Our party has spoken out against supporting a war in Niger and has expressed support for whoever is in charge right now.
Unsurprisingly, the BUT PUTIN NIGER WAGNER IMPERIALISM comments quickly found their way towards the posts.
The media makes it out to be of great importance that our allies and the West intervene in Niger, when two weeks ago most people couldn’t locate Niger on a map if their life depended on it.
So, how important does your media think Niger is?
Everyday we get closer to Biden having to pronounce “Niger” correctly in-front of the entire world.
If you want to be correct, since Hausa is the majority ethnic group, it’s really Jamhuriyar Nijar
The name comes from the Niger River which flows through the west of the country. The origin of the river’s name is uncertain. Alexandrian geographer Ptolemy wrote descriptions of the wadi Gir (in neighboring modern Algeria) and the Ni-Gir (“Lower Gir”) to the south, possibly referring to the Niger River. The modern spelling Niger was first recorded by Berber scholar Leo Africanus in 1550, possibly derived from the Tuareg phrase gher-n-gheren meaning “river of rivers”
I read an article in the Seattle Times about the Niger coup a few days ago. Talks about how they’re hostile to France (ostensibly presented as a bad thing, no mention of French misadventures in West Africa) and pro Russia (scary! bad!)
Some talk about how it will affect the fight against islamic insurgents as well with the absence of French troops, they talked about how attacks from insurgents increased after the coups in Mali and Burkina Faso but in typical western journalism fashion left the reader to draw their own conclusions on that
Canada/US media just nakedly calls out the fact that the uprising is a threat to western interests in the region and expects the reader to just take as a given that something must be done to protect them, which most agree with I assume.
Then there is the whole racist use of the word “junta”, which is blatantly only used to describe uprisings in non white countries.
The media makes it out to be of great importance that our allies and the West intervene in
country, when two weeks ago most people couldn’t locatecountryon a map if their life depended on it.
God, this makes me feel old.
In Brazil I hardly hear people talking about it, and when they do it’s a sort of “ignorant sympathy” for the people there, even if they don’t really care to learn what’s happening. It’s really hard to be foaming at the mouth here for intervention abroad when our national bourgeoisie won’t even get any benefits from said intervention. Only people who seem to care about “upholding global democracy” are the weirdo Europhiles, but they hardly remember Africa exists in the first place.
It’s more like Afghanistan than Ukraine because they can’t even worry about all the blue eyes white children.
