🇳🇪🇫🇷 Thousands of supporters of Niger's coup leaders gather in front of the French base in Niamey.

Crowds calling for French troops to leave Niger.

#Niger #France

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🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇦 USA, France and a military coup in Gabon

Russian channel Rybar published a very interesting insights about the coup in Gabon.

The fact is that the leader of the coup and a head of the Republican Guard, Brice Oligui Nguema, has close connections with the U.S.

The authorities in the United States have been supporting Nguema for several years, preparing him for the next elections, in which he was supposed to win and take over after Ali Bongo. Moreover, three years ago, details of the Nguema's ownership of three houses in the US, bought with cash in the state of Maryland, was leaked online. The funny part is that the CIA was investigating the thing.

But why did a pro-American general overthrow a pro-French president? As it seems the US government thinks that the French authorities are no longer able to effectively protect the interests of the collective West, including the USA, on the territory under their control. Therefore, Washington decided to take matters into its own hands and seize the initiative from the French.

It is unlikely that the French authorities will go for an escalation in relations with the US because of Gabon. Macron most likely will just swallow it. French intelligence is only tasked with dealing with the transfer of Ali Bongo and his family to a prison in Morocco, and their subsequent release, after the president is convicted in Gabon.

Also curious that French business is going to leave Gabon after the coup, which was not the case, for example, in Niger where the uranium company Orano continues to operate there


#USA #France #Gabon

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Special Operation, 26 Sep 2023, Main; pub. 21:16⚡️

▪️ Shoygu said that the Russian army had significantly expanded the zone of control near #Sinkovka and #Petropavlovka in the #Kupyansk sector;

▪️ He named the figures of Ukrainian losses for September: more than 17,000 soldiers and 2,700 pieces of weapons and military equipment, incl. 7 American Bradley IFVs, 77 US M777 howitzers, 51 SAUs from #Germany, #France, #Poland and the #USA, as well as 2 German Leopard tanks and one #UK Challenger tank;

▪️ The minister noted that despite Kiev's losses and lack of success in its counteroffensive, the West continues to adhere to the principle of "arms as a path to peace", pushing #Ukraine towards "self destruction";

▪️ Admiral Sokolov, commander of the Russian BSF, took part in the Russian MoD board, his first public appearance after the AFU special operations forces command said on its Telegram page that he was allegedly killed in a missile attack on the BSF HQ in #Sevastopol;

▪️ Peskov said today there are no weapons capable of changing the balance of forces on the battlefield and the outcome of the SMO, and the #US Abrams tanks supplied to Kiev "will burn";

▪️ He called US ATACMS missiles with extended range, which the US may transfer to Kiev, a "serious weapon", with such steps the #US continues to increase its involvement in the conflict;

▪️ He noted that Ukrainian UAVs striking civilian infrastructure were increasingly being neutralised and the consequences of their use minimised;

▪️ MoD said that a missile strike carried out on 25 September destroyed a joint AFU warehouse near #Kiselevka in the #Kherson region, where more than 3,000 tonnes of ammunition had been kept;

▪️ According to MoD, Kiev lost up to 430 militants in the #Donetsk and #Zaporozhye, up to 120 in the #SouthDonetsk, more than 15 in the #Kherson, up to 50 in the #Kupyansk, and more than 90 in the #Krasnyliman directions;

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet at the #Kulbakino airfield in the #Nikolayev region;

▪️ The secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council said that the Russian military had hit a Ukrainian missile production facility, without specifying the date;

▪️ Ukrainian forces fired two rockets from MLRSs at #Donetsk, as well as three cluster shells of 155 millimetres calibre, the DPR office in the JCCC said;

▪️ A Ukrainian drone dropped explosives on an electricity substation in the #Kursk region, seven settlements were de-energised, no one was injured, the regional governor said;

▪️ Karchaa, adviser to the director general of the Rosenergoatom concern, said that the AFU had changed its methods of attacking the #ZNPP and the city of #Energodar. Instead of strikes on the NPP itself, they were launching drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in order to psychologically influence nuclear workers and their families, creating "panic moods";

▪️ A Polish investigation has concluded that a missile that landed in the country last November and killed two people belonged to #Ukraine, Rzeczpospolita reported;

▪️ The Economist quoted a source in the Ukrainian General Staff as saying that Kiev was asking the West for missiles similar to the Russian Kh-101 and Kalibrs for strategic bombers, which Ukraine does not have;

▪️ Bulgarian President Radev has criticised the parliamentary factions' project to donate defective missiles for S-300 air defence systems to Kiev, noting that the government and the National Assembly should preserve and develop the Bulgarian army's defence capability, not use it as a "donor" for foreign armed forces.

