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Valcazar

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Pg. # 1328 of the Plan.

That reminds me, did anyone read that extensive piece earlier this week on the run up to the war?
It really should have been the last nail in the coffin of any belief still lingering that the drive to Kyiv was "a feint".
 

mandrill

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That reminds me, did anyone read that extensive piece earlier this week on the run up to the war?
It really should have been the last nail in the coffin of any belief still lingering that the drive to Kyiv was "a feint".
Is that the piece based on the Russian intelligence organization leaks?
 

Robert Mugabe

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According to RT: Bovine farting season peaking right now which is causing collateral damage. Pg. # 1328 of the Plan.
Troll boi wanted headlines. I got headlines. I don't write 'em. All the news that's fit to print. Get it right here.
 

six_pac

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Your take on what actually happened is confusing.
You said they were there for decades, yet they were only in country for 9 years at the request of the government at the time.
"France had initially intervened in the country at the request of Bamako in 2013, under Operation Serval, to respond to an offensive by the ethnic-Tuareg seperatist movement, which had allied with an al-Qaeda affiliate, in the country’s north."
Why did they leave? Because after two coups the new government was backed by Russia.
"France’s relations with the government then dramatically declined followed consecutive coups in 2020 and 2021. The discord was fuelled by French pressure for the military-led government to adopt a swift timeline for a return to civilian rules and a pivot by Bamako towards Moscow."
Strange that there were Wagner groups present after the pullout.
"Malian forces, Russian mercenaries and various armed groups, who often exploit communal tensions fuelled by dwindling resources, have been accused of committing massacres and extrajudicial killings."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/16/last-french-troops-leave-mali-ending-nine-year-deployment


Go under official language, I am sure that is a native African language and the whole country speaks it because they were never enslaved.

So stop being a pompus dick, France is a colonial power that has opressed not only Mali not for decades but centuries
 

six_pac

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Anti Islamist military mission that was invited in by the Mali government.

I think you have bigger problems than your spelling mistakes.


Operation Barkhane is an ongoing anti-insurgent operation that started on 1 August 2014, and is led by the French military against Islamist groups in Africa's Sahel region.[17] It consists of a roughly 5,000-strong French force, which is permanently headquartered in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad.[18] The operation is led in co-operation with five countries, all of which are former French colonies that span the Sahel: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali (formerly), Mauritania and Niger.[18] The countries are collectively referred to as the "G5 Sahel".[19] The operation is named after a crescent-shaped dune in the Sahara desert.[20]

The French military initially intervened in Mali in early 2013 as part of Operation Serval, which successfully regained the northern half of the country from Islamist groups. Operation Barkhane is intended to follow up to that success and has expanded the French military's operations over a vast area of the Sahel region. The operation has the stated aim of helping the countries' governments to maintain control of their territory and preventing the region from becoming a safe haven for Islamist terrorist groups that plan to attack France and Europe.[11]

On 24 May 2021, the 2021 Malian coup d'état started led by Vice President Assimi Goïta.[21]

French President Emmanuel Macron announced in June 2021 that the operation would soon end and French forces would pull out in a phased manner, due to France's inability to work with the national governments in the Sahel region. He however added that French forces would remain in the region as part of a larger international mission.[22] The operation was later scheduled to end by the first quarter of 2022.[23]

France began withdrawing its troops from Mali on 17 February 2022.[24] The military junta ruling Mali however asked it to withdraw without delay on 18 March, with Macron responding that they would withdraw over the next four to six months.[25] French forces fully withdrew from Mali on August 15, with the operation now being based in neighboring Niger.[26]

Check under official language of Mali, and explain how they were not colonised by France and used as slave labour for centuries....
 

mandrill

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Go under official language, I am sure that is a native African language and the whole country speaks it because they were never enslaved.
So stop being a pompus dick, France is a colonial power that has opressed not only Mali not for decades but centuries
That's not what you were arguing in your previous post.

Now you're trying to change the topic to avoid losing. This is what you said in Post #50....


What is so confusing about it ? France sent troops there supporting the rebels that have been terrorising the local population, hence supporting terrorists, and aince Mali never sent troops to ocuppy French soil it makes France de facto a invader...

Dont see what is confusing here at all LoL


Both Osborne and I showed that what you wrote was nonsensically inaccurate. So now you're trying to talk about the 1800's.
 
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