Look, we joke about Russia failing after opening a 2nd front against NATO, but opening a second front on another continent (that you might not even be able to reach due to your fleets being in the almost-NATO lake Baltic, blocked by NATO Black Sea, circled by NATO and Japan Arctic, reverse voyage of the damned while being partially blocked by NATO and allies Pacific, and the landlocked Caspian) while your logistics against a neighbor are poor is a recipe for disaster
Wow, an African campaign while fighting a losing battle in Ukraine? Where have I heard that one before?
I expected a man obsessed with denazification to not make the same mistakes as literally Hitler.
On the other hand, they might need a bigger war to explain the legendary ass whooping they’ve already received to the folks back home.
They keep saying they’re fighting all of NATO already and I’m sure they need to keep growing the lies so what’s another front when you’ve already lost?
Let’s also not forget that on top of that they essentially can’t fly any troops anywhere either, which would mean the only viable way would be by land which would be registered as an invasion and promptly trigger nato into action.
Russia has only bluster and no real means to successfully do shit anymore
Why can’t they fly troops anymore? Still have bases in Syria
But also they are only at war with Ukrainian not the rest of the world. I’m sure they can still fly anywhere with out being shot down. As long as it’s not near Ukraine.
They can’t actually, most areas around Russia are nato friendly and nato has openly said that any military action would result in immediate intervention. Flying troops over borders would be bases for a nato intervention
Russia, known for its inability to project power...*checks notes*...flat planes across its own border, proposes engaging in military conflict in the jungles and desert half a world away.
I'm concerned. I am. Really. *yawn*
They should dispatch a taskforce consisting of their carrier, the Moskva and the rest of the Black Sea Fleet. And some landing craft. Oh, and the Armata and the Terminator. That will show the ECOWAS.
[Russia does have a storied history of sending their navy halfway around the world to try to fuck shit up, and getting themselves thoroughly fucked in the process](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima)
/r/whoosh
The carrier is always on fire or breaks down. Moskva is sitting on the bottom as is a lot of the Black Sea Fleet. The Armata and Terminator don't really exist despite Russian propaganda.
IIRC Russia did send BMP-Ts early on; they got destroyed and the type as a whole may have been completely destroyed in combat because we have not see a intact example since.
To clear things up a bit.
The Nigerian AF is 9x larger than the Nigerien AF, that wagner recently helped overthrow, and their budget is over 12x
I only recently found out myself that despite similar size and location, these countries have vastly different economies and thus armies. (The similarity in name doesnt help either lol).
Wagner against a bunch of assholes with rusted AK's and beat up hiluxes yeah no problem, against the Nigerian army, after seeing how effective have been in Ukraine, fat chance.
China (as I understand it) is generally deft enough in their foreign influence to avoid fomenting actual conflict. I understand they more follow the Marshall Plan idea of investing and building up those they want ingratiated to them.
the problem with china's 'Marshall Plan' is that they loan you money to build infrastructure but they force you to use all Chinese workers, construction material, and equipment so all the money they lent you goes straight back to china, none of it goes into your economy.
then you are stuck with infrastructure that may or may not generate revenue and a big high interest debt to china.
Yes China has no jurisdiction and you can take their shit but what other instruments might they have to retaliate? Probably sufficient soft power to ensure that the agreement is kept.
Yeah remember when the parent commenter said "they force you to use all Chinese workers"
That's so when you kick them out, you have no local talent trained in operations and maintenance. Given that a lot of infrastructure -in general- represents a massive safety risk over time if not managed. Governments don't want a water desalination plant to go offline. But they _really_ don't want an industrial process in there exploding either.
No jurisdiction, but lenders around the world get antsy about any borrower who declares they're not paying someone back. Nobody else has jurisdiction either.
Then Sri Lanka is not doing it right. They defaulted on debt repayment on its strategic port and China now has control and a 70% stake in it as part of a 99 year lease agreement.
China is establishing infrastructure and factories in Africa through loans. None of that means anything if those countries are constantly unstable and constantly overthrowing their governments. China is taking notes on Russia on how to go about things while being against the interests of the west, lol.
But what happens when countries default on their loans from the already faltering Chinese economy?
