This is an opinion piece by the democratically elected president of Niger.

  • Derin@lemmy.beru.coOP
    5810·
    1 year ago

    Of course the Wagner group is involved with the coup. At this point they’re like a comical gaggle of supervillains.

    • livus@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      Wagner are already in the neighbouring countries and have been for years.

      It’s just that many people in the West didn’t notice them until Ukraine. It’s the Bader Meinhoff effect.

      Niger is a major source of uranium and has both French and US military bases, so it’s higher in the Western news cycle than Mali was.

    • traveler01@lemdro.idEnglish
      411·
      1 year ago

      Of course, they can do whatever they want and people will even cheer for them. If the US sneeze people will cry about it.