Derin to World News@lemmy.ml • 11 months agoPresident of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostagewww.washingtonpost.commessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down116file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1152arrow-down1external-linkPresident of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostagewww.washingtonpost.comDerin to World News@lemmy.ml • 11 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
minus-squareDerinOPlinkfedilink48•11 months agoOf course the Wagner group is involved with the coup. At this point they’re like a comical gaggle of supervillains.
minus-squarelivuslinkfedilink11•edit-211 months agoWagner are already in the neighbouring countries and have been for years. It’s just that many people in the West didn’t notice them until Ukraine. It’s the Bader Meinhoff effect. Niger is a major source of uranium and has both French and US military bases, so it’s higher in the Western news cycle than Mali was.
minus-square@Ozymandias1688@feddit.delinkfedilink-1•11 months agoSounds like the start of another jagged alliance game…
minus-square@traveler01@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglish-7•11 months agoOf course, they can do whatever they want and people will even cheer for them. If the US sneeze people will cry about it.
Of course the Wagner group is involved with the coup. At this point they’re like a comical gaggle of supervillains.
putin is just a real big pos
Truth.
Wagner are already in the neighbouring countries and have been for years.
It’s just that many people in the West didn’t notice them until Ukraine. It’s the Bader Meinhoff effect.
Niger is a major source of uranium and has both French and US military bases, so it’s higher in the Western news cycle than Mali was.
Sounds like the start of another jagged alliance game…
Of course, they can do whatever they want and people will even cheer for them. If the US sneeze people will cry about it.