₦airaland Forum

BigBashiru:
Thanks for the exposition. Per your second paragraph, then it's AES that should be in UNSC instead of France lol.

Thanks for the enlightenment in first paragraph.

Do you agree that Tinubu is a french stooge /puppet? Why do African leaders still agree to be french puppets? Na french juju or what?

How will the AES replace France in UNSC? France is one of the 5 permanent members in UNSC which was designated in the UN Charter and it reflects the major Allied powers after World War II. The AES is inconsequential in the grand scheme of global affairs. Is it possible for the General Assembly to vote for the AES to hold a two year non-permanent term? Yes but then again, individual countries are elected, not a bloc like the AES. So it's very possible that one of the countries in the AES will be chosen in the future as a non permanent, 2 year member of the UNSC.

Do I agree that Tunubu is a French stooge? Well, if you take orders from a higher power, then that makes you a puppet. Joe Biden's administration in USA and Macron in France were the master puppeteer but this post is not about Tunubu.

Why do African leaders agree to be French puppets? They don't "agree" to be puppets in that sense. The neocolonial structures and instruments are alive and well in Africa through covert operations, NGOs like National Endowment for Democracy, religious institutions etc. It's not something you look at from the mere lens of "African leader agreeing to be puppet". It's more complex than that.

BigBashiru:
They are betting their life on defeating Russia. The reason they are determined to defeat Russia is because Russia is the only country preventing them from exploiting Africa.

Why are there protests in france? Because Mali, Burkina Faso and Mali hv cut off France and France can no longer steal from them.

It's not all about Africa. They are determined to defeat Russia because Ukraine is one of, if not the most resource rich country in Europe, another reason they're determined to defeat Russia is because EU/NATO believe Russia is too big and need to be divided into smaller nations so that they can effectively install a Western friendly puppets in those tiny breakaway nations that will sign off on resources such as natural gas etc that will eventually funnel to the West.

The protest in France is due to overextension. They committed hundreds of billions to defeating Russia - money that could have been spent on ailing infrastructures and improving the lives of citizens.Though Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger surely contributes to France's problems but that's not the main reason but if all Francafrique countries cut neocolonial ties with France, then it's over for France in this current world.

Europe is relatively resource-poor, that's why they kept Africa under their control for centuries. If Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger manages to keep France away, I'm betting that those 3 countries will be unrecognisable (for the better) in 10 years.

SIRTee15:
I think it's high time french citizens and other white european nations accept the reality in 2026. France and europe overall is broke and cannot afford all those expensive and generous welfare system anymore.
generous pension, free and quality healthcare, free and quality education, free housing subsidy, child and family support are becoming a burden to european nations and they can no longer sustain it.
europeans can protest from now till tmrw but the truth remain cuts has to come and new adjustment has to set in
This is made worse by the fact that europe has been squeezed out of global economic opportunity/productivity. chinese control manufacturing, america controls tech. finance is now being decentralise by emerging cities such as singapore and dubai. The ridiculous tax burden is also forcing the rich to leave europe with their wealth.
africa which is meant to be the last resort of europe as a cheap place for natural resources is also rebelling against western hegemony.

I agree with your point here except parts or whole of the bolded. No one squeezed Europe out of economic opportunities, unless you didn't mean it in the literal sense of a concerted effort by China and the USA. Europe embarked on a ridiculous Net Zero agenda, cut themselves off cheap Russian gas that powered Germany's manufacturing industries for decades, they sanctioned Russia but those sanctions hurt Europe more than Russia.


China control manufacturing uncontested, they ALSO control tech in significant degree, in contest with America. France and EU as a bloc cannot compete and with the trajectory the world is going, Europe will disappear into irrelevance. They will become a market for US and China, with little or nothing to offer the world in return.

When almost half a million French citizens storm out to protest about living standards and high cost of living - among other woes that has befall France and Europe at large, then you know things are really rough and nasty at the moment.

France is brokiddy broke, its public debt is 119% of GDP, cost of borrowing more money is high. Will the EU allow France to fall so that they can at least ring fence the economy of Germany and other crucial EU countries or will the EU attempt to rescue France which will stretch an already broke EU thin?

They bet on defeating Russia, funnelled billions upon billions of euros to Ukraine, they lost the bet and that money has gone down the drain, it comes at a time when Ukraine needs even more money to at least survive for a year.

How will the EU recover from this?

Is that to say she's 'Finnished'?

What I know for sure is - in countries that are not banana republic, if citizens were made poor by 300% overnight, there'd be uproar, people will flood the streets and the government would collapse but of course you know, we're Nigerians....we're "resilient".

Ebola arrived just in time. Who didn't predict this?

Padi padi democracy.

