Could RUSSIA dismantle the FRENCH EMPIRE in AFRICA?
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French dominance in Africa is in jeopardy, China and Russia are sidling up to countries in need of greater protection against jihadist terrorism and a healthy, non-predatory economic and trade relationship. Resentment in the region towards France continues to grow and the chances of that country salvaging its reputation in its former colonies is increasingly unlikely.
Faced with a failed counter-terrorism strategy and unequal economic relations based on extractive regimes rooted in the era of colonialism, France has already been forced to withdraw from Mali and now from Burkina Faso. A domino effect seems to be setting in the region, which is fed up with not being able to manage its own monetary policy and with jihadism continuing to advance unchecked.
To what extent is French dominance in Africa crumbling? What can France do to remain strong in the region? Why would it be important for it to maintain its presence? What are Russia's interests? And what is its relevance to the war in Ukraine? In this video we tell you about it.
Interesting links:
McGlynn, Jade. 2023. "Why Russia markets itself as an anti-colonial power to Africans". Foreign Policy. At: foreignpolicy....
Pujari, Sudarshan. 2020. "French intervention in West Africa: interests and strategies (2013-2020)". E-International Relations. In: www.e-ir.info/...
Pye, Katherine. 2021. "The Sahel. Europe's forever war?". Centre for European Reform. At: www.cer.eu/pub...
VV.AA. 2021. "France's forever war in the Sahel". The Economist. At www.economist....
#Russia #France #Africa
😔Good morning everyone. In this video, we made two mistakes in the recording that we are correcting:
On the one hand, we fleetingly say that Mozambique was a French colony, which is a mistake. It was a Portuguese colony.
We also talk about Mali's oil instead of gold. We are making the modifications so that this does not appear anymore. We regret the error
Another mistake you made was saying that che Guevara was Cuban. He was born in Argentina and his parents were Argentinian, he helped many communist insurgencies like the one in Cuba but that doesn’t make him from those countries
14:43
Not so fast! Your storytelling reflected the limitations of the genre. You clearly based your presentation on talking points pushed by France and the United States and doing so didn't take into account the point of view from French speaking countries and Mali specifically. One has to be of bad faith to believe that a few hundreds of Wagner operatives could solve the issues plaguing Mali and other countries.
With a video so full of incorrect facts and conjectures, akin to propaganda, you'd elevate yourself by deleting it. Plain and simple
Thank you brother this fool is not inform at about Africa
As a Senegalese i find this video full off non accurate statements
Examples please
🙄it's never enough for you guys... Prepare for the CHINA wave
@@Solid_Snake99 so you want him to be fine with inaccurate statements
@@youtubehatestruthtellers8065 ask him again
As other fellow Africa whose aware of the geopolitics of the African nation the content presented here is accurate and informative by addressing the root cause issue which France's colonialist behavior.
If you see mistakes and inaccuracies please share with us. We aee waiting for you.
Ok Moçambique is no former French colony, but a Portuguese one
This is just some guy on a computer. 70% of what he says is wrong😂😂 He just makes good videos. It's for entertainment not education
In your analysis you left out a key element which is the African perspective. You spoke of Russia, China and France as well as their interests but made Africans seem like passive players in this geopolitical game being played on their territory.
What more do you expect from this bias channel?
@@osi4410 what bias do you believe the channel to have? Genuinely interested considering the issue I have with it is more of a lack of nuance in presenting facts, which channels like CaspianReport do with extreme caution. I could say certain videos on this channel are pro-Western, but others seem very pro-China, others pro-Russia. Perhaps it’s not the bias, but something else 🙄
Because they ARE passive players lol. Do you see any african countries with a decent military? Lol no
@@Solid_Snake99 You make the mistake of assuming that military power is the only form of power that can a nation can use
@@mansasithole Africa doesn't even have hospitals let alone any soft power or economic power lol.
As informative as I usually find VisualPolitik, the mixing of French & Belgian colonial history (photos, references to the Congo), the incorrect reference to Mozambique, etc, make me doubt what else was wrong in this video...
french-speaking maybe, though I dont understand mozambique
Despite the mistake of saying Mozambique was a French colony was wrong, I think they meant to say Mayotte, which is in the Mozambique Channel
honestly, has a french citizen I will say that over 30% of it has said on France is false.
However, it's true that France is loosing influence in Africa.
A commentary that i found .... → Right a t the beginning (5:40) you said something false: Oil in Mali. We are still not sure there are oil on Mali so I doubt it what attracted the French in the first place. In fact, in most of Africa, minerals started to be exploited AFTER independance and in the case of the Sahel countries like Mali end Burkina Faso, mostly by CANADIAN not french companies.
