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Post by soulflower on Jul 26, 2023 18:17:44 GMT -5
Looks like the military deposed Niger’s President
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Post by pickle20 on Jul 28, 2023 12:30:24 GMT -5
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Post by soulflower on Jul 28, 2023 14:57:37 GMT -5
Not sure what's going on but yeah, it's premature to point fingers at other countries.
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Post by soulflower on Jul 30, 2023 10:48:21 GMT -5
Interesting X thread from Sen. Chris Murphy
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Post by kandace on Jul 30, 2023 11:25:30 GMT -5
If the US of A were not so racist and obsessed with destroying all links between its AA population and the Motherland, this coup would not be happening.
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Post by soulflower on Jul 31, 2023 7:22:06 GMT -5
1/3 of France’s Uranium supply comes from Niger
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Post by kandace on Jul 31, 2023 8:14:08 GMT -5
1/3 of France’s Uranium supply comes from Niger Putin is waging economic war on the West. But he is only able to do so because of the West’s foolish anti-African hatred.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 31, 2023 13:40:30 GMT -5
The United States has certainly attempted to overthrow governments and every once in awhile it succeeds. But the number of foreign military leaders who have trained here in some capacity is far greater than the number who have attempted coups. It is premature to blame this government for these actions.
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Post by soulflower on Jul 31, 2023 13:53:51 GMT -5
The United States has certainly attempted to overthrow governments and every once in awhile it succeeds. But the number of foreign military leaders who have trained here in some capacity is far greater than the number who have attempted coups. It is premature to blame this government for these actions. Obviously, this beef is between Niger and France. Beyond that, some of the military leaders of the coup have trained with the US military but there's potential Russian involvement as well. Difficult to know the extent to which foreign involvement was a factor at this point...
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Post by soulflower on Jul 31, 2023 17:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by soulflower on Aug 1, 2023 11:32:54 GMT -5
Some among the pro-Coup crowd in Niger have expressed support for Russia but there’s no evidence so far that Russia was involved.
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Post by soulflower on Aug 2, 2023 12:12:44 GMT -5
Decent summary of what’s happening in Niger below
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Post by soulflower on Aug 8, 2023 15:14:33 GMT -5
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Post by ivanbalt on Aug 9, 2023 5:17:05 GMT -5
I'm sure this will work out well for Niger.
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Post by soulflower on Aug 9, 2023 5:25:21 GMT -5
I'm sure this will work out well for Niger. It probably won’t. France gets 1/4 of their uranium from Niger. Western countries will respond in a negative way to the overthrow of Niger’s pro-Western President. Apparently the coup government has popular support in Niger for now. The President who was deposed was perceived as corrupt.
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Post by ivanbalt on Aug 9, 2023 5:40:32 GMT -5
I'm sure this will work out well for Niger. It probably won’t. France gets 1/4 of their uranium from Niger. Western countries will respond in a negative way to the overthrow of Niger’s pro-Western President. Apparently the coup government has popular support in Niger for now. The President who was deposed was perceived as corrupt. The President might have been perceived as corrupt, but he was peacefully elected for the first time ever. Military coups don't have a great track record in Africa. If they team up with Wagner, maybe they can be the next Belarus or Syria.
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Post by soulflower on Aug 9, 2023 5:45:54 GMT -5
It probably won’t. France gets 1/4 of their uranium from Niger. Western countries will respond in a negative way to the overthrow of Niger’s pro-Western President. Apparently the coup government has popular support in Niger for now. The President who was deposed was perceived as corrupt. The President might have been perceived as corrupt, but he was peacefully elected for the first time ever. Military coups don't have a great track record in Africa. If they team up with Wagner, maybe they can be the next Belarus or Syria. Egypt? Didn’t we back their President being deposed by the military? They had an election. The Muslim Brotherhood party won. A year later, their military was back in power. Some countries are unable, for security reasons or the inability to control corruption, to develop a successful democracy. Governing is hard no matter what type of government exists in a country. I hope things don’t spiral out of control in Niger. Aside from the threat of western backed military intervention, they have the threat of Al Qaeda-linked rebels.
