West Africa Watch - Coups, juntas, terrorism and foreign influence for everyone!

[mindlessobserver]

The absolute Retards in the Niger Coup just read aloud a formal message of the Niger State Secretary as evidence justifying his arrest.

Mister Masadu Hassumei, acting as Prime Minister, signed the following document. I Masadu Hassumei, minister of foreign affairs and Prime Minister, authorize the French partner to carry out strikes within the Presidential Palace, in order to free the President of the Republic of Niger, Muhammad Bazoum, who has been taken hostage.

By their own hand, the Coup Leadership of Niger has handed France, and ECOWAS legitimacy for intervention. It does so on the request and authorization of the legitimate government of Niger.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

This isn’t a civilian backed coup bravely overthrowing a tyrant. This is being done by military officials who are overthrowing a democratically elected government (yes, it may surprise you but African countries have been slowly moving forward towards democratic governance). Considering that President Bazoum had been replacing military officials appointed by the previous President, the coup may have just been done so that a bunch of fatass generals could keep their cushy jobs.

Every one of these coup plotters should get the bullet. They stated that they initiated the coup because the president was not upholding the security of Niger. That’s your job you fucking retards! Maybe if you shot the Islamic terrorists rampaging through your country, you wouldn’t have to be in fear of losing your job!

Coups usually require two components, grievances and popular support. There's no shortage of grievances in Africa so that part is easy. But a general still needs lieutenants and soldiers to execute his commands, and that's where the popular support comes in. It's not just a bunch of high ranking military officials running around doing shit on their own, there's a whole infrastructure behind them. Lenin has described the structure of a coup well and as much as I loathe that piece of shit, he does raise some good points there. Any coup without at least some popular support will quickly fizzle out, see US-backed Turkey coup attempt.

Overall, I doubt things will go TOTAL RETARD WAR (SAHEL EDITION). There may be a limited western intervention but one that most of ECOWAS won't participate in. Them niggas got their own shit to worry about.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

African tinpot dictatorship vs NATO chimpout imminent perhaps? Should be interesting.

 

[Breadbassket]

The stakes seem to to be getting larger in Niger.

EU, US Join ECOWAS Call for Niger Military Junta to Halt Coup​

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Mali and Burkina Faso have officially announced that they will declare war if Western-controlled ECOWAS nations invade Niger​

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Burkina Faso and Mali say intervention in Niger would be 'declaration of war'​

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[mindlessobserver]

Coups usually require two components, grievances and popular support.

God damn I am tired of these midwit responses from you. The hug boxes you usually cower in have really made you weak friendo. Intellectually. I'm saying you are stupid btw. Just to be clear, so you can understand.

Coups don't require any popular support at all. They require a plurality of key power players to agree to go along with it. What the population wants or desires is completely irrelevant. They are just another resource in the game of power. To be sure, the populus CAN be a key holder to power, but its just one of them. And usually a very weak one. Espeically in Africa where the population has tribal and familial loyalties that bar any sort of bullshit commie Vox Populi.

The rule of the ruler is to balance the key power players within any given structure, and "the people" are simply one of numerous ones. In Africa, they are an irrelevant power structure. Because as stated there is no concept of the individual in African society. They are members of family and tribe first and above all, and the cohesion comes from the successful organization of the tribe into communion with other tribes and the various state apparatuses. Like the police and army. It is an inherently unstable system and one that can be easily destabilized given sufficient external motivation and funding (again I have theories).

The opinion of the People of Niger is irrelevant in this dispute because there is no such thing as a Niger citizen. They are an amalgamation of sub sahel tribes who have competing interests that more or less involve who provides them the most benefit. Much like other West African Countries. China and Russia have been very good at exploiting this fact for their benefit for the last 10 years. Which is why I have theories. And my theory of the current state of play is someone somewhere, not in Niger btw, overplayed their hand big time with this coup. Niger wasn't Mali, or Burkina Faso. It was not even the Central African Republic. It was a country alot of very powerful interests put alot of time and resources into, and some jumped up Palace Praetorian has decided he can just overturn all that time, work and money. And claim its "for the people", like anyone actually believes there is such a thing in Africa.

Which means war is not a possibility at this juncture. Its an inevitability.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

Coups don't require any popular support at all. They require a plurality of key power players to agree to go along with it.

Are you literally retarded? Just being a "key power player" in Africa implies having a strong support base within the military ranks, or a specific tribe/family, or whatever other group that will be enforcing the will of said key power player. Also the irony of you of all people calling anyone else a midwit, holy fuck.

 

[Fred Herbert]

A few years and the West won't have any colonies "development partners" in Africa at all. Western backed states seem to be dropping like flies over there.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

I know very little about west African politics. I do however know the following:

When white people are in charge the country prospers, everyone is better off.

Africans eventually get the idea that they should be running things, the country falls apart immediately after.

The ones that can access a phone, try talk your grandmother into sending them her SS check.

The ones that can access Europe/North America flood in and become experts at "gibs"


Far as I'm concerned West Africa isn't far enough away.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

A few years and the West won't have any colonies "development partners" in Africa at all. Western backed states seem to be dropping like flies over there.

