Post #2871607
2025-01-22 21:17 UTC
@rrb@infosec.exchange @ellestad@sfba.social @moh_kohn@mastodon.scot Hrm. Interesting. There's still persisting good will towards Russia to this modern day? Man did those soviet PR folks know how to leave an impression. Appalling how many messes France ditched in our laps left us on the hook for across the world. I know we were on an anticolonial kick up until the cold war, but still. In your honest opinion was a soft transition even possible, or was it just doomed to be a hard break no matter what?
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@rrb@infosec.exchange 2025-01-22 21:30
@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social @ellestad@sfba.social @moh_kohn@mastodon.scot The French never left. The countries were all kept stable by French troops. Their currency was the Franc CFA tied to the French Franc, then EUR. And, frankly, I can understand them not liking their colonizers. Whatever our understanding of Russia and China may be, they have never colonized Africa. That buys them some goodwill.