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FriedButter said:

Looks like the western puppets are pushing for war in Niger. France is officially backing the invasion. Obviously they are demanding the return of their colonial resources.

However, apparently the Nigerian senators are wary of backing the president and military push for war against Niger.

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Sounds like Nigerian officials putting out platitudes to appease the west.

I doubt we see a Niger-Nigerian war. Nigeria is an African superpower, but they already have their hands full dealing with their own insurgency. As @Africablack already succinctly described, Nigeria is a very divided country with multiple very different ethnicities. The north of Nigeria is probably sympathetic to the new Niger government, while the south couldn't care less. Zero interest for war.

They could get one of the smaller African countries to launch an invasion, supported by NATO. If a war does break out, expect a European refugee crisis that eclipses Syria and Ukraine.

About the Mali "coup" (of course only pro-western movements get to be peaceful revolutions). Russia and China working together to combat western colonialism in Africa is much more effective compared to the Cold War when they were constantly at each other's throats.

Africablack said:

This is not true. A small group of senators favor dialogue and only the use of force if all else fails. This group is the Northern Senators Forum. They don't want a military intervention yet because 1) They fear their areas will be affected by the flood of potential refugees and 2) They are related to Nigeriens (they speak Hausa and have similar culture, in fact they are the same people). Majority of the other Senators favor intervention.

Nigeria has had enough! It can't allow a Wagner belt in the Sahel, it's completely against its interests. Europeans, whether western or Russian, should not be allowed to control Africa. The Chinese are respectful, they do business and leave. Africa should not let foreign forces start dictating economic policy like they do in Central African Republic. Today the Sahel, tomorrow the coastal West African countries. There's a reason why all the coastal and Island West African countries are intervening.

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You think the new Mali government are going to entertain giving up power? Especially given how popular it seems to be.

Is it really in Nigeria's interests to start a war with a neighbouring country, with whom a significant portion of it's population shares an ethnic and religious kinship?

Also, is it true Nigeria's military is loosely divided on ethnic/religious ties? That the air force is Muslim dominated and the army is Christian?

tygyg1111 said:

Lemme just say it:

1. Japan is culturally inferior and derivative to China, and will always be 900 years behind China in cultural depth.
2. Japan totally squandered their one and only chance to become the leader of Asia by showing their true character in their moment of power: Cowards, rapists and war criminals.
3. Japan is a defeated, gutless nation; a wannabe bully that lacks the guts to stand on its own.
4. Japan will once again come under the fold of China, by their own volition when they realize they can't hide behind their current daddy anymore.
5. China will humiliate Japan by showing them compassion and forgiveness, but only after making an example of the Japanese that deserve it.
6. The best future for Japan is to be assimilated into China, becoming an official ethnic minority and being civilized in the process.
7. Bettydice is Japanese, and should learn to accept reality.

The problem with Japanese people is (ironically, as they support UKR) their lack of humanity - compassion for those that they deem weaker than themselves. This is demonstrable on a day to day basis when someone breaks an unwritten rule; when this happens watch how passerby's treat them. The good news that this is only a disease of the mind - acclimatization to the right culture can fix this.

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The dividing line between humans and animals is not that you can bow down to the strong, as some certain countries are so fond of demonstrating. Wolves and dogs bow down to their alpha after all.

The dividing line is how you treat others weaker than you.

In Wandering Earth 2, there was a scene where Zhou Zhezhi gives a speech about how they unearthed a mended legbone from 10000 BC, showing that humans were already capable of compassion in the stone age, since in other animals, they never found a mended legbone - wounded animals just starved to death because they couldn't forage and hunt anymore.

2000 years of learning from China, yet some countries have not learned the most fundamental of human ideas - 仁义.

Abominable said:

You think the new Mali government are going to entertain giving up power? Especially given how popular it seems to be.

Is it really in Nigeria's interests to start a war with a neighbouring country, with whom a significant portion of it's population shares an ethnic and religious kinship?

Also, is it true Nigeria's military is loosely divided on ethnic/religious ties? That the air force is Muslim dominated and the army is Christian?

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When the coups in Guinea-Conakry, Mali, and Burkina Faso happened Nigeria could ignore it because those countries don't border Nigeria, Niger is different. If Nigeria wants to build a gas pipeline from it's south transiting past Niger and Algeria to Europe but Russia says no where would that leave Nigeria? Also Nigeria has had issues of coups in the past and a lot of politicians fought the military, including the current President, they don't want coups to become the norm. When the westerners first got to Africa, they were hailed because they actually presented themselves as saviors to help them fight their regional rivals, to do business, etc. We all know how that turned out.

