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The colonizer’s mask has slipped to the floor. France’s President Emmanuel Macron behaved like an old colonial officer when he spoke in Paris on January 6. (peoplesdispatch.org)

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[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mali, February 2022 Burkina Faso, February 2023 Niger, December 2023 Chad, December 2024 Senegal, December 2024 Ivory Coast, December 2024

Watching the post-SMO* disintegration of western imperialism has been wonderful. It's like the whole world is undergoing a phase change triggered by a nucleation event.

*obviously this process has been long in the making.

Besides, troops from the Global North no longer wanted to operate in African and Asian countries when they were not protected by immunity agreements. For instance, the United States military had insisted on a Status-of-Forces agreement with the Iraqi parliament, and when the Iraqis decided not to renew that in 2011, US forces began to leave the country (many remain in a backroom deal). Already, rumors had begun to slip in from northern Mali that French aircraft had struck and killed civilians. When will Les Toubab (the Europeans) leave?

Modern imperial troops seem to have a great lack of discipline and willingness to sacrifice for empire (whatever their rhetoric may be). Such "immunity agreements" would not be necessary if the imperialists were willing to throw a few unruly troops under the bus.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I very much agree, the war acted as a catalyst for the phase change that's already been building. In particular, it was the economic war with Russia the west started that put things into motion. Cutting Russia out of western financial system is what triggered an alternative system to start developing. As new economic ties started emerging, political realignment followed.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the war itself is a consequence of this change, not even a catalyst.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

For sure, but it was a catalyst in terms of accelerating a lot of the trends that might've taken decades to play out otherwise.