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U.S. turns up pressure in critical ally Niger as region faces threat from Russia-loyal Wagner Group
Los Angeles Times ^ | 8/5/23 | Tracy Wilkinson

Posted on 08/05/2023 5:37:23 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

When Niger was rattled by a coup in late July, it was just the latest West African nation to be challenged by mutinous militaries bent on unseating the existing government — what some have called a domino chain of armed takeovers in a sensitive part of the world where Russia-loyalist mercenaries are in ascendance.

But Niger, U.S. officials say, is different.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; belarus; france; nextwar; niger; wagner; wagnergroup; yevgeniyprigozhin
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1 posted on 08/05/2023 5:37:23 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Since when is Niger a’critical ally’?


2 posted on 08/05/2023 5:38:31 PM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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Well, we have no choice but to intervene. Rah, rah, USA! Time to break out Niger's flags in TwitterX profiles and accuse those who don't want wars on behalf of oligarchs that you're an evil white supermacist Potty-Poot lover!

*Rocky IV comeback theme music begins*

3 posted on 08/05/2023 5:41:20 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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4 posted on 08/05/2023 5:41:27 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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5 posted on 08/05/2023 5:42:23 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: RomanSoldier19
It is no longer called Niger.

It is now referred to as Country of Color.

6 posted on 08/05/2023 5:44:42 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Apparently they have uranium.


7 posted on 08/05/2023 5:48:01 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: dynachrome

Since globalists want WWIII now.


8 posted on 08/05/2023 5:48:26 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: dynachrome; All

Since when is Niger a’critical ally’?


Yeah that was my first thought. Maybe their uranium?

https://www.azomining.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=188


9 posted on 08/05/2023 5:49:10 PM PDT by Drago
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10 posted on 08/05/2023 5:49:20 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit;“We are your ghosts, in this game played by monkeys, organized by lunatics” )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Outstanding pre-workout montage video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwPb7g_BlXQ


11 posted on 08/05/2023 5:50:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: dynachrome
"Since when is Niger a’critical ally’?"

That is exactly what I was going say....

Any wagon is only so big, sometime soon they're going to be running out of all the horse crap they've been selling, and then only the truth is going to be left. I think that's where the ventilator comes in.....hopefully.

12 posted on 08/05/2023 5:53:21 PM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: dynachrome
Since when is Niger a’critical ally’?

All impoverished, third world nations, rich in uranium and other natural resources, are critical allies when we want their stuff.

13 posted on 08/05/2023 5:53:37 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

We’re getting their people, shouldn’t we get there uranium?


14 posted on 08/05/2023 5:58:35 PM PDT by alternatives?
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Did the new guy say he wasn’t going to sell anymore Uranium ?


15 posted on 08/05/2023 6:02:11 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Maybe if they could enter the free market with their natural resources, free from colonial France, they’d develop an economy that kept the natives home? Libia actually tried that until Hillary went ape siht.


16 posted on 08/05/2023 6:10:07 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Who is we. WE don’t do this. The nwo occupation Goverent does.


17 posted on 08/05/2023 6:11:22 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Going from GloboHomo to normal people is an improvement.


18 posted on 08/05/2023 6:38:31 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: dynachrome

“Since when is Niger a’critical ally’?”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Niger is a strong ally of France and America.
Just because an anti-American and pro-russian gang there just made a coup, that doesn’t mean we must have to accept it. Right?
Its time to stop defeatism. We will NOT be replaced.

If Russia dreams to replace us in Niger, it has reasons... I would make it stronger vs America. An American patriot can’t possibly accept that. For sure.

America and France have military bases in NIGER. Contracts have been made so they can stay there. Antifa-like gangs or any other Russian-supported gangsters will not replace American and French forces. We’ll keep our troops there. And so be it.


19 posted on 08/05/2023 6:56:04 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

“Going from GloboHomo to normal people is an improvement.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So you want the Globo-Russia-China-Iran Islamo-commies to replace us there instead then? You want Americas worst archenemies to replace us there. really?


20 posted on 08/05/2023 7:01:29 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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