(Niamey) Niger like many other recent central African countries which have seen a overnight change in government by the
bullet and the bomb rather than the ballot box has had no problem turning its
back on the West (other than for handouts in the form of aid) and gotten into
bed with…Moscow and surprise, surprise, the new government in power has
informed the US to remove its forces from the country which comes months after
the new government (for life) informed France to remove its forces in the country.
What is most interesting here is the
western powers who operated across the Sahel using their advanced weaponry whilst
able to keep something of a lid on Islamist terrorism which plagues the region,
never got the upperhand. Yet in replacing the West for Russia which is
currently occupied inside the Ukraine, they have sided with a country which will
be unable to divert resources (military) to combat the
rise in terrorism across the Sahel for a good few years and even if it prevails
in the Ukraine will still be hard pushed to support its new African besties
other than allowing the new military leaders for life to pad out their private
bank accounts, I cant see any other reason why these countries have sided with
Moscow.
