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Aug 15, 2023 15 tweets 15 min read
FRANCE - THE COLONIAL EMOIRE THAT NEVER DIED

🧵🧵THREAD🧵🧵

In the wake of everything going on in Niger, Burkina Faso, Mail, etc… I decided to illustrate the atrocities of the French Colonial Empire which exists till this very day

FRANCE CONTINUES TO PLUNDER AFRICA TILL THIS VERY DAY

Every year, the French Empire extracts roughly $1.5 TRILLION from its colonies. Without being able to exploit developing countries in Africa, their empire would collapse.

Since the end of WWII, direct imperial rule became not only difficult, but also frowned upon. Rather than give up their empire completely, they decided to simply hide it in an atrocious, but covert, fashion. Similar to how India was considered the “Crown Jewel” of the British Empire, French North Africa had bankrolled, and CONTINUES TO BANKROLL, the modern French Empire.

In order to gain independence, most French North African colonies were forced to sign a so-called “Cooperation Agreement” with France. This was nothing more than the continuation of French imperialism in a different format.

The “Cooperation Agreement” prioritized French interests above all, without any consideration whatsoever towards the welfare of their colonies. There were three main pillars:

1. France retains Monitory Sovereignty and Control over French North Africa via the use of the CFA Franc currency.

2. French Companies retain exclusive rights over virtually every natural resource in the former colonies.

3. France retains right to maintain troops and military bases in the former colonies.
Mar 16, 2023 19 tweets 4 min read
🧵🧵THREAD about the banks🧵🧵

Incase anyone is still confused as to what happened with Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and the entirety of the banking sector, I decided to create a thread detailing the collapse and the backstory 👇🏼👇🏼

#SVBCollapse #BankingCrisis Commercial banks exist for people to deposit their money so that the bank may use it to make their own investments.

The difference between the interest you earn on your deposits (currently 0.2%) and the rate of return the bank earns on their investments is the bank’s profit
Feb 27, 2023 19 tweets 7 min read
MASSIVE Anti-NATO/Anti-war protests erupting all over western world protesting against arm shipments to 🇺🇦 escalating nuclear war with 🇷🇺

Anti-NATO demonstrations in:
Britan🇬🇧
France🇫🇷
Germany🇩🇪
Italy🇮🇹
Canada🇨🇦
Spain🇪🇸
Poland🇵🇱
Moldova🇲🇩

5 out of 7 G7 states

#UkraineRussiaWar twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 🇬🇧
Feb 3, 2023 32 tweets 10 min read
Western Media: “Madman Putin invaded Ukraine completely unprovoked”

Reality👇🏼👇🏼 THREAD

1990: Sec of State Jim Baker promises USSR/Russia, that once Germany reconsolidates into the west, “NATO will not expand one inch eastward.”

#UkraineRussiaWar #ZelenskyWarCriminal 1999: NATO expands into former Warsaw Pact states which include Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary

2002: US pulls out of Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, established in 1972, and begins construction of ABM facilities in Romania

#UkraineRussianWar #ZelenskyWarCriminal