Anyway, how a successful Nigerian billionaire would choose to brand their surname with the sign of a foreign currency like an upcoming Chicago hood rapper - is beyond what I can comprehend. Don't mind me, I'm just a salty Otenaira. Ote kobo sef.

Kobo sign, anyone?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I'll keep repeating it - a dark, long and miserable winter awaits Ukraine. This is the tip of the iceberg and no one in Ukraine is ready for what's coming in winter. This war will end with the collapse of Ukraine as a modern nation state and what that means is - the Ukrainian society will collapse, then the government will collapse, and that collapse is going to happen very soon.

Ukraine is done, finito! Thanks to Zelensky and the European Chihuahas aka London, Paris and Berlin.

Nothing new or special. You find traitors on both side.

The drones launched by Ukraine flew through Latvian and Estonian airspace otherwise the ones that hit St. Petersburg wouldn't have been possible. I guess we'll see what Russia's response would be but what's certain is that a dark, long and miserable winter awaits Ukraine.

That attack will never have happened without US intelligence by the way, so those intel cut off that Zelensky was talking about is all bluff.

45 Million Euro in aid but they'll extract billions in natural resources while ensuring you're dependent on that meagre aid. You can rain abuses on Tinubu all you want - he's only a president caretaker for the landlords giving 45 million euros in aid.

EU played/is playing a huge role in keeping you and your next generations in perpetual poverty.

Pope Leo should reach out to UAE too to stop funding genocide in Sudan

Flangelo12:
What fraction of a Scaramucci was that?

Half a Scaramucci . Not even a Scaramucci man, more like a Zachariamoochi.

She lied to get her job. She didn't even pass her bar exam, which is Ok, many don't pass it on first or even second attempt but she didn't, she then went on to lie saying she passed her bar exam when she moved to China. Excuse me what? She calls her self an "attorney" which she clearly isn't.

She got what she deserved - a sack and a humiliating escort out of the White House.

Trump would most likely never have hired a black press secretary anyway but imagine she's black in a Democrat's White House. She would have been a "DEI hire" and the media would have a field day tomorrow.

Have you been flirting with other men? cheating on your husband? Have you been signalling to him that he's now an option and you have alternatives? Have you joined the gang of wives thinking UK gives them a lot of right and freedom to pepper their husband?

Some men can be irrational but I want to believe there's no smoke without fire. COS in this current UK climate though? Good luck ma'am.

All drama - Zelensky is still useful for the globalist.

The real owners of Nigeria using one of their instruments to proffering another baseless solutions. Nigerians will maybe one day wake up.

Maybe one day.

I wasn't expecting president Putin to accept energy ceasefire deal. He once requested for a ceasefire that Joe Biden and warhorses in Europe rejected. Russia will end this war once and for all militarily.

By the time the West is done using Zelensky, there will be nothing left of Ukraine.

Winter is coming, gonna be a teeth gnashing one.

"When we assumed the mantle of leadership, our foreign reserves were a staggering below $3.9 billion that was not enough to import fuel for one month,” Shettima said.

Million dollar question still - Why is Nigeria exporting crude but importing fuel at a higher mark up? No be witchcraft be that?

"Mayor Mamdani Attends Nigeria’s Independence Parade In New York"


Countryman will think it's a flex.

Commercial Jesus is a huge market in Africa. Why not bring it to the Africans in diaspora every now and then?

delpee:
May we never have an Abacha in our lives again. Terrible times indeed!

A lot of you still have a lot to unlearn and relearn.

Ojagun:
Smh

Go and read a freaking book and learn about the damage,destruction and chaos the military caused in west africa including Nigeria for almost four decades.

P.S. I wonder who is paying all these social media influencers especially the Nigerian ones who are everywhere praising this Traore fellow for building ordinary roads and grinding tomatoes

You want to tell me Abacha's rule was damaging and destructive?

"Nigerians Dislike Their President, But May Re-Elect Him Anyway"

Of course, "re-election" is already certain after signing off on $700B critical mineral "deal" bribe with America.

Nigerians don't "elect" their presidents by the way - imperialists do.

Yoruba people and people of Benin republic are essentially the same people, but colonial borders separated us. Now one part of the same family speaks French and the other part speaks English. Sad stuff.

You didn't gain independence though.

That flag is all we've got to show for it...and national anthem

I actually think this may be repositioning of some sort - I think America is preparing strikes on Iran.

I believe Biden withdrew from Afghanistan to allocate military resources to Project Ukraine. Something similar may be playing out here, however, whether I'm right or wrong on this assumption, America is finished in the Middle East, they should not be there in the first place.

This may just be the beginning of the end of the petrodollar.

They created and funded ISIS but now want to fight "Islamists".

We know who the real terrorists are.

All Nigeria can boast of for this "independence" is a flag and national anthem.

We didn't gain independence - colonialists never left.