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Coup in Niger threatens American interests
Hot Air ^ | 8/13/23 | Francis Beard

Posted on 08/13/2023 11:11:23 AM PDT by CFW

After the recent coup in Niger, the medium-term implications are undetermined, but the outcome is clear. The coup threatens stability in West Africa, American and French interests in the continent, and advances Chinese opportunities. Africans will suffer and Muslim extremists will continue to gain ground. Niger is unlikely to return to democracy in the short term.

Initial hopes expressed by France that the Niger Armed Forces would step in to defuse the coup by the Presidential Guard quickly fizzled when the army sided with the coup. The angry deadline set by leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the military to return deposed President Mohamed Bazoum to power or face military intervention has come and gone. Sanctions were imposed and electricity to Niger was cut by Nigeria, but this hurts the people of Niger, not the military or the insurgents.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; china; cia; communism; coup; iran; niger; northkorea; putin; russia; sovietunion; xi
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Let's get America involved in a war on every continent! Tax dollars can flow.....right into Biden and other politician's pockets.
1 posted on 08/13/2023 11:11:23 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Umm, it’s not our country.


2 posted on 08/13/2023 11:12:26 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: CFW

Yes. Yes. Of course it does.🙄


3 posted on 08/13/2023 11:14:04 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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The coup threatens stability in West Africa, American and French interests in the continent

It threatens the acquisition of uranium and slave level wage. The liberal world order frowns upon things like this.

4 posted on 08/13/2023 11:14:44 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: CFW

You mean The Deep State’s interests, they ain’t my interests.


5 posted on 08/13/2023 11:14:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EEGator

Yep, here we go again. Another war monger shilling for us to get involved in some crap-hole country’s war. How may Vietnams do we have to suffer through before we learn our lesson?


6 posted on 08/13/2023 11:18:54 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: Dave911

The FR Neocon Brigade want war everywhere.


7 posted on 08/13/2023 11:24:05 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: CFW
Coup in Niger threatens American

Deep Swamp interests


8 posted on 08/13/2023 11:25:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: CFW

VICTORIA NULAND and her WRECKING BALL TOUR AGAINST AMERICA on behalf of the WEF/SOROS CABAL. She very well could be the EVIL SPAWN OF GEORGE SOROS.


9 posted on 08/13/2023 11:26:03 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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I have surprisingly little interest in Niger .


10 posted on 08/13/2023 11:26:07 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: CFW

Ditto that, my 1st thought.


11 posted on 08/13/2023 11:29:32 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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No, it's our and France's bullying and exploitation of Niger that threatens American interests there.

We've gone from freeing the world from Nazism and communism to be the world's bully and using our foreign policy to enrich our elite and oligarchs.

12 posted on 08/13/2023 11:30:04 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: JonPreston
I hear the neocon drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in, 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation

I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
Cookies wants Ukraine down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never Vlad

13 posted on 08/13/2023 11:30:29 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Nice Toto riff…


14 posted on 08/13/2023 11:32:14 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: CFW

Sure.

Now Saddam Hussein has all the yellow cake he wants.

If Uday and Qusay haven’t already eaten it.


15 posted on 08/13/2023 11:34:16 AM PDT by x
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“No, it’s our and France’s bullying and exploitation of Niger that threatens American interests there.”

Bingo! Niger and elsewhere. And the BRICS nations are getting tired of our interference and exploitation.


16 posted on 08/13/2023 11:36:20 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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You know where we get uranium from? That’s right NIGER. All the pieces are fitting together. They just closed off uranium mining near the Grand Canyon FOR GOOD. There is enough uranium there for all our needs. Now we must get it from hostile nations.


17 posted on 08/13/2023 11:37:18 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: kiryandil

War Pigs - Black Sabbath

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death’s construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds

[Refrain]
Oh, Lord, yeah

[Bridge]
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that all to the poor, yeah
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah

[Verse 2]
Now, in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where their bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of Judgment, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercies for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings

[Refrain]
Oh, Lord, yeah


18 posted on 08/13/2023 11:37:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CFW

This B$ may impact positively our elites profiting from every war, regardless of where, when and who.

Let the elites and their mumbling following go to another B$ war.


19 posted on 08/13/2023 11:38:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Send Asylum Seekers to empty college dorms/class rooms in NY/NJ/Mass/West Point & NE blue citiesl)
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To: escapefromboston

Odd, I have zero interest there as well.

Low IQ criminals coming into the US is one of my concern.


20 posted on 08/13/2023 11:39:54 AM PDT by EEGator
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