Russian military instructors are in Niger, along with a state-of-the-art air defence system.
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Now, Niger has better air defense system than mainland France.
@papgambia6593
2 ай бұрын
This is the type of misplaced priorities that dogged Africa. Why would a country like Niger need air defense? Who is attacking Niger with missiles? Not france, USA, EU, China, OAU, ECOWAS, etc. The air defense will insulate the military further into demi-gods. They can stay in power forever. Mali has just shown us how to lay the groundworks for this path
100% support this, help Africa
@edthebumblingfool
2 ай бұрын
Africa need to revert to civil Rule not this
@KALICOE
2 ай бұрын
They definitely not helping 😂
@Xiquinhodasilva99
2 ай бұрын
@@edthebumblingfool civil rule imposed by france? check what they did in Togo some weeks ago after The new Senegal President took power and said that they don't want no more French presence there.. just check. and check all the other French backed countries that are not helping their civillians. France and those leaders never, NEVER, did anything for those countries. they take the uranium use it and send the nuclear waste back. you don't believe me? search it. Start with Togo, then go to Gabon and Chad.. then check all the others that use CFA Franc
French Tears😂
France is very very butthurt. 😂😂😂😂😂
@The021
2 ай бұрын
First US now france... yikkees 😂😂, thats why US went to japan to find a new friend as he was feeling kinda lonely 😂, i wonder if france will stay sad n lonely? Or they will go out too n beg some country to be-friend them.
@legatilegions8055
2 ай бұрын
why the rebels will take the capital within a year, niger will beg for france to come back
@firasajoury7813
2 ай бұрын
@@legatilegions8055so you admit France presence never helped those nations only helped terrorists and now france is gone and the terrorists will be more powerful seems fishy ?
@tracysharp1361
2 ай бұрын
France is vengeful and vindictive and vengeful she never wanted her colonies to prosper she only wanted to loot and exploit them. Keeping them poor and inprovertion while they grow rich. Causing all the wars in these countries but don't want to the immigrants to come two European nations who calls all the suffering in the first place.
@tracysharp1361
2 ай бұрын
@@legatilegions8055I hardly think they will want the exploited murderer liar cheat who have plundered their country to come back France did nothing the whole time she was there but loting their resources while installing a puppet regime that was only for France and not Niger. to hell with imperialism.
No cheap resures for France .
Niger is a sovereign country, they decide for themselves who they partner with and who they kick out, that’s sovereignty and they will take responsibilities of whatever the outcome is. France just need to chill
@edthebumblingfool
2 ай бұрын
It is ruled by military gansters who stole power, have an election and see what the country wants to do.
Who ever thought of touching the Russian sleeping bear since 2008 and 2014. As far as I know history, in all wars they go to the end. They ended up in Paris and Berlin at one time. There is no agreement when the Russian bear wakes up.
@KALICOE
2 ай бұрын
Definitely a agreement between them and us you go this way I go this way we meet in the middle
It is not your business.
@RUTHLESSambition5
2 ай бұрын
This is why weak France is talking about going in Ukraine😂😂😂😂
Stop looting their resources...
@Dani-mw2ws
2 ай бұрын
stop coming in EU go in Russia
@johnsmith1474
2 ай бұрын
(USA yes.)
@ryusuf3409
2 ай бұрын
USA & France yeas
@icu17siberia
2 ай бұрын
...and feeding their people (oh, that money is in your leaders EU bank account). Good luck, you'll be calling for EU aid in 5 years
@user-if7zq1vx6i
2 ай бұрын
They are building PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURES
After century of dealing with french coloniale power Hope of better horizons now possible
The French seems to be concerned about Russia. It's time for French to happily take the exit out of Africa. It is a new Era in Africa.
Better than living in poverty for years with greedy colonial masters.
@jaegybomb
2 ай бұрын
What do you think Russia are?
@evaburnz
2 ай бұрын
Famous last words..
@Dani-mw2ws
2 ай бұрын
now with russia will be better? Per Russian State Statistics Service Rosstat, 22.6% of Russians do not have indoor plumbing. In rural Russia, almost 2/3rd's have no access to indoor toilets, 48.1% use outhouses and 18.4% do not have a sewage system.Jan 16, 2024
@vagabond919
2 ай бұрын
Africa will belong to Sino & Russo with mutual respect
@theChiral
2 ай бұрын
@@Dani-mw2wsthat sounds like New York!
France and USA is out and Russia is in rocking the African continent😂
Are you salty about getting evicted?
Russia has more in common with Africa than rich bourgeois Western Europe. Russia has all the right to increase its presence in there.
