Anti-France sentiment in #senegal or #mali is just the logical continuation of a French geopolitical policy largely Inherited from the colonial era.
France still own too much grip of African independent countries with its Franc CFA and former colonies still under French control
France could have honored its colonial past by abolishing debts, abolishing its grip on (UEMOA) abolishing this competition with other imperial powers of modern transColonialism pumping resources out of the African continent.
In fact France was on a unique position to
Not only empower African nations to thrive but France was on a historic position to also benefit from it.
But instead of empowering former colonies, France extracted all the value it could without much redistribution.
Over time, these same African nations got approached by
Russia, China and whoever wanted to disrupt the French monopole in Africa.
And they managed to succeed because at no time, during the last 40 or 20 years that other western countries (US, EU) most of the "aid for development" provided never abandoned the old colonial abuse.
What we extract of African countries, of the entire African continent, from the end of slavery up to the industrial revolution up to today, is the continuation of the colonial era.
Just adapted to appear less extractive and a bit more redistributive. But far from being fair.
I'm probably wrong, probably simplifying a big issue here, but it works like for Democracies :
They are not changing and adapting fast enough compared to world realities hence becoming porous to degeneration & and inner lack of trust leading to things like Brexit or Trump.
It's the same for European aid in Africa : it never really pivoted away from the colonial times, not structurally, all the foundations were built on colonial gains and these gains were made against the interest of the very owners of the resources we're gladly Extracting.
Our lack of integrity, our lack of alignment with our own theorical values created the holes that today are being used to dismantle our own democratic & information spaces. From within.
The US is degenerating fast but it will spread elsewhere, it's just a question of time.
Unless we funk'in wake-up!
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Yesterday I spent some time checking French, Belgian, mainstream media TV "treatment" of the 🇷🇺War against Ukraine 🇺🇦
My starting point is obviously my own experience and few years of mapping Telegram ecosystems and 5 months of War tracking, archival & amplifyukraine
French TV is really nuts, they spend most of the air time relaying extract you can get from @JuliaDavisNews but with the French commentary, often superficial, sensational and I must say : biased, my impression was that French TV's are mostly relaying Russian Propaganda in the
Name of "commenting it", why? Because they don't bring any other perspective, certainly not from a Ukrainian perspective, they keep coming back to Russian propaganda and Russian threats against Europe, UK or anyone else without clearly, bluntly countering the propaganda.
I do information warfare & use every tools I have available to keep #Ukraine (and other causes) visible based on my ability to source good sources on any given topic.
Been doing this for years
Some of the technics used are the same, some of the tools are one's you can find in awesome #osint tools github lists.
But I have no previous background in geolocation, military equipment tracking or anything remotely close to weapons & military gear.
My contribution is
"tool builder" more than anything else, but I also don't recognize myself in the #osint space, there is way too much competition and purity hunting for me to find that swarm healthy.
I dislike labels & being part of something I'm not choosing how to engage with & why.