, where a second coup occured in the same year to overturn the first lukewarm Junta, who had just wanted a bigger cut of the pie. And the fruit of that second coup was Ibrahim Traore…
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Mali, Burkina and Niger form a joint secretariat to coordinate responses to security challenges. This is not merely defense of Niger in the case of attack by ECOWAS / NATO – but all security, especially fomented insurgency and terrorism in the tri-border area.The ostensible rationale for western boots in the Sahel, and in the event of ECOWAS impotence the remaining hope of the West, are these desert Bedouins and tribes who terrorize the tri-border area. They are a bigger danger than western boots. The tactics and means conveyed to attrit them by Wagner and Russia were successfully learned in Syria and Chechnya. They are now being formalized in the security procedures of the nascent Union state of Niger, Mali and Burkina.
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Welcome to September! We survived August! Good news from Niger evicting spies and its brother Junta Burkina, engaging in manly fist-bumps with savvy Russia. 😎
👏🏻👏🏻 🇳🇪 Niger’s Military Administration has stopped UN agencies, NGOs and international organizations from working in military “operation zones” due to “the current security situation,” the interior ministry said, without specifying which regions were affected.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics 👏🏻👏🏻
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It was clear to even the French that their foundation in Africa was in irreversible decline. They tried their best, with a series of “but little wars,” but no one can “… fool all the people all the time.” China’s rise was most damaging, opening access to the world’s greatest factory and infrastructure construction on the one hand, and access to the biggest developing market on the other.
Consider the mentality and morality of the criminals behind the Ukrainian war. Would they ever consent to sharing “their Africa,” per Borrell?? The US was most honest, declaring China the foremost strategic threat to be defeated. Not only has the West never forgiven China for awakening and diversifying Africans’ trade worldwide, and accelerating development through massive unprecedented infrastructure projects in modern African history, but we see daily that the combined West works as a team to destroy China with as much hate and totality as against Russia in the Ukraine. It is engaged in pre-war PsyOps softening up work atm, and prepositioning arms and gathering allies.
All Macron and Blinken’s trips to Beijing aimed to do was to buy time until they can somehow deliver the killing blows to Chinese influence outside China, especially in Africa and Latin America. If they have their way, the Boxer war years and century of humiliation will be a pleasant interlude!
Meanwhile, to keep the madmen within limits, Sarmat ICBM forces came onto service today.
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Good news re: Niger. After Borrell bleated they would levy (impotent) sanctions from hell, and the police sleuths were released to find certain vagabonds, now Nigeria (= ECOWAS) begins to openly melt! What a dramatic climbdown from Agent Tinubu!! Was he threatened by his own coup, a fine tradition in Nigeria btw?
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Remember the little toad Abdel-Fatau Musah of ECOWAS? He was in same meeting with Borrell, begging the EU for help! Imagine the abjectness of one’s state that one goes to a sinking Jungle Borrell and a demented Europe being openly devoured by Uncle Sam, an EU themselves being displaced in Francophone Africa! The little toad breathing fire a few weeks ago is now reduced to begging another group of befuddled menials in the same predicament! And Borrell steals Putin’s line about African solutions, lol.
This is beyond farce. The demented leading the blind
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Its really going belly up for Frenchie in Afrique!
An allegation that Gen Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has assumed command of Russian Wagner forces in Africa, with HQ in Mali and Libya… Remember the Chef’s HQ was in CAR, his point of departure from Africa on his last fateful flight.
Mali is very interesting — I have been meaning to comment on the significant fight in the UNSC in last days, where its sanctions were removed through the veto of Russia.. western lawfare in the UN is being unrolled. DPRK, Libya and others next!
So unrestricted Russian military aid can now openly flow through Mali to the entire Sahel. And it makes sense for one of Russia’s HQs to be in Mali, a highly strategic land at the heart of the western Sahel. Mali is a cultural beacon throughout West Africa and even beyond (i.e. blues), and a proud history with once having the prestigious king Mansa Mousa in medieval times.
Bazoum is really toast, thanks to more French blundering… and Oh Boy, who else has these “special communication devices?” Besides Angela Merkel, Hunter, and the Comedian? And what Russian technology can help catch them in flagrante?