@Quentin Pedamon France does still control the economy of Mali, though, so it takes a cut from the minerals being exploited
14:17 Mozambique is a former Portuguese colony, not French guys
Aleluia não sou o único português aqui
@ricardogomes3820 tive que ouvir 3 vezes para ter a certeza que não estava a ouvir mal
This guy has no idea what he is talking about
@@ricardogomes3820 Nem o único falante de idioma português (já que sou brasileiro).
When the villain goes up against another villain lol
The most vile evil ever to befall this World
Yes in Batman the dark night the joker and two face wow great film
Russia will do the same to your shadow colonies in South America
Better the devil you know
i guess thats all u choose to understand about it. i guess listening to a propagandist like this host can do that to some people--so many of his views were bias an inaccurate
Ooh and a mini correction for the visual politik team. The Malian government requested air support and intelligence capability assistance from the French in 2012 but never asked the French to send a man or put a boot on the ground. The French government actually demanded the Malian government rewrite its letter of help and mention the presence of French soldiers. So they actually wanted to fight on their own without ground support, but it seems the French wanted a way to get back into the country for some reason.
Bullsh1t
LOL they did ask them to bring boots on the ground, they only asked France to leave when they started to ask about human rights, thats where Wagner comes into the picture
@@legatilegions8055 first of all, saying "LOL" to à country forcing another sovereign country to accept its soldiers is at the very least concerning . Secondly the Malian government asked the French government to sit at the table with them and renegotiate the military cooperation agreements they had signed because they deemed those insulting ( France had the right to bring in any equipment without notifying the Malian government on what it was and it’s purpose, they could forbid the Malian military from going in certain areas of the country like they did when they block Mali from accessing its own city of kidal in the north and the region became a safe haven for terrorists). The French refused. It is only then that they warned that refusal to renegotiate would mean a direct exit. They still refused and so they were kicked out.
@@fongangamassana6034 as I wrote, its crazy dictators Who dont care about human rights, when France ask them to fix it, they trow France out and then invite Wagner.
Keep living in your blind one sided world, I live in the real one with facts and logic
@@legatilegions8055 The human rights violations you speak of , I know only one of them (the supposed killings of Moura which are still denied by the Mali government and for some context here: no independent investigator ever went to Moura them selves, they only watched areal footage and said those were civilians despite the fact that there’s is no difference in dressing code between civilians and jihadists. A local news networks called"vox Africa " did send reporters and investigators on the ground and their findings dismiss the possibility of a civilian massacre. ) and it wouldn’t be surprising that it’s just French propaganda, they’ve done it many times it wouldn’t be new. What’s more France committed multiple verified war crimes and didn’t even acknowledge it , not to mention pay for it. There was the bombing of a civilian marriage that killed some 19 civilians in Bounti on January 3rd 2021. This accusation was investigated on and supported by the UN . And still the French refused to acknowledge their blunder and have not paid compensations till now. There have been several such incidents since the start of the operation. If the French tell you they did no civilian casualties it isn’t because they did no civilian casualties, it’s because to them they are always right every body they kill is a terrorist whether holding a gun or not , whether a child , woman or old person it’s a terrorist.
Russia: struggling to conquer Ukraine.
TH-camrs: "Will Russia conquer the world!?!"
1/4 of Ukraine under Russian control is struggling? back to reddit for your daily dose of cope
Yea, just like how people think of china 😆
@@rachetforsic4442 the weeklong special military operation is going real well
Russia doesn't need to send its army to Africa in order to win there
Russia increasing their power in Africa is easier. They already don't and have no reason to trust the West, unlike Russia
Ah yes Mozambique the famous former french colony 🤦🤦
Despite the mistake of saying Mozambique was a French colony was wrong, I think they meant to say Mayotte, which is in the Mozambique Channel
@@foam3132 nah i think they meant Mozam not the first time they make mistakes
@@JM-xg7xo it can happen
And BTW, the Bush war was waged by British and Britain made a proxy war during the Biafra war. In other word, Britain gave up on Africa only when the North Sea started providing its much needed oil. Before that, it's policy in Africa was not much different.
And Uranium in France commes mostly from Canada BTW.
No the bush war was waged by Rhodesia who had broken away from the commonwealth years prior to the war
@@lordace6212 Ok. Granted the black insurrection started motly after Rhodesia beacme "independant". Still, White Rhodesians were British.
@@M-J-qn8td where have you seen that? Could you like me to your source please
I'm sure I read Niger provides 17% with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan providing similar amounts
@@skp8748 I should have said in this order: Australia, Kazakhstan, Niger.
Mozambique "a former French colony" WTF guys.... Mozambique or Moçambique (it's portuguese name) was a former Portuguese colony, what kind of research did you guys do? Mozambique even speaks Portuguese....
