Burkino Faso bans Uranium exports to US and France

I'm all for removing the French, but do people actually believe that this man will usher in a period of stability, transparency, justice and prosperity?
 
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GemState

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I'm all for removong the French, but do people actually believe that this man will usher in a period of stability, transparency, justice and prosperity?
Lol Burkina faso doesn't even have any uranium mines. All these retards on the internet talking about based Anti West Juntas are oblivious to the fact these guys just want to swap a French daddy for a Russian daddy.

Absolute 0 vision, there are some coups in where the military genuinely did improve things like Suharto for Indonesia, Franco, etc. But these new age African military leaders just want to oversee mineral extraction, sit in the palace and feel like a revolutionary.

Improve security, food security, literacy rates for Africans so they don't drown in the Med?

No hermano, we need to own the french and wave Russian flags in the capital.
 
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Lol Burkina faso doesn't even have any uranium mines. All these retards on the internet talking about based Anti West Juntas are oblivious to the fact these guys just want to swap a French daddy for a Russian daddy.

Exactly! There is no such thing as a free lunch and the Russians will at least just be as exploitive as the French, if not more so.

Absolute 0 vision, there are some coups in where the military genuinely did improve things like Suharto for Indonesia, Franco, etc.

People are enamoured with the promises of 'revolutions' and erroneously think that it's the best and most efficient way to effect change; and the 'revolutionaries' almost invariably demand their pound of flesh after they've attained power; they demand privileges -- especially if they didn't get paid during the struggle period.

But these new age African military leaders just want to oversee mineral extraction, sit in the palace and feel like a revolutionary.

It's entirely self-serving; there are no programs or long term plans to improve the material conditions of the populace; and the revolutionaries couldn't even begin to address such matters, even if they were so inclined... because they're simply not qualified to handle such matters.

One has to be pragmatic and find a way to work with significant powers, however, pragmatism isn't attractive, especially in comparison to the mystique and aesthetics of revolution.

Improve security, food security, literacy rates for Africans so they don't drown in the Med?

That would require actual work; the kind of work that is slow, painful and thankless. It would also require an understanding of economic theory and history instead of uncritically accepting neoliberal economic prescriptives from Western institutions and organisations.

No hermano, we need to own the french and wave Russian flags in the capital.

This is the most cringe aspect of it all; do they not realise how pathetic they look waving the flags of another Nation and accepting the wholly laughable narratives about brotherhood between Russians and Africans?
 
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Celery

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Next day in the news: “forces loyal to Mr X have killed Traore, US and France call for calm”
 

mrlog

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Exactly! There is no such thing as a free lunch and the Russians will at least just be as exploitive as the French, if not more so.



People are enamoured with the promises of 'revolutions' and erroneously think that it's the best and most efficient way to effect change; and the 'revolutionaries' almost invariably demand their pound of flesh after they've attained power; they demand privileges -- especially if they didn't get paid during the struggle period.



It's entirely self-serving; there are no programs or long term plans to improve the material conditions of the populace; and the revolutionaries couldn't even begin to address such matters, even if they were so inclined... because they're simply not qualified to handle such matters.

One has to be pragmatic and find a way to work with significant powers, however, pragmatism isn't attractive, especially in comparison to the mystique and aesthetics of revolution.



That would require actual work; the kind of work that is slow, painful and thankless. It would also require an understanding of economic theory and history instead of uncritically accepting neoliberal economic prescriptives from Western institutions and organisations.



This is the most cringe aspect of it all; do they not realise how pathetic they look waving the flags of another Nation and accepting the wholly laughable narratives about brotherhood between Russians and Africans?
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using your logic your country men should’ve remained under the foot of Sudan and Al-bashar

No, there is no comparison; orchestrating a coup to replace your own leadership (derived from your own stock) in order to serve a different white master, is not the same as resisting the designs of another stock that has thoroughly deluded themselves (like insane idiots) into thinking they can make you surrender and kow-tow to them.

You can't compare a coup with a war for survival and territorial integrity; the people of Burkina Faso had a true revolutionary in Thomas Sankara, and they did absolutely nothing when he was assassinated and replaced with a death-deserving Quisling; so I don't see the value of a coup that will just deliver their Nation under the heel of yet another rapacious European power.

We didn't replace Bashir and the Sudanese Arabs with another group of Arabs to lord over us.

you replaced corrupt northern leaders with equally if not more corrupt southern leaders.

The issue with the North was not confined to just the matter of corruption; our ancestral lands were at stake; those Riverine Arabs pursued a stupid and insane racial supremacist agenda that would have seen us lose areas as large as the Netherlands and Lebanon to them, if we had been weak and cowardly.

Plus, I would much rather be subject to ill-governance by my own kind than by outsiders; I can also see a way to replace my own uncles from power that would not be available with a group from another stock.
 

Enlightenednomad

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Russia has the 5th largest uranium deposit in the world so there is no need for them to exploit Niger for this crucial mineral.

I suppose Russia is trying to put the squeeze on France's energy needs since they've been ever more reliant on nuclear energy since the West imposed sanctions on Russian gas and oil.
 

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