It is in Nigeria's long term interests to remove a malignant influence so that the region doesn't fall back to 1980s style military rule. It is in Nigeria's influence to make sure another batch of Europeans don't present themselves as liberators only to turn around and start giving orders and extracting resources for its benefit. The Chinese are excellent examples on how to not only conduct business but to respect people; they come in, finance deals, and create win-win situations (or at least present it as such) and move on. The Nigerian military fought a small war with Chad in the 1980s, there didn't seem to be a problem there so why now?

Nigeria's military is simply a reflection of the country's ethnically diverse society, there's no internal dispute or division that I know of. It has a significant chunk of Muslims and Christians in all services. The only historic divide was in the past where northerners tended to go into combat roles, while southerners preferred technical roles, southerners tend to be more educated by far and northerners looked at their southern counterparts as being to erudite to be warriors while southerners looked at northerners as too unsophisticated. However, these are stereotypes.

Mohseni-Cheraghlou and Aladekoba said that more than 60 per cent of Chinese arms exports to the region went to five countries, with Tanzania taking the most at 19.6 per cent. Nigeria was second, with 13.5 per cent, and Sudan third, on 12.6 per cent.

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To illustrate the overlap between China’s security and economic interests in Africa, the study focused on Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation with vast amounts of energy resources and several seaports on the Atlantic coast.

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The report said that between 2006 and 2020, Nigeria attracted more than 13 per cent of all Chinese investment and construction in sub-Saharan Africa, making it the largest recipient of Chinese capital and projects in the region.

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In 2021 alone, China accounted for 34.4 per cent of Nigeria’s arms imports, compared to the US and Russia at 2.67 per cent and 6.49 per cent, respectively. In the same year, Nigerian military spending reached US$4.5 billion, a 56 per cent increase on 2020, the study said.

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While China has long been known to export mostly light arms to Africa, the report said Beijing had started selling more advanced weaponry to Nigeria, highlighting the country’s centrality to China’s geopolitical calculations in the region.

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Using Chinese weapons and money to defend Western influence and interests in Africa. What a time to be alive lol

Africablack said:

This is not true. A small group of senators favor dialogue and only the use of force if all else fails. This group is the Northern Senators Forum. They don't want a military intervention yet because 1) They fear their areas will be affected by the flood of potential refugees and 2) They are related to Nigeriens (they speak Hausa and have similar culture, in fact they are the same people). Majority of the other Senators favor intervention.

Nigeria has had enough! It can't allow a Wagner belt in the Sahel, it's completely against its interests. Europeans, whether western or Russian, should not be allowed to control Africa. The Chinese are respectful, they do business and leave. Africa should not let foreign forces start dictating economic policy like they do in Central African Republic. Today the Sahel, tomorrow the coastal West African countries. There's a reason why all the coastal and Island West African countries are intervening.

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It is not Wagner but Arabs. once you cross certain line you will have difficulty even in food imports. forget about any investments. Arabs are backed by reserve currency and ideology and the factories that you cannot think.
This neighbor of Niger where Emirati are distributing food.

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The Emirati humanitarian team continues to distribute food parcels in Um Jaras, Chad​

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If this war starts, Nigeria will collapse if it goes all out, so it will probably employ only a fraction of its forces for domestic stability.

France can't intervene directly, because their domestic Muslims and blacks will this time really burn the country to the ground.

So, just like the US, they would only indirectly support Nigeria financially, sending them weapons, info, media help, diplomatic help, etc.

Not to mention that Niger is the one who is defending itself so home and motivation advantage is on their side.

So Nigeria's 10 times bigger demographics and way better-equipped military and 30 times bigger GDP would be mitigated a bit.

The rest of ECOWAS would join Nigeria, however, there are also 3 pro-Russian countries who would help Niger.

Russia would probably help Niger in the same way that the US and France would help Nigeria, it would be a close war.

I think that China will remain neutral in this war completely because it isn't benefiting them to cross Nigeria for Niger.

Because Nigeria is a big and strong friend of China, where China invested a lot, and even sold The Type 076 corvettes, even planning for 052D.

Recently, there were even some PLA warships docking at a Nigerian port, a rare occurrence in Western Africa against Western wishes.

