👏 give 👏 AES 👏 advanced 👏 missile 👏 systems 👏
Do they even call themselves socialist? I thought they just like Sankara on an anti-colonial nationalist basis.
Their alliance is literally called AES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_Sahel_States
Traore is definitely socialist. The other leaders of Mali and Niger I believe are moreso anti-imperialists more broadly (something akin to Nasser in Egypt, or Gadaffi in Libya)
Could you elaborate on Traore being a socialist? From my limited information, it seemed like the most he’d be is a Blanquist (like Sankara sort of was) and probably isn’t even that, though of course I think the AES is a positive development regardless.
this thread has some good reading. not making any claims one way or another personally but it seems a fair place to start
Thanks, I appreciate it!
At this point what is even the difference? A socialist in a country like Burkina Faso would necessarily need to govern like an anti-colonial nationalist until the country is set on a solid footing and properly freed of neo-colonial influences in order to lay the groundwork for socialism. Whether or not Traoré is a socialist, (or more precisely, whether he calls himself a socialist) is sort of irrelevant at the moment because right now he is doing exactly the things that a socialist would do. Expelling colonizers, nationalizing industries, building infrastructure, investing in education, etc.
Plus, people’s political views can evolve over time. Fidel started out as an anti-colonial nationalist too before he realized that socialism was the only system that offered a path toward the liberation that he wanted for Cuba.
His Excellency had better get some nukes ASAP
If the u.s. can give Israel a nuke China can give one to burkina faso
The latest delivery, filmed at a port facility earlier this month, included VN22B fire support vehicles, PLL-05 120mm self-propelled gun-mortar systems and SR5 rocket launch systems
oh? hell yeah
Little a bit of internationalism, as a treat
actually based
haven’t seen China stepping in with armaments like this in a long time
SAM batteries are they getting SAM batteries
Good news? Wait what the fuck
alexa play internationale
Great news!!
