This was last year in Southern Niger, near Nigeria's border. These "Islamic Jihadists" have diesel generators, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cash, and Starlink terminals. Every kb of data sent on a Starlink network is traceable and identifiable, and Starlink itself is a US military project.
So please explain where semi-literate, "Caliphate-seeking Jihadists" obtained and learned how to use all this equipment; and how they coordinate their operation using internet terminals controlled by the US military, which somehow never shut them down and allowed them keep running even though they definitely knew what they were being used for!
And you're supposed to believe that this is some sort of organic religious movement that somehow took some of the world's poorest people in some desolate part of the Sahel - people who cook with firewood and dry cow dung, and who have never handled N15,000 before in their lives - and magically earned them the $40,000 minimum you need to buy the equipment in these pictures; then they somehow learned how to use all these things that they had never seen before by reepating "Allahu Akbar!" 3 times while turning in a circle.
At some point you have to look at the material facts of the matter, then look at yourself in a mirror and answer the question, "Am I an absolute dickhead? Am I really this stupid?"
Vietnam fought the French for nine years.
Then fought the Americans for twenty years.
Then fought the Chinese.
Then fought the Khmer Rouge.
Forty years of continuous warfare, against the most powerful military forces of the twentieth century, on Vietnamese soil, destroying Vietnamese infrastructure, killing Vietnamese people.
And then rebuilt.
This is not an argument that empire is not harmful.
This is an argument that resistance, real resistance, sustained resistance, resistance that controls its own political destiny at the end of the gun, is the variable that determines outcomes.
Africa's problem was never civilization.
It was that its most effective resisters kept ending up dead.
With Western fingerprints on the gun.
President of Brazil Lula da Silva–
“The invasion of Iraq was a lie… weapons of mass destruction were never found. The genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza was carried out because of another big lie. Israel’s bombing of Lebanon… the United States’ invasion of Iran. Stop lying about others to destroy them. Latin America is portrayed as a world of drug trafficking. The Arab world is portrayed as a world of terrorism. And who is good in this world?”
@EthanLevins2 The UN is a USELESS institution that punishes the "victims" and lets the "perpetrators" get away with it.
Don't forget that the UN gave Israel the "green light" to colonize Palestine, and the UN also allows Israel to continue slaughtering Palestinians.
THE UN MUST BE DISSOLVED !
There are ZERO sanctions, embargo, or trade restrictions set by the UN against Israel.
They compete in FIFA, The Olympics, and even EUROvision.
This world is not fair, don’t let them lie to you.
Insecurity under GEJ: Jonathan is incompetent.
Insecurity under Buhari: Buhari is incompetent.
Insecurity under Tinubu: the north are using insecurity for politics.
@IRANinBULGARIA Iran should only sign a ceasefire when Palestinians in Gaza have full access to food, medicine, water, shelter, fuel, and reconstruction equipment, in addition to freedom of movement to receive medical treatment abroad.
"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel."
From my Piers Morgan debate with the IDF's @DoronSpielman
Full show: https://t.co/I8tx2SRag8
In a land that proudly hosts Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, and The Walt Disney Company, an independent animated YouTube channel — which had organically grown by depicting U.S. aggression & warmongering, and garnered millions of viewers — was abruptly shut down!!
Why?!
Simply to suppress the truth about their 'illegal war' on Iran and shield the American administration’s false narrative from any competing voice.
Iran has suffered losses of more than $200 billion in this war so far, and it will recover these losses from the United States. If the U.S. does not pay, Iran will recover them from those countries that allowed their territory to be used for attacks against Iran whether it is Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, or Saudi Arabia.