Generally, I don't that Nigeria is fully pro-Western, it is probably neutral and this time acting in its own interest, as a regional power,

It is just that their interests happened to align with Western ones this time. Generally, I don't think Africa is under Western control anymore.

The world is already multipolar. The majority of young Africans already support China more than US, not to mention politicians.

Serb said:

If this war starts, Nigeria will collapse if it goes all out, so it will probably employ only a fraction of its forces for domestic stability.

France can't intervene directly, because their domestic Muslims and blacks will this time really burn the country to the ground.

So, just like the US, they would only indirectly support Nigeria financially, sending them weapons, info, media help, diplomatic help, etc.

Not to mention that Niger is the one who is defending itself so home and motivation advantage is on their side.

So Nigeria's 10 times bigger demographics and way better-equipped military and 30 times bigger GDP would be mitigated a bit.

The rest of ECOWAS would join Nigeria, however, there are also 3 pro-Russian countries who would help Niger.

Russia would probably help Niger in the same way that the US and France would help Nigeria, it would be a close war.

I think that China will remain neutral in this war completely because it isn't benefiting them to cross Nigeria for Niger.

Because Nigeria is a big and strong friend of China, where China invested a lot, and even sold The Type 076 corvettes, even planning for 052D.

Recently, there were even some PLA warships docking at a Nigerian port, a rare occurrence in Western Africa against Western wishes.

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US might make some noise but I bet that uncle Sam is secretly happy that the planned pipeline from Nigeria to the EU might never happen

Bellum_Romanum said:

At this point you're not trying to actually have a productive discussion but is now simply just trolling and trying to incite an emotional response.

What are you even trying to really prove here? What's your angle? The first Sino-Japanese War of 1895 proved that the time of the Qing Dynasty and it's corrupt policies made China a complete backward in terms of keeping with the technological advances of the time, most especially in the revolution of military affairs (RMA). Imperial Japan was indeed successful with their reforms during the Meiji era in modernizing Japan especially its military to ensure that it would not be enslaved or colonized by the Imperial western countries that had taken over key importance area of China. But was Japan right in it's hubristic efforts and criminal activities with its barbarity and genocidal actions during the subsequent years with its expansionist actions against China's then Manchuria region and beyond, leading up to the official announcement of WWII?

How exactly is Japan the better race or superior race than Chinese? In what capacity especially in today's contemporary time? Do list them since am quite curious where Japan leads or is that superior to the current China.

You seem really hell bent on trying to prove that Japan was the victim of WWII and were also justified in their actions especially the laughable notion of Japanese racial superiority. Are you of Japanese descent? Perhaps a Chinese that worships at the altar of Japan and or worse a white dude that simps for everything Japanese.

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So, what happened? It seems that a guy said some unpleasant things, and I saw some residual paragraphs.


Well, the study of Culture of Japan is enough to write many books to elaborate. So I don't plan to have a lengthy argument either.

You cannot expect too much from an island with a severe Galapagos phenomenon. Such an extreme ethnic group is rare in the world, with a highly sensitive and extremely pathological sense of crisis, but on the other hand, they are easily trapped in feelings of complacency and narcissism.
You will find that they always interpret the theories they come into contact with in an extremely strange direction (based on their historical experience of long-term closed internal environments).
Considering that the wars that occurred in their ancient times were mainly power struggles between nobles, you can understand the reason why their attitudes towards good and evil were so vague. But their theory clearly cannot define all wars in the world.

The theoretical thought of Japan in the era of Militarism is a weird Frankenstein, it combines theocracy, Social Darwinism, feudal hierarchy, anti Occidentalism, pan Asianism and Bushido in the Edo period. Of course, the planners of the war were well aware that none of these matters. They were merely repeating the endless expansion and plunder of the samurai five hundred years ago, and war meant promotion, achievements, and wealth. And Hirohito is also willing to use the hidden rules of politics (do not express a clear attitude, let his subordinates "understand" everything) to maximize their own interests.

The essence of this war has never been a "holy war" to liberate colonies. Although the current Japanese right-wing elements still strive to portray themselves as tragic liberators, it is obvious that this gentleman is not Japanese. The Japanese will not proudly claim that they can seize everything in East Asia. They will only say, "The Chinese are too barbaric, so they have to teach the Chinese a lesson"，or 'That's not humiliation or occupation, it's help and cooperation for the Chinese people'.