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Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 years 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.