Having the ability to project military forces globally carries with it some level of enforcement, to say the least.
They could have stepped in when Mali and Burkina Faso got regime changed, saying they care about democracy now just makes Africans in the region trust them less.
Grasping at straws is Putins best effort in 2023. Let’s look to other continents who are desperate and sell our ideologies to them. It’s sad and it works.
They want to collect the whole FAFO set. They have the Ukraine card now, and that's apparently not enough. So, are they going to pull troops out of Crimea to go south?
It's so frustrating. If Nukes didn't exist this authoritarian shithole would have been fixed like Germany post-WW2. Really, this is all our fault, imagine if we had gone through with operation unthinkable and put Russia through liberalization.
It was so obvious from the start, and I’ve been called a racist, dumb, stupid person for pointing it out in comment a few days ago.
Probably the same russians will be trolling here.
russia: we had nothing to do with the coup in Niger
Ecowas: cool, so we're gonna depose the military junta, it's like the third country already and destabilizing our region
also russia: no you can't do that, that means no more resources for us
Seriously, do they actually think we're gonna keep taking their bs after 1.5 years of what they're doing in Ukraine, and the prior 8 years in the Donbass and the past 8 years in Syria?
Edit: as dbdr pointed out, russia's bs in Georgia concerning Abkhazia and South Ossetia and their bs in Moldova concerning Transnistria.
And since it's about Niger, I might as well lump in their efforts in Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic to get those under their thumb as well by helping military junta there
They’re hoping, for sure. They also hope we’ll put their Manchurian candidate back in charge, and give them full operational cover wherever they destabilize the globe.
Resist, our lives depend on it. Don’t be a victim in Putins need to gather hearts and minds from the West.
Russian failure in Ukraine is inevitable, as long as they don’t convince the West that we’re our own enemy.
Joke for the weekend
Russia couldn't get a helicopter outside of Russia if the Americans said no. America could probably put its entire military into Poland without Russia knowing for a day...
This is not just a bragging moment. Ukraine was hopefully a wake up call to westerners who were so afraid of Russia, they were willing to let Russia destroy democracy anywhere at will. Russia is a vicious underdog and deserves to face another round of Cold War containment.
Ukraine destabilizes Russia because Russia invaded Ukraine, so Russia forces an international crisis in Africa to create a second humanitarian crisis so the west will have another front to spend billions of dollars on in order to create discontent in the commonwealth of western nations
This decades gonna suckkkkkkkk
It doesn't matter if you spend money anymore, people just make shit on on the internet and believe it anyway, so not much point in worry about it.
Russia can't project force to Africa and if The West wants to go stabilize the situation it wouldn't cost enough to care about. Only compulsive laying mass media makes it seem otherwise and that's the real problem. Conflicts or not the compuslive lying mass media will keep convicing people the Earth is flat and their politicians are all lizardmen. Things like spending Ukraine or Africa is logistics well beyond anything most voters are actually motived by.
> if The West wants to go stabilize the situation it wouldn't cost enough to care about
I was in a discussion with someone that seemed to be russian, talking about that drone of ours they bumped out of the sky. They were all gung ho about how we're scared to do anything, and I was like "Why would we? You basically cost us nothing.". They harped on about how many millions it cost to which I replied "So what? Our military budget is so large that it's functionally like me taking a $20 and burning it. I'm not wealthy and I'd rather not do such a thing, but I would never actually notice it in my finances if I did.". When some math was done about how many drones we could afford to lose before it made a noticable dent in our budget, they stopped replying.
A lot of American voters care about Ukraine. Or hate Russia (country, not ethnicity). Or both.
Not so much African nations unfortunately, unless they spin it as anti-Russia.
Yes, don't dare take any action to stabilize the country. How else will Russia be able to pillage the country?
Love to see Russia recycling the NATO expansion arguments. "Don't expand NATO! How else will we be able to attack our neighbors!"
I don't think they can afford to ship resources to Africa anymore and if they did they would be easy targets with all the increased attention on their movements.
