Link to OG Tweet.
PM of Senegal responded (translated):
He finally declares that "no African country would be sovereign today if France had not deployed." Let us note that France has neither the capacity nor the legitimacy to ensure Africa's security and sovereignty.
On the contrary, it has often contributed to destabilizing certain African countries such as Libya, with disastrous consequences noted for the stability and security of the Sahel.
This is finally the place to remind President Macron that if African soldiers, sometimes forcibly mobilized, mistreated and ultimately betrayed, had not deployed during the Second World War to defend France, it would, perhaps still be German today.
The complete inability of Westerners to conduct even basic ass diplomacy at a time when the world order is shifting so quickly gives me so much schadenfreude
Negging sure didn't work to pick up chicks at the bar but I'm sure it will work to conduct international diplomacy
School bully takes your lunch money, your shoes, and your pencil then spits in your face. Then says “You’re welcome.”
If I didn't spit in your face that other bully would have shit in your mouth, the bully said about the other bully currently spitting in peoples' faces
Cool, so does that mean Europeans owe communism their loyalty because Stalin quite literally saved those barbarians from themselves?
Fun fact and partially in response to queermunist here, due to the Mongolian invasions (which only ended in 1480) much of Eastern Europe was underdeveloped in infrastructure and many other areas compared to Western Europe until the communists came in to ramp development way the hell up.
That's right, Western Europe got to have their adventures on the 15th century equivalent of the Lolita Express in 1492 while Eastern Europe had to clean up after actually doing the hard work for the last few centuries, a process which may still be underway but attained the most progress under the Soviet Union.
Is there anywhere else in the world that may have been having to do the hard work at that time while Western Europe got to luxuriate in privilege? 🤔
Most of the workers of the western capitalist hegemony owe the soviets a great deal.
The specter of communism gained us massive concessions from the piggies as a bulwark against wholesale global revolution.
You've put me in an interesting dilemma. They do but I don't think the same is true for Africa and France.
It's impressive how much French are able to get away with in terms of chauvinism, jingoism, imperialism and neo-colonialism not to mention implicit or explicit racism. They managed to craft, I believe by design, an image that appeals across a broad political spectrum by sustaining the view that France is a prestigious and romantic country that ironically is amplified and projected even further by Anglosphere and has purchase even in many leftist circles who idealize France and French.
A lot of countries have good PR; Japan, Canada, Belgium, Sweden, The UK and Germany (to an lesser extend), Spain and Italy all get wooblified and turned into harmless sucdem tourist paradises.
they should thank france only for giving them something to unite against
Highly recommend reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. The idea that Africa benefited from European colonialism is an ahistorical lie based on racism.
an ahistorical lie based on racism.
What is American and European history?
Apology accepted, comrade.
I'm honestly curious as this is my second time looking at this message. I remember posting it and going "I wonder if people are still going to recognize Jeopardy!, it might go over people's heads." I'm trying to squint my eyes and I can't do it. What makes the post look like Nazi propaganda? Is it as if I'm saying "America and Europe have been helping Africa since their inception."?
No lol I was making a joke about American/European history as told by themselves being Nazi propaganda, I wasn't calling you out. I did get that it was a jeopardy thing 😅
OHHHH! I see it:
Q: What is American and European history?
A: Baby's first Nazi propaganda.
Mystery solved!
Fucking monstrous behavior. History will not absolve you, Macron.
why is he like this, even if he thinks that, it would be better off just not saying anything.
Because he can't help himself. He's egoistic (what do the French call em)... connard... like all French people act, in regards to their imperial legacy.
connard
I'm more partial to démon.
But fellow anglos know what that means, so calling him an asshole is probably better.
Mr macron should be grateful his head is still attached to his shoulders
He has the same energy as the UK primary school history syllabus. “We may have started the slave trade but we were the ones who abolished it!”
I guess if Jean-Philippe Pedophilé-en-Masse hadn't drawn those particular lines there'd be very different countries there today
Macron resisting the urge to use the phrase "white man's burden" like
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Weird... wonder why so many of these countries had to struggle for liberation from France and other European countries. Its almost as if for a long time Europeans had, IDK, colonized (???) and stolen sovereignty from the peoples of Africa. And then even after they liberated themselves from their imperialist rulers, those very same imperialist rulers used their power to maintain their exploitative relationship with the nations of Africa through multinational corporations and meddling in affairs for several more years.
yet.