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#africa #niger

[@ilzee_vk]

Editor typing this video title needs a medal for bravery.

[@prageruwu69]

fr

[@CultureFiendMedia89]

I remember being in the 5th grade, and meekly asking my teacher how to pronounce Niger 😂

[@deadfr0g]

Vaush Pit jumpscare (gone wrong (progressives may die))

[@Loki_Leftist]

I was waiting for a cringe vaush fan to make a n-word joke and it’s literally the first comment smh

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

You miss the first second of the video? What you mean ‘waiting’?

[@giovannidjango]

France essentially still owns all the salt reserves in Tunisia. they literally just take Tunisia's largest export and sell it for themselves

[@falconeshield]

The 2008 recession didn't help but I always wondered why France didn't suffer compared to the rest of Austerity Europe

[@Kob1yashi]

​@@falconeshieldbecause it was poorer than Germany and richer than Spain/Italy so the effect on France of 2008 was kinda the average of the two, not related to exploitation of Africa for this one

[@RRRRR15]

ok?

[@antonijaume8498]

​@@falconeshieldbecause France did not apply austerity. Austerity is like shooting one's feet when fleeing a tiger

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

It really is impressive just how awful France is to poorer countries. Like most neo colonial powers still want economic growth in their colonies but France still has a policy of resource extraction.

[@illwill42]

France's colonialism is pretty interesting because even 5 of their 18 regions/departments include French Guiana (South America, preceded the Monroe Doctrine), Guadalupe/Martinique (both in the Caribbean), and Reunion/Mayotte (both islands near Madagascar that never split when the main islands did) Edit: The above 5 regions are referred to internally as the 5 Overseas Regions or 5 Overseas Territories. Their answer to decolonization was to try to integrate the colonies they cared about into their federal system so no one could force them to let them go lmao

[@oltihajdaraj8682]

It think like all those regions continently voted to stay with france.

[@sambones1092]

These are all french departments, just like Hawai is part USA, and Okinawa is part of Japan

[@Ginkoman2]

they are part of france not colonies, like hawaii. also iirc they all voted to stay in, and have the right to leave.

[@illwill42]

@@Ginkoman2 Yes this is true, as Algeria once was a French region that voted for independence. I wasn't saying that these areas aren't integrated french departments, just that I find it interesting how they have so many, especially still having a presence in south america.

[@kyosokutai]

@@Ginkoman2 Considering that Hawaii is illegally occupied to this day it is not the best example. - It's more like Texas.

[@Dan-mw4zu]

I just know the editor was sweating

[@zotaninoron3548]

Part of the reason Russia cares so much about Syria is because Syria is one of the last roadblocks to a completely western controlled corridor for an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar to Europe. Russia depended on stopping this pipeline in order to continue to exert political power over Europe through being the primary energy exporter to many European countries and such a corridor threatened this leverage.

[@LastBrigadier]

Also cuz one of the leaders of the Islamic State was a guy called Abu Omar Al-Shishani, who came from Chechnya and if Syria fell to ISIS they would have made Syria an anti-Russian haven for fleeing Chechen fighters, which it sorta is in some areas even now.

[@puchy110]

That and also Russia’s only military base in the Middle East is the port of Tartarus. This allows the Russian navy to project power in the Mediterranean, though the Turks have the power to block the Dardanelles.

[@vaultdweller1386]

@@puchy110 Did they seriously name the port after the prison of the Titans?

[@Thobeian]

@@vaultdweller1386Tartus not tartarus

[@vaultdweller1386]

@@Thobeian In my defense the other guy put Tartarus, probably autocorrect.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Africa is such a crazy place, These countries have had dictators after dictators and just down right corruption. They deserve better.

[@ViniSocramSaint]

Trying to play both teams I see

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@@ViniSocramSaint Calling out corrupt oppressive governments is "playing both teams"?

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@@just_a_turtle_chad Was wondering when you'd show up looking for attention

[@ViniSocramSaint]

@@TihetrisWeathersby Then I guess I don't see

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@@ViniSocramSaint It's more than likely you know nothing about African politics

[@Paint_The_Future]

The lack of colour extends beyond buildings. Most cars are somewhere on the white-gray-black spectrum and even the cars with colour are either blue or red, it's extremely rare to see a car outside of that. Same for men's clothes. Looking at a whole men's section and taking in the colour spectrum is like, "Here are the colours you men are allowed to have. The rest are forbidden colours. There's one hoodie that's forest green, that's the only special one you're allowed, and even that is pushing it." I have to go well out of my way to get some good colours in my wardrobe.

