While I very much sympathise with the stance of always suspecting the USA first and foremost whenever anything happens in geopolitics, I’m not sure if I credit it with this much competence.

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    The situation in Niger has been brewing for years. The French military has been bombing civilians in their “anti-terror” operation. Nigeriens are waving Russian flags because the Russians are actually good at fighting the insurgents and protecting civilians at the same time. In fact, France’s actions have been making the situation in the Sahel WORSE!

    I doubt the USA has much to do with this coup. The reality is that Neocolonial armies are ripe with contradictions, and one of the outbursts of that is a military mutiny in defense of the exploited masses, as we have seen with Burkina Faso, Libya, Cuba, and Venezuela.

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    I would think German leaders agreed to the Nord Stream event—plenty of money to be made by German elites on the switch.