I'm extremely disappointed with this failure, I'm questioning now what might i have heard that wasn't true....
It wouldn't be the first time we see french bashing on TH-cam...easier fight than usa, nato etc
@CK, to be fair, France has done things to deserve the bashing, though, and still has a colonial empire in Africa that they control the economy of. However, the mistake of saying Mozambique was wrong. I think they meant to say Mayotte, which is in the Mozambique Channel
@@foam3132 yeah yeah i don't mind they did the mistake, one country more or less don't change anything to me, I'm against all that, i don't even know why france is still there... But still funny that they put France and Russia at same level, i think Russia demonstrated pretty well recently how they deal with countries that want freedom
@CK you need to see it from an African's perspective. In this scenario, who would you trust? A country that has a colonial hold on Africa and controls their economies, refusing to give it up whilst historically treating the natives like shit, or a state that hasn't done much to wrong Africa, historically giving up its claim to its one colonial holding very early on and aiding the one country that every African state looked up to pre independence. And then, after that, not doing much in the way of doing things that piss off the general population of the African countries and then, to top that all off, allying with the other guy almost all African states and their people admired for his push for Pan-Africanism up until his assassination... by the West. See it through an African lens, please, not a European lens
Mozambique is not a Portuguese name.
for Ukranians France is a lovely country that support their freedom against Russia but for Africans the roles are reversed , for Africans Russians are the good guys and French are the bad guys and you must respect that
Absolutely, while the Russians and Chinese help Africans as their partners, the French only wanted to use them continuously and that was seen as just collonialism continued.
A lot of Ukrainians are in favor of Russia, especially the older generations. Ukraine will eventually have to trade some of it's territory for peace.
@@bangdobrich A lot, isn't actually a lot when compared to population. Still the above comment is more than right
As a French who is fond of Russia (I speak Russian), I would say that the French are equally as bad as the Russians who in turn are equally as bad as African Djiadists and corrupted African politicians.
This comment is talking facts. There's a reason why, at best, Africa is staying neutral and, at worst, fighting for Russia (although they are the minority of African countries)
It amazes me you have westerner clowns 🤡 running around , condemning Africans for not holding hands against Russia while their governments and western friends are currently doing dodgy sh*t in Africa 🤦.
Cry me a river for Ukraine and their home grown N@zis…. Viva Russia.
France actually announced that the western CFA franc will be replaced by the "Eco" a currency independent of France. I think you are massively overstating the importance of the CFA francs to France.
France has such a bad reputation in Africa. Countries like Algeria and Morocco are pushing for English as the first foreign language instead of French about 10-15 years ago and these efforts are bearing fruit. Youth up until 30ish years often English speaking.
Even Rwanda switched from French to English in the late 00s
Bad is an understatement... France's reputation in Africa is horrendous... it's getting worse by day...
Macron was in Congo(DRC) last week.. suffered a HUGE backlash coz he told the Congolese they are incapable of ruling themselves.. so they should let France lead them(colonial mentality)
@@uviweboyana8936 that's just false. I don't like France policy but he never said that and you're just lying.
Oh please. Did we forget that Britain also colonised Africa?
@pm nah they stopped recently now that. Chinese is the business language
Russia is far away from Mali, but so is France. Why is France's presence in Mali considered a normal thing when as a matter of fact both Russia and the Surrender Monkey Republic pursue their respective imperial ambitions in different, sometimes overlapping parts of the world?
It's historic! In Mali, they speak French, not Russian! 🧐
@@anti-emo4721 And to what benefit 🙃
Fun fact, France has won a higher percentage of their conflicts than either Britain or the USA.
@@anti-emo4721 why isn't the Spanish army installed all over South America then? 👀
@ Because South America is a peaceful place. In Africa, they have tribal skirmishes, because nation borders aren't drawn correctly by ethnic lines.
I am from Ethiopia and we African love Russia!!
In Africa we see Russia as Beneficial friend, Russia influence doesn't force socio economic crisis compared to french and others. Above all we really don't like to continue being forced to subordinate in the current neo colonialism
Ooooh from a former Warsaw pact country: you'll LOOOOVE the 'soviet' way, they definitely do not colonize and/or enslave other people.
"China gives alot in return".... Debt
xD
Yeah only 17% of all debt in Africa is owned to China and the rest to the west.
Choose ur pills
Resources extracted and controlled economy policy or big debt but developed infrastructure
Debt is much better than western military camps for raping women and children
At least they haven't given death and oppression like the west.
Again some french bashing on this channel but that's not new.
