It’s literally the goddamn name of the country.
Also, from the article:
The complaint comes as the Nigerien state broadcaster announced one week ago that Russia had delivered military equipment, including the latest generation of air defense systems, to Niger.
Langley, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March that Russia is “trying to take over central Africa as well as the Sahel” at an “accelerated pace.”
Yeah, Russia is “taking over” Africa because reasons. Can’t be as simple as the Nigereans saw how much better Russian equipment is performing in the field, and just placed an order for some equipment. No no, it has to be more sinister than that…
You gotta love how they completely remove agency from the people actually living there.
Russia had delivered military equipment, including the latest generation of air defense systems, to Niger
Oh so we have those to sell, but not enough to cover Kursk, Belgorod, Donetsk and Crimea?
“(A) number of countries are at the tipping point of actually being captured by the Russian Federation as they are spreading some of their false narratives across Libya and from a strategic answer piece, access and influence across the whole Maghreb,” Langley said. “That is NATO’s southern flank. We need to be able to have — maintain access and influence across the Mahgreb, from Morocco all the way to Libya.”
Looking at Libya since the US got involved there, I doubt Russia had to do much to "capture" them.
Also I've been in movie theaters where the projection was less clear than the choice of the word capture here.
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