[@nate.draws.things]

It is really weird how car colors especially have been whittled down over the years. I guess people don't have very strong preferences about it so it was cheaper for car companies to just stick with basics but seeing 90% of the cars on the road either be white, black or silver is kinda sad.

[@xBINARYGODx]

i dont have much trouble finding men's clothing no so boring - you are not looking in the right places.

[@iulioh]

​@@nate.draws.things if I remember correctly it is all about resellability of the car

[@BigSteve9713]

@@iulioh how's that work when they picked the worst car colors exclusively

[@KatieBadenhorst]

Up till my son was about 3 I bought him bright primary colour clothing. After that all the boys clothing suddenly started looking like adult mens clothing, with the "allowed" colours being blue, neutrals and red. The vast majority of boys clothing are only those colours. It's so sad.

[@prageruwu69]

it's past midnight and i did initially NOT read the title right 💀

[@somethingelse4424]

I THOUGHT I read it right, and was clicking on a Tucker Carlson video. Then I got hit with this horse loving communist crap, and have no idea what to think now.

[@falconeshield]

"It's 10pm. Do you know where your Niger's are?"

[@FernandoBenitez-ht7uq]

VDS ridden folk who don't know this is a country are gonna have a jolly good time.

[@bryanamaro1209]

AFRICAS GONE UPPITY >:3

[@Joselimineitor]

@@donovan4222 😳

[@thatindiandude4602]

​@@Joselimineitordon't mind him, he has posted well over 5000 comments in various channels posting Pro-putin and tankie tripe.

[@antlerbraum2881]

@@donovan4222Why do you spam for a living?

[@somethingelse4424]

Use a comma for the love of God. "What is occurring in Niger, Africa?" That is a *chef's kiss* title.

[@jayburn00]

France's reluctance to give up its colonies is partly what set the stage for the Vietnam war (france gave the US a narrative that since Ho Chi Minh called himself a communist, he was bad despite being the most popular leader in Vietnam, and the French persuaded the US to back a leader they liked instead of who the Vietnamese liked, leading to the division of Vietnam and ultimately the Vietnam war).

[@zotaninoron3548]

France demanded Haiti pay reparations for its slave revolt that crippled Haiti's economy and lasted halfway into the 20th century. "Haiti indemnity controversy" I am of the opinion that France owes all that money back plus interest.

[@ni9274]

It’s funny cause since 1922 America is the one receiving indemnity for that debt, and the US has been collaborating with France to avoid them paying any reparation.

[@shiny_teddiursa]

yeah that’ll be nice but it’ll never happen, Haiti has like no strong international allies that’ll bolster its geopolitical stance (the US & LATAM literally just ignore the country for the most part) & any money Haiti actually receives goes into the hands of the corrupt government officials and they just spend IN FRANCE anyways…

[@Tester-sh1mn]

B-b-but the World Bank waived their debts in 2010! Surely we can move on right?

[@falconeshield]

France needs to let go of those 14 countries in Africa it holds hostage with 'protection tax'. It made Meloni look good. That's unforgivable

[@commandergs1390]

@@ni9274what is it with leftists and saying “America bad also” when any country is in the wrong for anything. It’s really just a form of American Exceptionalism wherein America is the nation with power and this the source of bad things. In an attempt to be not racist, it loops right back around to a more condescending form of racism.

[@samiamrg7]

Remember that the Vietnam War and the US’ involvement in it was driven by France trying to hold on to it’s colonies in Indochina. When they failed after, like, 10 straight years of trying, they cried to the US about communists and got us to try for another 10 years.

[@falconeshield]

And then they dropped out of Iraq 2003 and accidentally looked good

[@Kob1yashi]

This is wrong bruh they straight up told the us you won't win this war (they knew they had tried for 10 years) but the us thought they knew better

[@arskakarva7474]

@@Kob1yashi Yea, the French also warned Americans that Diem is not only incompetent but also insane.

[@pierrecourtois5167]

This is a very "US can't have nice things because they spend their money on EU's protection" kinda comment. Trying to blame France for US involvement in Vietnam is peak not taking accountability for your decisions

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Europe really did a toll on Africa and it's still being felt

[@ViniSocramSaint]

Trying to play both teams I see

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

​@@ViniSocramSaint ?

