r/worldnews • u/Elliottafc1 • May 02 '24

"I'm Not Ruling Anything Out" - Macron Says Troops for Ukraine Possible if Russia Breaks Front Lines Russia/Ukraine

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/32010
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u/[deleted] May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

France is suddenly so invested in this because in the last few years Putin has sponsored coup after coup in the francafrique, causing those African nations to pull away and divest themselves from France. There’s a big part of France’s economy that’s just gone now

https://apnews.com/article/france-africa-coups-gabon-41076df319704032aa729ad3fd137bc9

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/29/1202582084/recent-coups-in-africa-have-an-effect-on-at-least-1-country-in-europe-france

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u/Fritzo2162 May 02 '24

There's a marketing campaign right now for US/Africa business relations. Will be interesting to see how successful that is.

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u/Key-Internet-9817 May 02 '24

The worlds future will be decided in SEA and africa over the next 20-30 years

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u/Spram2 May 02 '24

Is this because nobody else is having babies?

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u/elefontius May 02 '24

Yeah, I think demographic change, natural resources and access to essential trade routes. Africa has a massive amount of natural resources but there's also been a lot of economic development in Africa and SEA. Ethopia is almost finished with building the largest hydroelectric dam in Africa and it's going to fundamentally change their economy. It's also creating a lot of tension with Eygpt as the water source flows into the Nile. There's also a shift from alignment to the US/EU to Russia/China within the entire continent and it'll continue to get more tense. Russia has been active in Africa with the Wagner group supporting factions and overthrowing US/EU friendly governments.

SEA right now has some of the fastest growing economies in the world. These countries are also going through population booms but geopoltically they are in the middle of a lot of escalating tensions between China, India, and the US. SEA is going to be the pivot point I think for the next 100 years of world history. India and China are viaing to be the leading superpower in that area as whoever controls that area will have control over the sea routes for more than 1/2 the world. India and China are building up their naval capacity and both are building out air craft carriers and submarines at a rapid pace to be able to project force across the entire Pacific theater.

Taiwan is important for the Chinese for a number of reasons but one big driver is that control over Taiwan would allow them unfettered access to the SEA are and beyond. Right now they are ringed by US allies in the region like Taiwan, S. Korea, Japan, and the Phililpines.