But you like Russian bashing
Moçambique was Portuguese not French
Reminds me of medieval Europe where small ethnic groups tried to annihilate each other .
In the Balkans they're still doing it...
Exactly. History just repeats itself. We humans are really a simple people.
@@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 based
What are you talking about? In medieval Europe wars were waged much more on the basis of inheritance and land expansion by kings and other rulers rather than ethnic lines. Even on the cases of wars based on faith, ethnic annihilation was not the goal. Because why would you want to kill your future workorce.
@@markusa5293 basically the same thing but you're trying too hard to make it sound not pointless.
Mozambique wasnt a former french colony it was a former portuguese one
I oppose any idea that French dominance in Africa is a good thing. It’s a revolting thing to hear and dum thing to say. It’s like saying American dominance in Europe is good. How about European dominance in Europe and African dominance in Africa ?
France the most vile evil ever to befall this World
As a european i think american bases here are a good think bc so we have to spend less money on the military and can use it on other stuff
very short sighted thinking
based.
@@sstff6771You can enjoy being dominated by America but we Africans don't need you people in our business.. please stay out of Africa.. before you bring up immigrants, no African is stoping you people from kicking them out your government knows why they allow them.
And Mozambique is a former PORTUGUESE colony not a French one d*mn it !!!!! It's 20th century history 101!!!!
China is providing money for investments on business sector, Russia provides "security" with Wagner group plus selling weapons! There is also another player that you didn't mention Turkey! Just make a serious search on how Turkey "invades" Africa by selling biscuits till armaments! Never forget that in Turkey is going to work in 2023 a brand new nuclear station in Acuyou area under the full control of Russia Plus extra economic connections! I wish you answer with a new video on that topic! Thank you nice video as always!
Every strong country has interests in Africa, but weak ones call some countries ‘invaders’ because they can't afford it. To call China, Russia and Turkey ‘invaders’ is simply nonsense. If Europe had operated in Africa instead of these countries, Europeans would not have called Europe an invader.
If Nigeria were to sign billion-dollar arms deal with Greece instead of China, how would you react to that?
As a french I'm totally fine to loose our influence there, at least we will not be black mailed by these population anymore
what are you talking about?
"we immigrate to your country because you colonized ours xxx years ago and are still doing it"
@CK and they still are doing it. Also blackmail who? France
@@paris9188 People immigrate for opportunities to improve their lives. It isn’t about some sense of revenge
@@dannylive3000 true but you're wrong, this theory only applies to small and controlled immigration, like in Canada or Switzerland. It's not the case for France, Sweden and in general countries that opened too much the pipes... If you don't believe me go in Paris and check under the bridges, and don't forget to ask them in a winter night at - 6° if they feel better now
When France support dictators there are protest, when they support democratic president (like in mali) they protest too. Also France remove slavery when doing colonisation in Africa. Local dictators goes to China or Russia because these countries never talk about human rights. And don't thing Africa countries are poor, in opposite they are super rich but like in the Russian system only a few own everything.
In Mali, the new disctator, helped by Wagner group replace France, and just after Mali baught seed from Russia and weapons from Russia. Also Wagner kill some Malian but now there are no way to protest for Malian.
France is done in Africa. West African countries owns France technically and they'll claim it one day for sure. Whatever that goes up will comes back down.
What on earth are you saying about them owning France lol. If you mean Islamic people they’re not even 20% of the population
It could... if this war against Ukraine doesn't dismantle Russia.
Correction, their is no French Empire or any other Empire in Africa. Africa is its own sovereign Continent.
France and other EU countries should just leave Africa , seeing that governments in countries across Africa are incapable of running the countries , and just expect more and more help . Most African countries have made little progress since independance
No joke, you would think after almost 200 years, they would realize that Joseph Conrad was correct in describing Africa as "The Heart of Darkness".
Why do you think Macron is fighting hard to retain the influence in former colonies. You think he's doing it so that they can send aid. Don't be delusional these former colonies have more resources that Europe put together. Directly meddling in the internal politics of these colonies and assassinating leaders who did not conform. Let France leave in the next few years they will be like portugal.
@@davidford3115 Did he describe the same thing to ancient Egypt?
19:42 - YEP
Instantly recognisable!
Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle
WRONG - Mozambique 🇲🇿 was a Portuguese 🇵🇹 colony!
can you be more anti Russia lol
He wasn’t always like this.
