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[–] tomatopathe 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Niger's junta knows this how?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russians were feeding them intelligence

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're getting downvoted, but the Wagner Group has a stake in this coup being successful and the group has ties to the Russian government.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I dunno why people find that so hard to believe. They have a clear interest in propping up this coup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a difference between a clear interest and moral reason. There is a clear interest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I realize now the lemmygrad folks are here so that prob explains the downvotes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It is really hard to sell a liberation foreign policy when the group doing so is getting paid by strip mining the land in compensation for their services. Well, unless West is bad and always bad, but it is really hard to sell moral superiority by being mercenaries.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, you're joking but that actually could work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

🤔 ...That too.