>“Estimates are that Burkinabe military forces continue to lose control of territory and now operate freely in as little as 30% of the countryHow do you unfuck this situation if you're the military here? How do you even lose 70% of your country to lightly armed jihadis in the first place?
>>64303023The same way a corrupt and unpopular south Vietnamese government lost.
Who you gonna call?
>"How can this be happening ? I denounced Colonialism and the Wet and banned javascript so many times ! Monke save me !"Honhonhon MDR
>>64303057All 3 of the sahel juntas left the ICC accusing it of being colonial a few days ago. It seems if you attach that buzzword the retards in these countries eat it up while it's pretty clear general ngubu is going to jet off with all the shit he stole to Dubai or wherever like all these tinpot dictators do
>Bring in Russians>Collapse militarilyWhy is this so common?
>>64303065>The ICC>Colonial Jesus, they really are fucking stupid. The ICC pretty much exists as a way for the third world to try and extract "reparations" from the First world
>>64303023>Kicks out French support in favour of Russian mercs because they're willing to do war crimes for you>War crimes do not in fact win warsThat's what happened.
>>64303023>How do you even lose 70% of your country to lightly armed jihadis in the first place?Who knows?
>>64303023"Residents of the town of Solhan, eastern Burkina Faso, held a protest today, with signs reading "Solhan is hungry", "Resupply Solhan within 24 hours", the town has a military base, which is besieged in the south by JNIM and north by IS-Sahel"2 days later"Several families in Sebba and Solhan decided to join the JNIM militants following protests 2 days ago demanding the government to resupply the town with food, the local residents were reportedly provided with food and medicine from JNIM."the government is literally braindead, the VDP militias along with mercs just fuck around and persecute minorities, who end up joining JNIM, also burkina faso and the shithole sahel states were funded with USAID (yes, even after the coups)
>>64303088in other news, JNIM began a campaign in order to stop fuel imports into mali, and it's largely successful, with convoys being hijacked/destroyed and companies signing deals with JNIM to let fuel transports into the country
>>64303093pic related
>>64303088JNIM have started a campaign where they are blockading fuel trucks from entering Mali and the government said that it was a sign of them being weak. It must be like being a German in the final months of the war hearing the supposed "victories" getting closer and closer to Germany kek>>64303065>>64303078>Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have announced their exit from the International Criminal Court (ICC), referring to it as “neocolonial repression” and accusing the judicial body of selective justice.>In a joint statement on Monday night, the three countries said the ICC had become incapable of prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression and genocide without elaborating.>“[The ICC is an] instrument of neocolonial repression in the hands of imperialism,” the joint statement read, adding that the countries were seeking more “sovereignty”.>The three states added that they wanted to create “indigenous mechanisms for the consolidation of peace and justice”.
>>64303074>Park rangers>Controlling large swathes of countryBased
>>64303093>look at me, I am the State now
>>64303093JNIM seems far more pragmatic than the local ISIS branch. I guess that's part of the reason ISIS got so big in the first place because they want a caliphate ASAP but just massacring your way through villages makes a lot of enemies.
>>64303109isis in the region (also in the congo) is also much more pragmatic than in syria, trying to establish jizya on non-muslims (with regular beheadings if they reject), but they are still much more extreme than JNIM (for example kidnapping kids to indoctrinate them) and regularly fight with themaltho, the west nigerian IS offshoot (not to be confused with the one in eastern nigeria) just razes villages and kidnaps foreigners for money to stay afloat
>>64303104Poaching is so rife and poachers so heavily armed in Africa, park rangers are basically SF
>>64303116ISCAP (Congo ISIS) used to be like that but at this point they're basically a roaming TND squad in the jungle who occasioanlyl behead dozens of people. I'm not even sure what they think theyre accomplishing because the region is like 5% Christian. The Nigerian branch in the northeast is by far the most "succesful" and least violent to civilians because the army has basically let them keep their little statelet for some reason
>>64303049chasseurs de phantomes hon hon !
>>64303049What's he thinking?
>>64303128>army has basically let them keep their little statelet for some reason>least violent to civiliansHmm there's maaaaybe a chance those two things are connected to each other
>>64303137Least violent by ISIS standards, anon. And having a not insignificant portion of your nation controlled by ISIS isn't a good look.
>>64303088>>64303093>>64303106>>64303109>>64303117>>64303023>>64303049how is russia losing bases to fucking isis?
Russian bros we lost niger to turkey?!
>>64303151Historical military incompetence
>>64303049what guns are those?
>>64303169Famas
>>64303161>The war crimes aren't working, what do we do?>Clearly the answer is more war crimesThey'll never learn.