[@SuperCatman]

​@@just_a_turtle_chad yeah I'm sure that's why Africans revolted against Europeans every time they could

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@@SuperCatman He's just a troll, ignore him

[@alrecks619]

@@just_a_turtle_chad i thought you're a fan of Russia lmao.

[@BugVlogs]

Scariest title for a Vaush video 😰

[@ryanart7241]

Thank you for covering this. I always appreciate it when you cover non-European politics. It’s a big planet. It’s hard to cover it all, and I really appreciate the effort to cover diverse global politics.

[@MidnightBreezey]

I mean, 90% of what he talks about is the USA, that's not a European country lol

[@pancakes8670]

Part of becoming a Leftist is realizing there are other countries outside your own.

[@user-kl6lo7hx4w]

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[@scipioafricanus5871]

@@MidnightBreezey He means white and western Vaush is unapologetically west-centric.

[@MidnightBreezey]

@@scipioafricanus5871 He's a westerner, so makes sense

[@tahaymvids1631]

As an Algerian hearing Vaush shit on France is cathartic 🥹

[@purpleblastoise]

The November 2015 Paris attacks are France's chickens coming home to roost.

[@Tonysoprano671]

🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@TheGalaxyWings]

As a french, I agree

[@Kittsim]

I kinda think the Algerian hate of france needs to chill. It's toxic, really. It's a fucking nightmare for me to try and chill things out with my French familly when it's so easy to see Algerians curse every french person for just being born in the same country that colonized. Don't get me wrong, it's bad, obviously, but I'm more concerned on defending current immigrants, and man does this shit make it hard.

[@TheGalaxyWings]

@@Kittsim hating the french state isn't the same as hating french people, but yeah the latter sucks

[@morallymisguided8056]

Almost suffered a stroke reading that title 😭

[@rigsby86]

France made Haiti compensate them for the loss of 'property' and that debt took until 1946 to repay.

[@antonijaume8498]

Only until 1946? I thought it was until more recent years, utterly shameful and dishonorable.

[@rigsby86]

@@antonijaume8498 you're quite right, it was 1947

[@PhilfreezeCH]

Morocco may be on the western side of North Africa but it is still culturally and geographically more closely aligned to the north than west Africa because the Sahara desert is kinda in the way. Saying Morocco is West Africa is like saying New York is North USA, technically true but ultimately meaningless.

[@RiverOfWetness468]

It is in the North USA, what are you talking about

[@thelonelyphish]

Vaush's last point in the vid, the one about colorful buildings, is so apparent here in San Diego. We have bits of color here and there but the moment you look across the border to the hills in TJ the color just pops on every home

[@recognizesealand572]

France still dominates Africa economically through the CFA franc

[@ni9274]

It cost billions to France to keep the CFA at the same level as the euro, and France has been trying to push Africans countries to change to a new currency where they have more control. And Africans countries who use CFA could just leave if they really wanted too, the franc cfa isn’t just a case of France trying to negatively keep influence in Africa. + It’s ironic to see Americans criticize the franc CFA when American is basically dominating the economy of every countries that are not China.

[@zeezee15]

@@ni9274 Exactly. The French have made it clear that the Francophile African countries , coup-dominated or not, are free to leave the CFA system. And yet not one, not even those who now side with Russia has done so. You would think they would be rushing to remove the "French shackles" once oppotunity avails.

[@RRRRR15]

africans don't want to change the currency because it provides stability

[@Apollo-iq1vx]

I like how ni is in like half of the comments half-jokingly doing genocide/imperialist cope lmao

[@yc6018]

CFA franc doesnt exist anymore, its been years now

[@fangworl5170]

There are two sides of this comments section "Damn, I didn’t know about all this military coup stuff. I hope the country recovers." "Hehe, funny n-word title"

[@richardarriaga6271]

​@@donovan4222Siding with Russia is the dumber take. Just look how they treat Ukraine.

[@aabrightlove]

PSA The Nigerien Embassy says it's pronounced nee-Zher, kinda like "knee-share" but a bit harsher. It's not a English colony, like Nigeria, but rather a French colony. Thus, the difference in pronunciation despite similar spelling

[@sandrin0]

For anyone who can read IPA wondering: it's /niˈʒɛɚ/ edit: ɛ not ɜ, mb

[@WhatWillYouFind]

Turkey will be turkey forever, just saying.