Because we’re a pain in the ass to do any business with. We can provide access to some of the most prosperous markets in the world but we require them to love homosexuals and let BlackRock administer loans and financial aid in exchange for forcing them to do all kinds of shit they don’t want to do, which apparently includes military bases with over a thousand poorly behaved troops. Meanwhile you got Russia and China that doesn’t require faggotry and they’ll build a new airport named after the tinpot dictator. They also ask for 99 year contracts that include kickbacks to the dictator, preferential gigs for friends and family. What turd world dictator not go for that?

It’s apparent that a lot of these coups are due to people getting sick of our neoliberal faggot shit. However all the senior leadership in most of the first world is committed to exporting more neoliberal faggot shit. We are running fast out of friends as a result. Have we actually made any new friends or made diplomatic inroads in the last 15 years that wasn’t from an armed coup?

 

[im5!XxhO]

Because we’re a pain in the ass to do any business with. We can provide access to some of the most prosperous markets in the world but we require them to love homosexuals and let BlackRock administer loans and financial aid in exchange for forcing them to do all kinds of shit they don’t want to do,

A coup a day keeps globalhomo away.
However, I doubt the West runs out of partners. Africa is still piss poor so they can be easily paid off.

 

[Breadbassket]

Niger crisis deepens as France plans evacuation and coup leaders get support from neighboring juntas​

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[Blatant hypocrite]

Coups require popular support

I'm sure if you asked the State Department, every coup they support is a "popular uprising"

 

[WhatIsThePunchline]

God damn I am tired of these midwit responses from you. The hug boxes you usually cower in have really made you weak friendo. Intellectually. I'm saying you are stupid btw. Just to be clear, so you can understand.

Lmao stones in glass houses.

I've read both the Ukraine shill thread and the Russia shill thread.

Yeah I've read your 'takes' in your preferred hugbox.

You are not smart. The people you look down at aren't dumber than you.

 

[mindlessobserver]

A few years and the West won't have any colonies "development partners" in Africa at all. Western backed states seem to be dropping like flies over there.

Indeed. That is why this particular crisis is escalating so quickly.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

But a general still needs lieutenants and soldiers to execute his commands, and that's where the popular support comes in.

I have never seen popular support defined as such, but I get what you mean. The generals can’t do the coup without back-up. However, you only need a handful of supporters to hold the president, and then the government, hostage.

 

[Breadbassket]

There was a failed coup in Sierra Leone maybe? It was kind of killed in the cradle so it's kind of hard to say it was much of a move to seize power to begin with.

Sierra Leone police arrest senior military officers over plot to undermine democracy​

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[Male Idiot]

You generally need at least a good 10-20% popular support, and that is with rabid loyalists to your cause.

When the CIA fucked with south america, there were usually some beaners that they could manipulate into dying for jewpitalism.

 

[Magnus Opum]

I can 100% announce that French army barracks are absolutely salivating for some action right now.
Here's a video of the Malian army training for combat, ten years ago. How could any first world country stand a chance against such marksmanship ?

 

[Scout Trooper]

I can 100% announce that French army barracks are absolutely salivating for some action right now.
Here's a video of the Malian army training for combat, ten years ago. How could any first world country stand a chance against such marksmanship ?

Are you in a position to comment on current preparations, warning orders, units getting spun up, etc.? Which French units are allocated or typically involved in these kinds of operations in the region?

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

I can 100% announce that French army barracks are absolutely salivating for some action right now.
Here's a video of the Malian army training for combat, ten years ago. How could any first world country stand a chance against such marksmanship ?

I can assure you 100% that it is not the case, seeing as said French soldiers had their shit pushed in by Malian rebels not even 12 months ago. Or have you not heard of Operation Barkhane and how it ended?

Some relevant reading: https://hir.harvard.edu/how-france-failed-mali-the-end-of-operation-barkhane/

https://archive.ph/L5XSz

For some news, Algerian govt officials met with Shoigu today, failed coup attempt at Sierra Leone, riots in Senegal over the dissolution of an opposition party, riots in Nigeria over food, Macron furious at his intelligence services for not seeing the Niger coup coming, French evacuating from Niger, and as I correctly predicted ECOWAS is starting to backpedal because no one wants to go to war over French business interests. Nigeria especially, seeing as about half of the country is occupied by Boko Haram.

According to the US State Department, the ECOWAS group "does not want to use force and supports negotiations to resolve the situation in Niger."

https://t.me/entre_guerras/51380

Algeria released a statement saying it does not support an invasion of Niger.

https://t.me/geopoliticalblog/9683

For some lighter news, allegedly the military officers behind the coup in Niger were trained by the Canadians. And here I thought NATO training was worthless.

Adam Sandor, a researcher at the University of Bayreuth, in Germany, said it is difficult to determine if any of the military members trying to take power in Niger received training from the Canadian Forces. But he said it is “most likely the case,” since so many soldiers have undergone Western military training across the Sahel.

https://archive.ph/ukhs0