2023 Nigerien coup d'état

I will ask my friends
Will you pick it up, or want DDP delivery?
I can hook you up to one of my wagons - it will go via Kazachstan anyway, so you can order some ADAC inspection

I would say send in some Houthis... and equip them with some of the stuff they have been using... an R-73 AAM on a booster rocket to get it airborne and flying fast and an IRST ball with presumably the helmet mounted sight used in MiG-29s and Su-27s would be all they needed to lock on to Rafales flying into Niger to attack targets...

Put the missiles in 6 or 7 places around the operator about 50m away in big boxes with one missile in each box, so each box can be hidden amongst other boxes and after it launches there are no other missiles there so the super accurate western system can destroy the point the last missile launched from because there was only one missile there. Fire the last missile and then have most of the system in a truck which you can then drive away to park somewhere else with missiles already positioned around where your truck parks... hook them all up and then start looking for targets to fire at. The wide angle field of view for the missile is a bonus... a very high energy fast burning rocket booster to get it airborne would be best enabling the missile to start its own rocket which has thrust vectoring to enable very hard turns after the solid rocket booster is jettisoned.

Perhaps that and a Bastion system with a Yakhont near the beach to say hello to any Western ships who want to get close to shore.

(Normally when I suggest such crazy stuff I know Russia wouldn't do it because that would provoke the west to do something similar... but essentially the west already is doing something similar so why not...)

Ukraine drained NATO bases around the globe of prepositioned equipment stocks. There has never been a better time to stage a revolt.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has warned against Western military involvement in Niger, which is now under the control of a junta following a coup last week.

“I think we must put pressure on democracy to be restored, but any Western military initiative should be excluded because it would be seen as a new colonization,” Tajani told Rai News on Wednesday.

Hole wrote:
Some modifications and the VKS could operate from there. For peaceful purposes, of course.

Humanitarian aid. Only.

Yeah, they might try ...

According to Christoforou France is preparing airstrikes.
Germany is OK with it. Which is weird. They Scholz regime
is against nuclear energy but support France to keep the Uranium
imports going, propably the dirtiest part of the whole nuclear
energy sector.

A typical Scholz.

I saw him interviewed on a US network and he knows nothing...

If the coup was Russia's idea, then it miscalculated.

Kiev immediately started to blame Russia for this coup and went on about how they are trying to distract from the real threat to world peace and world democracy and western values that is the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Then the US said they had no information that Russia was involved...  

African countries themselves have to carry this crusade.

They do, but they don't have to do it alone... BRICS can help replace the west in a way that is not colonial and actually helps Africa develop and grow and prosper.

The mineral wealth of Africa is enormous but western companies just go in and steal and get away with it by paying off one or two politicians or political parties with a fraction of the money the stuff they are stealing is worth.

That is why using Wagner was a brilliant idea. No formal connections with the Russian government, just a hired guns.

Hahaha... the Russian CIA... and both do as they please with no regard to anyone, except Wagner is not a drug cartel that is a law unto itself like the CIA is... otherwise western media would be telling us... they way they don't about the CIA.

In contrast this is how Macron treated the previous President. No wonder attitudes have hardened.

What an arsehole that frog is.

First they pulled the French tail over uranium now the US Very Happy

You have to ask what their objective is?

This is a huge opportunity for Russia too... with Nigeria in some sort of ongoing conflict where French access to uranium is limited or just cut off then Russia cutting supplies to France and the US would be an immensely more powerful blow than if things were just fine in Nigeria and France could crack the whip and increase Nigerian supplies to counter supplies not coming from Russia...

“I think we must put pressure on democracy to be restored, but any Western military initiative should be excluded because it would be seen as a new colonization,” Tajani told Rai News on Wednesday.

And it would be seen as new colonialisation because that is exactly what it would be... western propaganda BS...

Humanitarian aid. Only.

Like the humanitarian aid the west sent to Kiev...

Yeah, they might try ...

I wonder how many of those red countries really want to jump ship and not support their white colonial western oppressors... bad form to have the pro democracy countries in green and the anti democracy resource theiving colonials in Red... traditionally it should be red and blue and the colours in this case should be reversed.

Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon's top spokesman, assured reporters that there is no imminent threat against any U.S. personnel or American citizens in Niger.

How long will they remain safe if the Europeans start bombing them?

But why would Libya get involved? I presume Haftar? Wasn't he trying to build ties with the West and France specifically as well?

I would think that BRICS will support Niger and the west will be the enemy... which side offers Libya its best future? Under European colonial thumbs or with BRICS?

No evidence Russia involved in Niger coup – Italian FM

The government in Rome has no evidence of Moscow’s involvement in the military coup in Niamey, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told the daily La Repubblica on Thursday. The turmoil in Niger took both the US and France by surprise, he also revealed.

“We have no information of Russia's involvement in the Nigerien events, or the preparation of the coup,” Tajani told the outlet when asked whether Moscow was playing some kind of game in the Sahel nation. He dismissed the Nigerien protesters carrying photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin as “more anti-French than anything else.”

“Many, perhaps all in Europe, have been taken by surprise” by the coup, Tajani said. “Nobody knew about it, neither the US nor France.” Both countries have over 1,000 troops in Niger and drone bases for counter-terrorism operations. There are 350 Italian soldiers currently in Niger, and they are keeping to their barracks for now, the foreign minister said.

The Nigerien authorities were also blindsided, Tajani added, noting that the Nigerien PM Uhumudu Mahamadou was in Rome for a UN food summit.

When pressed about the Russian role in the region, he said that the alleged presence of Wagner Group members was “another matter” and that Russia has “infiltrated that region skilfully for years.”