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Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago

It is really hard to sell a liberation foreign policy when the group doing so is getting paid by strip mining the land in compensation for their services. Well, unless West is bad and always bad, but it is really hard to sell moral superiority by being mercenaries.