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Niger is slipping away from the West
Washington Post ^ | August 9, 2023 | Ishaan Tharoor

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War
KEYWORDS: africa; bidenlegacy; coup; dillygaf; ecowas; globohomo; niger; wellbye
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To: LS

Some how the “Hey, Pancho. Hey Crisco!” line is going through my head.


41 posted on 08/09/2023 9:03:34 AM PDT by KC Burke
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To: KC Burke
That would be HILARIOUS!! Nuland is a LEFTIST COMMUNIST....married to Robert Kagan, a NEOCONSERVATIVE!!

NEOCONSERVATIVE is a Jewish person who is too ashamed to be called a DEMOCRAT, but do all DEMOCRAT THINGS!

Is Nuland Jewish?

42 posted on 08/09/2023 9:07:51 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: KC Burke

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.


43 posted on 08/09/2023 9:08:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Blurb2350

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.


44 posted on 08/09/2023 9:09:06 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Lurker
Let them have Niger. The average IQ is right around 62.

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."

45 posted on 08/09/2023 9:10:01 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Jim Noble

But Niger has YELLOWCAKE!!! No wonder China wants it!!


46 posted on 08/09/2023 9:10:45 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SaveFerris

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.


47 posted on 08/09/2023 9:13:35 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: KC Burke

THAT is HILARIOUS!!!


48 posted on 08/09/2023 9:16:24 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PGR88; All

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.


49 posted on 08/09/2023 9:17:04 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Clutch Martin

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50 posted on 08/09/2023 9:18:48 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: KC Burke

Another Victoria Nuland “victory”.


51 posted on 08/09/2023 9:25:33 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: KC Burke

The US is plowing a billion into Niger this year. Tat’s the leverage we have.


52 posted on 08/09/2023 9:26:26 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Ann Archy

Family name is Nudelman.


53 posted on 08/09/2023 9:34:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (He who saves the nation breaks no law)
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To: KC Burke

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.


54 posted on 08/09/2023 9:41:20 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Ann Archy
But Niger has YELLOWCAKE!!!


55 posted on 08/09/2023 9:47:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Blurb2350

True enough. Just wait til China steps in.

In any case, Africa always wins.


56 posted on 08/09/2023 9:49:34 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: KC Burke

Slipping away from the ChiComs is my guess.

Especially if the ComPost is having a cow.


57 posted on 08/09/2023 9:49:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: dfwgator

It’s not in the article.


58 posted on 08/09/2023 10:01:03 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Lurker

NEVER GIVE ANYTHING UP!


59 posted on 08/09/2023 10:02:16 AM PDT by bantam
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To: Vermont Lt

Africa was never “won”.

If Africa thinks the colonialists are a huge problem, just wait til the colonialists actually leave.


60 posted on 08/09/2023 10:05:25 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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