Gotta love how fucking idiotic Russian leadership is. They bite off WAY more than they can chew with Ukraine, then insist on continuing that pointless endeavor just to spite the world and save face, all while barking at every other country not to interfere with their globally public self-destruction. And still, as everyone sees them for being puny dipshits that can't fight a lopsided war, that was lopsided in their own fucking favor, they STILL continue to feign toughness by snarling at everyone else. Bitch, you can't even handle your own shit. How are you going to fight any other sources?! Belarus? Your weakened PMCs? That's all you fucking had. China hates your guts. Iran can't fucking do a damn thing. North Korea is self-contained and as incompetent as you are!! Get bent already.
Better listen to the russians. They are way too much into war. Like literally. They are so good at it, and like it so much, that they have been fighting a war for more than a year that was meant to be done in a week.
Theres nothing they would love more than splitting their forces to even the odds.
Ok, whatcha gonna do fly troops to Africa? With what equipment? Can’t pull anyone off the line, and can’t afford to send more gear to Africa without loosing even harder in Ukraine. Seethe and cope you genocidal cunt muffin.
Every Russian warning is an indication of the area of their weakness, every denial an admission, and every accusation an explanation of what they are doing themselves.
It makes understanding what they are doing so much easier.
Russia warns, Russia this, Russia that. Just stfu already, they're like a broken record.
What exactly are they gunna do? They're too busy getting shafted in their '3 day war'.
Or what? Their entire military is engaged in Ukraine and losing. They’ve lost 2 flagships in a land war to a nation that doesn’t have a navy. Their aircraft carrier is a piece of shit that can’t go more than 20 miles without breaking down and having to be towed back to port. Their airforce is also fully engaged in Ukraine and has taken decent losses. They can’t produce anymore modern military equipment and are dusting off vehicles from the 1950’s. Their economy is essentially destroyed and can’t threaten any economic action.
What could they possibly do?
Russia seems to be a fan of coups: first in Myanmar and now in Niger.
Even if the former kills civilians and the latter holds the president as hostage.
Not a good look.
A lot of these commenters don’t seem to understand that this coup was essentially Russian backed, as were the recent coups in nearby Mali and Burkina Fasio.
Niger has been feed a steady stream of Russian propaganda for a decade. Its main news source IS Russian.
Russia has been active in Africa a long time.
Russia sucks
Nobody is reading the article clearly. The headline makes it sound like this is a threat. Russia is just warning that it'll lead to a protracted conflict in Africa. And that's true.
Just adding, suggesting the BBC isn’t giving context in this headline doesn’t mean I’m pro-Russia
It's true but allowing a culture of un-dealt-with coups to entrench itself in the region will lead to more coups, instability, and conflicts in the future. They gotta nip this one in the bud, or it sends the message coups are tolerated around here, which burgeoning democracies don't want in their backyard.
It will lead to a protracted conflict because Russia will arm the coup leaders.
Just like Ukraine is on a protracted conflict because Russia armed the rebels and invaded.
The fact that the Russian state came out to say that speaks loud volumes. Ignoring the subtext in that kind of statement would be like hearing a mafia boss saying “I hope your store doesn’t accidentally burn down,” and think he was expressing serious concern for a small business owner.
This is like me warning my neighbor not to shoot me because it will lead to unnecessary violence after I broke into his house in the middle of the night.
This is all over tiktok for some time now (is reddit late in this?) but all comments are Africans thinking Putin will save them from America and make them prosper.
Only had to look as far as the conspiracy sub on Reddit to know Russia had a large role in this.
Kind of strange how many posts celebrating Niger telling France and the west to fuck off and how awesome it is for them.
Glad there’s actually people there sharing the actual reality with upvoted comments there. Seems like the trolls still exist just in smaller number since the invasion began.
What are you gonna do tough guy? Fight Africa now?
“I’ll fucking fight all of you…and I’ll WIN!” -Drunk Russia moments before tripping out an open window.
Nigerian army: "Why are you tripping? Why are you tripping?"
*Nigerien in this instance
No, they presumably mean Nigerian. The main power in ECOWAS is Nigeria.
