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Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 1 year ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] tomatopathe@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Niger's junta knows this how?

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians were feeding them intelligence

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 year ago

You're getting downvoted, but the Wagner Group has a stake in this coup being successful and the group has ties to the Russian government.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I dunno why people find that so hard to believe. They have a clear interest in propping up this coup.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

There is a difference between a clear interest and moral reason. There is a clear interest.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I realize now the lemmygrad folks are here so that prob explains the downvotes

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago

It is really hard to sell a liberation foreign policy when the group doing so is getting paid by strip mining the land in compensation for their services. Well, unless West is bad and always bad, but it is really hard to sell moral superiority by being mercenaries.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Because you don't just have a coup after having a stroke of insight from a night of binge drinking?

It's a movement led military units that have deep political and intelligence connections. They know a lot of things that aren't going to be admitted by the West.