• kefirchik@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Niger is ditching ECOWAS for the security from other states that recently underwent coups. It’s hard to see how this is in the interest of the common person.

    Just because France is against the coup doesn’t mean it’s good for Nigeriens.

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      1 year ago

      From the media coming from Niger and other countries it definitely seems to me that the people are fully supportive of the coup. The other nations that underwent coups also were deposing west-installed leaders.

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        1 year ago

        Niger is a 25M inhabitants country. A couple of demonstrations supported by Russian don’t reflect the global reality.

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        1 year ago

        If the people fully supported the coup the military would have elections and cement their leadership.

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        1 year ago

        How do you define “the people”? Do all Americans support Biden? Do all Russians support Putin? Of course not! Parts of the population in Niger definitely support the coup, I’m sure. But how many? No idea.

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      It’s called a purge. They’ve tried working within the Western rules based order for decades. It’s not working to get the West out. So the coup is the next attempt at pushing out the West and the compradors in order to create the operating conditions for self-governance by the people for the people instead of these fake democracies that only exist to legitimize neocolonial dominance in a way that white people can’t feel guilty about.