Niger breaks off military cooperation with US, as junta moves closer to Russia
Niger breaks off military cooperation with US, as junta moves closer to Russia
Why would anyone in a military conflict ally with the US anymore if all it takes is a couple corrupt dipshits in Congress to leave them all completely defenseless during their time of need.
That's.... That's not what's happening here. The USA is a rapacious, murderous, destructive, extractive, abusive force. The only reason third-world countries ally with the USA is because the alternative is suffering constant harassment, invasion, terrorism, collective punishment, coup attempts, and civil strife. This has nothing to do with some people in the USA Congress acting as a lightning rod for public ire about defending Ukraine, because the USA defunds ALL of its proxies in ALL of its proxy wars across the history of proxy wars. No one except the American people are gullible enough to believe that the USA will actually back them up a conflict. Europe has been aware of this for probably 50 years, but the rest of the world has been aware for at least a century.
Why should the US have any involvement with a conflict in the middle of africa?
Let's apply that question to the rest of the world. Why the Middle East? Why Eastern Europe? Why Asia? Why Latin America?
Same reasons as EU, Russia, and China. Global economic/military partners rather than global competition/enemies.
It needs a 'base', at every part of the world, which would become a hub for any kind of future deployment. Anyway, it's not just the US, it can be any powerful countries. It just matter of how they do it, nice or not so nice way, direct or indirectly. China does it through business, e.g. silk road.
Uhm... Let's see... Maybe....oil?
Because we're all human and protecting innocent lives shouldn't end at one's borders.
Edit: Sorry. We're not all human and protecting innocent lives should end at one's borders.
Thanks downvoters for making me see the light.
I don't see how Russia would be a safer bet though. They're not reliable at all right now.
It's more because Russia's interests and economy are Global South-oriented already and against imperial core countries. This has become even more true since the current war started.
Though not as much as USSR-times when they used to fund Vietnam, Bangladesh, Korea, Palestine, Cuba, etc without the profit motive that is necessary under capitalism.
From one imperialist cradle to another
This is also where the US has/had the largest military drone base in the world.
Seems like a pretty big deal, specially with Burkina Faso seeming like it's going in a socialist direction again.
Also Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore: “Today, our relationship with Russia is primarily strategic. With Russia, there are no restrictions on the equipment we want to purchase. Others impose restrictions on us. They support us in terms of training, logistics, tactical training, and everything else. They provide support in these aspects."
Well no restrictions on what they can buy beyond the fact Russia has halted and redirected all major military equipment exports to Ukraine for the last three years beyond licensed production and even if the war ended tomorrow it would need to spend years restoring its own military before it could export anything of value.
Tieing the country’s ability to defend itself to a hypercapitalist far right government instead of a less ideologically driven nation like India or China is probably also an indication that the government isn’t very serious about going in a socialist direction so much as an indication that it is trying to whitewash its image with hollow rhetoric.
I mean i’d like to see a challenge to a capitalist dominated world, but this sure doesn’t seem to be one.