Yeah and all those Russian flags and "vive Poutine" signs just happened to have been found laying around, a country that's "just" 5000km away. How delusional must you be :)

Edit: almost forgot https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/republic-world/

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So your theory is:

Russia sponsors a coup, but
Denies involvement, only to
Supply locals with Russia flags and presumably pay them to wave them around?

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you denying that Russia has been messing around in the region? Why is Wagner even there in the first place? Or is interventionism good when Russia does it?

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I asked you what your theory is on the situation and you responded by putting words in my mouth.

Again, do you think Russia engineered this, only to deny it, only to pay people to waive Russian flags around?

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/5/nigers-military-rulers-ask-for-help-from-russian-group-wagner

Well, then, in case Russia didn't engineer it, it's pretty clear that they supported it, but that's just semantics at this point. Doesn't the modus operandi look very familiar?

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 1 year ago

...Nothing in that article says Russia supports the coup government. It doesn't mention a Russian stance at all; it just says the coup government has asked Wagner for support (which it does not say has been given).

You've now ignored for a second time how stupid it is to think Russia engineered this, then simultaneously tried to hide it/paid locals to wave Russian flags around.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine being utterly ignorant of western colonization of Africa and the role USSR played in African liberation. People in Africa support Russia today because of that history. It's not a mystery for anybody with even a modicum of historical literacy. Meanwhile, nice ad hominem there, are you disputing the factual content of the article or just making a clown of yourself as usual?

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine (insults put aside) being so out of touch with the real world to think 1940's geopolitics constitutes a reasonable case to portray Russia, a different state, as a well-meaning player in the region today, all the while Russia, being in an open war of aggression with its neighbours, is very much exerting the kind of "neocolonialism" and expansionism it accuses its enemies of doing.