West African Crisis

[Zinneke]

Invade them, and invade Saudi Arabia while we are at it. Morality no longer resides with the idea of non-intervention. The neo-cons would have been justified had they just been honest about their motives.

[Zinneke]

Then France should recognize breakaway states of these countries' regimes, based on the principle of self-determination. It should be open bar for any Putin-loving dictator now to have this as a problem, since they implicitly endorse Putin's justification for recognising LPR and DPR.

Their states are artificial, and their sovereignty is too so long as foreign powers of all stripes sponsor the greedy "big men" and their political enablers.

[Zinneke]

Ah yes the West's governments famously doesn't invest in infrastructure and technology in Africa, that old trope. God forbid it actually wants to improve the lives of ordinary citizens there, even if by a slither compared to the PRC and Russia, who mainly are concerned about the dictator in place and stabilising such a regime, to a higher degree than the West.

What the PRC is doing there is more toxic than anything the West has done in the last 30 years there, and I don't think the West has clean hands either. But all these human rights programs that went with the ACP-EU trade deal weren't always just fluff, they helped a lot of people. The PRC won't care because it has no interest in the ordinary livelihood of Africans, as opposed to the slither of interest we show.

[Zinneke]

West Africa has been in crisis for its entire existence, lmao.

"lmao"

[Zinneke]

France's neocolonialism isn't going well.

Again such a lazy trope.

Of course the origin of these issues is France and the UK and their horrible neo-colonial legacy.

But there's a very effective spotlight being shone on the West while Russia having a PMC there is apprently...ah-OK?

Maoist-Lin Biaoist rhetoric from people who aren't even on the ground there or have never been to an African country. Y'all need to stop listening to Radio War Nerd and masturbating to Jason Unruhe videos.

[Zinneke]

https://twitter.com/elischerafrica/status/1687140423037329409

https://twitter.com/jh_barnett/status/1686766980542369792

[Zinneke]

This thread has gone wildly off topic.

[Zinneke]

Rooting on Africans dying to own the West? In no way is a conflict here a blessing and you’re giddiness over it’s prospects because it could theoretically hurt the US is sickening

You, like all labor aristocrats, hurt Africans simply by existing. So save it.

You hurt this forum by existing.