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| Deployment of Wagner in Mali |
| 2021-12-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Boris Rozhin [ColonelCassad] According to statements by the French Foreign Ministry and various Western media outlets, Wagner PMC is fully deploying in Mali, where a contingent of 500 people is being deployed. Their contract is allegedly USD $11 million per month (USD $132 million per year), and the main tasks will be to ensure the protection of government employees, as well as training and education of military specialists for counter-terrorism operations. Following France, Greece condemned the deployment of Wagner PMCs in Mali. Earlier, 15 EU and NATO countries condemned the deployment of Wagner in Mali. According to statements (not yet confirmed photo or video), the transfer of personnel goes through the Bamako airport where military transport aircraft arrive through Libya (in Libya, PMC operates on the Sirt-Al-Jufra line). Along with the military, specialists-geologists allegedly arrive (in Mali there are quite large deposits of gold, phosphates, bauxite, etc.). The French also claim that the "Russian base" will be located in Mopti on the Niger River, between Bamako and Timbuktu, and also close to the border with another French-dependent country, Burkina Faso, where French influence is also seriously eroded. The Malian military, amid threats from the West, pretend to be a hose and continue to push France out of Mali. Along the way, neither confirming nor refuting the statements about the ongoing deployment. The French press writes that the head of the military junta, Colonel Assimi Goita, openly mocks Macron, knowing that he is too weak to do anything serious, while the announcement from the film "Shugale 3" is being realized. The Financial Times writes that France itself is to blame itself. It was unable to show real successes in the fight against local terrorists and separatists, which actually opened the door for Russia, which offers to do the same thing that France promised to do, only to do the right thing (good example of the CAR before.). I must ask, wen has leaving the quagmire of Afrika been anything other than a wise decision ? In fact, back in September, a representative of the new government of Mali said that France, by its actions, itself forced Mali to look for other partners. In addition, the Mali government accused France of imitating the fight against terrorism by arranging the fight of the Nanai boys with one of the insignificant groups and completely abandoning the real fight against JNIM (yes, the same group that threatened to sue Russia in European courts, for denying the Islamists' right to wage jihad and sending her troops into Mali). All in all, this topic promises to be quite hot in the coming months. Obviously, if Russia gains a foothold in Mali, then the influence of France in its former colonies, with which Mali borders - in the first place, this concerns Burkina Faso and Niger, will be called into question. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 De Gaulle agreed with his predecessor. But he tried to warn his American friends not to take over from France in Indochine, as some Russians apparently want to do today in West Africa. De Gaulle recalled: "On May 31, 1961, President Kennedy arrived in Paris brimming over with dynamism, he and his dazzling and cultivated wife forming a remarkably attractive couple. They were surrounded by an atmosphere of lively curiosity, and the welcome they were given by the public was enthusiastic in the extreme. "The official receptions In the capital and at Versailles were of the greatest splendor. But the main thing, of course, was the series of meetings between the President, seconded by Dean Rusk and Gavin, and myself accompanied by Debre Couve de Murville and Alphand. "...what Kennedy offered me in every case was a share in his projects. What he heard from me in reply was that Paris was by all means disposed to collaborate closely with Washington, but that whatever France did she did of her own accord. "When the President reverted to the question of the Congo where, at the instigation of the US, the U.N. Secretary‐General, Dag Hamrnarskjold, was setting up a government to replace that of Patrice Lumumba, I declined to have anything to do with the operation. But it was above all on the subject of Indochina that I pointed out to Kennedy how far apart our policies were. ...In South Vietnam, after having encouraged the seizure of dictatorial power by Ngo Dinh Diem and hastened the departure of the French advisers, ... Kennedy gave me to understand that the American aim was to establish a bulwark against the Soviets in the Indochinese peninsula. But instead of giving him the approval he wanted, I told President Kennedy that he was taking the wrong road. “' You will find,' I said to him, 'that intervention in this area will be an endless entanglement. Once a nation has been aroused, no foreign power, however strong, can impose its will upon it. ... “ 'We French have had experience of it. You Americans wanted to take our place in Indochina. Now you want to take over where we left off and revive a war which we brought to an end. I predict that you will sink step by step into a bottomless military and political quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.' "Kennedy listened to me. But events were to prove that I had failed to convince." - from the last volume of Gen. de Gaulle's “Memoirs of Hope, Renewal end Endeavor" |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-25 17:43 |
| #2 “Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ~ Napoleon |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-12-25 06:41 |
| #1 Oh... saw the headline and thought it was a Woke Opera company performing Timbuktu Tannhäuser-- ein minnesinger im blackface |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-25 04:05 |