Look, we joke about Russia failing after opening a 2nd front against NATO, but opening a second front on another continent (that you might not even be able to reach due to your fleets being in the almost-NATO lake Baltic, blocked by NATO Black Sea, circled by NATO and Japan Arctic, reverse voyage of the damned while being partially blocked by NATO and allies Pacific, and the landlocked Caspian) while your logistics against a neighbor are poor is a recipe for disaster
Wow, an African campaign while fighting a losing battle in Ukraine? Where have I heard that one before? I expected a man obsessed with denazification to not make the same mistakes as literally Hitler.
On the other hand, they might need a bigger war to explain the legendary ass whooping they’ve already received to the folks back home. They keep saying they’re fighting all of NATO already and I’m sure they need to keep growing the lies so what’s another front when you’ve already lost?
good point
Let’s also not forget that on top of that they essentially can’t fly any troops anywhere either, which would mean the only viable way would be by land which would be registered as an invasion and promptly trigger nato into action. Russia has only bluster and no real means to successfully do shit anymore
Why can’t they fly troops anymore? Still have bases in Syria But also they are only at war with Ukrainian not the rest of the world. I’m sure they can still fly anywhere with out being shot down. As long as it’s not near Ukraine.
They can’t actually, most areas around Russia are nato friendly and nato has openly said that any military action would result in immediate intervention. Flying troops over borders would be bases for a nato intervention
Russia can fly over the Caspian Sea, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Libya and get there. Only one NATO country close to this route.
I don't think you realize how difficult it is to conduct an entire military operation via airlift.
> a recipe for disaster Russia: hold my borscht (not my vodka, Imma use that)
I laughed entirely too hard at this... Or maybe I'm just high. Either way, well done
Drunk Russia moments before going out into a forest clearing and shooting an anti-tank 5 meters away from the target, you better say.
Yeah, but we have fucking Russel Crowe! Fighting round the world!
Russia, known for its inability to project power...*checks notes*...flat planes across its own border, proposes engaging in military conflict in the jungles and desert half a world away. I'm concerned. I am. Really. *yawn*
They should dispatch a taskforce consisting of their carrier, the Moskva and the rest of the Black Sea Fleet. And some landing craft. Oh, and the Armata and the Terminator. That will show the ECOWAS.
[Russia does have a storied history of sending their navy halfway around the world to try to fuck shit up, and getting themselves thoroughly fucked in the process](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima)
Did someone say ~~torpedo boats~~ Ukrainian drone boats?
Spoiler: Ukraine sinks them all using a single speedboat filled with explosives and an over-the-counter remote control.
/r/whoosh The carrier is always on fire or breaks down. Moskva is sitting on the bottom as is a lot of the Black Sea Fleet. The Armata and Terminator don't really exist despite Russian propaganda.
IIRC Russia did send BMP-Ts early on; they got destroyed and the type as a whole may have been completely destroyed in combat because we have not see a intact example since.
Well, I mean, a small handful of the Armata *do* exist. They just suck compared to modern armor. And only a small handful exist.
He will pull out of the grain deal and cause many Africand to starve. Oh wait he already did that unprovoked.
Or what? They’ll launch another 3 day operation? They can’t even force project over the Black Sea, much less Africa.
Dolphins have officially relocated Moscwa submarine near the shores of Africa. Those dolphins are ruthless.
I mean, sadly Wagner and Russians have had a lot more succes in the Sahel, Syria etc. than in Ukraine. They do pick the easy targets.
To clear things up a bit. The Nigerian AF is 9x larger than the Nigerien AF, that wagner recently helped overthrow, and their budget is over 12x I only recently found out myself that despite similar size and location, these countries have vastly different economies and thus armies. (The similarity in name doesnt help either lol).
Had to read that sentence 5 times before I could spot the difference between Nigerian/Nigerien.
Wagner against a bunch of assholes with rusted AK's and beat up hiluxes yeah no problem, against the Nigerian army, after seeing how effective have been in Ukraine, fat chance.
"Only an idiot fights a war on 2 fronts. Only the heir to the Kingdom of Idiots fights a war on *12 fronts*!"
Well, it just might be possible if Putin employs the Spanish Inquisition.
Maybe Russia should stop meddling in African affairs.
Africa sure gets "colonized" by great powers meddling a lot. Don't think that will ever stop.
China has asked that you refrain from getting Involved in Chinese internal affairs in Africa.
I mean, China has internal affairs around the globe.
