Offsite Post: ‘What Dixie Can Learn from Niger’

 

[u]S foreign relations continue to be a dumpster fire around the world, which is causing many countries to rethink their ties with the DC FedGov.  This should be both a rebuke and spur for the South – a rebuke, for most of our people seem content to remain united to the DC ‘sewer,’ as Dr Wilson put it recently; a spur, to separate from that corrupt capital.

Niger, a country in north-central Africa (capital city – Niamey), is one of the latest to tell the Yankee Empire to hit the road.  Prime Minister Zeine’s discussion of why they have done so reveals typical Yankee smugness at work:

Niger’s decision to scrap military ties with the US was in response to threats made by American officials during negotiations, the West African nation’s prime minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, said in an interview published by the Washington Post on Tuesday.

 

Zeine repeated allegations that a senior US delegation, including Molly Phee – the State Department’s top official for African affairs – who was in Niamey in March to negotiate the renewal of a decade-old defense agreement, attempted to dictate which countries should be Niger’s partners.

 

During the meeting, Phee warned the Sahel state against engaging with Iran and Russia at levels that were unacceptable to Washington if it wanted to maintain the US as a security partner, according to the Nigerien prime minister.

 

Phee also threatened sanctions if Niger pursued a deal to sell uranium to Iran, he reportedly added.

The threats didn’t sit well with the Nigeriens, who responded with a mixture of politeness and frankness that any Southerner would approve of:

“When she finished, I said, Madame, I am going to summarize in two points what you have said. First, you have come here to threaten us in our country. That is unacceptable. And you have come here to tell us with whom we can have relationships, which is also unacceptable. And you have done it all with a condescending tone and a lack of respect,” Zeine said.

 

Niamey’s military government canceled its security agreement, which had allowed 1,000 US soldiers and civilian contractors to operate in Niger, in mid-March, just days after the encounter with the American delegation.

And, echoing the Declaration of Independence, he denounces the Empire’s quartering of troops in Niger while at the same time allowing lawless men to run about without hindrance:

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The rest is at https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/what-dixie-can-learn-from-niger.

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