Africa Takes

Just an intelligence analyst looking for a space to air his opinions on developments in Africa without implicating his employer.

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@FranciscoAure @Vooroorlog87978 @neiljmack @fia Such wit, have you tried poetry?

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@SandyofSuffolk … yes this was always an option when we were in the EU… famously many elderly people like yourself exercised this option. It was a freedom that you guys have vehemently resisted in an act of incomprehensible self harm.

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@HelloSpaceboy8 @RaspberryFella But fine I take your point, it only counts if you can find the people with the ancient claim to the territory. I assume then that you are also a huge believer in Zionism and an ardent defender of the state of Israel?

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@HelloSpaceboy8 @RaspberryFella You claiming that there wouldn’t be records of “Gaelic” and “British” people living side by side? They clearly were. And indeed Irish culture is still going strong, what happened to beaker culture? What terrible genocide you must have engaged in… (I am being purposely silly)

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@stationerycar @cljack Not a bad choice to be honest. If you fell in Somaliland or puntland things would probably be fine. Otherwise outside of Mogadishu it’s equally likely you will either be found by Al-Shabaab or pro government forces, so a bit of a 50-50 situation.

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@cljack D or B. Leaning Yemen though, most of the physical geography of the country is occupied by forces that western states are allied with. If you fall into the Houthi bit it’s the equivalent of being captured by Iranian forces.

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@RaspberryFella By this logic your people are likely also Celtic invaders, you should really hand the land back to the beaker people. It’s nonsense, history is full of people moving around. No one has an inherent right to anywhere. Everyone has every right to live where they were born.

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@RaspberryFella “Our land”, sorry I have very little sympathy for this nativist nonsense. The people who moved there hundreds of years ago still don’t have a right to call it their land? Irish people that moved to America presumably don’t have a right to call that their land.

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@FourYearStr0ng Does it not feel counterproductive to label people that, in a particular moment, fail to live up to their own ideals as monsters? We are human; who hasn’t let themselves down? In this case there were other factors. You risk driving allies away by insisting on constant perfection.

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@Sarki_sultan You have posted this intervention as if any of these details justify the decision. They do not. Any right thinking society would at most remove these people from their jobs, fine them and in extremis give them a little jail time. Execution for this is medieval.

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@Me_AliKhan @AjaySphere They would not be executed. At the very absolute most, they would be asked to leave.

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@AlexBarnicoat_ This is a bit premature, Ethiopia hasn’t invaded Eritrea yet, and there isn’t a guarantee that it will. It’s a highly risky venture and the government still has a number of domestic threats.

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@hornafricanguy With regards Kurmuk, what evidence do you have that Tigrayan forces are here or that Ethiopian forces are directly involved or that they have crossed the border?

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@liam_karr I think weeks to months is possible, particularly as if they are trying to lay the groundwork to legally justify military action on self defence grounds. That will likely require relatively rapid movement, while the stories of Eritrean troop deployments are still fresh

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@beers70285711 @OurOwnNation Yes but you can obviously do a lot of early damage with those weapons and then you can build more.

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@Tamias1000 @BigManMarie My point is, yes that’s how I do it, because most people use VPNs in the UK, it’s a very basic cyber security measure.

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@Tamias1000 @BigManMarie “(May be using VPN)” well done without too much effort you worked it out.

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@RulBaraka Russia had too much strategic depth; much like France in the napoleonic war, Germany had no answer to Britain’s capacity to economically isolate them; it was only a matter of time before the resource and manpower advantage of the British empire and the US overwhelmed them

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@RulBaraka @OurOwnNation … that’s obviously not true. You are familiar with the North Africa campaign aren’t you? Also nearly won it is a stretch