Washington is concerned about Islamic militants in the Sahel region, who may be able to expand without the presence of U.S. forces and intelligence capabilities.
LMAO. You mean the same ones that have been lingering in the region for all these years that US troops have been stationed in the region? The same ones that are probably being bankrolled by the US? The ones that are now getting their asses kicked by local forces and Wagner?
Read: Washington threatens to provide arms and funding to Islamic militants (even more than they already do) should the government of Niger refuse to comply
wagner is still around? i thought they killed tony pringles and were going to integrate the remaining rent-a-soldiers into the regular army
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They probably integrated the bulk of their forces in Ukraine, but the mercenary force is a very useful tool, so they just reined it tightly to their ministry of defense.
Ah neolibral nimbyism. Only these fuckers could act like its controversial for Russians to come on a base in foreign, non-allied soil. A base that does not belong to the US. And then there’s this gem:
At the same time, Russia is seeking to strengthen relations with African nations, pitching Moscow as a friendly country with no colonial baggage in the continent.
“Colonial Baggage”… fucking baggage. The stuff your boyfriend has because he dated a psychopath. Colonialism isn’t baggage. Its effects, its plunders, its destruction are all still being felt in present day Niger. It still fucking exists and persists because of neoliberalism. These people are disgusting and they deserve so much worse than death for what they have done to the global south.
Moscow also isn’t a country
Moscow is a common synecdoche for the Russian federal government, the same way “Washington” is for the US federal government.
Good point, but how they phrased it above would be: “Make washington / make london a friendly country.”
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Neither Washington nor Moscow!
Instead, The United States of America and The Russian Federation!
it is when you do the thing that i can’t remember the word for where you refer to the government by its capital.
I mean, I get it when you refer to country by naming it’s capital but you can’t say “Moscow is a country” like this sentence did
might be a form of synecdoche
It is literally just a totally normal synecdoche, it’s just metonomy that everyone fucking does. “Beijing” for the Chinese government, “Washington” for the American government, “London” for the British government, “Paris” for the French government. It’s totally normal. The fun comes from them immediately going “Moscow is a friendly country”. Which even if it is totally normal to use it as synecdoche, means you’re still directly referring to Moscow as a country.
While no decisions have been taken on the future of U.S. troops in Niger, the official said the plan was for them to return to U.S. Africa Command’s home bases, located in Germany.
AFRICOM is headquartered in Germany lol.
How very colonial
Shame on Reuters for this, it’s only even remotely newsworthy for the express purpose of being misleading. They’re literally not even in the same buildings, they just both have access to different parts of a Nigerien airbase.
