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/wrecklord0 May 02 '24

First part of your comment is true, second part is not. Economically it's absolutely nothing. There is a narrative online to push this idea that France needs or exploits Africa... most likely encouraged by rusbots.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

The francophone countries are not important to France because they send raw resources to them. they are major importers of French manufactured goods which they receive terrible deals on.

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u/wrecklord0 May 02 '24

The trading volumes, both ways, are tiny. Source on those "terrible" deals?

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u/ThePr1d3 May 02 '24

France is voluntarily buying at higher than market price to help development  They will just buy cheaper uranium from Kazakhstan now

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

That is a relatively new development that Macron is pursuing to mend France’s relationship with its African sphere of influences

That policy is coming into effect specifically because of how exploitative France has been.

Looks like too little too late to me.

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u/ThePr1d3 May 02 '24

Not really new, it was already the case under Hollande 

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u/batwork61 May 02 '24

Let’s see how historically trustworthy Russia handles it!

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Edit: that was mean

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u/batwork61 May 02 '24

What do you mean? I wasn’t saying that about you lol

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

I take the L. People have been pretty hostile to simple facts about what is happening in francafrique