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Lavrov working the telephone to defuse war in the Sahel and Juntas belt. Morocco is the Anglo-French poodle who offered France its airspace to wage war on Niger.. and similarly closely linked to the deposed Bongo of Gabon. But it may be playing a stabilizing role in Gabon..
This poor and confused kingdom has a lot of trade at stake with Russia, including reselling oil to Europe and other new ventures. Its people are great but its elite are particularly odious, lots of Muslim Brotherhood and secret societies. It’s becoming increasingly isolated among Francophones. Can Russia talk sense via shared prosperity??
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🇬🇦 Gabon coup leader will not rush to elections
The leader of a coup said on Friday that he wanted to avoid rushing into elections that “repeat past mistakes”.
Brice Oligui Nguema said in a televised address on Friday evening that the junta would proceed “quickly but surely” but that it would avoid elections that “repeat the same mistakes” by keeping the same people in power.
“Going as quickly as possible does not mean organising ad hoc elections, where we will end up with the same errors,” he said.
Nguema has pledged to return the country to democracy, but has refused to provide a timelines for fresh elections. He added that the country’s state institutions would be made more democratic and their suspension was only “temporary”.
#Gabon
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https://m.youtube.com/shorts/PTC4hVwWQkc
Joe Brandon is not the only one experiencing elder-abuse and wandering amiably off-stage chasing ghosts after gatherings and speeches. 90-year-old Paul Biya of Cameroon is in worse shape. This is why Cameroon, another Francophone located between Gabon and Niger in West Africa, is trending in “the Junta Watch” photo above with Ibrahim Traoré checking his wrist for the time.
No comment, except Thank God for Borrell’s helpful existence:
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This CV offers clues why France, Agent Tinubu, and Borrell all kneeled in the last days….
Who is Colonel General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov?? He’s now in Mali, making his steady way through Syria, North Africa, the Sahel, Central Africa and other points of interest.
- Career soldier (paratrooper), Hero of Russian Federation, active since Soviet times; in Kosovo, Chechen wars
- 60-year-old Muslim from north Caucasus Russian Republic of Ingushetia, neighbor of Chechnya
- From a peasant family of 12 children; graduated from same school that was later scene of the Beslan massacre
- Graduated from the General Staff Academy, 2004
- In June 1999 at Kosovo, he led a task force on a swift 500-km-long march, securing Pristina International Airport ahead of NATO troops, leading to standoff with NATO (this is a BAD mofo!!)
- Deputy Chief of the Intelligence Directorate of the Volga-Urals Military District, 2004
- Political head of Ingushetia, 2008 — 2019
- Member of ruling United Russia party
- Putin appointed him Dep Defence Minister, July 2019
- During Prigozhin’s coup attempt, he was in Rostov-on-Don when Wagner forces reached the city. Subsequently, Prigozhin published a Telegram video of him meeting with Yevkurov. Afterwards, Belarus president Lukashenko praised him for mediating the end of the rebellion.
- Yevkurov is under sanctions by USA, EU, UK, New Zealand, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, and Japan
So this appears the ideal point man in the largely Muslim Sahel — a career military officer who is also an experienced politician, carrying the personal imprimatur of Putin with a senior Defense Ministry rank and portfolio. A hard man who solves thorny problems. It is unlikely he will hang around as replacement for Wagner — his skill set is needed in many places at the same time; he is there to say Hi 🙋♂️, reassure, coordinate, and ease transition to the new Bosses of the bilateral security arrangements — the Russia state. And Frenchie and others on their way out can suck eggs, their crooked thumbs, or whatever eases their agony.
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Niger. Ambassador still in hiding. All vehicles in or out of embassy being searched. Electricity, water, food deliveries remain off. Security slightly lowered for embassy (?!). Civil society now joining in the festivities.. huge rallies, sit-ins, ladies banging on loud instruments (😅). French bases similarly beset by public.
Niger authorities highlight interference by France in internal affairs (coordination via Bazoum’s satellite phone, foolishly revealed by Macron himself).