@M.Stolic
2 ай бұрын
rich Europe has no money, and now there is no African uranium and gold.😅
@NotSlowAndStillSteady
2 ай бұрын
@@M.Stolic 😂😅
@defjam137
2 ай бұрын
@@M.StolicEurope has nothing. It's no wonder they colonised other countries to steal their resources.
@CzesiaPL
2 ай бұрын
You mean no rule of law? Dictatorship?
Why are you MAD Frenchie 😅😅😅
Which air defence system did France put in any of their colony’s good or bad curiosity 😮
@maliksy7746
2 ай бұрын
Bad, the French in Africa is a disaster.
Yes they are in Niger because we ask them to come, you and you master are here without been invited
@lucicerlanfe3897
2 ай бұрын
Imagine. They are butthurt .
Macron: left the chat
Independent country can invite whoever it wants?
Russia delivering grain free of charge..
No more France in Africa
Welcome to Russian in niger 🇳🇪 👏
They have to leave the Middle East too 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good news. African countries need to work with Russian army.
Russia gifting France a lovely bottle of Chateau D'Feat.
It seems nobody wants France in Africa anymore.😅
@suicidalbanananana
2 ай бұрын
It seems somebody only listens to Russia Today for their news 🤷♂
@edthebumblingfool
2 ай бұрын
have an election and find out.
@auspiciousnkomo3071
2 ай бұрын
No one ever did, except the leaders they installed to keep looting resources.
@lucicerlanfe3897
2 ай бұрын
Yep they are gonna get putting out of Africa
France gave up so easily, just like WW2
@NotSlowAndStillSteady
2 ай бұрын
Gave up easily ?? Friendship is not by force.
@etzanthony5461
2 ай бұрын
@@NotSlowAndStillSteadyfrance never offered a arm of friendship, it was more like a master slave relationship that Niger 🇳🇪 had to break away from
@leopoldnguessan4639
2 ай бұрын
@@NotSlowAndStillSteadythey didn't give up easily. They didn't have any food to eat, any water to drink. The regime cut everything.
France in pain😂😂
It would be nice if they can train NATO and US😂
@suicidalbanananana
2 ай бұрын
It would be nice if you realize your impending doom, which isn't NATO or US but some bald dude that your parents "voted" for 🤷♂
@AKSP125
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
I agree now when president putin says he doesn't bluff
The program name is not appropriate for us African " imagine a Nigerian media company having a program called "eye on Europe "
@NotSlowAndStillSteady
2 ай бұрын
Colonial mentality
@auspiciousnkomo3071
2 ай бұрын
We are not seen as their equals, which is why we should petition for a single currency and army, the disrespect is huge, needs checking.
I would like to point out that we've seen the Russian air-defense "in-action" so my question is WHOSE high-tech air-defense do they have and how did they get it?
Is that the same "state-of-the-art" air defense system defending Russia from Ukraine?
Fano is not a Regional Militia, they are self claimed fighters in the Amhara Region.
France,USA should leave now
If France played against Ukraine, what would you call Zelensky, a regime or a junta, maybe a dictatorship or an autocracy?
@suicidalbanananana
2 ай бұрын
"A country way better than Russia"
@chz6820
2 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣 nice question
Do you people have problems with that 😅😅😅😂😂
You can see that they are Russian military trainers by their blue and white vest😂
Report the news out of Ethiopia. Fano fighters are freedoms fighters who will definitely liberate Amharas from Abiy’s apartheid style government.
@stopplaying6875
2 ай бұрын
What is fando? Are they the ones that can’t control their own region let alone the whole Ethiopia?
@Clyjade_of_God_and_Putin
2 ай бұрын
The old administration and regime was a client state of Western colonial powers and that was for years and decades. Abiy is anything but a client state of the West and has shown a sovereign and independent state of mind for Ethiopia and has sensible strong relationship with Russia. There is no going back.
Why aren’t you showing the victims of Gaza and the children who died?
African nations leaders always seek outside Africa why can't we build our own equipment
@johnlane23lane3
2 ай бұрын
Soon this is a step
@carcher3279
2 ай бұрын
No R&D and Africa's few technocrats always want to run away and live abroad.
@lucicerlanfe3897
2 ай бұрын
It's coming
One has to wonder the need of antiaircraft systems in Niger and what generation of system delivered. Long standing and regular clients has been asked by Moscow to return units previously delivered and paused contracts for weapons ordered years ago.🤔
@ruthwolfer4154
2 ай бұрын
Moscow's worried about your gold & diamonds they're put a spell on..!
@afeni1477
2 ай бұрын
Awesome comment. The Jihadist that are controlling some of their territory does not have aircraft. This is purely propaganda.
@johnsmith1474
2 ай бұрын
Yes one has to wonder because the title here is clickbait.
