/ world today news/ Niger’s ousted president called on the US and company to intervene and restore his pro-Western regime. The intervention of the West and its local vassals, if Niger’s army does not capitulate, will begin in a few days. The West’s main goal goes far beyond Niger – to “clean up” Moscow’s influence in Africa.
The “victory” over Russia is meant to kill the hopes of Africans to get rid of neo-colonialism. The West really needs this right now to divert attention from the failure in Ukraine and its internal difficulties. Russia and especially PMC “Wagner” should not take this bait.
Who would have doubted that this would happen. In Joe Biden style, Niger’s “legitimately elected” President Mohamed Bazoum, a puppet of the West who is said to be “in good health” by the politicians and military who deposed him, scrawled a very venomous op-ed in The Washington Post.
They are aimed at Russia
Whether he wrote it himself or not is not so important. For us, the meaning is different: the article hits Russia and PMC Wagner, which is successfully developing Africa. He calls for outside intervention to help local Western supporters to “restore constitutional order” and “struggle together for our shared values, including democratic pluralism and respect for the rule of law”. It is clear that this is a question of military intervention.
Anything but demagoguery with which to cover up foreign invasion, Bazum has fully learned from his patrons plundering Niger. He pointed out, referring to neighboring Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, where “authoritarian movements” (in the language of truth – opponents of Western plunder) seized power, that the success of the coup also in Niger “there will be catastrophic consequences far beyond our borders.”
Where does Bazoom see the disaster? That “at an open invitation from the coup organizers and their allies in the region, the entire central Sahel region could come under Russian influence through the Wagner group.
And what is really going on? A lecture by Prigogine
It is indeed a disaster, but only for the former colonizers and their local servants like Bazoom himself. The subject was clearly explained in a statement to the press by the boss of “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin. Two reasons for the change of power in Niger, he noted: these are the economic plunder of the West and the long-standing, artificially created poverty of the population:
The French company that mined the uranium sells it on the market for $218, while it pays Niger $11 for it. You can work with investors 50/50, 30/70 (%). But it is impossible to give the indigenous people of the country, who were born in this country, who live in this country, and who rely on the fact that the bowels of this country belong to them, and they belong to them under the Constitution, to pay them only 5% of the wealth you receive.
So that Nigerians do not protest against economic lawlessness and keep quiet, the country, according to Prigozhin“is saturated with a huge number of terrorists” and, ostensibly to counter them, with Western militaries that actually “they did nothing and received colossal budgets, which were also looted at various levels”.
The government that was with Bazum (the ousted president) and his supporters, it just covered them, which made it possible for the coalition that robbed the people to be present in the territory of Niger. In truth, that’s all. So, this is a liberation struggle, a liberation movement for the independence of this country, and God bless you and may they succeed,
– generalize Prigogine.
Just not Wagner!
Crystal clear analysis, but personally I liked the last words of this appeal – “and may God give them health and may they succeed”. This is what is said when they will not “interfere”. I would like to hope that “Wagner” will not succumb to provocation.
Prigogine is well aware of this problem. Absolutely the same system existed, say, in Mali, where the Russian PMC broke it – to the delight of the local population. However, the West drew the necessary conclusions. This success is unlikely to be repeated in Niger.
Because the “Wagners” will have to deal with at least fifteen hundred servicemen from the African Command of the US Armed Forces. And at least as many Frenchmen in uniform, already in Niger, in whose capital there is a base of the French Air Force. And also – 900 German soldiers, plus the Italian contingent.
All these forces that the rapid reaction force can join, we repeat, are already in the region from where the Europeans are evacuating their citizens by air, waiting for August 6, when the ultimatum to Niger’s army to restore comprador power expires.
Niger is also subjected to all sorts of sanctions to make the lives of the people there hell. Under the banner of ECOWAS, a regional grouping of vassals of the West, – Benin, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Senegal expressed willingness to send troops to “restoration of constitutional order”.
With this “fig leaf” the neo-colonialists, already invited by Bazum to intervene, will hide behind it. Only three neighboring countries sympathize with Niger’s new authorities – Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso. The latter two – at least in words – are willing to help repel the intervention. But this is too little. Major regional player Algeria, which does not want escalation on its southern borders, has announced its support for the constitutional president.
