For me, it's too early for any bold claims but I don't see it going away quietly. It's weird, the mercenary wars of the 60's and 80's - some of them were rather silly proxy wars between USSR and USA (Nigeria was a total mess), but lots of them were USSR backing great communist leaders like Lumumba who had the peoples support.
In this case though - the coup is originally anti France, anti colonial, it goes forward, and then they decide to brazenly wave the flag of the West's greatest enemy (Russia). It's not like there's much of a material gain for the actual lower class people in Niger in getting Russia involved (unlike in the 60's-80's). It's just the top brass, companies, and governments of the coup's leaders that will get a fat payout and continued guns n armour. What guns and armour does Russia even have to trade with at this point though? They're already at war.
What the fuck is going on? Is it too stupid to say that the top dogs in Niger are now deliberately inviting a war against the West? Is it that they thought war was already going to happen, so they're getting all the backing they can to try to scare the French from striking back?
Could this end in an absolute NATO 'peacekeeper' goatfuck?
People in the Global South waving Russian flags as a fuck you to the West is just a thing. Westerners vastly underestimate how much the rest of the globe despises them. And now that the West is getting weaker and can no longer coast along, they're about to get a very rude awakening.
The only nonwhite or nonwestern voices allowed on western media are pro-western libs and chuds. Hatred of the west is dismissed as a "crazy person" thing.![shrug-outta-hecks shrug-outta-hecks](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7cc4b291-507e-4aa2-9ba6-35d81eb4a08a.png)
In Burgerland, Coca-Cola is a time-honored symbol with associations with beach parties, Christmas, and the like.
Elsewhere, Coca-Cola is known for its environment-destroying fortified industrial presence and mercenary death squads.
Coca-Cola is basically that Disco Elysium quote about the mask falling off of capital just long enough to commit atrocities.