In my view this channel have (or had) a leaning to Libertarianism, which is also supported/peddled by influential Russians (the Oligarchs, not necessarily the “plebs”).
russia deserves it as much as france the pro russia logic of they never colonized me is hypocrisy its fine they colonized eastern europe central and northern asia and the Caucasus cause wasnt me but the ones who colonized me every one should hate for doing those same things no imperial power should get a pass west or east same evil different symbols
Why should he, he’s stating facts not fake news to make people happy
France has a very difficult task against 2 strong opponents, but France has 2 choices left: accept to disappear or fight back …
france can't compete china neither in terms of military nor money
'private' company.
it is
@@SBU_007 right sure technically but as far as PMCs go it may as well ge an extension of the GRU or what have you
When France takes any kinda L
Me being Haitian: lol
ah yes, another video of the peace-loving pacifist continent of Africa, which has not known war since the dawn of time, where neighbouring
countries shower each other with love and affection, where there are no rivalries, no disputes, not one voice has ever been raised in anger.
Africa should kick France TF out and withdraw all there funds from French Banks… Africa needs to work with
Africa
I tend to agree. Let the locals sort it out. No reason for Western powers to waste blood and treasure. And if the local happen to engage in butchery and genocide, well, the West should merely observe and take note of who is doing what crimes against humanity and only prosecute them AFTER the dust has settled.
Russia can't dismantle Ukraine.
30% of Ukraine is already under Russian control
Don't worry, the US will pick up where France left off just like Indochina.
Maybe not indochina was not that french influence
The US has already experimented with "adventurism" in Africa, namely the nation of Liberia. After Doctor David Livingstone's misadventures, there has been little appetite in the US for playing around in the "Heart of Darkness".
African is not poor, the colonisers trying to keep Africa poor my friend!!!!
And before colonisation we were kings and queens in our own continent, but the white man don’t like that , and we love China and Russia more than the western countries cuz they mean business and they do not assassinate our leaders too
There is definitly one thing that the wold NEEDS less French Influence!!
Come on, dude. Mozambique was a Portuguese colony, not French. Same with Angola. Do your research.
Dear Africa,
Your enemies will come with smiles on their faces.
@ToughAncientSpark - I agree. Especially when they are from Europe and the USA.
They say Russians don't smile
@@lionchampion587 what a coincidence, that’s where Russia’s from
@@Huminahumina465 we have good history with Russia unlike the western imperialists
@@heralds5662 Just wait. A good commie will eventually act like the Venice Banker demanding that pound of flesh. And they will ALWAYS demand the most valuable cut.
5 years ago i used to hear that there was nothing such as a French empire in Africa .. So what's going wrong now? 😊
Hi guys,
Dear Grant,
you definitively need to be more attentive to your History!
Mozambique was in fact not a French, but rather a Portuguese Colony or as, the expression/denomination used in Portugal until 1974, an Overseas Province!
Another imprecision (if I understood correctly your narrative...): Cuba had in fact several thousand men of its armed forces fighting in Angola, along side the MPLA (Angola Communist Party supported by Moscow...), but Che never set foot in Angola! He "visited" Congo....
Best wishes to the entire team
Jorge
I understood this up and until the visiting part. What's that about?
Also, despite the mistake of saying Mozambique was a French colony was wrong, I think they meant to say Mayotte, which is in the Mozambique Channel
@@foam3132 che guevara participated in revolution in congo.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 o he's Cuban? Sorry, I didn't realise
@@foam3132 Che was in fact in Africa, trying to set up a guerrilla Marxist movement, but not in Angola, He went/"visited" Congo...
And after a failure, he returned to South America to try the same "approach", in Bolivia...
France is a bane of Africa. Russia is a bane of Asia,
US is a bane of south America
Lawful Evil vs Chaotic Evil
The Lower Planes Blood War between the Baatorians and Tanar'ri.
I'm from a Mexican American family Mexico fought against French imperialism and viva la russia
And one last thing, it's quite easy for Brits to say "at least WE developed our colonies"... To this cheap claim (and I'm not even French), I reply: First: British Africa was fully conquered almost TWENTY years before French Africa was, so it's quite normal there was more infrastructures built, specially if we considere France was still conquering it'S part of Africa just prior to WWI! After WWI both Britain and France were bankrupted but in British Africa, infrastuctures were already built! Second: British share of Africa was far richer (the Nile valley, the gold of Ghana, the gold and diamond of South Africa, and most of the land being arable not desert) than French share making it quite easy to finance infrastructures. Above all, a bad video that will make me take with a grain of salt all what this channele ever said or will say (if I still subscribe).
The point they are making is that early on the Brits did develop their colonies while the French dithered. Yes, you can say that the Brits had a head start, but that misses the point they were making in that you have to consider the respective timelines of the colonizing power. Compare 20 to 30 years into the endeavor as a side-by-side comparison and the difference is stark.