>>64303180food is the answer
>>64303151I've recently revised my assumption that Russia was deliberately protecting ISIS within the regions of Syria they controlled and now think ISIS was able to persist in those regions simply because the Russians were incapable of stamping them outA lot of people (including me to some extent) seem to have looked at the wests forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that COIN is easy when if fact the west was (as usual) the very best in the world at what they were doing and simply made it look easy as a resultThe truth, it seems, is that good COIN is actually really difficult to pull off, especially if the guys running the insurgency have (or are affiliated with guys that have) decades of experience surviving the most effective COIN effort history has yet seen
>>64303049damn, I wish I had a FAMAS
>>64303189Assuming Russian competence is the great strategic mistake of the 21st century
>>64303161Russia's sphere of influence is free real estate. You can just walk in and take it.
>>64303023Pas de remboursement.
>>64303140>What's he thinking?Either>Holy shit I’m really blackOr >By Allah I wish I had a Famas
>>64303074Honestly when you only look at population centers and major roadways, the government has a lot more control than it seems at first glance
>>64303074>Chinko Nature Reserve
>>64303078Maybe for Asia, but in Africa, it's just a way for Europe to remove heads of state it dislikes.
>>64305009That's the weird thing about these African wars. A rebel group just takes a region and the government is just "ahh whatever stay over there". A lot of the conflicts from the 20th century froze, not because a side seriously won, but because they stopped caring as much when they got food and money from corruption.
>>64305087Name 5 times this has happened
>>64303044To a technologically and numerically superior conventional military force in open battle? That's obvious enough, OP's question was about lightly armed jihadis retard.
>>64305351They keep a list up on Wikipedia if you're curious.
Is the Sahel the closest place to hell on earth? I mean it's getting hotter and hotter every year, water and other basic necessities are surely limited, it's only going to get more dangerous and inhospitable. Will it even be populated in 50 years, or just Sahara 2: Sandy Boogaloo?
>>64305376You know the ICC isnt a "depose a nigger" button right? Have they got Kony yet?
>>64305409>falling for basic propaganda
>>64303189How did you manage to conclude COIN is easy if the West had forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Shouldn't it be the opposite?
>>64305477The West demonstrated keeping insurgents down is easy in the modern day. Guerillas were target practice in the forever wars. It was a refutation of the narrative guerillas could fight off any conventional army which didn't go full genocide mode.China did the same with the Uighurs. Guerilla warfare is a lot weaker against nation-states than it was in the age of Maoist insurgencies.
>>64305477NTA but I'm guessing he means that Western militaries racked up insane kill rates and indeed managed to clear out insurgents when they stood in the open (though not when they're dispersed/covert) so the assumption was that Russia could do the same.
>>64303023>How do you unfuck this situation if you're the military here?I'm going to re-ban le homosex. Again. And shock the West once more. It stops here. And that'll turn this goat rope of a war around in no time at all.>>64303189>A lot of people (including me to some extent) seem to have looked at the wests forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that COIN is easy when if fact the west was (as usual) the very best in the world at what they were doing and simply made it look easy as a resultThat's an interesting point. I think another thing is that you need a lot of dudes. People think of special forces but the Surge happened because the U.S. military deduced that you need to dump a lot of troops into a city and hold it for awhile to make any progress. The U.S. military had a theory that you need a 20 troops at minimum for every 1,000 civilians. Or 25.
>>64303180Name?
>>64305510COIN has nothing to do with kill ratios. In fact obsessing over kill ratios is a certain sign of cope and a failure of COIN.
>>64305430Tell me which dictators the ICC has deposed.
>>64305610>nonsequiturI didn't say anything about "kill ratios." What are you on?
>>64305615see >>64305376
>>64305654Indicting someone for war crimes isnt the same as getting rid of them retard
>>64305669>forcibly abduct sitting president>hold him for a decadeRight. Totally different.
>>64305694Just 2 more weeks until they invade a nation to get Bashir or Bibi
>>64303101>“indigenous mechanisms for the consolidation of peace and justice”.so...necklacing?
>>64303177No, really. What kind of guns are those?
>>64303101What does JNIM want again? A sovereign Sagel state, right?
>>64305765>"europe won't go after israel's head of state, so they're not abducting africans"Is this really how Franceshills think?
>>64303023The government only had 10% control when the French were there so this is a massive improvement
>>64305669Sorry ya boy assad lost (not sorry)
>>64305867Post bagram lmao>As of January 2025, the Russian military remains in control of Khmeimim Air Base and its naval base in Tartus, with its future uncertain. Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said both Iran and Russia are important partners for Syria, and expressed a desire to maintain positive relations with both.
>>64305807I'm sorry the juntas you love so much are retarded and constantly losing ground but there's no reason to make up shit. Stop massacring civilians from ethnic groups you dont like and the ICC wont be on your ass
>>64305912>projectionAmerica won't always be able and willing to cover for you. Whose skin are you going to hide in when you're scraped out from beneath ours?
>>64305919>i'm a kike because I pointed out the ICC isnt deposits governments
>>64305928I only implied you were French or a sympathizer.