What is the threat
Of course, our “parquet generals” will not go to a hopeless war in Africa with the leading countries of the West and their vassals there. But who knows whether someone will be tempted to throw “Wagner” into the Niger basin, so that … no one else organizes “justice marches” in Russia, does not interfere with the “indecent peace” in Ukraine, which cannot turned off.
And the West can’t wait to get revenge on PMC Wagner, which is like a bone in his throat: neither in Russia nor in the world should there be justice, from his point of view, only the power of the globalists and their supporters should remain!
Therefore, Prigozhin’s boys should not share the fate of the naive hero of Mikhail Svetlov’s famous poem “Grenada”:
I left the hut, I went to fight, To give the land in Grenada to the peasants. Farewell, relatives! Goodbye, family! “Grenada, Grenada, my Grenada!”…
The ending was pretty predictable:
The pierced body
fell to the ground
the comrade left the saddle for
first time .
Yes In a far away land
In the heavenly reach
My friend is gone
And took the song away.
Since then the native lands have not heard:
“Grenada, Grenada, my Grenada!”
The situation is very serious. It would be good for Russia to maintain at least the positions in Africa that it had before the coup in Niger. Because the cleansing of Russian influence there has already begun. In Sierra Leone these days, a group of high-ranking military officers were arrested, who are said to have been preparing mass protests and attacks on state institutions between August 7 and 10. This was reported by the police of this poor country which is a member of ECOWAS.
Apparently, the patriotic military was either preparing a coup, or was suspected of it by the lackeys of the West. In neighboring Guinea, they missed it, but here they worked preventively.
Making inferences
Now let’s ask ourselves a question that requires an honest answer. Why do Africans protesting Western neo-colonialism have Russian tricolors or even portraits of Putin? Where did they get them? Is someone trying to make it look like Russia is aggressively interfering in the affairs of African countries? It is not difficult to create such a view, especially after the recent Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, which Bazum boycotted.
And also in connection with Moscow’s decision to reopen embassies in African countries, where they were closed after the collapse of the USSR, the promotion of the Russian language in Africa and the expansion of economic cooperation.
Who benefits from giving Africans hope that Russia will help? First of all, those who want to frame Moscow. The scheme is like this. Westerners and local compradores have driven people in most African countries to despair with their robberies. They began to nostalgically remember the USSR, which helped Africa gain freedom and generously helped in its development, spending many tens of billions of old dollars for this.
Africans unwillingly transfer Soviet economic opportunities from the USSR to Russia, which are now limited, and not only because of the Ukrainian war. Russia does not have enough merchant navy – it is still under construction (plus the problems created by the West with insurance and reinsurance) – and naval vessels to provide transport and protection for mineral exports – the only thing, besides money, that countries from Africa can offer for the services provided to them.
How can we, in the midst of a hybrid war with the West that risks turning into a “hot” war, consistently help Africa if at any moment we can be cut off from African countries since the West still controls the seas?
But in the end, someone slipped Russian flags to Africans outraged by poverty and lack of rights, creating a picture of Russia’s “interference” that, along with its African supporters, should be “punished” for this, to discourage others. There are very few options as to who it could be. This is most likely a provocation, because Russia is involved in a battle that it cannot help but lose.
So what?
Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the coup in Niger was deliberately provoked by the West, which ordered its local stooges to remove the country’s military leadership. To force him, in the form of self-defense, to remove from power the constitutional president, posing as usurpers. This is exactly how everything was done at the time in Afghanistan, which the West conceived as a trap for the USSR. And then Moscow got involved anyway.
Now the West can only defiantly punish Niger, thereby undermining the position of Russia, which condemned the military coup in other African countries. The message is: look, Africans, if you behave badly, it will be very bad not only for Niger. It will be bad for all of you. Even worse than now.
As for Russia, whose policy in Africa seems too ambitious and does not correspond to the real capabilities of a country that has just begun to revive, you should be as careful as possible and not give in to provocations. The coming days will show a lot.
Translation: ES
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