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🇺🇸🇫🇷🌍 Exclusive: How the USA are pushing France out of Africa

We've already touched the topic of the US's attempts to conquer French assets in Africa many times. But recently, our sources enlightened us more on the situation.

As we said several times before, the Americans' aim is to oust France from the African continent, since they believe that France is "no longer capable of stabilizing the region", and even worse, that France is a destabilizing factor, whose lack of strength not only fueled anti-West sentiment, but gave rise to the pro-Russian ones. Therefore, the US decided to take the matter in their hands in francophone Africa.

🔍 Let's examine several examples.

🇳🇪 Niger since the end of July was rapidly cutting ties with France. Yes, the economical influence still remains, but other spheres, like military, suffered greatly (the last French troops are to leave country this week). On the other hand, Washington is feeling alright, announces its return, its air base in Niger is fully working, and despite French pressure the Americans refuse to support the French diplomatic position.

🇲🇷 In Mauritania, the French PMC THEMIIS has won a small contract with the Mauritanian army, but the Americans are already trying to dissuade the Mauritanians from getting closer to France, in favor of doing business with American security companies.

🇬🇦 In Gabon thanks to the pro-USA coup Washington have regained some control and they plan to further take advantage of France's difficulty in maintaining security costs to "steal" even more market shares from France and kick France out of the country.

🇨🇩 The DRC is already a lost cause for Paris. Several French PMCs tried to establish themselves in the east of country, but now they are only doing some maintenance or site protection, while all the important mentoring contracts have been won by American companies. Now the USA are seeking to completely oust the French from the DRC army.

🇨🇫 In CAR the situation is quite a funny one. Recently news surfaced that American Bancroft PMC, which has ties with the CIA, is planning on working in CAR. And to do this and counter the French, who are trying to regain a foothold in the country, they used France itself. The Bancroft executives sent to the country are two former French Special Forces operators. As a result, it was the French who negotiated on behalf of the Americans, against the French. 

The French working for Bancroft were misled by the group's American management, who told them that their presence in the country was, of course, not only to establish Bancroft, but also to "re-establish France". Except that the Americans have done exactly the opposite, and their enduring goal is to contain the French presence in the country. Bancroft's two Frenchmen have therefore left the country, and it is now the USA operators who negotiate for the Americans.

🇹🇩 The only French bastion in French-speaking Africa still holding out is Chad, whose fate is still unknown, since different French institute have different thoughts regarding the future of France in Chad. Some even make connection that the recent RSF victories in Sudan could have repercussions throughout the region and ultimately threaten Chad's stability.

🔻All in all, the United States for now are concentrated on decreasing French influence in Africa and are meticulously working on it. The results are quite sad for Paris and, most likely, the US will replace it in nearest future, maybe even in 2024. And it is only a matter of time when Washington will capture even longstanding economic field in francophone Africa — the only field in which France to this day has control.

Other actors in Africa, like Russia or China, should keep a close eye on the situation so as not to miss when the U.S. will try to "knock on the door" and conquer "their territory" in Africa.

#USA #France #Africa

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📋🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 On the Prospects for the Participation of #EU Countries in the War in #Ukraine📍

🔹The issue of open participation of soldiers of European #NATO countries in the war on the territory of #Ukraine is being actively pushed by the anti-people governments of the #EU countries at the highest level, despite rather poorly organised opposition and protests. #France and #Germany are the actual driving forces in this situation, although high officials are trying to accustom their population to this gradually.

🔹Against the background of the build-up of #NATO troops and infrastructure on the eastern flank and multinational exercises involving tens of thousands of soldiers, the construction of a military network is intensifying factories and supply chains. At the same time, only the #US and #England are interested in such actions, and military-industrial corporations are the beneficiaries.

🔹But at present, the same #France, led by the gerontophile Macron, has in its Army about 200 thousand people and just over 200 Leclerc tanks (for comparison: for the “counter-offensive” of the AFU last year, #NATO supplied a total of about 500 units of armored vehicles, in mostly Soviet). That is, for now a separate army

🔹Although Macron has already been taking measures to increase the combat readiness of the French army for a couple of years. Yesterday, data leaked online about the revision of the military doctrine of Paris to confront an enemy “who can compare with its army in firepower”

🔹The unthinkability of war against #Russia or #Germany is eliminated...by lack of education. 80 percent of young Germans are convinced that the #US won World War II, forgetting who took #Berlin. Hence the relatively “calm” public reaction to the leaked negotiations between German officers about the supply of up to 100 Taurus missiles, including for the destruction of the Crimean Bridge.

