• nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The problem with your picture is that you’re calling the junta a sovereign and independent government doing things by the book. They’re army personel that took power from the elected government at gunpoint.

    It might be so that France will have to accept the new dictatorship one day, but historically more than one such coup has failed days or weeks after. If France were to accept the dictatorship from day one that would be seen as throwing in the towel and dooming any chance of the democratic government regaining power…

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      1 year ago

      I don’t remember who elected France as the ruler who define and protect democracy in the world. Not accepting the new government and applying sanctions is OK, refusing to leave the country no.

      And this is worse than if you remember how usually countries remove their embassadors from conflict zones, Macron is just provoking to make an excuse to an UN intervention or wide applied sanctions after their allied government was deposed.

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        1 year ago

        Do you believe Macron thinks he’s going to convince Putin to approve UN intervention in Niger?

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          1 year ago

          No, i believe Macron just want peace and democracy (and just for Niger and none of the other allied dictatorships)