Posted on 08/09/2023 8:14:57 AM PDT by KC Burke
For now, the junta in Niger seems to be winning its standoff with its West African neighbors and the West. A Sunday deadline put forward by regional bloc ECOWAS for the generals to step aside and restore democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum to power elapsed, with little sign of countries like Nigeria or Senegal readying a military intervention. Instead, in a dramatic show of defiance, the coup leaders staged a massive rally at a stadium in the capital Niamey, where a top general warned against anyone threatening “Niger’s forward march,” while hundreds in the stands waved Nigerien and even some Russian flags and chanted anti-France slogans. SNIP
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Some how the “Hey, Pancho. Hey Crisco!” line is going through my head.
NEOCONSERVATIVE is a Jewish person who is too ashamed to be called a DEMOCRAT, but do all DEMOCRAT THINGS!
Is Nuland Jewish?
Niger has always been the key to controlling the West - the Greeks knew it, the Persians knew it, the Romans knew it....and now you know it.
And we’re thinking that administrations throw money down the toilet. And any more money going over there is just throwing good money after bad. Let them go, we don’t need them, let them be a burden on other governments.
I see the same 60+ year deep-state pattern developing. They'll have a war that country, and soon, we will be flooded with its "migrants."
But Niger has YELLOWCAKE!!! No wonder China wants it!!
Sitting in my Barracks room back in 76 or 77 looking at the Scirocco Wolfsburg Edition pamphlet from the Volkswagen dealer and wishing I had one. That car really had some nice features but I never got one.
THAT is HILARIOUS!!!
Agree! If that happens look for the Congressional Black Caucus, the media and the “Beautiful People of Hollyweird” to demand US intervention! Which means everything from troops on the ground to accepting refugees.
Another Victoria Nuland “victory”.
The US is plowing a billion into Niger this year. Tat’s the leverage we have.
Family name is Nudelman.
I am sure this coup was on Xi’s shopping list to Putin when they talked last year. China exacts a cost from everyone they “negotiate” with.
Africa is already lost.
True enough. Just wait til China steps in.
In any case, Africa always wins.
Slipping away from the ChiComs is my guess.
Especially if the ComPost is having a cow.
It’s not in the article.
NEVER GIVE ANYTHING UP!
Africa was never “won”.
If Africa thinks the colonialists are a huge problem, just wait til the colonialists actually leave.
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