[@MCKevin289]

It’s kinda like the je sound in French

[@willpotter22]

@vaush Also talk about Nigeria as well please! The election results for president is being challenged in their highest court by the labour party candidate! And he has a good team of lawyers and evidence that support Nigeria labor party actually won the presidency!!!!

[@tc-tm1my]

I want one African country that respects democracy. Everytime someone is elected, they're overthrown.

[@joshuajames6481]

honestly the bigger issue right now is that our overstretched military is about to be deployed into Niger

[@Apollo-iq1vx]

Botswana is pretty chill in Africa. They have a decent standard of living compared to literally everyone in Africa

[@Marfius_Au_Marfongus]

Fun Fact: a good portion of west africa still uses the CFA franc (colonial currency) and are forced to keep a lot of their money in french banks

[@yuliusseraph4973]

@MegaProudAlbanian ^^^ colonialism apologia, this """stability""" arguments are very common bs arguments for CFA apologia GDP & GDP growth are irrelevant and stupid quantifiers and measure nothing, according even to the guy who coined the term. CFA countries are some of the poorest countries in the world. 7 of them ARE the poorest in the world. All of them are former colonial countries, CFA literally means "French African Colonies". They didn't have a choice on whether or not to join it. CFA franc - Euro course is fixed and controlled by France, and artificially overvalued, which does not allow their economies to actually grow. Half of the money of those countries stored in France, and they literally pay to use their own money. Out of 14 billion of reserves the France controls 10 billion, and can do whatever it wants with them: spend, invest, give as loans... including to CFA countries themselves, with inflated commercial interested rates. **CFA countries can use only 30% out of their own reserves, which is too little to actually do anything, and France give them loans from their own reserves, AND on the conditions that they should be spent on French-produced goods and that the governments will give priority to the French companies.** Because of this some French companies Total and Orano have **EXCLUSIVE** access to natural African resources which Africans do not have access themselves. Don't listen to CFA franc apologists. CFA countries are just French colonies with no sovereignty of their own. France and EU are rich because of imperialism.

[@Marfius_Au_Marfongus]

@MegaProudAlbanian yeah they are forced last time a country tried to break away from the system the french invaded

[@bobjones2959]

That's not very fun

[@rolandsturm6675]

You forget one of the Greatest Mass Murderer of the early 20 th Century. The Belgian King Leopold II, in his time he maybe killed more than 10 Million People in the Kongo

[@Zyrdrakyll]

its not really a contest but i see what you mean because the modern colonialist narrative seems almost smoothed over and not talked about enough, reallly feeling the effects of "the winners write history"

[@RRRRR15]

@@Zyrdrakyll it literally gets mentioned all the time

[@Zyrdrakyll]

@@RRRRR15 in history class ?

[@nickelbutt]

I love the Kremlin’s 5D chess move of aligning with these African countries, and then making sure none of them get food from Ukraine. Now that’s how you make friends.

[@HealingSwordsman]

I saw the thumbnail from the corner of my eye and honestly thought it was the Moon lol

[@tojebe3388]

Thats really sad that you have to mention continent to not get demonitized

[@banta-pd8zj]

Seymour Hersh on an interview concerning the blown up pipeline, on being asked to comment on Russian soldiers raping and killing in Ukraine laughed and said that's what soldiers do. I was amazed.

[@faithlessfurry7816]

​@@donovan4222Well, the Russian army is sure getting fucked, but I'm not sure you can blame Ukraine entirely for that; they've just been getting spitroasted the entire time by the Ukrainian army and their own superiors lol

[@richardarriaga6271]

​@@donovan4222See, that whataboutism is why you are a tankie

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@donovan4222 Are they doing it so endemically that international organizations have taken note? If not; then that's whataboutism and you're shilling for fascist imperialism.

[@Apophes]

​@@richardarriaga6271No, it's just a matter of a healthy person. Usually, when talking to many Ukrainians and other idiots, no one can give at least one proof, including Woman which said all this. The funniest thing was when some autistic person said "they spoke Russian language" as proof, of course he did not confirm this in any way, but it's still funny

[@teecee1827]

​@@donovan4222okay Wagner bot. The reason those are less likely is cause the Ukrainians are RETAKING their lost land, whereas Russia are invaders. Fundamental difference.

[@SatoKure]

That title is flying so close to the sun here

[@thomasfplm]

23:00 The Romans had legionaries recruited from the north of Africa in Britain, because the greater cultural difference would make it less likely that they would sympathise with the locals in the case of a rebellion.

