It appears the Niger story is the same old song when it comes to former colonial nations trying to free themselves from the clutches of the nation that had declared itself Master and taken what it desired from the colonized nation’s people.
right! here is me saying the very same thing on an astrological site july 29th.
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 8:40 pm Post subject: niger coup d'etat
"funny how some international events are referred to as 'coup d'etat' and others like the 2014 ukraine one, aren't... i guess it depends whose talking... "
Although I question American Empire, I don't trust anyone in power, so I will hold off making a decision about these revolutionaries until I see what they do for their people.
This is excessively prudent- if the people in such countries were to take the same attitude, nothing would ever be done to rid them of their colonial masters
There are some who withhold judgement on the Cuban revolution to this day, still waiting for conviction - how long would you take to decide whether to help or not
There are reports that some Wagner have already landed in Niamey - politicians in neighbouring countries, and further afield, have to react in one way or the other
Thank you for this comment – as far as one may see the current situation is one in which, at very long last, the people of the US are just starting to wake up to the fact that the imperial exploitation and war conducted overseas in their name with their money and lives and to their detriment, is one and the same oppression and exploitation exercised in the homeland
It is obvious that the information war censorship so called identarian politics the acceleration of immigration and very nearly any policy you name is in the service of this oppression
An aside – it is certain that there will be no significant on shoring or ‘re industrialisation’ in the US/EU, as this would, amongst other impossibles, place such priority on the importance of wages, education, health, and abilities of the poor and working class as to threaten the comforts and security of the ruling élites
There's comfort in the rise of Substack and Rogan-styled shows but I can't help but wonder if that's an illusion, that we'll one day be snuffed out just before the point of critical mass. I'll disobey my own cynicism in the hope it isn't wisdom.
Without falling into the replacement theory trap, it is plausible to forecast levels of oppression returning to material levels last seen in westieland in the 19th century
After all these extremes of poverty are quite happily enforced by EUUS in Africa and latam countries
Whether samizdat style internet groups may communicate sufficiently is another question, perhaps if propelled by a determination to wreak change equivalent to that which has been seen recently, in West Asia and the Sahel
Half my country is unemployed. Possibly a record position without entering civil war or a coup. Nevertheless, it went along with way-too-long lockdown and, until now, mostly voted the same. Wilful ignorance is activism's greatest challenge.
I like Crooke and that's another good article. Thanks.
As a South African, or to be more precise, as a non-American, I have a context perspective. I welcome the entire mess, charges against Biden and Trump and more. Chaos is the chance of more chaos which is the hope of an explosion that wakes people into stopping the bullshit, to aim for a sovereignty that would help rather than harm the world. I expect that the rest of my life will become more difficult but I want to have sympathy for the next generation.
I despise the current America, but empires will act like empires. Consequently, a multipolar world needs several superpowers so one of them doesn't get too much control.
Americans need to fix their country. They have to get beyond ideology and self-centredness, and into common sense. That begins with not choosing one elite over another elite.
What you initiated with your comment ought to be a very long discussion. The elites have done an excellent job of dividing and thus ruling the polity here. The solution is to dialog between the opposing sides but that takes patience and finesse along with a bit of fearlessness. It ought to be obvious but the people seem blind to the fact that it's the Money Power that's their enemy; that wasn't the case in the two earlier Populist Eras. So, what's required is a rather hard push from the RoW, and that's being generated as I type.
An answer was recently given by India's FM about choosing sides: We choose India's side, not the US, EU, or China's side--India's side. Such an answer is traditional geopolitics where a nation pursues its own interests, not some other nation's.
right! here is me saying the very same thing on an astrological site july 29th.
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 8:40 pm Post subject: niger coup d'etat
"funny how some international events are referred to as 'coup d'etat' and others like the 2014 ukraine one, aren't... i guess it depends whose talking... "
Yes, they are exact opposites.
Although I question American Empire, I don't trust anyone in power, so I will hold off making a decision about these revolutionaries until I see what they do for their people.
This is excessively prudent- if the people in such countries were to take the same attitude, nothing would ever be done to rid them of their colonial masters
There are some who withhold judgement on the Cuban revolution to this day, still waiting for conviction - how long would you take to decide whether to help or not
There are reports that some Wagner have already landed in Niamey - politicians in neighbouring countries, and further afield, have to react in one way or the other
Another way to cast the vision of a Multipolar World is that of the final rejection of Empire in all its manifestations, all its methods of hegemony. And there are also conflicts occurring in the Metropoles lending their own centrifugal forces to the process. Do see today's Crooke essay, https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/08/07/the-great-unravelling-for-all-that-is-ours-we-must-fight/
Thank you for this comment – as far as one may see the current situation is one in which, at very long last, the people of the US are just starting to wake up to the fact that the imperial exploitation and war conducted overseas in their name with their money and lives and to their detriment, is one and the same oppression and exploitation exercised in the homeland
It is obvious that the information war censorship so called identarian politics the acceleration of immigration and very nearly any policy you name is in the service of this oppression
An aside – it is certain that there will be no significant on shoring or ‘re industrialisation’ in the US/EU, as this would, amongst other impossibles, place such priority on the importance of wages, education, health, and abilities of the poor and working class as to threaten the comforts and security of the ruling élites
There's comfort in the rise of Substack and Rogan-styled shows but I can't help but wonder if that's an illusion, that we'll one day be snuffed out just before the point of critical mass. I'll disobey my own cynicism in the hope it isn't wisdom.
Without falling into the replacement theory trap, it is plausible to forecast levels of oppression returning to material levels last seen in westieland in the 19th century
After all these extremes of poverty are quite happily enforced by EUUS in Africa and latam countries
Whether samizdat style internet groups may communicate sufficiently is another question, perhaps if propelled by a determination to wreak change equivalent to that which has been seen recently, in West Asia and the Sahel
Half my country is unemployed. Possibly a record position without entering civil war or a coup. Nevertheless, it went along with way-too-long lockdown and, until now, mostly voted the same. Wilful ignorance is activism's greatest challenge.
I like Crooke and that's another good article. Thanks.
As a South African, or to be more precise, as a non-American, I have a context perspective. I welcome the entire mess, charges against Biden and Trump and more. Chaos is the chance of more chaos which is the hope of an explosion that wakes people into stopping the bullshit, to aim for a sovereignty that would help rather than harm the world. I expect that the rest of my life will become more difficult but I want to have sympathy for the next generation.
I despise the current America, but empires will act like empires. Consequently, a multipolar world needs several superpowers so one of them doesn't get too much control.
Americans need to fix their country. They have to get beyond ideology and self-centredness, and into common sense. That begins with not choosing one elite over another elite.
What you initiated with your comment ought to be a very long discussion. The elites have done an excellent job of dividing and thus ruling the polity here. The solution is to dialog between the opposing sides but that takes patience and finesse along with a bit of fearlessness. It ought to be obvious but the people seem blind to the fact that it's the Money Power that's their enemy; that wasn't the case in the two earlier Populist Eras. So, what's required is a rather hard push from the RoW, and that's being generated as I type.
They're still choosing a side as if the choice they're given is democracy.
An answer was recently given by India's FM about choosing sides: We choose India's side, not the US, EU, or China's side--India's side. Such an answer is traditional geopolitics where a nation pursues its own interests, not some other nation's.
Yep.