@Endsomniac
2 ай бұрын
The U.S. still has a major drone base in Niger. Niger authorities told the U.S. to leave weeks ago. Niger is playing it safe, they saw what happened to Gadaffi because he didn’t have updated air defense systems.
@felipe-vibor
2 ай бұрын
You're wrong
France is so angry seeing Russia tacking over Africa 😂
@suicidalbanananana
2 ай бұрын
Russians are so proud about "tacking over" (lol) _some African countries_ that they don't see how this will be the final nail for their coffin 😂🤷♂
Welcomed development as long as it is a win-win partnership, not their parasitic partnership with their former colonialist.
Little macron crying right now
@Dani-mw2ws
2 ай бұрын
and 26% of russian do not have their own toilet,,,,,,,,,
@johnd2058
2 ай бұрын
You wish, Ivan. Let's see how your Wagner buddies do trapped between Boko Haram and a Niger independence movement.
@heartpaid6767
2 ай бұрын
Ivananelle 😂😂😂😂
@suicidalbanananana
2 ай бұрын
little ivan pitching a tiny tent right now
Fantastic
"France losing bigly" - Trump
Africans needs different partners like the Republic of China 🇨🇳, because they are willing to provide help with development vs Europeans 🇪🇺 countries that are only good in exploiting African countries
@CzesiaPL
2 ай бұрын
And now compare intrest rates of Chinese loans vs EU intrest rates or IMF loans rates. It's over 3.2% vs 0.5% to 1.7% .
Ir will be interesting wild birds season so more than likely farmers do need air defense systems or sustainable trapping and feeding systems to keep created microbiology and direction towards tropical weather what should come with global warming
France is out and Russia is in. Perfect
yes, because you are threatening with drones. JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE!!
Great.
Awww frsnchtues still crying 😭😭
this is why Mr macron upset and want to fight in Ukraine
The world is on the edge of new beginning in May 2024
Thank you Czech Republic 🇨🇿 Lithuania 🇱🇹 Norway 🇳🇴 Germany 🇩🇪 France 🇫🇷 USA 🇺🇸 for your support in Ukraines fight for independence you will be immortalised in history as the greatest humanitarian countries 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇦
@Radio9730killer
2 ай бұрын
Hahaha 🤡
Where is all the engineering professor in Africa they can't even build their own airdefence system always seeking help from outside the continent what a shame
@carcher3279
2 ай бұрын
Educated Africans flee abroad.
@Angel-dp9xl
2 ай бұрын
Stop displaying your ignorance here. When we Africans create or develop something, you the gentiles either sabotage it, delete the inventor or you invite him or her your useless countries to the United Snakes of WARmerica or EvilRopean union to come share his or her idea with you greedy inhuman soulless beings. We have all the history
@auspiciousnkomo3071
2 ай бұрын
The African engineers are in your country right now, same as doctors nurses and architects, you won't believe the bombardment by adds recruiting for abroad targeted at Africans. Also any brilliant person is scouted and stolen as early as possible and offered freebies like scholarships and jobs without interviews, the brain drain is at war levels sadly we have puppets for leaders who serve their masters abroad therefor such things are never paid attention to. Educate yourself on geopolitics and you will understand Africa better.
What Africa need is economic support not war and destruction
@auspiciousnkomo3071
2 ай бұрын
My friend Africa has been at war from the day it tried to claim independence, economic war, espionage and assassination of leaders who dared try to fully let our resources benefit Africans, to this day in each resource rich country rebels have high tech weaponry and were trained by franz and are paid monthly. I guess you are answered. Africa needs to be able to defend itself and its resources, took so long to see the colonial hand at play.
@auspiciousnkomo3071
2 ай бұрын
Oh and about economic support Africa has enough resources to support itself Niger has uranium amounting to billions, yet people are suffering, why? because franz was taking it for a song then going back to take the song and keeping it in so called reserves which they then gave them as loans with high interest rates, does not make sense I know. 14 countries in Africa have been paying franz since the 50s as reparations for no longer being their colonizer, make sense of that.
@lucicerlanfe3897
2 ай бұрын
@@auspiciousnkomo3071 they did the same to Haiti
USA,France,UK,Germany this is brother i supported👍God bless your all🙏🙏🙏
Based W for Africa i can just imagine Macrons face dropping
Where did Russia borrow a state-of-the-art air defense??????????, because the ones they produce are far from state-of-the-art.
@Ultra_Ego_Putin
2 ай бұрын
24,000 NATO jets shot down
@MacDaddy8200
2 ай бұрын
@@Ultra_Ego_Putin But in reality, they have not shot one single NATO Airplane down, and NATO has 10x more of everything than poor deluded Russia.
