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Unrelated but it really got me worried. All of the updates regarding a horrible attack on Mali which is a revolutionary country from the AES of Sahel.
๐ฒ๐ฑ Jihadist forces attempting to storm Kati, a strategically vital suburb of the capital Bamako, were decisively crushed. The Malian army and Russia's African Corps destroyed dozens of militants before they even reached the perimeter. FPV drones and motorcycle assault tactics failed to make a difference.
Via: @Rybar_africa
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182800?single
๐ฒ๐ฑ Somewhere in Mali...
Some militants, having expended all their ammunition, attempt to flee, but local Malians lynch them on the spot
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182801
๐ฒ๐ฑ Captured militants somewhere in Mali.
๐ด @DDGeopolitics
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182802
๐ดโก๏ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ท๐บ Wagner base in Mali overrun by JNIM fighters.
https://t.me/NAOSINT12/91
๐ดโก๏ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ Helicopter operated by Mali was shot down by JNIM Al Qaeda branch in Sahel.
https://t.me/NAOSINT12/88
โก๏ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ The Defense Minister was alleged to have been killed in the conflict in Mali, however, government outlets only say he was severely injured in a VBIED attack, other outlets now report that the Chief of Staff was also killed at his post.
https://t.me/medmannews/38986
โก๏ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ Gunfights in the Malian capital is over as crowds lynch Al-Qaeda fighters and the rest were wiped out by the reorganized Malian army assets and some Afrika Corps.
The same can not be said in terms of other cities.
https://t.me/medmannews/38993
โก๏ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ Al-Qaeda in Mali states that they have officially entered an alliance with the Ethnic Rebels to topple the Malian government.
They offer the Russian Federation a deal - to abstain from the conflict and the Russian soldiers and specialists who are currently besieged in their installations will be left alone.
@medmannews
Fuck the French and whoever is funding the terrorists in the JNIM in the Sahel
Wow, that is worrying. I hope Mali fights off those enemy forces (is Mali anti-imperialist?)
Yes, Mali is anti imperialist. For more information on Mali, you can check the community of Africa -> https://lemmygrad.ml/search?q=Mali&communityId=209
Oh that is cool. Another anti-imperialist African country :>
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11434971
Never knew the French were that evil (I did know of their extensive African empire, but this is quite something...). Oh, and hooray to Mali.
France still has a lot of neo-colonial control in West Africa. Over their currencies being tied to French banks, over their economy with preferential treatment given to French companies, and over their media space with French language still being very dominant in many former French colonies.
The Sahel states (Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso) in particular were very lucrative for France before the military coups that ousted the corrupt French puppet governments. After the coup in Niger France lost its control over Niger's Uranium mining industry where they would pay Niger something like 5% of what their Uranium is actually worth.
Before the coups France was deeply involved with military co-operation and "providing security" to those states under the guise of allegedly fighting terrorism. Only the situation never got better and only got worse, thus justifying continued French military presence. This made many people eventually suspect that France was funding and arming the terrorists.
Since France was ousted things have rapidly improved. Russia took over the role of military and security partner for these countries and they have started to push back the French backed terrorists for the first time in decades. France has been furious over the loss of its neo-colonies and has been playing very dirty trying to get them back.
I knew of the French neocolonial empire because I saw a video about it, but unfortunately, my understanding of neocolonialism is relegated to the book by someone I read several months ago (and it did bore me a little because it droned on a lot with statistics).
Better Russia than France, that is for sure. I hope the African countries can throw off the fetters of neocolonialism and become independent some day (because being under neocolonial rule is hardly independent).
They did nuclear testing in Algeria as algerians fought for their independence. All European countries did fucked up shit, but the French aren't the worst only because the competition is so fierce.
Damn... I honestly am still quite shocked that so much of American history whitewashes the horrors of colonialism (especially if it is Western colonialism). It goes to show that the scientific skin of American history and related fields is just skin, and not anything scientific on a deeper level.