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I feared this possibility. The us did something similar to Gabon. Replacing french interests with their own, hell even zio-stronghold togo uses anti-imperalist talking points as a veil. It could be that Traoré might get replaced by someone within his own faction that might be more pro-us, claiming that the "russians" didnt help the situation.

Ironically the tensions between the sahelians and the more southern peoples were caused by lackluster french neocolonial regimes, bad agricultural policies and increasing desertification & population growth.

I doubt it will take 20 years for the us-china war. Many say 2027-early 2030s

The empire is weakening and collasping. That never meant that the us isnt able to snap back its vassals into their place nor does it mean they arent unable to do vast damage during its decline.

Their actions right now will make it harder for them in the future. It also dissolves Europe as an imperial rival, makes anti-west forces have more prominence inside europe, and makes it easier for them to later join as equals in a post-empire world.

Tbf I even more left leaning people use the europeans didnt know how to bathe!!!! they rolled in smelly poopoo all day as a gotcha and a given (strange because I live near a former roman bath town with locally famous brine springs, also soap was produced since the middle ages here). I get why they do it, but its still a distorted picture.

I think it has to do with the enlightenment assumption which is constantly reinforced by modern culture and ideologies, that it was basically the nadir of human existence. To Liberalism that aspect especially poignant, since modernity and the achievements of liberalism are contrasted with that period, which is supposedly everything that liberalism was not and devoid of which liberalism gave "us". Remember that all modern ideologies are forked from classical liberalism, since we dont live in a feudal economic structure.

Pitching the euro as the challenger to the dollar’s dominance immediately painted themselves as a target to the US empire.

That endeavour was stillborn and existed solely in the abstracts and maybes. Since 1945 the us had loyal puppets on the continent. The Suez crisis did reveal the last sovereign empires of europe to be a sham. The inclusion of the UK into the EC later was another nail in the coffin, because they always acted in the americans interest and made sure the continent could never truly challenge the us. Even worse is that the EC itself was basically an futile attempt of France to bind Germany and Italy to itself and use them to remain relevant as they were considered the “least” victorious of the allied powers. Which was flawed as Germany and Italy in their post 1945 form are compromised entities build on the whims of the primarily america.

The game could be played back even further. Both the UK and France became dependent on us financial power during the world wars, the modern us empire was created when the UK essentially loaned out its empire, South Africa during the 1920s tried open up the British economic sphere to the dollar. Churchill born of a transatlantic union himself was an major advocate for closer ties. So the reduction of europe into vassalage was in utero as far back as the 1913, when Germany and the USA passed the UK as the largest economies in the world. Combined with the Berlin-Bagdad railway, this was a hidden cause for WW1, because it would have destroyed the monopoly of the suez canal.

Ironically now another Anglophone Empire is fearing being passed by another surpassing economic power which has infrastructure projects that will destroy the former empires stranglehold over trading routes. History does repeat indeed.

Part of the course. NATO & EU is the american version of the delian league with some corinth league flavor.

After all the us literally destroyed vital energy infrastructure of the largest economy of europe and then nothing happened. They are puppets through and through. One empire.

I am sure france/us must support them in some way. Because they have been gaining territory in all three AES states faster than ever before.

Yeah, I mean the serf suffered a lot, because feudal lords became more repressive to keep them on their land - they also had to work a lot more. In fact serfdom spread even faster and the enclosure was being born. This led partly to the conditions that gave birth to the reformation and the great peasant war in germany, where nobles massacred thousands of poors.

It's usually simplified pop-history mixed in with the "useless eater"/"crabs in bucket"/the rat experiment/soft-eugenics ideology that is spread by capitalism. As you mentioned.

Thats the fun part.

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Put it on 2x speed, then its 17 minutes. I think she did a very good job reducing the information to its bare essentials. Since its a region where the assumed western audience (even leftist one) has like close to zero knowledge about. She also did not want to give people ammunition to construct narratives that will sow discord amongst asian socialists. Explaining the further need for a more lengthy video.

I had to center myself when I encountered unironic V*ush enjoyers in the wild. Imagine calling Professor Flowers black hitler. I could never.

He decried Egypt for being basically not doing anything. So yes.

Not to doomsay but its obvious that Israhell will top that one as well.

There is a race to develop swarm technology, so I think like AI robot locusts are more likely than human robots. Or they will just do cyborgs.

These things are always preloaded with the more "agreeable" aspects. This will be used to censor pro-palestinian, anti-west, pro-lqbtq+ and many many other things in the west.

I am going to be honest. They will likely. I know Trump (and Turkey) have both been flirting with Puntland and Somaliland (since they both border the Gulf of Aden), it seems that they are prepared to basically salvage the "important" parts and let the rest fall. Ethiopia and Kenya are will definitely feel it. Especially since their border regions are majority somali.

People are conditioned and limited in their political thinking. Its also more tenable for the "normies" to image voooting for someone who snaps his finger and makes everything okay, while not changing the system.

Well not just the chancellor. I wish for the former government to be arrested as well. Baerbock shouldnt get a position in the UN, nor Habeck enjoy his retirement inside the us. Also Scholz. Fuck it, please arrest and trial the most of the Bundestag. It would make everyone happy.

It seems like Somalia is kinda collasping now (again). Al-Shabaab has taken another town in central somalia. Both Jubaland and Puntland have become de-facto independent, Puntland has even arranged a meeting with clan elders of the disputed Khatumo state.