And the bible/torah calls for murdering gay people and describes god spefically ordering the Jews to kill other Jews who had built an altar on the wrong side of the Jordan. So are the political views and actions of every Israeli, every Ugandan or every American to be explained by that?

Well, it looks like the Nigerien masses don’t really feel a need to defend Bazoum and the French - I guess after 13 years of the previous regime and nearly as many of French intervention, people are disappointed and willing to give the pro-Russian gang a chance. That’s not likely to do them much good, but a Nigerian invasion would definitely be worse - the under - or unpaid Nigerian troops wouldn’t just march into Niamey without pillaging on the way.

Ink jet printers really are the embodiment of peak capitalism.