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Niger breaks off military cooperation with US, as junta moves closer to Russia (www.scmp.com)

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Same reasons as EU, Russia, and China. Global economic/military partners rather than global competition/enemies.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

Lmao is that why the US's entire existence is built on invasions, coups, sanctions and genocides in countries on completely different continents for not being subservient to its capitalist government?

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Same can be said about most of Western Europe though.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Didn’t it just happen earlier in Asia too? This feels like a humanity problem that we could probably overcome if we had less sociopaths amongst us.

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