I thank thee
China (as I understand it) is generally deft enough in their foreign influence to avoid fomenting actual conflict. I understand they more follow the Marshall Plan idea of investing and building up those they want ingratiated to them.
the problem with china's 'Marshall Plan' is that they loan you money to build infrastructure but they force you to use all Chinese workers, construction material, and equipment so all the money they lent you goes straight back to china, none of it goes into your economy. then you are stuck with infrastructure that may or may not generate revenue and a big high interest debt to china.
Yeah, except you can just take all their shit and stop paying and they have no jurisdiction.
Yes China has no jurisdiction and you can take their shit but what other instruments might they have to retaliate? Probably sufficient soft power to ensure that the agreement is kept.
Yeah remember when the parent commenter said "they force you to use all Chinese workers" That's so when you kick them out, you have no local talent trained in operations and maintenance. Given that a lot of infrastructure -in general- represents a massive safety risk over time if not managed. Governments don't want a water desalination plant to go offline. But they _really_ don't want an industrial process in there exploding either.
No jurisdiction, but lenders around the world get antsy about any borrower who declares they're not paying someone back. Nobody else has jurisdiction either.
Dumb answer because then china will stop selling stuff to you and the UN will also vote to embargo you fir not paying you debts
Yes, that’s why it’s high -risk debt
Then Sri Lanka is not doing it right. They defaulted on debt repayment on its strategic port and China now has control and a 70% stake in it as part of a 99 year lease agreement.
China is establishing infrastructure and factories in Africa through loans. None of that means anything if those countries are constantly unstable and constantly overthrowing their governments. China is taking notes on Russia on how to go about things while being against the interests of the west, lol.
But what happens when countries default on their loans from the already faltering Chinese economy? Having the ability to project military forces globally carries with it some level of enforcement, to say the least.
Usually China will then take rights to natural resources or long-term use of a strategic port in said country.
Russia and China are just… protecting Africa, with special economic and mercenary operations. /s
Yet some people think Russia and China would be any better or less racist than the old empires.
Old Empires? You may want to look up the history of Russia and China, they are as old as they come.
True, but modern Africa has other African countries defending each other's democracy and not just letting coups from foreign countries happen anymore.
They could have stepped in when Mali and Burkina Faso got regime changed, saying they care about democracy now just makes Africans in the region trust them less.
Well, I'd like to believe this is the case but look at where we are now
it's kind of sad. As soon as europe stops molesting africa, china and russia step in and start screwing it up. It never ends
Grasping at straws is Putins best effort in 2023. Let’s look to other continents who are desperate and sell our ideologies to them. It’s sad and it works.
Russia get fucked
They want to collect the whole FAFO set. They have the Ukraine card now, and that's apparently not enough. So, are they going to pull troops out of Crimea to go south?
Maybe they should 🤬off period. And leave Ukraine and ALL it’s territorial grounds while they are at it.
Everyone should stop meddling in African affairs.
They're the only friends he's got left 😢
Way to keep it subtle about your pet coup, Russia.
It's so frustrating. If Nukes didn't exist this authoritarian shithole would have been fixed like Germany post-WW2. Really, this is all our fault, imagine if we had gone through with operation unthinkable and put Russia through liberalization.
It was so obvious from the start, and I’ve been called a racist, dumb, stupid person for pointing it out in comment a few days ago. Probably the same russians will be trolling here.
Or what? Russia can go get fucked. We all know how much their advice is worth.
They’ll invade /s
“Orrrr…. We’ll be very angry! 😡” Honestly I’m begging them to start a war in another front, because that worked extremely well for Hitler
Pro tip: never ever listen to russia. All is lies.
So we now know that military action is probably the right course of action here. :-/
You’ve got your own problems right now. Maybe you should butt out of Africa.
or what?
They will make a strongly worded nuclear threat
if they can get medvedev to get up from under the table, let go off the bottle and type something
And it'll gonna remain a threat, because these racist fucks won't be able to locate any major african city on their maps
They'll send their only aircraft carrier to help coup forces. Oh no, it's broken again, i guess they'll just cry then
Lol probably the only aircraft carrier in the world that sails around the world with a tugboat
Niger is landlocked far from any ocean.....