🔹However, #NATO countries are objectively not ready for a protracted war with #Russia on the territory of #Ukraine, even if we exclude the use of nuclear weapons by Moscow. Objectively, there will not be enough armored vehicles and artillery ammunition. Although our principles in the field of nuclear deterrence allow us to strike when “the enemy’s impact on critically important state or military facilities, the failure of which would lead to the disruption of the response actions of nuclear forces' or 'aggression against Russia using conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is threatened.'

🔹Against the backdrop of the #EU countries actually preparing for open participation in the conflict in #Ukraine, we can say that Russia has 1.5-2 years before “closing the Ukrainian issue.” The production of weapons and military equipment in the #West has not yet been launched. Because the war benefits Western arms corporations and it is unlikely that any of them will want to reforge their swords into something else, cheaper.

🔹Of course, there is a well-founded point of view that the globalists intend to drive the peoples of #Europe into a frenzy in the face of global meat grinder and Armageddon, and then sharply offer a way out in the form of the loss of a significant part of freedoms in exchange for peace.

⭐️ But so far all the plans of politicians, their agreements and joint statements always end in a bloodbath.

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📋🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Two Majors #Summary for the Morning of 10 March 2024; pub. 07:23📍

🔹The Western military is playing out more and more. European countries, led by #US managers, openly declare that they are considering the possibility of sending military contingents to #Ukraine. Apparently, at the initial stage they will carry out the task of releasing the AFU units occupied in the rear regions of #Ukraine. So far, we are talking about military personnel from #France and the Baltic States. Kiev is taking measures to further mobilise up to half a million people, and demonstrative footage has been distributed online, in which 34 Ukrainian evaders unsuccessfully tried to escape the country in a small minibus.

🔹The enemy is increasing the production of drones of all types. A massive attack on Russian regions recently by an aircraft-type UAV showed experts that the AFU is strengthening engines and the warhead. Enemy FPVs, recon drones and bombers are also of great importance at the front. At the same time, the AFU is ahead of us in some matters. In particular, the enemy is able to simultaneously use up to 25 FPVs at different frequencies, which indicates the number of operators and technological capabilities of the enemy. This approach of the AFU, of course, is suitable only for defensive actions, which the enemy is still conducting effectively. To the front:

🔹In the #Kherson direction, the notorious #Krynki and the "dachas" area near the #Antonovsky Bridge remain a zone of AFU presence. It is ineffective to use large groups of infantry to sweep, as the enemy immediately covers with massive artillery and drone fire. The prospects of crossing the #Dnieper by us are also complicated by a huge network of fortifications and engineering barriers on the enemy shore.

🔹On the #Zaporozhye front, the main battles are in the bag of #Rabotino - #Verbovoye. Despite the bloody battles, local battles are actually taking place without significant changes in the frontline. The AFU have managed to accumulate reserves and are preparing for counterattack actions.

🔹Near #Maryinka, protracted battles are taking place. West towards #Kurakhovo through #Georgiyevka, north on #Krasnogorovka. To the south, the RF Armed Forces are advancing in #Novomikhaylovka.

🔹West of #Avdeyevka, the frontline passes in the area of ​​the same #Tonenkoye, #Orlovka, #Berdychi.

🔹In the direction of #Chasov Yar, our troops are moving through #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye), fighting is going on at #Bogdanovka. #Kleshcheyevka reports on the progress of our troops. At the same time, it is noted that the AFU militants are resisting stoutly.

🔹 At #Belogorovka, the fighting continues, also at the #Terny and #Sinkovka settlements. There are no significant changes.

💥The border regions of #Russia (#Kursk, #Bryansk, #Belgorod regions) are subjected to constant terrorist attacks by the enemy. Our troops intercept most of the missiles and drones, but only the creation of a "buffer zone" can change the situation.

📌 Thus, the frontline has remained unchanged in recent days. The enemy competently conducts a defensive operation, erects fortifications in the threatened areas, and effectively uses a variety of drones and artillery to deter our troops. Nevertheless, the RF Armed Forces are extremely successful in using the superiority of the FAB with UMPC to strike the frontline areas of AFU concentration, using missile weapons and "Geranium" to destroy enemy military installations behind enemy lines.

🎬 The work of UFAB-500 on the AFU positions in #Zaporozhye direction.

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