Thank you for your insights and stand! The post-WWII 'rules based order' was put in place starting post Paris invasion and even before Pearl Harbor...It's based upon Anglo-centrism, naval (Mahan theory) power, and transfer of wealth from the global south....Europe-China, the Soviet Union were devastated post WWII and could do nothing about it but join in the created institutions as 'also-rans'...Now that Russia has recovered post Soviet Union collapse and China-India are emerging economic power houses, Western will have to share power or resist...Post-colonial Africa wants to be part of the emerging multi-polarity....Not that there won't be challenges-fissures along the way but multi-polarity is in the future....
President Joe Biden on Thursday called for the immediate release of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum in a written statement commemorating Niger’s Independence Day, saying the US “stands with the people of Niger” as the country faces a “grave challenge to its democracy.”
Imagine if this was written in 2014:
President Barack Obama on Thursday called for the immediate release of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in a written statement celebrating Ukraine's democracy, saying the US “stands with the people of Ukraine” as the country faces a “grave challenge to its democracy.”
Oh, the coup leader replied to Biden's threat to cut foreign aid on Niger TV. He said Niger didn't need US money and didn't want US money. He told Biden to keep it and to spend it on the homeless in America.
UPDATE: Blinken called the deposed President of Niger and told him the US wanted him restored to office, and a State Dept. critter told a CBS airhead that the US will back ECOWAS and isn't concerned about a wider war.
I think they're going to try to use countries like Nigeria and Ghana in a new, profitable for a few, proxy war and they're going to frame it as anti-Russia and/or China. The lack of concern about a war starts about 4:30 in:
Sabrina Salvati, whom if you don't follow you probably should, just came out with a 31 minute video on Niger. I haven't watched it yet, but I will later. Thought I'd post it while I'm thinking about it.
I watched Sabby on this, and Y E A H ... As usual, she presents these things with great clarity and style. I am actually very encouraged to see the Nigerian people stand up to their historically stolen resources. NO MORE!!! Meanwhile, I am continually not surprised and disappointed at the "collective West"s insistence that people standing up to rape and pillage of their country are somehow just a militia and not patriots! I see the shift going on and applaud it. This is not going to end well for "first world" theft of the "third world". The entire world is changing right in front of us.
It could very well be West Africa. The Empire thinks it can use Nigeria and Senegal as proxies to control the mineral wealth of the entire region. Somehow, I don't think people like Blinken have thought about what the Nigerians and Senegalese themselves think of waging war on fellow Africans for the profit of mostly France.
Thank you for your insights and stand! The post-WWII 'rules based order' was put in place starting post Paris invasion and even before Pearl Harbor...It's based upon Anglo-centrism, naval (Mahan theory) power, and transfer of wealth from the global south....Europe-China, the Soviet Union were devastated post WWII and could do nothing about it but join in the created institutions as 'also-rans'...Now that Russia has recovered post Soviet Union collapse and China-India are emerging economic power houses, Western will have to share power or resist...Post-colonial Africa wants to be part of the emerging multi-polarity....Not that there won't be challenges-fissures along the way but multi-polarity is in the future....
CNN wrote this today:
President Joe Biden on Thursday called for the immediate release of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum in a written statement commemorating Niger’s Independence Day, saying the US “stands with the people of Niger” as the country faces a “grave challenge to its democracy.”
Imagine if this was written in 2014:
President Barack Obama on Thursday called for the immediate release of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in a written statement celebrating Ukraine's democracy, saying the US “stands with the people of Ukraine” as the country faces a “grave challenge to its democracy.”
Bravo. What if, indeed?
Oh, the coup leader replied to Biden's threat to cut foreign aid on Niger TV. He said Niger didn't need US money and didn't want US money. He told Biden to keep it and to spend it on the homeless in America.
That's some big titanium cojones right there.
Thanks for this- if Biden says President Bazoum is good, then President Bazoum is definitely bad.
Excellent reporting, as usual!
UPDATE: Blinken called the deposed President of Niger and told him the US wanted him restored to office, and a State Dept. critter told a CBS airhead that the US will back ECOWAS and isn't concerned about a wider war.
I think they're going to try to use countries like Nigeria and Ghana in a new, profitable for a few, proxy war and they're going to frame it as anti-Russia and/or China. The lack of concern about a war starts about 4:30 in:
https://youtu.be/BOteNjkNy_c
Sabrina Salvati, whom if you don't follow you probably should, just came out with a 31 minute video on Niger. I haven't watched it yet, but I will later. Thought I'd post it while I'm thinking about it.
https://youtu.be/_vtTMhdSo4I
I watched Sabby on this, and Y E A H ... As usual, she presents these things with great clarity and style. I am actually very encouraged to see the Nigerian people stand up to their historically stolen resources. NO MORE!!! Meanwhile, I am continually not surprised and disappointed at the "collective West"s insistence that people standing up to rape and pillage of their country are somehow just a militia and not patriots! I see the shift going on and applaud it. This is not going to end well for "first world" theft of the "third world". The entire world is changing right in front of us.
I wonder what the next war will be - I didn't have Niger on my options list, just Taiwan for a proxy war with China.
But with the US running out of weapons, and Ukraine running out of people, I don't know if the US now can do anything but threaten and sanction.
It could very well be West Africa. The Empire thinks it can use Nigeria and Senegal as proxies to control the mineral wealth of the entire region. Somehow, I don't think people like Blinken have thought about what the Nigerians and Senegalese themselves think of waging war on fellow Africans for the profit of mostly France.