If you do a deep dive into the overwhelming majority of conflict on this planet…

…in some way/shape/form, the fucking French are involved.

People have absolutely no fucking idea that the thing in #Ukraine is directly linked to the non-colony colonies that France never stopped operating in the Sahel region of Africa.  The French government has (or, more accurately, had until Russia & the Chinese came into the region) irrevocable rights to uranium (France’s electrical grid is almost entirely nuclear) + oil/gas in west Africa in exchange for bribing the governments of those countries to enable/allow it.  The people of those countries got fed up with being trapped in perpetual poverty by not being in a position of having other countries who want their resources have to outcompete each other on price (which is the primary reason why most of the continent of Africa is still as poor as it is in spite of the unbelievable levels of natural resources they possess) + they got fed up with having French language/food/culture being shoved down their throats at the expense of their own native languages/cultures…

     …so when the Russians (+ Chinese + Turks) came in to offer military assistance (via the Wagner Group to maintain plausible deniability of Russian government/military involvement) to finally evict the hated French AND offered to pay current market prices for the natural resources AND did not require any sort of colonization (no Russian being taught in schools, no Russian culture being shoved down the throats of the locals, no interference in the internal cultures of the country/region)…

…all of the various countries in the Sahel region were more than happy to evict the French & do business with the Russians.  China’s strategy has been largely the same, with the addition of the Chinese offering modernization/development (dams/reservoirs/freeways/rail lines/power grids/modern infrastructure/ports/factories) as an incentive.

The French getting kicked out of most of west Africa / the Sahel region by the Russians has everything to do with the French sending troops into #Ukraine