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Fatty said:

The Nigerian military has been getting embarrassed by Boko Haram quite literally on a monthly basis for the past decade and a half. I would not put money on any successful military intervention by them

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Let's get real here; no country can successfully fight an insurgency with pure conventional military means, not the US or China. Nigeria, outside of propaganda, has done well militarily to confine boko haram to the edges of the north east otherwise a significant chunk of the country would have been gone. There's no "embarrassment" there. The Nigerian military, even at its weakest, in an operation led by General Maxwell Khobe overthrew Sierra Leone's junta in 1998 and restored the president of that country. Today, there's a street named after him in Freetown. Its military also held rebels in Liberia when they were close to overrunning the capital, Monrovia, in September 1992. Ask any Liberian what they think of the Nigerian soldiers. From the Glover's Hausas to the Nigerian contingent that made up the Royal West African Frontier Force in WWII to its officers that served well and commanded peacekeeping operations in the Congo in the 1960s Nigeria has, by African standards, created a fine martial tradition. Nigeria deserves lots of criticism but its military isn't one of them.

In a military fight between Nigeria and Niger? If you go to Niamey they would laugh and tell you they have no chance. There's a reason why they are contacting Wagner and appealing to its population to defend the country. I know people want to take sides and denigrate the other but let's be realistic in our assessment.

eprash said:

Is CIA responsible for current Niger crisis?, Energy pipeline from Nigeria to Europe and French access to cheap Uranium would be cut off almost like another proxy economic war against a major European economy like Ukraine

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That evil woman who orchestrated the Ukraine War was visiting Niger in recent days. This looks like a scheme by the US to force France into line.

Arrogant anti-china twits and redditors love to point out whenever their is some blip on China's economy or of "ghost" infrastructure, but these folks never give a thought of the flaws of how the US maintain to be "#1"


5 billion * 365 = 1.8 trillion added debt per a year => totally authentic economic growth bruh

Being a vassal has consequences.
“The EU restrictions on export of high-tech products to China in recent years directly limited the EU’s ability to tap the potential of export to China and led to unbalanced trade,” the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Tuesday. The surplus “is a natural result under the combined influence of different industrial structures, industrial specialization, ways of trade and external factors.”

KYli said:

Being a vassal has consequences.

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European Commission’s trade chief, Valdis Dombrovskis, said the deficit with China had reached a “staggering” level and that he would be pushing Beijing to reduce barriers to European goods when he traveled there in September.

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I can’t believe the Chinese wouldn’t buy soybeans vehicles at a 10,000% markup. Frecking Commies. - Americans Europeans.

Special drone for Russia, can carry two motar rounds.

Russian soldiers ‘not human’ – Kiev military spokesperson​

Russian soldiers drastically differ from Ukrainian service members because they are not human, according to an American transgender journalist recently appointed as an official spokesperson for Kiev’s territorial defense forces.

On Saturday, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo posted a 21-second clip on X (formerly Twitter) in which she is seen standing in front of a cardboard cutout of a Russian soldier. Pointing at the figure, the spokesperson asks: “Do you know the difference between us and them?”

While Ukrainians “are fighting for freedom,” Russians “are fighting for tyranny and dictatorship,” Ashton-Cirillo claimed, adding that the most distinctive feature is “pretty simple.” “We are human, and those guys most definitely aren’t,” she said, concluding the speech with the slogan “Glory to Ukraine.”

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So we went ahead of asians being not humane to being subhuman in less than a week. Alright. For context purposes, they said Russians are asians therefore asians and Russians are less humane in a nutshell summary.

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So we went ahead of asians being not humane to being subhuman in less than a week. Alright. For context purposes, they said Russians are asians therefore asians and Russians are less humane in a nutshell summary.

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Seriously, did you expect any less?

Nice, will wait for the racist complaints about Taiwanese managers/workers if the plant ever open

ECOWAS estimates 25,000 troops for potential invasion of Niger​

French broadcaster RFI citing a Nigerian official: Nigeria can provide more than half of the 25,000 troops for the invasion of Niger if necessary

The West African bloc ECOWAS said it has the capacity to provide up to 25,000 troops for the potential invasion of Niger with the goal of reinstating Nigerean President Mohamed Bazoum, Nigerean-based RFI radio station reported.

The majority of forces will be deployed by Nigeria, the report added.

The crisis in Niger was sparked on July 26, when the presidential guard detained President Bazoum, leading to the subsequent declaration of interim leadership by Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who also assumed the presidency of the Caretaker National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland.

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Are they seriously going to consider invading Niger with 25,000 soldiers? 25 million population with a landmass that is slightly 2x larger than Ukraine.