[@MrNeodylliphan]

I absolutely misread the title of this segment

[@tc-tm1my]

That title almost said something different at first lol

[@magnus_cockstrong]

I would love to see a strong, independent African continent with democratically empowered people and control of their own natural resources. It would also be pretty cool to see a unicorn or leprechaun, while we are on the subject of things i likely won't live to see.

[@kevinthecat9704]

the seychelles has done a pretty good job 👍

[@magnus_cockstrong]

@baconsoup8346 I agree with all that you said, except that it isn't possible, only because i think defeatist attitudes are counter productive. That version of Africa is impossible under the current circumstances, and it is extremely unlikely that the necessary improvements to those circumstances will be made this decade, but paradigm shifts do happen, even on a global scale. That said, getting back to your point, humanity has a lot further to go in terms of social and political evolution before those changes are even remotely possible.

[@ibrahimbello5546]

@@baconsoup8346 stop lying France has more influence than you make it seem

[@andiiiiiiiiiii]

​@@baconsoup8346Tanzania is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse nations in Africa and therefore the world, yet it has had very little ethnic conflict. So it is certainly possible to overcome arbitrary borders and extreme diversity. Tanzania has already shown how it can be done.

[@arskakarva7474]

@@baconsoup8346 Yea that's where the most difficult challenge for positive change in Africa is: So much of this is deeply institutionalized in many African countries, so military coups and domination by one ethnic group are normative and democracy often struggles overcoming the major challenge of first peaceful transfer of power (which had happened in Niger just before this coup). To a large degree this institutionalization of naked force as the basis of power goes back to the colonial era, when Africa was essentially run as a series of police states. It's pretty well-demonstrated by what happened to Sankara, which is that his political standing with the military that had put him in (nominal, since as his fate shows so well his power was always conditional on Compaore) power in the first place was demolished by the humiliation of the Agacher Strip War which was a very bad combination with Sankara's prior aggressive (as in aggressively anti-French, not aggressive against his neighbours) foreign policy rhetoric having led to regional isolation. So the guy who put him in (ultimately nominal) power, Compaore, had him killed and took power openly for himself.

[@glibbylive4564]

help lmao i thought vaush was talking about a coup on the moon from the thumbnail☠️

[@Kamens_Place]

I got down to see the comments of this almost finishing the video like I'm used to and then saw it was empty. I'm probably not first but I clicked the video like seconds from being posted.

[@swiftcrow]

I love when you go on a related tangent for 20 mins.

[@thebombgoesboom1]

Great video vausj!

[@nyohohbr4395]

It's okay if Vaush hates us, I'm French and I hate him too!

[@theidioticbgilson1466]

if french people hate you you're doing something right love from an english

[@marcb.4401]

​@@theidioticbgilson1466you're alright for a bri'ish 👍

[@John-qv5ux]

My burning hatred for Fr*nce and Ruzzia continues to be vindicated.

[@ni9274]

Sorry, maybe if we had invaded Iraq with you we would still be friend 😢

[@John-qv5ux]

@ni9274 I don't care about invading Iraq, Fr*nce not joining was actually based. It's the colonialism, and what you did to the Rainbow Warrior.

[@Henry-hm8tu]

The two worst countries in the world.

[@RRRRR15]

imagine comparing current day france and russia

[@John-qv5ux]

@RRRRR15 please never write out that word fully. It's offensive to my people. Instead, type it as Fr*nce or 'those frog bastards'. My hatred for them is equal, but for different reasons. The Russkies are war criminal thugs, but the Fr*nch? They know what they did...

[@reginaldogron4306]

Read the title too fast and thought Vouch was up to his old tricks again

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

France still has a kind of "shadow empire" in Africa. Caspian Report and others have done videos on it. They quasi-control like a dozen countries through banking/financial shenanigans.

[@Zretgul_timerunner]

Id take the russian funded caspian report with a grain of salt.

[@ni9274]

That’s just false, we don’t control any of these country, the CFA is just a currency and they can opt out at any moment. It’s like saying Belgium control all of Europe cause of the Euro. And if we control Mali/Niger/Burkina-Faso why are they openly anti-French and have forced French troops to leave their country ?

[@d0ntfeedphil447]

Ah yes, Russian funded Caspian report

[@falconeshield]

​@@baconsoup8346Didn't Gaddafi get killed for suggesting a pan African currency?

[@justinokraski3796]

Caspian Report is Turkish and is fairly neutral on Ukraine

[@rjjacob101]

LMAO the TITLE haha, that's not how I read it at first LMAO!!!!!

