9 Comments

Without the economic and financial plunder from Franceafrique the French 5th Republic can't maintain its bloated bureaucracy.

Without that bureaucracy the French 5th Republic can't survive. The French state apparatus is what has held France together since Napoleonic times. Arguably more so today than in any of its earlier incarnations. Cutting state bureaucracy poses an existential threat.

The EU can't solve France economic woes but it will try to capitalize on the French predicament politically - which will not go down well in France. Social unrest will reach boiling point as subsidies and social programs will be slashed.

The European project may well implode from the fall of Franceafrique. With France in crisis the entirety of the European project becomes critically unstable.

Expand full comment

Russia has great war experience with drones, so its not that they can't replace France's attack detection abilities, but rather if Chad will make a deal for it.

Expand full comment

While Russia possesses significant wartime experience, this doesn’t automatically translate to the effectiveness of its paramilitary groups operating abroad—especially given that the country remains actively engaged in ongoing conflict.

Expand full comment

I'm most interested in what will happen to the CFA franc, and if it's possible for African countries to get back control of their currency without collapsing.

Expand full comment

I worked in travel for years. All air travel to African countries, even from Africa, had to be routed through Paris. Still has.

I hope this will stop. I also hope that the CFA will end and African countries will be able to control their own economies.

Expand full comment

This article is from a European perspective on the changes of Africa geopolitical landscape which contradicts what Africans are reporting. France and other western colonisers stole and impoverished Africans for decades while majority of Africans remain poor and depending on western aids. The bias of this article does not lend credence to what really is the root cause in the shift in geopolitical landscape in Africa.

Expand full comment

This article is from a European perspective on the changes of Africa geopolitical landscape which contradicts what Africans are reporting. France and other western colonisers stole and impoverished Africans for decades while majority of Africans remain poor and depending on western aids. The bias of this article does not lend credence to what really is the root cause in the shift in geopolitical landscape in Africa.

Expand full comment

This article is from a European perspective on the changes of Africa geopolitical landscape which contradicts what Africans are reporting. France and other western colonisers stole and impoverished Africans for decades while majority of Africans remain poor and depending on western aids. The bias of this article does not lend credence to what really is the root cause in the shift in geopolitical landscape in Africa.

Expand full comment

Why has this happened?

Expand full comment