“I have already said that Burkina Faso cannot be developed outside the path set by Thomas Sankara."
The last bit literally almost made me cry, Burkina Faso being set back on the path Thomas Sankara was leading it down. Good things actually fucking happening for once
Important to be cautious. Hope for the best but don’t be shocked by worse. Pessimism of the intellect optimism of the will.
I’d be interested whether other comrades with could suggest actually good source and analysis (preferably in French) that shed light on the current domestic situation in terms of the internal, domestic politics and policies of the current government in Burkina Faso. Really hope that it’s a case of genuine revolutionary currents within the military and not simply a leveraging of the popularity of pan-Africanist and anti-imperialist language and ideas and individuals like Sankara to ensure political legitimacy.
Quick, let's start tricking the libs into supporting this by comparing it to Wakanda, before the State Department starts their propaganda!
Oh fuck, that's what it's going to be isn't it? Martin Freeman and a Hologram of Chadwick Bozeman in costume as their characters from Black Panther shaking hands while a voiceover tells us that sending weapons to arm
freedom fightersdeath squads is actually a good thing and that "With your help, we can make Wakanda possible. Vote Biden. This message sponsored by the Raytheon organization for a brighter tomorrow."monkey's paw finger curls
Libs: Burkina Faso (Wakanda) has been taken over by Ibrahim Traore (Killmonger), the West (the Avengers) must help restore Democracy (Black Panther).
I think that's unlikely with Burkina Faso at least, unless the president and prime minister get assassinated of course
yes, but in 1986, the USSR was on the decline with the famed pizza hut fanboy gorby. and China was, while growing fast, nowhere near where it needed to be to provide an alternative to foreign capital investments from the capitalist-imperialist west. today the PRC is able to (and regularly does) invest in underdeveloped countries. and China provides hospitals, schools, and civilian infrastructure in addition to industry. even if the leaders of these West African countries weren’t communists, selling out to the west is less economically viable. plus, the people have more experience fighting neocolonialism than 40 years ago
typical nato lib imperialist take was oooo of course it happened where Wagner was sent, looks like Putler has a master plan blah blah blah.
Spare me, maybe the people of the Sahel want to set their own path instead of what France and Macron tell them is best in order to better France.
Wouldn't be the first time a bloody international murder-suicide in Europe loosed the grip on the rest of the world long enough for people to wiggle free.
Arguably wars in Europe have been (at least in part) what's allowed most socialist revolutions in history, from the Franco-Prussian War to WW1, the Spanish Civil War, and WW2.
Don't forget the 1905 revolution when Russia was warring against Japan.
Still wondering if this emoji was named sankara-bass to annoy me personally
That's a fucking guitar, revisionist scum!
Given the time frame when he got it, I think there's a solid chance that it's a USA-made Fender Stratocaster. In other photos, you can tell that it's the non-CBS era headstock, and it has a rosewood fingerboard. The 1954-1958 models only came with maple fingerboards, and the chonky CBS headstocks started in 1965 (through 1981). His band, Tout à coup Jazz, was mostly active in the 70s (with one show in '84), so that is most likely a second-gen Stratocaster (1959-1964) in either Dakota Red or Fiesta Red. That looks like gold hardware, too, which was an available factory option in '59-'64. (If that photo is from '82 or later, then all bets are off, because that was when Fender started producing them in Japan, pre-Squier.)
Other angles:
- https://i.imgur.com/bgmu0f8.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/G6scWlt.jpg
You might as well be speaking Thai for most of this for how well I follow, but I appreciate the thoroughness of the analysis
Paint job aside, it's basically the same guitar as the one from the Wayne's World movie.
Nah, just an imbiber of forbidden knowledge. Some people get the cool eldritch shit, others get useless topics like boomer guitar lore.
To be fair, boomer guitar lore tastes an awful lot like lead poisoning.
Not so much of a socialist leader but I think Engels has bass player energy
Sidenote - anyone ever been able to find recordings of his music? Closest I've got is Volta Jazz and a few other groups that he supposedly watched play, or played with the one of members of at some point.
Pretty exciting news. Hoping things work out.
The HeLa settlement was a pretty nice development, too.
Or maybe not.
Most westoids think of coups in Africa as just something that needs to be stomped out once in a while. I doubt they'll need much convincing for an intervention.
If the French just use proxies in Nigeria then westerners can ignore it, or say it's just "a war between those people" and then ignore it
Absolutely love to see it. Here is to hoping these folks can stand up to western imperialism! A daunting challenge no doubt.
We might be seeing something akin to the wave of decolonization following WWII.
Ukraine has sapped the financial, military, and social strength of most Western countries. Even the US is running low on artillery shells and rockets to send to Ukraine, with the EU countries faring even worse. Add to that the general economic malaise brought upon by sanctions against Russia, and people (especially in France) rioting as a common occurrence, the colonial subject countries are sensing weakness in their masters and opportunities for themselves.
It started with "enemy" states like Iran growing bolder by selling drones to Russia and China creating alternative payment systems, to stronger vassals like the Gulf States agreeing to sell oil in Yuan and aligning away from the US. None of this was conceivable even 5 years ago, and any country which tried would have been bombed into oblivion like Libya.
Now it appears like even the weaker colonial subjects, the ones with less to lose, are trying their hand at escaping the orbit of their colonial masters. I hope it plays out well for them, but I doubt the West, even weakened as it is, will let them get away with it lightly.
Even the US is running low on artillery shells and rockets to send to Ukraine,
how the fuck are we low on ANYTHING when we spend $700 billion each fucking year on the pentagon?
$52,000 trash cans probably don't help.
Western MI complexes are built for profit, not sustained combat. Even during the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan there were munitions shortages, and that wasn't against a conventional military.
Because the US military, like everything else in the US, is a massive grift with no thought given to long-term consequences. As a result, the actual industrial output of the MIC is miniscule compared to its budget. I don't have a direct source but saw it here elsewhere before, but Russia makes something like a million artillery shells a year, and the US makes 65,000.
Edit: I researched the numbers out of curiosity, and the ratio is less lopsided. The US currently makes around 168k shells a year and Russia made 750k shells in 2021. Given how much smaller Russia's economy is though... Oof.
That’s the efficiency of PrivatizationTM baby. What do you mean it can’t actually compete with planned economies and that’s why in conflicts that actually stress countries they start mobilizing the economy? That’s crazy tankie rambling, the invisible hand can’t be beat!!!
Every time some wayward youth pulls the trigger on a javelin missile system, it's ~$180,000.
All of it goes to like 6 planes and 2 ships and the army just wastes like a billion bullets firing them into hillsides
too late
