I very much hope it's not a France sponsored coup
Western countries sponsoring coups in their former colonial posessions in 2022 will be a great insult to the whole idea of West trying to fix the world, and not the other way around.
Western countries sponsoring coups in their former colonial posessions in 2022 will be a great insult to the whole idea of West trying to fix the world, and not the other way around.
Is there any indication that could be the case? I don't see what France would get from such a case, and all the reporting so far seems to be that junior military men are complaining about top military brass and insufficient resources to combat jihadists. France is already embroiled in Mali in that same fight, so it could be a continuation of the same policy.
It's just an automatic assumption when you hear "coup in Africa." France has a very, very long record of staging coups in African countries, in particular upstanding ones.
> I don't see what France would get from such a case,
I don't see either, but America never got anything out of its coups in South Americas either, only more headaches.
Many of them, just because they didn't like the Africans, and just wanted to hurt them out of their sociopatic tendencies, with some geopolitical bullshit as a pretext.
We only have one planet so someone has to pay the price. I know this is not a popular opinion, especially on US sites, but it's the truth. It's incredibly racist to think otherwise. Because what's the alternative? Half the world is made of idiots born in utter poverty because they are idiots and can't get their countries straight?
In reality, both are needed, but, immediately, tanks, military training, and other powerful weapons are of way more use for democracy.
P.S. I ask people replying ahead of time, please do not derail the thread with assessment of western ideals themselves or bringing up a bunch of unsavory moments from western history. That’s obviously not what we are talking about here.
What is the "west"? And what are such ideals?
Let me introduce you to https://exchanges.state.gov/non-us/program/future-leaders-ex...
All it does is create incentives for people to go back and create meaningless NGOs whose only purpose is to siphon grants and hold press conferences.
How do I know? I come from a basically a third-world country where such programs do jack shit: (A very small subset can be seen here: https://ngoexplorer.org/country/mda/show-charities)
The popular narrative is that the commoners own the responsibility for imperialism "because it helped them" and this assertion tends to be taken without question.
The reality is far more complicated. What is true is that imperialism is driven by and for the very rich and powerful ruling class. And what is also true is that the common people have been forced to bear the brunt of these wars and interventions and expansion. The common people of imperialist countries have also been victims of imperialism.