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Having a life and responsibilities that preclude me from being an expert

Cool, here's why you barging into this conversation the way you did made you sound like an ass

No! You're the ass! I don't have to apologize or read your posts! I am done responding now and I am now Leaving the Left!

how dare you get on my case just because i'm not well read on this subject

look here's why you were an ass and shouldn't expect people to be nice to you by default

actually you're an ass, i don't care about your opinions, and i will most certainly not keep responding to you because i definitely don't read what you say. blow me.

how civil

'our plan is to explode all the computers'

'bro i'm a decker thats my time to shine'

'scratch that we are cutting the power to the entire neighborhood'

it took you 4 days to respond and tell me about how bad i made you feel

yeah, you totally didn't read my 'opinion' on how you made yourself an ass by bashing the entire comm talking about things we already know

btw joe and hunter biden should be prosecuted. nobody cares you think they are cool.

the lasers can vaporize the dust so it still works

vibes

last i checked they wanted to make lasers for this

I think a good rule of thumb is to always remember that governments take action in order to preserve themselves in power. That's always the short term goal. Even before we are enlightened as to the weight, interests and institutinal power of a government like Nigeria's, we have to ask ourselves wether the current government would survive intervening, and wether it would survive not doing anything. This is what leads on to the right questions.

It reminds me of all the people online being surprised at the RAND study that pointed out how Japan probably wouldn't outright join a hot war with China over Taiwan. And why would they? 'The West' 'losing Taiwan' would not collapse the current japanese government. But having the home islands effectively blockaded from international trade during the war, while ruining future relations with China probably would. This puts international pressure and internal politics in their given places, without disregarding one or the other.

We got ourselves an interesting substack, which addresses the crisis in Niger within the terms of local politics rather than just geopolitical jockeying that a lot of people including us tend to limit ourselves to. Some of the highlights are:

• Nigeria is a geopolitical force in it's own right, with control over a number of multilateral organizations and wether intervention happens or not is really down the internal politics of Nigeria.

• Nigeria is going through the motions to build up international legitimacy for an ECOWAS intervention, but it is recalcitrant due to mounting opposition within itself.

• Unlike what some tend to believe, this opposition has nothing to do with pan african or anti imperialist solidarity. Rather the danger of further crisis and displacement right at the border. Not to mention how the president of Nigeria relies on a voting base from the north of the country, which is related to the people of southern Niger.

• Unlike some have reported Algeria has not said that they'll intervene to save the Nigerien junta. They also just think that intervention will worsen the situation. So they are opposed to both the coup and invasion.

• Understandably, the gut reaction of people in the region about military coups comes from the fact that nobody is holding out for a second Thomas Sankara. Everyone sees a military junta as a new kleptocracy in the making.

• When people talk about Nigerien Uranium or Gold, they are oversimplifying the situation. Niger is a resource colony in the era of financial capitalism. Yes, there are french companies that exploit the shit out of Niger's markets. But the larger point is the unravelling of the Francophonie as a whole, on which so much of french finance relies on. France won't be without fuel for it's nuclear plants because they can just buy from Kazakhstan or Canada.

• Incidentally the US doesn't really give a shit about France. It's all about the perceived geopolitical win of Russia's. A perception that is driven by protestors with Russian flags and false videos of Wagner planes touching Niamey. And even so, the Americans can't just tell Nigeria to intervene. If Nigeria was a puppet state it would have already moved in. The Nigerians will ultimately move in according to their own core national interests, and if conditions are ready for it.

• That said, Nigeria's last ECOWAS intervention was in Gambia, and it seemed like it wasn't gonna happen until it suddenly did and the country more or less folded because of how illegitimate the government had become.

To be fair, the democrats were absolutely bloodthirsty when Obama was elected warlord and he waged war against the peoples of Syria and Libya. It's a bipartisan problem affecting both liberal parties.

I'm currently serving in the US military and am very confident that Western media at large is on the money

'thank you for your service', you say when someone describes their career pushing paper in the afghani legation quarter

its only gladio if its from the european region of the international community. in south america its merely a sparkling condor.

The United States needs a junior officer coup in the name of Big Comedy.

why do people even give a shit about RFK Jr, he's just a second tulsi gabbard

satire

What are you a Trump bot? There's nothing satirical about Reuter's reporting. These are extremely serious journalistic outfits.

This is so disappointing. That people like you would deny ethnic cleansing of eastern ukrainians. You are definitely a Trump voter.

colonization is when russians aren't genocided and get to live in russia

wanna decolonize eastern ukraine and crimea? give them to kazakhstan

Exactly. And why would Putin talk about denazification? We read the same articles from CNN and MSNBC about Ukraine's nazi training camps, about Zelensky's inability to get the far right militias to stop killing eastern ukrainians, or the constant and widespread worship of nazi iconography combined with a redemption of banderism. None of this add up to a need for denazification.

One would have to be a cynic to exploit words like those of the security council of Ukraine, when they claimed that asians are subhuman and that russians are are asians.

The Russian government is truly mad if it believes it must do something just because tens of thousands of russians were killed by genocidal militias. Why, in international community tems those don't even add up to a single american life.

For two reasons. The standard cause is Republican detraction from the sitting president. Americans tend to align in favor of wars on partisan terms. Republicans favored Iraq and Afghanistan, Democrats favored Syria and Libya. So it all amounts to Liberal infighting. If the president is on the other side of the aisle your guys, your media people, and your grifters get to pretend to be competent realists, shepherds of american reputation, or even anti-war activists. But it's all an illusion. One of the ways Trump fucked Hillary over was due to her record voting for the Iraq War, and then leading the wars in Syria and Libya. Things that she was always quite proud of. Trump might even genuinely believe that Iraq and Libya and so on were stupid. By and large however Americans are not an anti-war culture. So the actual impulse isn't so much 'waging war is bad', but 'waging this war in this way was bad'.

The more complex issue at hand is that far right grifters online tend to see Russia as a means to get China. In their perfect world the United States would ally with Russia and integrate it into it's world order as a means to encircle and destroy the 'communist Chinese'. That is because Russia is idealized as a neo-conservative, hyper religious promised land that hates feminism, lgbt+ rights, and so on.

One good example of this worldview is how back when Trump was elected far right circles online went on a nonstop frenzy of meme-making where Trump and Putin would ally to invade Turkey and genocide all the muslims from 'Constantinople'. In that case it was less about China and more about destroying the 2000s-2010s boogeyman of, well, every muslim in the world.

so he could commit cultural genocide.

look, zelensky is a jewish person who sees israeli apartheid as a model to be followed but i wouldn't go so far that as to say he wanted to do cultural genocide. it's just azov and the right sector who wanted to.

and as we all know azov and the far right militias are now in command of the ukrainian army / government. they don't exist anymore. so it's all good.