Remember Sept 03 (tomorrow) is the deadline given for Frenchi troops to leave…
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A sensible and varied panel review likely outcomes to the Niger standoff. Please ignore Frenchie’s BS after the 19th minute…
IMO what France does is beyond reckless, threatening the lives of its Ambassador, his family, their troops and other dependents in this distant theater. It has become quite emotional and heated for both sides. Yet France can only lose the standoff, left hanging without US, Nigerian (ECOWAS) or EU support. Prolonging this ordeal, unless they intend to go kamikaze and go solo, only heightens the coming humiliating withdrawal.
Even if they intend to sacrifice the life of the esteemed local Ambassador Itte, as perhaps the US did to Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya, to back then justify wider involvement of AFRICOM, the mood, alliances, and solidity of the popular Junta have shifted, making it a futile mission…
The next few days may settle this issue one way or the other. The concession of the interviewed French Ambassador on this show that they will have to go (duh!) indicates a face-saving process is under way. Public outcry and the contemptuous behavior of French authorities to date may not allow the Junta to offer them this easy way out. Likely Frenchie will eat the first slice of Batiushka’s delicious humble pie on behalf of all Exceptionals!
And the primary vehicle delivering this serving, after Nigerien steadfastness, is the same USA who served it to Perfide Albion in the 1956 Suez Crisis. The Guest of Honor this time being Frenchie.
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France and the westerners are history dear emerson. We but wait for sufficient Russian arms to arrive and compradore elites to bite the dust.
All the good people of those lands want this — a decent, secure, dignified life not living under abject feudal neocolonial paradigm where distant foreigners plunder you in a perpetual free lunch. So it will happen. They cannot fight a billion having lost the edge in superior military technologies.
The ruling African elites, as most worldwide, are most inadequate, to put it mildly. Uncultured kleptocrats, their vision is limited to their own limited satisfaction. No sense of stewardship or care for their own.
Fortunately a most brisk breeze, cauterizing these ancien regime elements, flows through not just Africa, but worldwide. As Putin said, “a change of elites is coming.” Russia decided to turn away from the West, to regain self-sufficiency and protect allies worldwide per the March 31, 2023 new Concept of the Foreign Policy of the RF. From this unmatched military power buttressed by autarchic foundation will flow the ongoing rollback on every continent. It will take a few years. It is not in doubt. We need to be patient but for a little while.
Look how Gutter Gutteres begs Africa to return to neocolonialism, and to stop the waves of emancipation!! They are already reduced to pitiful tone-deaf whining like the Comedian who begs to be given Crimea without a fight that he cannot successfully wage. What nincompoops
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Niger. France starts to admit the obvious and to beat a retreat. Latest words by French Foreign Minister:
🇫🇷🇳🇪 French troops in Niger can no longer fulfill their obligations, – French Foreign Minister
Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna admitted that the French contingent of troops stationed in Niger is unable to fulfill its mission.
According to her, the mission of the French in the African country is to counter terrorist organizations and train local military personnel.
“At the moment, these tasks cannot be carried out, because de facto we no longer have joint operations with the Niger army,” the minister said.
@Slavyangrad
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I think we can put a fork in Niger crisis. They are about to reach an accommodation with ECOWAS, itself really a way to defuse with a Nigeria in agony and which needs border reopened for trade. The fortitude, acumen and intelligence of this Junta is impressive. They are not only here to stay, they will make waves Africa-wide. This informs Frenchie’s rage and continuing futile attempts to scupper them. Frenchie may drag it out a little while longer, to save nonexistent face, but it appears over…..
Tomorrow is Agent Tinubu’s day of reckoning.. The unsaid heroes of this crisis were Nigerian civilians, who kept his feet to the fire and prevented wider war…
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The entire West is throwing a hissy fit and stinks of desperation. Vicious Vicky was busy in 404, so they sent the US Ambassador to the UN. Chad is heating up. But they are overextended, out of time and luck. Too many angry and disgusted escapees from their global gulag. All cannot be killed and at this point they lack any fig leaf or even basic charm.