@@davidford3115 Take into account that WWI bankrupted both countries and the difference is way less stark even without a 20 years difference! And even if there had been a difference, the fact that British Africa was so much richer (with gold, diamonds and arable lands) makes it WAAAYYYYY easier to get financing from the private sector while in French Africa the state had to do most of the financing! So please don't compare apples with oranges.
i HAVE LISTENED TO THIS GUY BEFORE, ITS BIAS, PROPAGANDA REPORTING--Just another westerner
@@M-J-qn8td Yeah, I am calling BS on your claims. French Africa had its own resources (oil for example), otherwise the French would not have bothered with it.
@@davidford3115 Discovery TIMELINE, do you know what that means? If we follow your "logic", we should should blame the Brits for not having started exploiting the North Sea oil before the Middle East!
Gold is exploited since only 20-30 years in Mali and Burkina Faso (way after independence and mostly by Canadian companies), oil was discovered only in the end of the 50's in Gabon and later in the rest of Central Africa, so maybe the French didn't do good prospection jobs in their colonies, but my point remains 100% true since you have first to discover resources before securing loans to build infrastructure!!! And BTW, why British Somalia was less developed than Italian Somalia? Because Brits were only interested in the sea ports to watch the exit of the Red sea while the Italians having less colonies had no choice developing the few colonies they had! Other example, why the Brits barely touched Sudan (which is VERY rich in minerals) and almost didn't touch at all the actual region of South Sudan while they ruled the whole region? Because they could get all those resources in the rest of their Empire for much cheaper!!!!! To conclude, your point just like the assumptions of Yellow teeth guy are just plain chauvinistic BS from comparison Orange with Apple.
For some reason it is mainly the British that still think the others were so much worse in their colonialism. I - and I assume many others around the word - would very much disagree. The UK was as genocidal as many others and there is a reason the UK invented the concentration camp and eugenics.
British are delusional and despite labeling everyone as emotional, Brits are emotional too and refuse to take accountability. They just gaslight the rest
The UK didn't invent the concentration camp. The Spanish and the Russians used them before the British. The Romans used the during the Gothic wars ffs!
The enemy of my enemy is my friend the French have never been friends of Africa.
The same question all the world asked about the US intervening in faraway countries... 0:42
I wish I was teaching history again. Your shows are awesome. My students would love the way you teach.
This video is full of incorrect information and outright lies.
no, he is just another western bias propagandists spreading halt truths, so much of what he talked about was bias and not accurate
Amazing content guts.. you addressed the root cause for the subject which France's own arrogance colonialist way of treating independent African countries. Thank you for going to the point and not beating around the bush. I hope our African countries learn from their past mistakes and realise that no foreign country is coming to Africa to just purely help them. But in politics they are exchanged interests.
Well done again guys 👏
the reporting is not accurate on many levels but bias
If they manage to pull down the French empire in Africa then it will be the best thing for the European Union
The HELL with European Union! And Europe to Europeans, Africa to Africans!
Right a t the beginning (5:40) you said something false: Oil in Mali. We are still not sure there are oil on Mali so I doubt it what attracted the French in the first place. In fact, in most of Africa, minerals started to be exploited AFTER independance and in the case of the Sahel countries like Mali end Burkina Faso, mostly by CANADIAN not french companies.
during, for most except for oil, explain why France gets these resources if they are from Canadian countries and name me examples
Also @Joshua Frimpong, don't forget that it is France that controls much of French West Africa's economy, so it already has a cut of the resources regardless
@@joshuafrimpong244 I meant canadian companies: Endeavor, Iamgold, B2B among others in Mali and Burkina Faso.
@@M-J-qn8td oh, thanks
Mali has lots of gold. The richest guy in the world came from Mali. He went on pilgrimage to Mecca with an entourage of gold and people. Mansamousa
He calls France the "protagonist" which acts like an "antagonist"
Correction: Mozambique was a former Portuguese colony
Mozambique was a Portuguese colony.
The Great Game chapter 2: Russia heads to the Salonga
Do I need to subscribe to nebula in order to get the answer to the question "can Russia dismantle the French empire in Africa?"?
The fact you called it (the French empire in Africa ) summarizes it all .
French troops killed civilians in multiple occasions
Mali: "France please help"
France: Does exactly that
Mali: "No, stop"
*Moment pases*
"Ok Russia pls help"
France was a villain who were using terrorist and rebels to justify their stay and their exploitation and theft. Wagner Group help us to wipe those terrorist.
watching this five months later and oh boy
Bro Mozambique is a former Portuguese colony not the French...they even speak Portuguese just like Brazil also a former colony.
It would be also interesting to understand what France is. Obviously, sometimes it is the french government, so that's what we understand by France. But how often are these colonial acts purely capitalist moves of corporations and interest groups. I'm sure a lot of these bribe payouts, election influences and other acts are really private enterprises. Maybe even the military presence is often something that private interests nudge french government to do, in their behalf.