@dralexmakalla3871
2 ай бұрын
From France
now i see why macron is mad at putin and want to put boots on the ground in Ukraine
FANO
Russians are welcomed
Bravo au Niger et à la Russie vive la résistance à l’impérialisme occidental
Where in the workd does russia get all these people from
east slowly kicking out the west. well done to africa
Booooooooo war in any land is a disfuctional as man kind to much drama will kill us all ...STOP
The days of Colonization come to an end
French soldiers are in Ukraine, so what the problem then?.
France would like to lead EU or european army? And even Africans don't want you to lead them anymore?
@Howardstwein912
2 ай бұрын
they were never leading, they colonised, enslaved, r8ped and refused to leave.
Africa has no choice than becoming a full on military territory
@great-african903
2 ай бұрын
Maind you own business 😂
@Howardstwein912
2 ай бұрын
true, its the only way that the west might stop trying to attack it. What a pity but for now the only option they have
State of the art air defenses??? That's y oil refineries are on fire in Russia! 😆 🤣 😂
Let Russia train African armies, then we at least know they will be incompetent.
Unlike the US Russians will help African allies without pushing them to obey ideology.
@icu17siberia
2 ай бұрын
yes.....make rich leaders who can party in Moscow. That'll be fun for them
@suicidalbanananana
2 ай бұрын
Okay Boris, im sure they will be grateful for not forcing your ideology on them, just forcing then to die for your demented dictator, halfway across the globe, surely they won't mind that right??? 🤷♂
What's France obsession with Africa... Leave us alone. If your country is so great, then mind your business. Unless you're after something else? In that case, the answer is NO.
Yes africans brother well done
Lies
Welcome 🤗🤗🤗 Russia to Africa.
Better to bee friend Russia 🇷🇺
Everything Russia does the west report on ut
hhhh
Hahaha you guys should mind your own business
Another colonial overtaking 😂
@Strong70
2 ай бұрын
Keep crying I know it's pain you
France staying relevant 😂😂
Thank God for Putin Russia.
We in Africa know that MacCLOWN's france will soon be a 10th-world country including the collective west 😂
what if all africans moved to europe the promised land
@suicidalbanananana
2 ай бұрын
Many did and many many more are welcome 🤷♂ We cant keep trying to Africans like we have been in the last century if the African governments keep pocketing all that help for themselves, just come over, we'll happily give you a nice place, money, job & opportunities.
@Howardstwein912
2 ай бұрын
if the west left africa, they would NEVER have to worry about a black person going to/ stay in the west ever again 😂
@cmd7930
Ай бұрын
Ethnic cleaning will happen again in Europe
No one can stop migration. Stop talking nonsense 😂😂😂😂😂
@icu17siberia
2 ай бұрын
The Russians do a good job of it. just copy what they do
@Afro_Conservative_Strikes_Back
2 ай бұрын
When we have rebuilt Afrika our people will be fighting to come back home. Then the whites will try to come as well. They are already talking about it among themselves. "If we don't handle our independence wisely the colonizers will come back in the form of investors" - quote by Nyerere I believe
They'll miss France.
@glintongordon6811
2 ай бұрын
No they won't the French treated like animals Russia never did
@MusehanaH
2 ай бұрын
....and it will be such a wonderful feeling. France was not in Niger for Niger, not in Mali for Mali, not in Burkina Faso for Burkina Faso, not in Algeria for Algeria...France was in for France
@Dani-mw2ws
2 ай бұрын
@@MusehanaH yes you are right but Russian is worst even in Russia 26% of people have their own tolilet
@awake3362
2 ай бұрын
Trust me, no one is missing France.
@jeffreydavis4017
2 ай бұрын
But do they welcome Russia?
They’re worse than the French
@Factsagainstpropoganda
2 ай бұрын
Ha ha, you ve seen nly NATO😂
@MV70707
2 ай бұрын
@@Factsagainstpropoganda YES Lmfao bro I agree with you NATO is so badass, im glad you think so too. The stupid russians are so dumb they dont even know how to win a war against their neighbor 😁😆
@jeffreydavis4017
2 ай бұрын
Something the anti colonialist just can't wrap their limited understanding around.
@jac9176
2 ай бұрын
Nothing is worse than French😅
@siriusman6169
2 ай бұрын
Have checked French colonial and post colonial history? You're being bias
If russia has a "state-of-art" air defance why they cannot protect their own petrochemical plants?
NO EAST NO WEST, RUSSIAN ARE BEST.
😂😂😂😂 and this is just the beginning, the west knows the Bible more than anyone, they're just hoping that the ending will be different from what is written but lo😂😂😂 the Bible never lie prepare to drink from the bitter cup and yes they will swallow...Bible
India loves Russia
Russia welcome ALL AFRICA
Welcome Russia and leave forever France and usa
Welcome home russia #uraaaaaah
France colonial power