Africa is rebelling against de facto colonialism

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  1. Scott

    Scott Well-Known Member

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    I think everybody knows about western imperialism by now, especially American imperialism*. Africans are getting fed up and are taking to the streets by the thousands to protest. It kind of looks like the Russians may help them get free.

    Africa just SHOCKED the world with this and Putin is watching | Redacted with Clayton Morris


    Will US & France Intervene in Niger? Anti-Colonial Sentiment Erupts in West Africa w/ Eugene Puryear



    Check out the channel page of the above video. There's a lot more info there.



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    Abby Martin & Chris Hedges: War, Propaganda and the Enemy Within
    youtube (dot) com/watch?v=s0LOYvk0y3o


    Abby Martin: ‘Coups and Regime Change Wars Define U.S.’s Naked Imperialism’
     
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    "Abby Martin: ‘Coups and Regime Change Wars Define U.S.’s Naked Imperialism’"

    Coups and regime change are what Russia is up to in Africa. But I guess it's good when they do it.
     
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    The Russians saved Vietnam from the US. They wouldn't have succeeded in ousting the Americans without the weapons the Russians gave them.

    The Pinky Show - The American War: The U.S. in Vietnam
     
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    So you're pro-Communist as well?
     
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    No. I'm anti-imperialism, What's your position on imperialism? What's your position on the situation in Africa?
     
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    The RuZZians saved Vietnam from US?

    That's a good one....:).....hilarious, but good one.
     
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    They got a looooooong way to go. Aren't they still raping virgins as a cure for aids round those parts? Didn't one of their leaders just encourage murder of whites? You think those idiots can actually establish a democracy? Hilarious!!
     
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    Well, Vietnam was under attack by the Communists, so when you support what the USSR was doing in Vietnam, you are supporting Communism.

    I am anti-imperialism, of course, which is why I oppose Russian imperialism in Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Africa and anywhere else.
     
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    First of all you need to get informed about the war in Vietnam.

    The Legacy of the Vietnam War
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by Paul Shannon
    https://chomsky.info/198210__/

    You know the Vietnamese were using Russian weapons, don't you?
     
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    You know that the Soviets were trying to communize Vietnam, don't you? You know that the USSR attempted this there and in other countries, such as Afghanistan, as a form of imperialism, don't you?
     
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    They're pretty angry at the whites that are exploiting their countries. Their wanting to kill those particular whites is understandable. I think most of them understand that all whites are not imperialists and wouldn't want to kill the white tourists.

    When a country has a puppet government and the government suppresses education, culture is going to be low and more people are going to be superstitious. Whatever they establish if they aren't occupied by imperialists will be better than what happens when the country is occupied by imperialists.

    The Vietnamese seem to be doing ok now. I talked to someone who'd recently taken a trip to Vietnam and said that things looked pretty cool. The only thing she didn't like was there being limited access to health care.

    You seem to be basing all of your opinions on American mainstream info*. You should get informed.


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    http://www.politicalforum.com/index...at-the-lies-furiously.583345/#post-1072353798

    Afghanistan, 1979-1992: America’s Jihad
    https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/afghanistan
     
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    So you are pro-Communist after all
     
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    Uh...yeah...LOL....the gooks were using Russki hardware....you didn't know?

    I'm not a big fan of Noam Chomsky.

    I don't need a lesson on 'Nam....I had family members fight in it.
     
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    Stating fact makes you pro-Communist? What does one have to do with the other?
     
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    Show us your source. The Vietnamese are still suffering from the effects of what the US did in their country.
    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=+vietnam+agent+orange+deformaties&form=HDRSC3&first=1

    I know American tourists go there and they don't get attacked in the streets. People in countries that once were and still are victims of American imperialism know that the American people have good intentions but base their opinions on upside-down information. When I lived in Mexico in the eighties, people tried to inform me. They weren't aggressive toward me.
     
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    What are you talking about? Explain yourself.
     
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    There is no American imperialism, but there is Russian imperialism.
     
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    So, you think you having "family members" are better informed than me, a Vietnam Veteran? How does that work?
     
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    Well, not necessarily "Made in Russia" or even the USSR. Some were made in China, some in Czechoslavakia .....
     
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    The American soldiers that were fighting there didn't know the real reasons why they were fighting. Here's some stuff you should check out.

    Smedley Butler on Interventionism
    https://man.fas.org/smedley.htm

    War Is A Racket By Major General Smedley Butler
    https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf


    A lot of them started to see the truth and lost their enthusiasm to fight.
     
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    And all of those American puppet politicians around the world are non-existent? You think Zoolinsiky is a free & Democratic man of the people? Don't make me laugh.
     
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    That's right. We didn't understand doodly squat.
     
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    Africa had all sorts of "internal colonialism" Shaka's conquests =according to the late Great Leonard Thompson (Oxford History of South Africa) displaced almost a quarter of the sub-saharan population in the earlier part of the 1800s. Without the underdevelopment visited on Africa by European colonialism, Africa would still be suffering massive corruption, poverty etc-it just would be somewhat different
     
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