French Soldiers Flee Africa Just Like the American Troops that Fled Afghanistan
As the evolution of the armed expansion of the United States and its allies before our eyes testifies, the attempts of “valiant NATO troops” to gain a foothold with their weapons in foreign countries have a similar unfortunate end. Eventually, each and everyone of them has to say goodbye to their hopes of neocolonial conquest...
Who is to Blame for the Fall of French Influence in Africa?
Despite the Africa-France Summit held recently, and intense attempts by individual French politicians to publicize Paris’ actions on the African continent, criticism of France’s current neo-colonial policy in Africa continues to increase in the region. Africa has recently become rapidly embroiled in anti-French demonstrations. People have taken to the streets in particular...
Mali is Resolutely Withdrawing from under the “French Umbrella”
On September 22, Mali celebrated its national holiday, Independence Day. In Bamako and other prominent localities, the inhabitants held festivities and rejoiced over the final liberation from the oppression of the Fifth Republic. Notably, on the same day, thousands of people held a large-scale anti-French rally in the capital, where Kemi...
News From the Sahel: France and the US Still Helping Themselves
The more idiotic geo-policy analysis I read, the more I wonder where my honorary Ph.D. is. Take a recent Euronews bit concerning “bad old” Russia against “sweet little” France and the Americans in Chad, Mali, and the Sahel region overall. Former Aspen Institute director Nicolas Tenzer now blames Russia for France’s yo-yo policies...
What Good Can be Mali to Russia?
We ought to abandon the belief that politics and economics have eternal leaders: what position did China have mere 30 years ago? And where is it right now? What is happening before our eyes with once-powerful Europe? Where is the guarantee that in 30 years very...