I'm not saying they can't make their own decisions, and I'm not trying to excuse atrocities committed by the mining companies. But I wouldn't expect this to be all that much better either
This seems like a situation where they either have the option to let foreign capital exploit their resources and keep them poor and make them poorer, or they control their own resources to benefit their people instead of foreign capitalists. Even if they side with Russia or whoever else the global north considers to be their enemy this time, we need to really ask why they're siding with them instead.
Even if those countries supposedly exploit them, too, people in countries like Niger aren't unable to think and understand things, and they will choose whatever path causes them to be least exploited. If they're siding with countries in BRICS+, then what are their thoughts on this? Why are they doing this so readily? Do we ask them?
When you talk to people from there, then you'll see, almost entirely across the board, it's clear that it's because they are actually more in the know about this than us and understand that this isn't just another slightly smaller form of exploitative dynamic, but that it's actually the way they free themselves from global north exploitation, and all exploitation, insofar as it exists!
When the global south sides with one particular side so much and so enthusiastically across the board, then that means that they, the entire rest of the human species, understand that this is a good deal from them, and also the way they finally become unified, self-determinant societies.
It's just that in the west, we're so drowned in our own propaganda that we don't want to believe that this is what's happening and that it's good at all. It's very good and should happen.
Sure, no hegemony would be better. BRICS+ is not an organization interested in producing any hegemony, whether or not any of their members are, though the goals of their members are, first and foremost, not any kind of hegemony, but economic and geopolitical independence from the global north.
The fact that many people in the global north claim that the enemies of the global north are trying to supposedly do their own hegemony or anything else like colonialism or their own kind of imperialism or some sort of genocide of their own is more often than not, more than they'd like to admit, and almost each time they claim it, projection of what they have done and always and currently continue to do onto all of these countries, and have for centuries, and continue to do today.
Seems like they're dancing around saying "they're better under our benevolent stewardship", whilst also not really knowing what that "stewardship" entails, and who exactly is doing the "stewardship".
Yes, exactly! They're just talking about imperialism from the west as if it's "stewardship" without realizing that they're trying to validate imperialism while saying it's something else and not acknowledging what it is! It's just complete western chauvinism!
People's War lead by a militarized communist party, under the ideological framework of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Gonzalo Thought, and the Guiding Thought of thr Sahel Revolution, whatever that may be
What? Are you trying to justify global north imperialism against Niger and the form it took in the exploitation of their resources by saying, "They bought the uranium above market rate"?
Are you going to ignore the fact that controlling another country's resources and not letting them control their own resources, no matter how it is you get to do that, is the most incredibly direct form of imperialism you can do next to straight up invading the country?
That's what that is! They had the drone base in Agadez, which was the biggest u.s. drone base in the world, and they have the huge uranium mine in Arlit owned by france! A french multinational corporation also monopolized all the water in Niger, and after they were kicked out, the Nigerian government nationalized it!
Are you going to completely ignore all of this? Is the extreme exploitation of the Nigerian people by the global north in order to keep them poor to make foreign capitalists rich something you're just going to completely ignore outright? Do you know or understand what neocolonialism is, or do you even care, and have you even looked into it more than a small glance at the concept?
Cozying up with Russia is when ejecting neo-colonial rule and using siezed assets to develop the country. Burkina Faso has yet to receive any notable assistance from Russia. All the changes recently have been through the will and actions of the Burkinabe people and their neighbours.
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u/Blooogh 13d ago
Hmmm. From what I hear this is because the military junta wants to cozy up with Russia instead of the West? But still interesting.