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

10:30 You can extract Uranium easily from Ores, but enriching the desired isotope (I think U235) is hard, since it is chemically identical to the isotopes, so you can to separate them by the very small difference in weight, which can be done in different way, usually by forming Uraniumhexaflouride and using very very powerful centrifuges to separate them. That is not something anyone can just do in their backyard.

[@fast-yi9js]

enriching spicy rock isnt particulary hard, just takes alot of time and some somewhat pricey to a private citizen, but not very complicated equipment, a good centrifuge being the most important

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

23:40 Vaush is kinda wrong about that. In Germany for instance, our Bundeswehr is also good at rendering humanitarian aid. They have done so a couple of times.

[@maltemeyer3171]

But we are bad in killing people, so we don't count. Our worst crime in Afghanistan was calling the US to bomb a fuel truck. Wich, to be fair, was a fuckup.

[@ArDeeMee]

That might be because of our history regarding the army‘s use. It’s good PR, and reminds all of us that we’re just human.

[@justkittensbeingkittens5892]

I’m always so disgusted when I hear about soldiers raping locals and not facing punishment. I assume it’s a power imbalance thing that makes the soldiers feel entitled or some shit. This is unacceptable and idk why it’s just treated as normal.

[@IWontBuy-RP]

Power corrupts.

[@Lotan_]

@@IWontBuy-RP No it doesn't. It reveals.

[@IWontBuy-RP]

@@Lotan_ besides it being a saying, tell me the difference between having it reveal, or show later on as it corrupts the mind. Outcome is still the same, right?

[@bibsp3556]

Lmao that title needs a comma tho

[@Tyto451]

Y’all made me look twice

[@joebyrnes9254]

I forget which country leader it was but one of them quoted how to call a mayor the next town over required he entrust a messenger to have to deliver the message by hand because there were no phone lines. But if he wanted to make a direct call to the French prime minister to ask for help he only had to lift the phone.

[@jayburn00]

Most uranium is u238, only a small percentage is U235. U238 can be used in a nuclear reaction (and sometimes is in some nuclear weapons designs), but it can't sustain a chain reaction like U235 (giving us different definitions for fissile vs fissionable). Natural uranium must have the U235 separated and concentrated to produce fuel, the higher the concentration, the closer to weapons grade. The U238 that is left over is what is also called depleted uranium.

[@benjamindavenport3322]

Flying real close to the sun with that title

[@TheBreadB]

Racist title just like my favourite streamer

[@bm4604]

We see what you did there with the title, but we respect your rock steel balls editors.

[@lenchmob0697]

The EFF gave Putin the N word pass

[@alrecks619]

Going tactical with the video title, eh?

[@Rudero3]

I love the idea of the UN eunuch army, like the Tang and Ming dynasties used to have. And no, Syria is literally France's fault, they empowered the Alawites at the expense of the Christians and Muslims, and in doing so, made the Alawite faction dependent on French power and backing during the 50s-70s, till the Ba'athist party took power. That's classic French clientelism, "you Alawites owe your position to us, as you would never have been able to climb to the top without us, so you will let us exploit your land like a colony", that's France's doing and even before WW1 and all the treaties to carve up the Ottomans, the French were lobbying for colonial control of Lebanon and Syria since the 1700s. They used the Maronite Catholics in Lebanon as a conduit, a foot in the door, an excuse.

[@mahada7649]

This title along with the hilariously inaccurate map in the thumbnail is killing me

[@danielcreamer9669]

I'd say Portugal did worse than France, but its a stiff race to the bottom.

[@georgemangco2526]

Iirc, they did leave and never come back. France only hid its face, their buttery claws were always still there

[@december8538]

The Portuguese were the first in Europe to kidnap black Africans by ship IIRC.

[@ni9274]

⁠@@georgemangco2526that’s not true, France has military bases in Africa just like Germany, US, UK… France has company mining ressources in Africa just like the US, Uk, Germany, China, Russia… I don’t know what action take by France in the last 10 years justify saying that we are still « controlling » Africa ? The US, China and Russia have way more influence than France in Africa, they likely are more involved in the political affair of these countries compared to France.

[@ni9274]

Why Portugal and France but not the UK, they were the one controlling the most important part of Africa and profiting of it the most.

[@shiny_teddiursa]

@@ni9274you mean Egypt?

