A more pertinent question is why European colonists relinquished control of the continent to begin with.
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA….
Russia has been running circles around us in Africa for a year.
Our intelligence is that stupid, lazy or just completely dim.
All you had to do was follow sputnik africa, or be orthodox.
Sputnik Africa has been the new CNN over there for some time.
IDK how many television stations, etc are contracted with it.
Orthodox churches are booming.
I have posted this stuff here but no one cared.
Lavrov was in Angola 6 mos ago right after the baltic countries banned a russian folk song.
Two schoolgirls maybe 12-16 performed it for him in perfect Russian on his visit.
There are russian language centers and mobile medical clinis going up all over Africa.
It is hard to believe that I can see this happening but our own intelligence is out in the cold, duh.
And making excuses for us fumbling is hilarious.
This country once again proves it is circling the drain.
Whenever I hear anything about Niger, I get a hankering for yellow cake and sweet tea....
“Seems like Biden blew it again but I wonder if Trump would have done better or simply declared Niger another shit hole country?”
Niger ia another shit-hole country.
The fallacy of control
The notion we can “control” all the events of distant, poor nations in Africa is typical of the self-importance, arrogance and stupidity of DC “planners.”
New strategy might be to have Kamala finish up her brilliant solving of the border crisis and send her on a mission to Niger.
If something unfortunate happens in that dangerous and chaotic region then Newsom could be VP and positioned to let Joe get offstage.
The State Department has been hugely DYSFUNCTIONAL ever since that criminal Skank slithered through the back door!
I can see it now, a bunch of Russians running around saying “there goes the neighborhood!”