Niger Blasts NATO’s Global Narrative Wide Open

Strategic Culture ^ | August 10, 2023 | Declan Hayes

[MarMema]

Niger’s coup leaders believe they must first rid the region of the French and American military and then boot out their fifth columnists in the military, the media and the and the NGOs.

Niger’s recent coup follows similar coups in nearby Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea, each of which was led by military leaders opposed to the presence of French and U.S. occupation troops stationed there to ensure NATO’s continued economic rape of their respective homelands. The Sahel, the region of Africa housing these four (and other coup-prone) countries, has been assailed with a number of economic factors, which have combined to give us this current stand-off between those military leaders on the one hand and the NATO war machine and its regional auxiliaries on the other.

These factors include Africa’s ballooning population, which has put increased pressure on the relatively small part of Africa’s abundant resources, which the locals are allowed subsist from; ever increasing droughts, which have increased tribal tensions over grazing lands; NATO’s increasing recourse to their ISIS card to justify both their military presence and their economic pillage of the region; and, finally, the mass migration towards Europe and concomitant crimes which NATO’s destruction of the entire region has caused.

Although Western economists and their regional apologists have proposed all sorts of self-serving solutions to these inter-twined problems, Niger’s coup leaders believe they must first rid the region of the French and American military and then boot out their fifth columnists in the military, the media and the NGOs.

Most fair-minded people would say that the coup leaders have a good argument, and one that is boosted by the widespread public support they enjoy and the deplorable track record of the French and American vultures who hover over them. Their local opposition include such NATO stalwarts as Senegal’s political mafia, who rant that the loss of democracy in Niger is a casus belli, even as they jail their own opposition, ban their parties, and scrub them from the internet.

This “Coalition of the Willing” gang of collaborators in headed by Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu, who first made his millions laundering the profits of the CIA’s Chicago heroin dealers before returning to Lagos where he has been involved in almost every one of the never-ending major scams that plague that resource-rich country. When Niger’s leaders tell that bum to first clean up his own domestic mess, they have a point.

And it is one that the locals right across Africa see, along with the faux demands for human rights NATO’s proxies dutifully bleat when prodded by their masters to do so. Now that Uganda has discovered huge gold reserves, long time MI6 asset Peter Tatchell is bleating away about the hard life minor attracted persons have in Uganda. Nothing, of course, about the ordinary hard working Ugandan or Rwandan, who is under the boot of MI6’s Paul Kagame, a bosom buddy of Tony Blair and a major sponsor of, of all things, Arsenal Football Club. Wherever we or, more importantly, Africans look, we see the same hoary hands all over that vast land mass and, in the Sahel, those hands are primarily those of France and the cut throats of the French Foreign Legion, whose duty it is to put all African upstarts to the sword.

And, make no mistake about it, if the French decide to go in hard, they will prevail. In previous spats in what they pompously see as their own African backyard, they wiped out the air force of the Ivory Coast in a matter of minutes. There is absolutely no way Niger and her allies, even with Algeria getting involved from the north, can prevail in a conventional war. NATO has been down this road many times before and they know how to engineer such catastrophes to their advantage.

But what NATO cannot handle is the emergence of two other key vectors in Africa. The first of these is Russia’s military and economic presence and the second and more important of them is emerging intra African patriotic networks. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a recent well-balanced Russia Today article NATO censorship precludes me from linking to, has spelled out the reasons why this current French economic exploitation cannot prevail; a system whereby France takes over 95% of the profits and leaves Niger with less than 5% of their own wealth is simply not sustainable, no matter how much ISIS terrorism France and its NATO allies sponsor in the Sahel.

Josep Borrell’s predictably stupid comment that the Sahel should not accept free Russian grain would have some validity if his European Union mafia had not deprived Africa of the hard currency to pay for Russian or other grain. If Borrell was not living in the same cuckoo land as von der Leyen, Macron and America’s other European puppets, he would know that Africans are happy for Russian or any other genuine aid.

