Recently French troops have had to leave Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Now it’s Chad booting them.
The first three countries have Russian troops in them now. Wonder how long it’ll be before Chad joins the crowd?
France has been the most important country in a lot of its ex-colonies in Africa, but it’s losing its place, not just militarily but economically. Countries are turning to China for imported goods and development at the same time as they turn to Russia for security. Chinese goods, development and loans are cheaper, and neither Russia nor China interfere nearly as much in domestic politics.
It’s just a better deal. For a long time you HAD to go to the West, but now Russia and China can supply pretty much everything you need.
As regular readers know I’ve been following Europe’s collapse for a few years now. It’s practically a freefall. In Germany Volkswagon, for example, is planning on closing factories for the first time.
Europe’s well on its way to being what it was for most of history: a backwards and irrelevant peninsula, with the main action and most important civilizations elsewhere in Asia.