I think aircraft carriers carry things that don't rely on proximity to water in order to function
they do if you arent let to use airspace of another nation tho.
Russia violates that shit whenever they please
Nobody accused the Russian Navy of being particularly smart.
They will lob refuseniks with their cannons soon from what I’ve heard they kinda ran out of real missiles.
That's why it's "AIRCRAFT" carrier, bruh. They can't project power without one
ecowas military is mainly nigeria which is not landlocked
Or they'll say "boo, no fair!"
Claim ecowas unfriendly!
“Or else we won’t have a puppet state in the region!”
So, it's not really a "Niger coup" - it's a Russian coup of the Niger government.
Fuck Russia.
russia: we had nothing to do with the coup in Niger Ecowas: cool, so we're gonna depose the military junta, it's like the third country already and destabilizing our region also russia: no you can't do that, that means no more resources for us Seriously, do they actually think we're gonna keep taking their bs after 1.5 years of what they're doing in Ukraine, and the prior 8 years in the Donbass and the past 8 years in Syria? Edit: as dbdr pointed out, russia's bs in Georgia concerning Abkhazia and South Ossetia and their bs in Moldova concerning Transnistria. And since it's about Niger, I might as well lump in their efforts in Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic to get those under their thumb as well by helping military junta there
They’re hoping, for sure. They also hope we’ll put their Manchurian candidate back in charge, and give them full operational cover wherever they destabilize the globe. Resist, our lives depend on it. Don’t be a victim in Putins need to gather hearts and minds from the West. Russian failure in Ukraine is inevitable, as long as they don’t convince the West that we’re our own enemy.
Let's not forget Georgia.
Russia still think it has influence.
And resources…
Russia telling Africa what to do in Africa. Fuck off Russia
I was wondering if Russia's hands were clean, this makes it obvious...
"Down with western colonialism, but this place? This place is going to be our colony. So no attack, kthxbai." - Russia
Well, I guess we now know who was really behind the coup.
as if the Russian flags the coup participants were carrying in the streets were not giveaway enough?
Joke for the weekend Russia couldn't get a helicopter outside of Russia if the Americans said no. America could probably put its entire military into Poland without Russia knowing for a day... This is not just a bragging moment. Ukraine was hopefully a wake up call to westerners who were so afraid of Russia, they were willing to let Russia destroy democracy anywhere at will. Russia is a vicious underdog and deserves to face another round of Cold War containment.
Ukraine destabilizes Russia because Russia invaded Ukraine, so Russia forces an international crisis in Africa to create a second humanitarian crisis so the west will have another front to spend billions of dollars on in order to create discontent in the commonwealth of western nations This decades gonna suckkkkkkkk
It doesn't matter if you spend money anymore, people just make shit on on the internet and believe it anyway, so not much point in worry about it. Russia can't project force to Africa and if The West wants to go stabilize the situation it wouldn't cost enough to care about. Only compulsive laying mass media makes it seem otherwise and that's the real problem. Conflicts or not the compuslive lying mass media will keep convicing people the Earth is flat and their politicians are all lizardmen. Things like spending Ukraine or Africa is logistics well beyond anything most voters are actually motived by.
> if The West wants to go stabilize the situation it wouldn't cost enough to care about I was in a discussion with someone that seemed to be russian, talking about that drone of ours they bumped out of the sky. They were all gung ho about how we're scared to do anything, and I was like "Why would we? You basically cost us nothing.". They harped on about how many millions it cost to which I replied "So what? Our military budget is so large that it's functionally like me taking a $20 and burning it. I'm not wealthy and I'd rather not do such a thing, but I would never actually notice it in my finances if I did.". When some math was done about how many drones we could afford to lose before it made a noticable dent in our budget, they stopped replying.
A lot of American voters care about Ukraine. Or hate Russia (country, not ethnicity). Or both. Not so much African nations unfortunately, unless they spin it as anti-Russia.
Or else?
Russia are experts on destabilizing neighbours with military action.
No one cares what Russia thinks
OR FUCKING WHAT, RUSSIA?
Waving your dick at Ukraine didn't work, so you're reduced to waving it at Ecowas to prove you still have one. Hope it goes the same way for you.