Awesome video! Glad you’re holding democracies accountable!! Please do a video on Puerto Rico and other American territories that are treated like colonies.
Apples to oranges. Puerto Rico has time and again been given the choice between Statehood or independence. They have always chosen to remain a territory. Same goes with American Samoa and the Northern Marianas.
Now contrast those with nations like Palau and Vanuatu which WERE given independence. Or the fact that the Philippines was also emancipated (those the Japanese invasion of the Island delayed it).
@@davidford3115 lmao you clearly don’t understand how territories are made into states. Congress must decide, not a plebiscite referendum. Which is why its irrelevant for Puerto Rico and other American territories to vote; also Puerto Rico did vote to become a state in 2020..
@@Lords1997 it's always the colonialism card when things don't work..
@@Lords1997 Entirely wrong!! Besides the vote happening in 2017, The house also voted Puerto Rico's citizen vote for statehood or independence to be absolutely binding, which will next occur again in Nov. 2023, assuming a huge bunch don't boycott it again. This video is on African colonialism, whine about the US on the thousands of videos specifically condemning it, eh??
i HAVE LISTENED TO THIS GUY BEFORE, ITS BIAS, PROPAGANDA REPORTING--Just another westerner
They can try but France has a lot of power in their former empire most importantly franc imperialism. Also Wagner group is in its last years because of how little recruiting they can do in Russia
I hope that what those people are handling that way is not uranium which is highly radioactive and therefore dangerous to human health.
While it is never a good idea to handle radioactive materials with bare hands, not all radiation is the same. Alpha particle emitters CAN be handled safely as the radiation cannot penetrate the skin. The Beta emitters will easily penetrate skin. The bigger concern is the gamma radiation that both produce.
Russia can't even dismantle Ukraine x3
I'm French and I hope that this shamefull and corrupt system settled by De Gaulle called Françafrique Will be destroyed.
Africa countries must be fully indépendant and not under any Russian, Chinese or French colonialism.
"Russia has tentacles all around the World" - VisualPolitik
*So does U.S.A. on a grander scale.*
the question of why russians have interest in mali is similar to why the US have interest in the middle east..such a dumb reasoning to use a double-standard perspective into one's own narrative
Let’s not just skip over the belt and road initiative to say that it’s only a positive effect for African countries. They have to pay huge interest rates, which they often can’t, making the lending predatory and just the same as economic colonialism that France imparted.
I get you guys know your stuff, so a simple sentence would do wonders in portraying the belt and road more honestly. China (a brutal communist regime) isn’t doing humanitarian work for nothing.
Agreed. The Chinese having watched how the European powers bungled in Africa have chosen to be more subtle in their approach to colonization.
Was scratching my head as they seemed to not mention all aspects of China’s involvement in Africa like you said the high interest debt traps that are characteristic of the belt and road initiative
Debt traps is fake meme, westerners use against China in Africa. You think Africans are so dumb not to see the difference. China wants natural resources and markets access all these can be managed through better agreements. But China infrastructural development as helped alot. Most of Africa debt is not even to China and almost nothing to show for western borrowed money.
Whatever westerners say about the negative effects of the Chinese BRI or debt is a lie. Chinese debt is a billion times better than any help froma colonial power such as Britain or France or from the IMF and World Bank. Westerners have been lying for decades. Since they have control over communication, they could get away with it. Now, no sane person believes in the Western propaganda against China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc. The West has been here in Africa for centuries. It is hard to see any real achievement benefitting Africans. Meeting the West was a complete disaster to Africa. Now, any western official who visits Africa is likely to land on an airport built by China. He is likely to drive to his hotel on a road built by China. His hotel was likely buit by China and the road to his host (be it the President or any other government official) was likely built by China. The conference room where he will lecture his African host was likely buitl by China.
Yet, when western officials arrive, they lecture their African host and ask him not to deal with China and Russia. They want to host to remain their slave as it has always been for centuries. Yet, their presence has been a collection of disaster and nuissance for all these centuries. It is time for the West to let Africa be.
BRI is overwhelmingly positive for Africa because its solely responsible for spurring growth in Africa which is what the west despises.
Had China behaved the way the west does, there would be media silence about China.
Gone is the time when Visualpolitik relied on facts rather than on western mindset narrativa
I thought France would just have its empire, but now I understand why the french fear Russians. All current wealth of France comes from colonies but what do you know dictators take the better deal.
Please do a video of the ethics of Cacao production industry. Thanks!
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Nobody should underestimate Russia - particularly, when the bear and the dragon join forces.
If they ever join forces.