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Movement in Niger. US troops being consolidated in main airbase of Agadez town in the north close to the Sahara (second biggest US base in Africa after Djibouti), which is in a smaller city than the capital of Niamey with a million+ people. Some thinning of troops too. Likely a precaution as had three spread bases, but concern too after Russian Intel publicized their plans to assassinate Junta leaders?? Now it is awkward for Yanqui too.
Imagine what happened to far-flung Roman garrisons when Rome collapsed! Have you heard of “The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest?” That was long before collapse too.
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Niger.
It is unclear atm whether the US spread the news of wanting to kill the Niger Junta leaders, picked up by the Russian foreign Intel, alerting the Nigeriens, leading to the current motion, itself guaranteed to evict Frenchie as cannot stay without ecowas AND USA cover. Both USA and Russians want to get Frenchie for very different reasons. Or their arrogant meddling could have been picked up due to good luck, with resultant ongoing panicked fallout. Time will tell.
Regardless, there appears a full retreat while the Foreign Ministry functionaries keep mum and whistle about staying forever.
West Africa is the fourth arena the sheer impotence of Empire is exhibited, after Syraq, Afghan, and 404.
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Agadez, Niger, around which are consolidating western forces, may be 950km or so away from the restive capital Niamey, but it is even more inland, closer to the Sahara, and more difficult to evac from without aircraft… a desert Dien Bien Phu, or more relevant a new “Al Tanf” squatting hole, from where it hopes to marshal and send out its desert proxies…. But this is unlikely as sustainable, as surrounded with even more hostiles than Syria and faaaar inland. Except for Benin, every neighboring country is hostile or has hostile provinces at border…
Current theories behind US moves:
(1) repositioning as expect fallout soon from decapitation attempt of Junta
(2) leaving to force out Frenchie too
(3) leaving as fear great ongoing mobilization of Nigerien polity, masses and militias in nation of 26M – delegitimizing all occupying westerners
(4) getting out to avoid association with Frenchie, “a bleeding shark” who is toxic throughout Sahel atmAs Empire never concedes a defeat or abandons a base, all these are transient steps with planned return in near future…
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This article presents a preview of what awaits the floundering Empire in Agadez. Relying on desert arab tribes’ loyalty is as faithful as US adherence to treaties! At the end of the day, they themselves will work to evict foreigners squatting on their lands…. especially when they’ve lost the mojo and wherewithal to be useful patrons.
Currently desert tribes in Syria’s east are realigning against the Kurds and USUK. The same will happen when the Sahara-Sahel desert insurgents find themselves squeezed between stronger national armies on every side and being attrited into oblivion. After all, they and their families need to live in the region whereas Sea Pirates can shimmy back across the Seas.
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Burkina troops start to arrive in Niger. A reminder why they fight: against the neocolonial CFA franc monetary system, which is as big an oppression as enforced underdevelopment or vast mineral resource extraction. Everything’s been vacuum extracted out of Africa — mineral, natural resource, humans, wealth and future. A new young generation is willing to fight now… no amount of threats, intimidation tactics, sanctions, mobilization of “international community” and other mafia tactics work anymore. What do they have to lose?!!
The combined 80M Juntas population of Niger-Burkina-Mali are shoulder to shoulder and willing to fight. They have the numbers, moral and home ground… against a dying paradigm out of rationale, energy, stormtroopers, morale and fig leaf.. As in the Ukraine, they bark and scream as they circle the drain, being irreversibly flushed down the toilet of History. Africa is firmly becoming out of reach and out of control
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Why not, if the IMF can throw tranche after tranche at the obsolete Ukraine? And they are about to lose the printing presses soon anyhow. The sinking throw 30 silver pieces at Chad, more to gain ballast than of real hopes of buying the incensed.
The Germans, busy fleeing Mali, aren’t convinced at all by these de rigueur efforts.
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The French ambassador on Al Jazeera last week messaged one way out for France — to leave at insistence of their former stooge Bazoum. It’s now official, per Macron.
Bazoum should squeak soon enough, not out of pressure by Junta, but because it completely and totally delegitimizes him to support the continued occupation by foreigners now seen as so hateful by the overwhelming majority of his people .. one good thing about pols, they can smell the wind, especially bitter noxious Mistrals wafting southwards 😎
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