[@CJusticeHappen21]

Seems that a prequisit for being a Russian ally is to have as little history with Russia as possible.

[@siohunndai]

the editor was sweating bullets

[@timah4]

as a gambian seeing vaush talk about this feels like a fever dream

[@ausername8699]

West Africa is a really fascinating place, but the political landscape is so messy and Western media keeps portraying it as war-torn hellscape, that people have a hard time seeing the good stuff about it.

[@timah4]

@@ausername8699 with the way we're going rn its only getting worse, our leaders do nothing but leeching shit off of us, not to mention tribalism being a huge problem here. i dont blame people for not seeing the good stuff here, the politics makes me feel nihilistic

[@RomWatt]

As a French, I wish I could do more than apologize for colonization.

[@zack49]

Hardcore white guilt haver lmao

[@bbtube2857]

Dont worry...Its not your fault.

[@Lala-kc2fw]

Well done. But like, what did change lad? Not your fault

[@thelouster5815]

Have you tried self-destructing your material form?

[@lolplzde5037]

sad to see someone so ridden with white guilt

[@jloiben12]

What if we… treat African, Latin American, and Asian countries with respect and dignity? The fuck is this? Good policy? We don’t do that when it comes to those countries

[@than217]

I love when Vaush gets mad at chat. Chat: "aCkChEwALLy MoRoCcO iSn'T wEsT aFriCa!"

[@King_chaosx]

Was wondering if he was gonna cover this.

[@connormccallum4981]

Imagine being me on vacation without internet connection when this video came out. Therefore being unable to be the first person to make a joke regarding the title of this video. God why have you forsaken me. Canada was fun though.

[@poiu477]

American infantry is being deployed next month, I was hanging with a lady friend that had just got out on a honorable discharge for mental health, she get a facetime from an old buddy in infantry who asked her to marry him before he deployed lmao

[@serversurfer6169]

The trouble with militarizing the police is that they're getting all of the weapons and _none_ of the discipline… 🤦‍♂

[@carsonpaullee]

There is one paramilitary id travel the world to join, rojava, I'd have a massive culture shock but I'd love the democracy and dying to the Turkish armed forces. They're one of the only places with a true democracy although it's fledgling (you really need technology for a large scale direct democracy) it's one of the only democracies I think actually exists. Although a true democracy that's directly operated by the people would be like a unicorn, but the future holds hope for that.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

Rojava is nowhere as democratic as you claim it is, its far less democratic than any democracy today.

[@carsonpaullee]

@@stephenjenkins7971 I'm of the opinion that representative democracy results in oligarchy or plutocracy, to me a real large scale democracy is only recently possible due to communication technology. Rojava is a seniority based and highly traditional direct democracy, you're just lying. corruption is literally legal in the USA and other countries, how is that a democracy?

[@carsonpaullee]

@@stephenjenkins7971 you could call rojava a tribal democracy, I'd advocate for an electronic direct democracy with zero tolerance for corruption or altering elections/hacking them. A far stretch from what we have or what rojava has.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@carsonpaullee Rojava is an ethno-centric Kurdish state with a penchant of kicking out Arabs much as Israel has done. It is a democracy with more direct representation, but has only managed that with massive US support and due to being a group of poverty stricken communities. Rojava has no laws, as far as I can tell, against lobbying. It's more that its too poor to have large corporations lobby its ruling government. And I repeat; it would not exist without the US there to preserve it to begin with. A nation that can't stand on its own is no nation at all. TLDR; it's a poorer democracy than 99% of other major democracies.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@carsonpaullee Why are you leaving out the fact of its constant ethnic cleansing of non-Kurds from its territories? It's an interesting government they have chosen, but ultimately your language reveals the truth. You're more interested in what it can be than what it is. What it is, is mediocre. Nothing special. What it can be is more interesting; but that requires the US to do it for them.

[@dakunssd]

Russia still has considerable spent fuel reprocessing facilities in the Mayak plant, they could use those capacities to extract and refine plutonium. I don't think there are any facilities currently working for the manufacture of nuclear bomb components, however. Those they would need to rebuild.

[@zotaninoron3548]

There are some wacky painted buildings in West Philly that I personally know of.

[@jloiben12]

We must never get rid of our Khasham location

[@samiamrg7]

35:08 I’m sorry, but I can’t not hear “President Poutine” and chuckle at the idea of a a basket of gravy fries running a country.

