It should be noted that Feddit.org was included to represent Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
I did not include Baraza.africa as that was too encompassing as it covers the whole African continent.
Hopefully this post inspires more countries to join the blue club!
No, the French were not peace keeping, and no just because whites left does not mean they’re now Russian vassals.
Stop defending colonialism.
Mentioning the French troops was a bit offtopic. But my point stands. Mali is a semi-failed state that seems to have exchanged one set of foreign lords for another, much worse, set.
Given how the French acts in its colonies… There isn’t a worse set. You either truly have no understanding of how evil the French have been in their colonies right up to modern day, or are under the assumption the oppressed aren’t smart enough to make their own decisions, which would make you racist.
You don’t get to decide what the colonized do after shaking off oppression. And it’s no surprise they stop cooperating with western society given how absolutely evil it is in their eyes. To you Russia is this evil imperial power. To an actual foreign colony of an evil imperial power, it is less evil than their previous owners, if only because it’s not their previous owners.
Maybe that ends poorly, maybe not, but when you’ve been oppressing people for decades they get to a point where killing themselves is better than continuing to do anything that doesn’t actively harm you.
You know those ‘woke’ people that always go on about the colonizer mindset? They’re talking about you.
Firstly, the French troops were invited by Mali’s government to help it put down its jihadist insurgents. The Russian ones were invited, in turn, for the same reason, after a media-propaganda campaign by Russia that played on historic animosity dating from the colonial period. A propaganda campaign filled with angry rhetoric and sounding much like your rant.
Meanwhile, Mali is still a semi-failed state with a jihadi problem which was caused by neither France nor Russia. And on top of that it now has brutal boorish Russian mercenaries instead of generally well-behaved French regular soldiers. Mali got a terrible deal and it was their own fault.
You know why I’m not embarrassed to say that? Precisely because I’m not a colonialist. I believe that Mali is not a child, it’s an adult. It has agency, it’s not a colony of anyone, it’s a sovereign country that can make choices for itself. If anyone’s views here are colonialist, it’s yours.
Don’t bother, he’s a pro-china anti-western shill, his comment history is a mess