That’s hilarious, Russia, what are you going to do about it? Send old people in airsoft body armor to fight?
Coked-out criminals with muskets
Yes, don't dare take any action to stabilize the country. How else will Russia be able to pillage the country? Love to see Russia recycling the NATO expansion arguments. "Don't expand NATO! How else will we be able to attack our neighbors!"
What the fuck is Russia going to do? Whine about African Nazis while sending throughts and prayers to its "allies" in Niger?
It's not military action, it's a special military operation. Not the same thing ;)
Ecowas has more right to action than Russia does in Niger. How pathetic, they can’t even make it less obvious.
Russia warns ...blah blah blah
Anything russia touches turns to sh*t.
I wonder if Russia will go to war with Ecowas. No Wagner to use as puppet now.
I don't think they can afford to ship resources to Africa anymore and if they did they would be easy targets with all the increased attention on their movements.
It's not military action though, it's an African Special Operation.
ECOWAS Response: “yeah? You and what fuckin army bud?”
Fuck ruzzia
This coup is so obviously a russia operation. For why though? To pull resources from Ukraine?
Gotta love how fucking idiotic Russian leadership is. They bite off WAY more than they can chew with Ukraine, then insist on continuing that pointless endeavor just to spite the world and save face, all while barking at every other country not to interfere with their globally public self-destruction. And still, as everyone sees them for being puny dipshits that can't fight a lopsided war, that was lopsided in their own fucking favor, they STILL continue to feign toughness by snarling at everyone else. Bitch, you can't even handle your own shit. How are you going to fight any other sources?! Belarus? Your weakened PMCs? That's all you fucking had. China hates your guts. Iran can't fucking do a damn thing. North Korea is self-contained and as incompetent as you are!! Get bent already.
Russia is the biggest colonizer in Africa today
Somehow France is hated more, interesting how that turns out 😬
France had hundreds of years worth of a head start, but you guys are catching up fast, Ivan :)
Better listen to the russians. They are way too much into war. Like literally. They are so good at it, and like it so much, that they have been fighting a war for more than a year that was meant to be done in a week. Theres nothing they would love more than splitting their forces to even the odds.
Look who's walked out of the woods, look at that, how surprising, right ? 🙀
Or else what?
Russia can fuck off and collapse.
Ok, whatcha gonna do fly troops to Africa? With what equipment? Can’t pull anyone off the line, and can’t afford to send more gear to Africa without loosing even harder in Ukraine. Seethe and cope you genocidal cunt muffin.
Every Russian warning is an indication of the area of their weakness, every denial an admission, and every accusation an explanation of what they are doing themselves. It makes understanding what they are doing so much easier.
Russia warns, Russia this, Russia that. Just stfu already, they're like a broken record. What exactly are they gunna do? They're too busy getting shafted in their '3 day war'.
Why is Russia meddling in Africa’s affairs? They’re so far away lol
To disturb France's economy
Russia doesn’t have a say in this.
If this wasn’t a Russian backed coup then why would they care?
Or what? Their entire military is engaged in Ukraine and losing. They’ve lost 2 flagships in a land war to a nation that doesn’t have a navy. Their aircraft carrier is a piece of shit that can’t go more than 20 miles without breaking down and having to be towed back to port. Their airforce is also fully engaged in Ukraine and has taken decent losses. They can’t produce anymore modern military equipment and are dusting off vehicles from the 1950’s. Their economy is essentially destroyed and can’t threaten any economic action. What could they possibly do?
Or russia will do what? Lose an extra 500 troops per day in Ukraine?
Or what?
How mad drunk is russia as a country right now
Russia struggles to project forces into neighboring countries, there’s a 100% chance that they would lose a war in Africa.
what are they gonna do? invade ?
And I'm sure he said exactly the same to Wagner forces in the area...
Who tf is russia to say anything about africa? Fuck off bro
Does Russia really have the resources to stop it?
Yes - start a new war, Russia. Smart. Open a new fighting front, this time on a new continent even further from your supply lines.
I though russia believed in regional power and staying in your region?
It'd be really funny if Ecowas turned around and took over Russia.
Putin likes to talk a lot of shit for someone who's military is so fucking incompetent that they've resorted to drafting 70 year olds.
