One thing the Tankies have right is that foreign capital grifting and local leaders keeping in power off of that is what caused this. There's no actual ideology behind these military governments but wanting to be the new grifters though.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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If I was a Nigrien, I wouldn't want to cooperate with the French either, after they exploited my country for decades.
It's "Nigerien", and given that this decision was made by a unelected coup leader, I'd doubt you'd have much say in the matter as a Nigerien.
Well yes, but a coup needs popular support. If France paid a fair price for the nigerien uranium, the coup could maybe have been avoided in the first place and the chance of it succeeding would have been lower.
It's not a question of cost at all. The Nigerien mines are no longer profitable, and their cost is well above the spot price. Orano is literally subsidizing them. There was a project to extend one of the three mines, but Orano was not very favorable. It was pushed through by the French and Niger states for more political reasons. To perpetuate an important part of its economy for Niger, and diversify its suppliers and keep strong commercial ties for France.
As for uranium itself, French imports are not entirely destined for French consumption, far from it. France is a major uranium reprocessing country, so a significant proportion of its crude imports will be processed and re-exported.
There is a massive russian infowar op pushing Propaganda atm on tiktok etc. Targeting African people, who so far haven't been subjected to such scale attacks before.
Im going to predict there will be results. Increased fascist tendencies and hate toward eu and close neighbors for infighting. Looking to close off resources from global free markets and cause a refugee wave toward eu again.
This is excellent for Macron. He may be able to divert attention away from the current domestic crisis π