[@justinmillette9110]

Both of those words are spelt the same in French

[@jeveritt8398]

Might do a better job

[@JohnDeBrazen]

The Kurds did actually allow tankies and MLs to join, but the system of local councils makes it hard for anyone to take absolute control. Some of them came out of Rojava with a changed prospective.

[@crocodilerock4662]

Had a fucking mini heart attack when I saw this notification pop in the corner of my eye

[@stepheng1523]

Arbiter of good coups omg

[@mogscugg2639]

Dude you can just say

[@Green0-3]

Look up the CFA Franc currency. It's so fucked up.

[@goodvibestv5380]

Vaush bold for dis one

[@jeffraburu3050]

I'm Kenyans and I'm ashamed I only just recently realized the extent to which France still drains it's 'former' colonies. It's shocking. In Kenya we had to fight the British while the french tricked it's colonies with contracts that they are still suffering from today. 14 african countries are literally still owned by France.

[@m3gAnac0nda]

Ok genius, develop further.

[@meprivate6923]

Green Berets are designated as the primary partner military trainers for guerilla insurgencies. UN peacekeepers come from standing militaries and the UN pays the country the troops come from. Marrakesh was used as a stand in for 1920s Cairo for the Mummy (1998). Morroco is culturally North African and geographically Western African. Most of Morroco was French, but there were minimal Spanish holdings. They mostly held Western Sahara.

[@ByzantineDarkwraith]

It’s also geographically North African… have you seen a map before?

[@meprivate6923]

@@ByzantineDarkwraith I have. I was just stating the crossroads there bub.

[@jeffreymoffitt4070]

Was infact not a joke. Cody be wildin

[@NoodleBerry]

Fun fact: French ppl started calling Algeria French Algeria in the 50s to oppose independence

[@andreasottohansen7338]

13:21 I dont know, feels a lot like i wasn't alive to do anything about it then, and it is a long road to recovery, for pretty good reasons.

[@DarcNoodles]

The flags on the thumbnail are in the wrong places. Edit the thumbnail has been changed since I posted this. 🤘

[@ethanbennett9000]

It's pretty cooked (Maybe alphabetical?)

[@DarcNoodles]

@@ethanbennett9000 nah. While I don’t know all of them. The ones I do know don’t line up alphabetically. To be fair this doesn’t matter most of the people who would ever see this. But to those of us from the ‘shithole countries’ in the ‘dark continent’ it does hurt the eyes quite.

[@Racecarlock]

You know what might be really fun but also very confusing? Discussing geopolitics through the lense of Metal Gear lore.

[@Eamonshort1]

I remember felix said he'd do it in athe QandA chapo ep years back and still hasn't, I do really want it

[@jalenking810]

Christ almighty that title is dangerous

[@tylerhackner9731]

TLDW; Really scary stuff

[@ericsmith116]

They are really trying to get VAUSH in trouble with this title

[@marionette8739]

I mean, someone did it in a garden shed, if I'm remembering correctly.

[@King_chaosx]

I would like to have a chat with vaush to really give inside Information on the systemic racism in France, as a French immigrant I have all the tea

[@maxgrozema1093]

Saw already a video about it on yt, but are you willing to share a bit here?

[@sambones1092]

Man immigrants in France get all the social benefits, they are a billion times better off than in US or China, stfu

[@sambones1092]

Free healthcare free education free college subsidised public transport, unemployment benefits etc etc

[@flwrpwr5351]

Finally someone talking about it

[@LordSurfusa]

Man forgetting Belgium too when it comes to “countries that didn’t get the memo”.

[@NoodleBerry]

Yeah I've had that a lot Looks up African country Official language: French Holy shit what happened (spoiler: it's never good)

[@potatopounder7012]

had a heart attack reading that title lmao

[@seventycomforts]

As a geography nerd the flags in the thumbnail not being where the countries our hurts my brain good vid though

[@yiennchan]

thomas sankara was a good man.

[@Radjhitoocool]

Big fan of the international reparations idea

[@Lala-kc2fw]

That wouldn't work. If so, I want usa to give money because they didn't help with our independence and I want the UK to give us 1 Trillion euro because the horrible things that happened in the past.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

Reparations will never work as a concept and will only spark wars and bitter feelings all around. Especially when those who get reparations will still not stop talking about the issues born of prior actions, and then we get into the nitty gritty of who did what, when, where, and why. Most often the oppressed were, at some point, oppressors themselves, after all. It's why reparations are either done immediately with those who suffered from it still living, or you don't do it at all.