[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:
. . .
The rest is
at https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/what-dixie-can-learn-from-niger.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
