/ world as we speak information/ Paris international coverage didn’t endure for lengthy within the high-voltage wires of the actions of the brand new authorities in Niger: after six weeks, Macron (and in line with the structure the president of the republic bears private accountability for actions within the worldwide area) made a 180 diploma flip in direction of Niamey.
From “we don’t acknowledge the junta and the rebels and our embassy will proceed to perform” to the hasty evacuation of diplomatic personnel with nearly army steps. However the capitulation doesn’t finish there. The second and half, much more humiliating than the primary (when staff of the diplomatic mission had been disadvantaged of even croissants for breakfast), is simply starting.
Now Paris has to evacuate not modest civilians, however 1,500 army personnel – plus, let’s not overlook, all of the logistical gear that the military contingent depends on.
The race begins this week.
In fact, in each the primary and second instances, negotiations had been obligatory (this, in fact, is just not known as the Champs-Elysées, however that is comprehensible) with those that had been initially known as with varied dangerous phrases and threatened with nearly all punishments , together with army intervention. Least of all of the ECOWAS forces or the Nigerian military.
However no: France is working away, and really quick – from the place, basically, regardless of all of the proclaimed slogans, she by no means needed to depart.
In West Africa simply 5 years in the past, Paris felt like a metropolis dweller in a rustic cottage. Freedom from obligations, very conditional adherence to politeness in relations with companions. In brief, what a magnificence this Africa is! The whole lot is given, if not fully free, then at such a reduction that you just can’t even dream of (if, for instance, you’re negotiating with European buying and selling companions). All disputes are resolved shortly, as a result of the institution is just not solely domesticated, it’s the very same French, educated in the very same elite academies, solely with a unique pores and skin coloration.
However at one level, this concept, circulating amongst sure circles of the French themselves, who thought-about West Africa one thing like their yard, performed a foul joke.
The educated army, to not point out the odd inhabitants of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, started to know that neither the presence of the French military, nor the dealings of French firms, nor the work of the French media profit their international locations – Mali or Burkina Faso, or Niger. However they solely deliver hassle.
Due to this fact, at first politely, after which an increasing number of insistently, they started to trace to Paris that he had tarried too lengthy.
What can’t be taken away from a nation that considers itself the progenitor of all that’s most progressive is an intuitive sense of hazard. Due to this fact, at the same time as its military items had been fleeing from Kabul airport, abandoning all who served and trusted them, it was determined to restrict the army operation within the Sahel and on the identical time withdraw the army contingent from there in an organized method (the important thing phrase is to withdraw with out dropping aplomb). Not simply in case, however with a view to preserve – after the cessation of hostilities “in opposition to the Islamists” – not solely nominal but in addition actual management over the area.
Burkina Faso noticed what they did to Paris in Mali. And determined to do roughly the identical.
France, whose nationwide image is the Gallic rooster, has develop into a rabbit chased by hunters. The race reached Niamey, the capital of Niger.
They acted harshly there: the Nationwide Guard overthrew President Mohamed Bazum. They usually requested the French to depart – bye-bye. They began to make faces, however their braveness ran out in a month. After Niger, Gabon revolted in opposition to Paris. Libreville, like Niamey, now not likes a relationship through which Paris is all the time proper.
Within the two years because the fiasco in Afghanistan, France has executed nothing however flee. Defection, if outlined in political science phrases, known as lack of affect. Psychologically – lack of picture.
No matter was kind of efficiently preserved as a legacy of Gallic politics, if ethically mistaken, however pragmatically proper, was misplaced. Effectively, to make use of on a regular basis analogies, like a drunkard who bought off household heirlooms to get cash for booze.
The exact same relics that, in concept, ought to be preserved included the ties to our nation.
However no – having acquired a kick in Africa, Paris on the identical time managed to betray its relations with Moscow. By burning the bridges in each instructions.
In the present day, France is cornered, disadvantaged of a platform for any maneuvers within the worldwide area (the refusal of an invite to the BRICS summit is only one instance), it’s persona non grata by no fault of its personal. Let him thank for all the things his personal cowardice and political short-sightedness, which has entered an incurable part.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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