Mali, February 2022 Burkina Faso, February 2023 Niger, December 2023 Chad, December 2024 Senegal, December 2024 Ivory Coast, December 2024
Watching the post-SMO* disintegration of western imperialism has been wonderful. It’s like the whole world is undergoing a phase change triggered by a nucleation event.
*obviously this process has been long in the making.
Besides, troops from the Global North no longer wanted to operate in African and Asian countries when they were not protected by immunity agreements. For instance, the United States military had insisted on a Status-of-Forces agreement with the Iraqi parliament, and when the Iraqis decided not to renew that in 2011, US forces began to leave the country (many remain in a backroom deal). Already, rumors had begun to slip in from northern Mali that French aircraft had struck and killed civilians. When will Les Toubab (the Europeans) leave?
Modern imperial troops seem to have a great lack of discipline and willingness to sacrifice for empire (whatever their rhetoric may be). Such “immunity agreements” would not be necessary if the imperialists were willing to throw a few unruly troops under the bus.
I very much agree, the war acted as a catalyst for the phase change that’s already been building. In particular, it was the economic war with Russia the west started that put things into motion. Cutting Russia out of western financial system is what triggered an alternative system to start developing. As new economic ties started emerging, political realignment followed.
I think the war itself is a consequence of this change, not even a catalyst.
For sure, but it was a catalyst in terms of accelerating a lot of the trends that might’ve taken decades to play out otherwise.
smh ungrateful barbarians, they don’t understand we (the french) genocided their people and enslaved them for the greater good 😔
Aimé Cesaire quote.
Whether one likes it or not, at the end of the blind alley that is Europe, I mean the Europe of Adenauer, Schuman, Bidault, and a few others, there is Hitler. At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.
To be surprised is to not be paying attention.
what was Macron doing at the capitol riots? /s
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Then, Macron said what he had come to say. “Ingratitude is a disease that cannot be transmitted to humans. I say this for all the African rulers who haven’t the courage to wear it in the face of public opinion. None of them would be in a sovereign country today if the French army hadn’t been deployed in this region.” Be grateful. We made you. This is the old colonial attitude that would be familiar to the old French colonial heads Louis Faidherbe (Senegal), Henri Gouraud (Syria), Paul Doumer (Indochina), and Joseph Gallieni (Madagascar), nasty men, all of them.
Vijay Prashad is real generous, not pointing out how clearly racist this shit is. Lilbuddy macaron must be real mad about the state of affairs in Africa, raving like this.
France is 100% trying to make good face for the bad game. Sahel rejected them openly but they are simply too weak to do anything with it because what they could even do? Invade? With what, they send large part of their armory to Ukraine.
It’s even more obvious when you look at the fact that their first reaction was to try to goad their compradors in region to attack, but it failed. Also when the challenge to their colonialism appeared on the scale they were certain they could defeat, on New Caledonia, they went to crack it up immediately.France is exactly the same as it always was, except their teeth are now blunt and i just wish more people in their colonies see that.