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Post by ivanbalt on Aug 9, 2023 7:21:11 GMT -5
The President might have been perceived as corrupt, but he was peacefully elected for the first time ever. Military coups don't have a great track record in Africa. If they team up with Wagner, maybe they can be the next Belarus or Syria. Egypt? Didn’t we back their President being deposed by the military? They had an election. The Muslim Brotherhood party won. A year later, their military was back in power. Some countries are unable, for security reasons or the inability to control corruption, to develop a successful democracy. Governing is hard no matter what type of government exists in a country. I hope things don’t spiral out of control in Niger. Aside from the threat of western backed military intervention, they have the threat of Al Qaeda-linked rebels. Egypt had a US supported dictatorship for 30 years that was deposed by the military so I don't know how to classify that one. Either way, military coups usually don't end well.
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Post by soulflower on Aug 9, 2023 7:42:23 GMT -5
Egypt? Didn’t we back their President being deposed by the military? They had an election. The Muslim Brotherhood party won. A year later, their military was back in power. Some countries are unable, for security reasons or the inability to control corruption, to develop a successful democracy. Governing is hard no matter what type of government exists in a country. I hope things don’t spiral out of control in Niger. Aside from the threat of western backed military intervention, they have the threat of Al Qaeda-linked rebels. Egypt had a US supported dictatorship for 30 years that was deposed by the military so I don't know how to classify that one. Either way, military coups usually don't end well. Mubarak, Egypt's previous military dictator, was deposed in 2010 during the Arab Spring. Egypt later held elections and the Muslim Brotherhood won. A year or so later, Egypt's military deposed the democratically elected government. Now Sisi is Egypt's new military-backed dictator. 2013 - After days of mass demonstrations, Egypt’s military finally ousted Mohamed Morsy, the country’s first democratically elected president, in the country’s second revolution in two years.www.cnn.com/2013/07/04/world/meast/egypt-coup-what-we-know/index.htmlEgypt is stable today I guess. Maybe they gave up on democracy too soon? Difficult to know. I just think some people underestimate the difficulty of developing a democracy in a poor and corrupt country.
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Post by soulflower on Aug 10, 2023 12:12:12 GMT -5
Hopefully cooler heads prevail
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Post by ivanbalt on Aug 16, 2023 5:26:49 GMT -5
Apparently the elected president will be tried for treason. I'm sure this will end well for Niger.
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Post by soulflower on Aug 16, 2023 7:18:47 GMT -5
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Post by ivanbalt on Aug 16, 2023 7:26:55 GMT -5
Per Pentagon policy, I think you need to change the title of this thread to "attempted coup".
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Post by soulflower on Aug 18, 2023 13:57:24 GMT -5
I thought things were settling down but it looks like Nigeria and a few other English speaking countries in West Africa may still go to war against Niger's coup regime.
Hopefully it doesn't happen. That would be disastrous for the region.
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Post by soulflower on Sept 24, 2023 15:00:51 GMT -5
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Post by soulflower on Mar 17, 2024 9:13:41 GMT -5
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Post by kandace on Mar 17, 2024 12:09:43 GMT -5
Good. Africa's rise continues.
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Post by ishmael on Mar 17, 2024 12:33:48 GMT -5
Good. Africa's rise continues. Africa's rise, that's funny. Here you have still another African nation under military rule that refuses to call elections. That's some rise. You should be very proud.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 17, 2024 14:18:16 GMT -5
I imagine the United States expressed concerns about policies, either because they were human rights violations, or (more likely) because we disagree with them. And the junta found that offensive. We'll see what happens next.
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Post by ivanbalt on Mar 18, 2024 5:44:06 GMT -5
Good. Africa's rise continues. Africa's rise, that's funny. Here you have still another African nation under military rule that refuses to call elections. That's some rise. You should be very proud. Yeah, next they'll be teaming up with Wagner Group to deal with "resistance".
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