@@LuisRomeroLopez The bear has already got a fierce dragon hug. Whenever you have to start a war with Taiwan and conquer some neighbours in the South Chinese Sea, because you will have crushed your economy with maoistic ideology by the end of 2025 and you want to continue to stay in power of your country, you need a reliable and powerful gas-station. And a determined gas-station attendant. This is the reason, why China is literally forced to save Russia from being defeated by NATO weaponary in Ukraine. Hence, Xi has no other choice but to supply weapons to Russia sooner or later. When (not if) this is going to happen, Ukraine will be doomed within weeks and eastern Europe too. This war is all about military ressources. And greed for power.
And never overestimate Russia as well... For example if their army turns to have corruption inside 😂
@@dostavki i don't think someone has ever overestimated them
@@internetzone165 We did, at the beginning of the war.
Nobody expected such MASSIVE suckage.
I mean, France wasn't doing anything different. It was extracting resources from the country in exchange for security help to the central government. But it created more problems than it solved. If Prigozhin can do a better job, it seems a pretty fair trade.
The Mozambique mistake is a big one, come on… this is why I find you informative but I always have to be quite critical of what I hear, you mess up not so ocasionally and are too ideological. Bring back Simon or, at least, the same style of Visual Politik
Finally this video soo good, may god bless you for this sharing the truth!
One villian against another villian
bro mozambique was portugese
Wagner sent a message to the pentagon saying he would like to work with the US military in Africa ..
I’m Haitian born and raised in America. Great video! Thank you for stating the CAUSES. I cringe every time when I hear “Haiti~the Poorest Country in Western Hemisphere” and it’s almost automatically a THING to say or to write when mentioning HAITI.
Please all writers and news reporters: Can We~YOU~US~ ALL of US- Change the NARRATIVE about Haiti.
For example: Haiti, Once a prosperous independent nation
Haiti, the First Nation in the World to ABOLISH slavery
Haiti, the Pearl of the Antilles
Haiti, (Write something positive)
Please and I hope we all would Say something positive about. Let’s send love and positive energy through thoughts and writings about HAITi. We can do it. So let’s change the narrative.
That is inevitable ?and neutral independent Africans are becoming the rebels of andor on there own continent to the French and nato colonizers .
If you go in and read the research, Russian military performance in Africa tends to be very poor. They do not understand the theatre or the locals. Their resources are limited. In Mali, the Wagner soldiers stick close to their bases and do short patrols mostly. And they terrorize the locals. Russian investment in Africa is also non-existent. The big thing that was going for them were the arms exports, but for the foreseeable future, Russian arms industry is going to focus on Russia. Then there is the hearts and minds aspect. With Russianatrocities and land grabs and taking over local resources, its very easy for France to make a good narrative about the Russians. And this has taken on well. Its not making France beloved, but its sure making France seem like a better choice than Russia. Using Wagner as their tool also means Russia cannot give these regimes political and diplomatic weight either. Russia has in many ways reached into the old colonial playbook: they are giving life insurance to regimes hated by the local population and in exchange they are taking over local resources. It is a losing strategy. If you really were Africa watchers, you would look at Nigeria, Angola and Congo as the big future partners to watch, and in these places France is doing very well.
Who control Africa control the world economy
Mistake: Spain did not have colonies in America. They were provinces were every living person was considered citizen of the Kingdom of Spain. Including natives.
Che Guevara fought in the Congo. He was dead by the time Cuba sent troops to Angola.
"Mali is here and Russia is there"? Tell that to the Americans.
Well Done!!!!
Imagine you saying the french draining the countries of africa and over all the years france never develop the countries them colonise now other countries like china and russia that come into the countries of africa to develop them and you saying like you have a problem with that. Like you dont have a problem with france
This video is full of inaccuracies and severely lacking nuance of interpretation.
It is true that France had some dirty moments in Africa but saying that it is still acting on an imperialist agenda today is playing the Russian/Chinese propaganda. I will give you just an example : None of the companies extracting gold (not Oil) in Mali are French but they are Canadian, English and South African. It has no serious market for any French companies and so there was no financial reason to send troops there.
Uranium extraction is the only mineral industry that French companies get involved in around the Sahel, because they are actually among the leading companies in this very specialized field.
Now, is the USA imperialist for having 35 000 soldiers in Germany or is it just far more complex than that ? Let's get something deeper than former colonist = bad .
Mozambique is not formal French colony, but Portuguese.
Greetings from Mozambique.
Man Mozambique 🇲🇿 was a Portuguese 🇵🇹 colony 😂😂
Its like choosing between the Colora or the Plague.
More like Cancer (the west) vs Chemotherapy(Russia)
Seems like you were correct!