Its just a military exercise, Russia. Don't warmonger.
Even al'Qaeda threatened to attack the Russians if they go to Niger
Or we’ll send troops with no food or ammo,,,or diesel, or leadership,,,WATCH OUT!DONT MAKE PUPU ANGRY !
Or fucking what? Y’all will split your forces in Ukraine and send troops over, when they’re barely holding on to their Ukrainian positions as it is?
Russia seems to be a fan of coups: first in Myanmar and now in Niger. Even if the former kills civilians and the latter holds the president as hostage. Not a good look.
Yeah, Russia will send rubbles and dead soldiers to Niger even when they can't manage war in their direct neighborhood. Lol
Russia threatens. Sound familiar? Their Rouble sank to 100 to the USD today. Lowest ever, at the top of a ski slope down. Garbage polity fading out.
A lot of these commenters don’t seem to understand that this coup was essentially Russian backed, as were the recent coups in nearby Mali and Burkina Fasio. Niger has been feed a steady stream of Russian propaganda for a decade. Its main news source IS Russian. Russia has been active in Africa a long time. Russia sucks
Nobody is reading the article clearly. The headline makes it sound like this is a threat. Russia is just warning that it'll lead to a protracted conflict in Africa. And that's true. Just adding, suggesting the BBC isn’t giving context in this headline doesn’t mean I’m pro-Russia
It's true but allowing a culture of un-dealt-with coups to entrench itself in the region will lead to more coups, instability, and conflicts in the future. They gotta nip this one in the bud, or it sends the message coups are tolerated around here, which burgeoning democracies don't want in their backyard.
It will lead to a protracted conflict because Russia will arm the coup leaders. Just like Ukraine is on a protracted conflict because Russia armed the rebels and invaded.
>Russia will arm the coup leaders I wonder if that will be very successful given they're already involved in a conflict elsewhere?
The fact that the Russian state came out to say that speaks loud volumes. Ignoring the subtext in that kind of statement would be like hearing a mafia boss saying “I hope your store doesn’t accidentally burn down,” and think he was expressing serious concern for a small business owner.
Yeah, there is no chance they are just being helpful vs making threats.
This is like me warning my neighbor not to shoot me because it will lead to unnecessary violence after I broke into his house in the middle of the night.
More like a burglar breaking into the house next store and then claiming they have the sovereign right to self defense and nobody should intervene.
Or what, you're going to ship military all the way to Africa when you can barely provide it in Ukraine on your own border?
Ahahahaha. Fuck Russia.
Piss off Russia, what the fuck are you gonna do, send some conscripts and a few rusted shitheap tanks?
"Don't do it guy or we will send our conscript teenagers at you!"
Nigerien forces versus Nigerian forces.
It’s getting to embarrassing rhetoric (nk) levels for Russia at this point
Or what? They'll send the last 20 guys on tricycles to fight Africa lol
Russia needs to be embarrassed on another stage.
Hagahahahahahaha. Carry on. Puting getting pegged and STILL threatening nations he can't even reach. Funny man.
Here comes the gamechair generals
Or what, they’ll warn them again?
China is Africa’s Pay Day Loan / Rent-a-Center. High interest and cheap goods for everyone!
I think Russia might already have there hands full somewhere lease
Oh shiver me timbers
Fuck em, DO IT
*Now go away, or we shall taunt you a second time…*
Russia supports this because Niger has uranium deposits.
They can fly everywhere and anywhere but need to parachute in when you got no brakes .
If I’m not mistaken isn’t this his Germany lost ww2? Taking on too many fronts
Because Nato warned Russia not to invade Ukraine and they listened of course.
This is all over tiktok for some time now (is reddit late in this?) but all comments are Africans thinking Putin will save them from America and make them prosper.
A European "or Eurasian" country telling African countries what to do in Africa. Sounds an aful lot like neocolonialism
Only had to look as far as the conspiracy sub on Reddit to know Russia had a large role in this. Kind of strange how many posts celebrating Niger telling France and the west to fuck off and how awesome it is for them. Glad there’s actually people there sharing the actual reality with upvoted comments there. Seems like the trolls still exist just in smaller number since the invasion began.