Not that Russia aid or, for that matter, Russia, can solve the Sahel’s problems. In a recent well-balanced article in Russia Today NATO censorship precludes me from linking to, Andrey Maslov and Vsevolod Sviridov, both of whom hail from Russia’s HSE University, spelt out the huge economic problems Niger’s coup leaders will have to overcome to put their country on an even keel once they rid their land of its French and American vultures.

Although Russia is now a major African vector that cannot be ignored, there is a much more important and immediate one. And that is, like Julius Caesar of old, because Niger’s leaders have crossed their own Rubicon, there can now be no backwards retreat. The fact of the matter is Niger is now home to a network of genuinely patriotic African military officers who have linked up with their confreres in contiguous countries and that network is a powerful force which, if it prevails, augurs very well not just for the future of Niger but for all of Africa.

As NATO’s warlords have crashed headlong into a reinforced Russian steel wall in Ukraine, those of them who can read could do worse than grapple with Tacitus’ account of Agricola’s British campaign, where the Britons were no match for Rome’s legions and Rome’s logistics. Crucially, most of Rome’s cut throats were not Romans but were, like the French Foreign Legion, auxilia, auxiliaries, big bruisers from Gaul, Balearic slingers, Numidian cavalry, Syrian archers and Thracian multi-taskers.

Although Roman citizens were at the heart of their legions, those auxiliaries were significant force multipliers, not least, because in Tacitus’ words “victory would be vastly more glorious if won without the loss of Roman blood”.

In Niger’s case, because some of France’s key auxiliaries are jumping ship, Macron can no longer avail of their cut price blood. Daoud Yaya Brahim, the Chadian Defence Minister, has said his country will play no part in any French-led re-conquest of Niger. With Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Taboun declaring that any attack on Niger, with which Algeria shares a 1000 km border, is an attack on Algeria, France will need something more than their discredited Leclerc tanks and cut price auxiliaries to carry the day on Niger’s northern front. The military governments of Burkino Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger have decided to hang together, rather than allow NATO and its local auxiliaries to again hang them one by one. If we take that alliance as our pivotal point, then the U.S., France and their local auxiliaries have a major headache on their hands for, even if they should prevail in a military conflict, they will, at the very least, have a major bush war on their hands. And, given that Algeria has promised to weigh in, who knows what else might catch fire?

The difference between Rome at its height and today’s America is the Romans knew how to properly plan in advance and not push their luck beyond reasonable bounds. Thus, Agricola’s British campaign was preceded by years of planning to ensure supplies were in place and expendable allies were secured. And, though Agricola figured, perhaps correctly, he could roll Ireland over with a single, solitary legion and a smattering of auxiliaries, wiser heads prevailed and Ireland was spared the Pax Romana, if not today’s equally abominable Pax Americana, which has cut an unwelcome swathe through Africa, as it has globally. Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi, from Africa always something new, Pliny the Elder told us shortly after Jesus expired. There is certainly something new afoot in Africa today and that something is le Pays des Hommes Intègres’ studied thirst for liberté, égalité et fraternité which, thanks to gallant allies in Russia and especially throughout the Africa of Ologbosere and Sankara, NATO’s over-extended empire can no longer deny or defer.

[TheConservator]

Nothing like an unslanted narrative!

[MarMema]

A lot of them are barely eating, most live in complete poverty, while France makes good money on uranium or gold.

[mewzilla]

I suspect this has more to do with China than France.

Just a hunch.

[mewzilla]

Related...

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If Niger is trying to protect itself from various foreign Deep States, I'm on Niger's side.

[ansel12]

C.I.A. Drone Mission, Curtailed by Obama, Is Expanded in Africa Under Trump
“Late in his presidency, Barack Obama sought to put the military in charge of drone attacks after a backlash arose over a series of highly visible strikes, some of which killed civilians. The move was intended, in part, to bring greater transparency to attacks that the United States often refused to acknowledge its role in.

