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  • Civility [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Honestly this is kind of downplaying the extent to which France is fucking over Northern and Western Africa.

    Over 200 million people in 14 African nations have their entire economic policy run from Paris to the benefit of Paris. They're forced to keep a minimum of 50% of their foreign assets in French treasuries, conduct the vast majority of their international trade (like 75+%) through France and pay an annual tribute to France of an amount decided by France under the guise of an unrepayable debt France has decided they owe for infrastructure built while they were French colonies.

    Despite unanimous diplomatic attempts to end this arrangement from all 14 nations none have succeeded, and 2 are in a state of civil war where christian, islamic, tribal and communist militias are for the most part making common cause in trying to end the French occupation and are being opposed by their own puppet governments, France, NATO and the UN.

    Amerikkka bad and all but contrary to the way this map's presenting things in Northern and Western Africa is far more a of a French occupied territory than a US one.

    • TrumanShow_IRL [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      downplaying the extent to which France is fucking over Northern and Western Africa.

      France made it law to require high school teachers to teach "positive values" of African colonialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_colonialism

    • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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      4 years ago

      This is why the only proper way to decolonize is through armed struggle until all settlers are driven into the sea.

      Algeria did nothing wrong.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      But nominally they are independent, so libchuds have plausible deniability to claim these countries' problems are of their own making, and use the state of these countries to push racist bullshit of varying openness.

    • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      and 2 are in a state of civil war where christian, islamic, tribal and communist militias are for the most part making common cause in trying to end the French occupation and are being opposed by their own puppet governments, France, NATO and the UN.

      which ones are those?

      • Civility [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I was talking about Mali and the Central African Republic.

        Mainly the Central African Republic with the making common cause.