Why France is Actually Preparing for War With Russia

If you want to learn more about the rise of terrorism in the Sahel region and the French military intervention into Mali, I uploaded an entire video focused on that darker subject to Nebula here: nebula.tv/videos/reallifelore-modern-conflicts-fre… In addition to my monthly Modern Conflicts videos on Nebula, I'm also posting monthly videos to Nebula in my new series called War Room, which provides monthly updates from active conflicts happening all around the world. The first episode of this new series can be seen here: nebula.tv/videos/reallifelore-war-room-february-20… Thanks!

stealing all the light bulbs in your former colony on the way out is some ranked competitive levels of pettiness

As a Frenchman, I can tell you most people have zero clue what the government is doing with their tax money in Africa. This is the first time I hear about what happened in Guinea… wtf…

As a Guinean citizen this is 100% facts and there is a video where Ahmed Sekou Toure told the French we would suffer in freedom than living rich as slave

Basically, after France lost Indochina in 1954, the independence of Algeria and the May 1958 coup, the French didn’t want to lose another colony so in 1958, they set up a constitutional referendum in their Africans colonies that if they accepted the constitution, they will become independent in the French community in a period of several years while if they rejected it, they would received immediate independence. Most colonies approved the constitution, while Guinea, under the calls of Ahmed Sekou Toure, rejected it. As a consequence, the French before retreated from the country destroy the country’s infrastructure. And for the colonies that adopted the constitution, they have to carry an "Independent tax" which deprived of them any economic independence.

Viewing from France. I must admit that French media hardly reports on any of this.

Neo-colonialism is a topic that needs to get more attention.

Can you please cite your sources and/or post a link to a bibliography in the description? It’d be great for following up on all of these topics!

You should add your sources to your description that would be 10/10 content✊

It's scary how few people know about this

Been living in France for 7 years and it's so hard to find this sort of context and analysis from French sources. Love your work and appreciate so much being able to watch your extra stuff on Nebula

This is excellent material. Half of them I did not know, despite my obsession with details of history. Thank you. I subscribe immediately.

I was in northern Ivory Coast back in 2002 when the civil war started. I remember seeing French troops being stationed a block away from our house. We were elated to watch these soldiers roll in with their big guns and tanks after months of violent fighting between the government forces and rebels that cost the lives of thousands. At the time, we saw the French military as saviors because we were lead to believe that President Laurent Gbagbo hated us northerners and wanted to exterminate us. Fortunately my entire family was able to escape the conflict by clandestinely crossing the border into neighboring Mali where my parents are from. We spent 4 days and 4 nights hiding in the back of a semi truck trying to avoid all roadblocks put in place by the rebels. I remember on our 3rd day we got caught by the rebels and we all thought we were going to die in the most horrific ways. I will never forget the terrifying look on my younger brother’s face who started screaming “We’re dead! We’re dead!” as the rebels fired warning shots and aimed their weapons at us. The driver was able to bribe them so they let us go. It wasn’t until decades later that I truly understood what the real story was. Turns out President Gbagbo wanted to leave the Franc CFA and gain back control of the cacao industry to benefit local producers rather than foreign multinationals. So France in conjunction with Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) who is currently the president of Ivory Coast, lead both a demonizing media campaign and a devastating rebellion against the Government of Laurent Gbagbo to stamp out his nationalist ambitions. So it makes my blood boil when most French media and political commentators reduce our rejection of France’s neocolonialism to a simple “anti-French sentiment”.

I'm french and that's litterally the first time in my life i've heard about that. That's actually scary

This was so interesting to see how much meddling France has done in Africa. Would you do a video on US involvement in central america?

Amazing quality. Thank you for shining a spotlight on this

More people should be talking about this.

"umscrewing all the light bulbs before they left" This is next level petty

As a former French Foreign legionnaire who was in Mali during Operation Barkhane, I remember encountering Wagner Group in a village near Tessalit and even though both sides knew the other was there and it was ok, there was still a bit of tension. One of our guy, a Lithuanian, started an argument with one of Wagner after he apparently said something insulting in russian. I remember how we all looked at each others and instantly understood " let's chill, there's no need to excalate a situation we wouldn't be able to handle ", because let's face it, no matter how much training you have, when your only experience is fighting some dude in ragtags with a rusty AK, you don't feel confident taking on a similar force. I can't imagine fighting in the same place again against trained troops, heavy artillery, armor and drones... Especially in such an open place as the Sahel.

Thank you for such an informative video about a subject that is not well covered.