But now the C.I.A. is broadening its drone operations, moving aircraft to northeastern Niger to hunt Islamist militants in southern Libya. The expansion adds to the agency’s limited covert missions in eastern Afghanistan for strikes in Pakistan, and in southern Saudi Arabia for attacks in Yemen.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/world/africa/cia-drones-africa-military.html

The Presence of Lethal U.S. Drones in Niger is Expanding
“President Barack Obama transferred responsibility for drone attacks from the CIA to the U.S. military, in part in response to civilian casualties, and in part to manage better the public relations aspect of what are supposed to be clandestine operations. President Trump reversed that decision at the urging of then-CIA director Mike Pompeo in 2017. Now, it would appear that both the CIA and AFRICOM are, or are about to be, operating lethal drone strikes from bases in Niger.”
https://www.cfr.org/blog/presence-lethal-us-drones-niger-expanding

[JonPreston]

Until a clearer picture develops, I suspect France and others want Africia’s natural resources for free, or bargain basement cost, extracted by native, slave labor.

[BobL]

“Niger’s coup leaders believe they must first rid the region of the French and American military and then boot out their fifth columnists in the military, the media and the and the NGOs.”

Say what one wants to about the Bell Curve, but the coup leader in Niger are FAR SMARTER than most Westerners, who are absolutely CLUELESS as to what these organizations are doing to their countries.

[ptsal]

bkmk

[Sertorius]

Maybe this is Russia’s attempt to draw the West’s attention away from the “Ukraine front”

[Mashood]

When the slavetraders were selling their slaves...they weren’t selling their best and brightest.

[himno hero]

Almost all of Africa is goverened by tribal based politics. That means that today’s chief wants, personal control and use of the nation’s capital. With that, the people still get poverty and squalor.

The current bitch is they want to maximize profits, THEIR profits now that they have an understanding of resource values. It’s about their cash, not the nation’s.

[yldstrk]

If France and America are taking Africa’s natural resources, this needs to stop.

[griswold3]

Uganda finds huge gold reserves.
Whatever happened to Libyas gold after Gaddafi ?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Nothing like an unslanted narrative!"

It is a fair observation. Strategic Culture Foundation is a Moscow-based "think tank," according to simple research.

But, with respect, in the moment, I think those of us skeptical of much and taking little at face value, find it difficult to imagine there is an "unslanted narrative" anyway.

[nuconvert]

“Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a recent well-balanced Russia Today article NATO censorship precludes me from linking to, has spelled out the reasons why this current French economic exploitation cannot prevail; a system whereby France takes over 95% of the profits and leaves Niger with less than 5% of their own wealth is simply not sustainable”

And these percentages aren’t exaggerated at all? I mean, the source is Prigozhin and Russia Today. And Russia would never think of stealing Niger’s treasures, right?

[tlozo]

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[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The Globalists got rid of Gaddahfi because he wanted a United States of Africa that would have lifted the region up from poverty and secured all of their natural resources. He vowed if he were dead, Europe would be flooded with sub-Saharan savages and it’s happening now.

[inchworm]

All nato has done is make it easier for the mussies to expand in Africa.

[hardspunned]

This is from the final communique of the Russia Africa Summit last month. The Russians are mobilizing the just anti colonial outrage in Africa. I would think the Biden regime would support reparations to Africa. They support reparations here.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 28./TASS/. Russia and African nations will seek compensation for African states for the damage caused by colonialism, and the return of the cultural treasures removed by colonizers, says the Declaration of the Second Russia-Africa Summit.

[The Russian Federation and African States have agreed to] “Contribute to completing the decolonization process in Africa and work to ensure compensation for the economic and humanitarian damage inflicted on African States by colonial policies, including the restitution of cultural property displaced in the process of colonial plundering,” the document said.

They also intend to “Work together to counter manifestations of neo-colonial policies that aim to undermine the sovereignty of States, deprive them of the freedom to make their own decisions, and plunder their natural resources,” the document stressed.