Country makes call to cancel all visas for Americans

[Igel]

3. Niger ... Eh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gkx78xeg8o


https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/02/whats-happening-in-niger-inside-the-struggle-for-independence-from-french-and-western-neocolonialism/

If you don't like those, there's no shortage of reports all concerning the same facts on the ground. (Just don't bother with Russian, PRC, or the junta's reports. I mean, even the People's Dispatch report sounds pollyanna-ish: All's well, just let us have our ideology and ignore the military junta we adore and the Islamists what want us dead ... It's all good!" Except for the US's overthrow of that peace-and-rights loving Ghaddafi. Probably what they'd call the greatest geopolitical catastrophe to shake Africa in the 21st century.)


Put the two together and you wind up with a nationalist anti-colonial government that somehow came to the conclusion that the Islamist insurgency they're fighting is really about a Western colonialist past and all the West's fault (because locals lack agency or can't be trusted without ideologues in power, I guess). In so doing, they managed to reject any support from most other African countries against the insurgency while posturing and using anything anti-colonialists to promote negative solidarity, even as they gradually lose their fight to Islamists. Note that Niger gives easy access to NW Nigeria.

But they're perfectly okay looking towards the anti-imperialist governments like Putin and Xi--forever in praise of self-determination and non-interference, with no territorial or imperial (or colonialist) ambitions, for that matter. They :heart: the Wagner group.

"Anti-Trump" does not in any sense automatically point to "somebody I want to acknowledge as having any merit."