>>64305936Explain to me how barkhane and serval were the lesser evil compared to Mali Burkina and Niger collapsing slowly
>>64305368Hearts and minds you fucking short bus. Learn some goddamn history.
>>64305940>lesser evil talkYou do not need to justify your actions with me. I will always consider you an evil worth spitting out.
>>64305802N-not that kind of indigenous justice chud!
>>64305985Except that's not true dumbfuck, take your own fucking advice instead of spouting borderline propaganda that completely ignores the experience of the South Vietnamese, or the chronological order of the war for that matter you retard. The actual insurgency came very close to annihilation after the Tet Offensive and the Communist side of the war effort was carried by the PAVN from then on. Saigon fell because it was invaded by the North's army which defeated the ARVN in battle. Simple as that
>>64305891I see the shitskin cope has reached a "psychotic episode" level of delusion. Can't say I'm surprised, what with all the humiliation rituals you people been enduring non-stop lately.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIEsFAJznk
>>64303023>How do you even lose 70% of your country to lightly armed jihadis in the first place?Too poor and corrupt to maintain an army large enough to protect the entire country, so the military presence is mostly concentrated in just a couple big cities/towns. So they didn't actually lose it, more like the vacuum left by the lack of government authority gets filled by these groups. This kind of thing is a problem in most of Africa.
>>64305891>>64306248lmao As of September 2025, Russian forces at Khmeimim are reportedly preventing the adjacent Latakia Airport from receiving civilian flights, citing the risk to military equipment.
>>64305992Enjoy having your state taken over by ISIS and Al Qaeda retard lmao
>>64303128>I'm not even sure what they think theyre accomplishing because the region is like 5% Christian.If you've lived long as I do, you'd realized soon that nobody could hate a muslim more than another muslim.
I suspect the anti-Western pose by these juntas might not last because the situation is so serious and the Russians don't seem to be doing a good job either. Or they might remain anti-French but throw in with America. There was an article in the Washington Post that Mali is working with the CIA, and Burkina Faso sent a military delegation to D.C. last month. It was just a handful of soldiers meeting with the D.C. National Guard but it caught my attention.
There's just a million A.I. slop videos with titles like this... then meanwhile on DVIDS...https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9240605/dc-national-guard-senior-leaders-welcome-ambassador-burkina-faso
>>64303161new ottoman empire soon
>>64303189It's a deliberate action by russians. They had always been pouring gas on islamic terrorism and fanaticism. Look at Chechenia and compare people like Dudaev and Maskhadov to kadyrov and tell me who is a former mobster and terrorist. I bet russians greenlit and payed people like basaev to tun the place into a jihadist cesspit. Isn't that interesting how before chechnya he was fighting for pro-russian forces in abkhazia and Karabagh?If there some lowly and utmost nasty shit happenning somewhere russians are likely complicit
>>64305791Famas
>>64306325>As of September 2025, Russian forces at Khmeimim are reportedly preventing the adjacent Latakia Airport from receiving civilian flights, citing the risk to military equipment.Is this what the voices in your head whisper to you every night as you cry yourself to sleep, Ramesh?
>>64303140I are the niggest.
>>64303023I need to cop some of their orange tiger stripe camo
>>64305847they never needed the french
>>64303074>park rangers are a major military factionI support this so much.
>>64303074We must fund and arm the park rangers
>>64309680>>64309782>>64303104>>64303117https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/16/on-patrol-with-the-wildlife-rangers-of-chinko-photo-essayThey actually protect animals and fight wildfires. WTF, based.
>>64307970Literally ebay.
>>64303074>LRALord's Resistance Army?
>>64309680>>64309782
>>64303189Meanwhile, Flips managed to defeat ISIS within 5 months in 2017 in Marawi
>>64303023It's almost like if you give a bunch of people with sub 70 IQs a country, they make retarded decisions. Because they are literally mentally retarded. By clinical definition.You make enough retarded decisions, you don't have a country anymore. Now whatever retard has the most friends has a country to make retarded decisions in.
>>64310855their quite literally brothers lol
>>64303049Looks like Shrimp a la Bigeard is back on the menu!
>>64307649Are you sure?
Footage of drone strike on Malian soldiers conducted by FLA
>>64316098hmm how did they get these?
>>64316104from based ukraine
bump
>>64305992>>lesser evil talkThat's how the world works
>>64312161They didn't eradicate them, ISIS (Ismael Abubakar faction of BIFF and Maute group) is still in Mindanao.The non-ISIS BIFF Karialan faction is also still fighting the Philippines.And the mainstream MILF and MNLF still have their weapons.Philippine military is incredibly incompetent, look up MILF at the Mamasapano ambush massacring Filipino special forces.MILF still kill Filipino soldiers in clashes.
>>64303023I don't who is surprised by this.>>64303049Hopefully not us, I have terminal nigger fatigue. African ops are not just terrible press but an unwinnable bottomless pit, precisely due to >>64312186. We couldn't do anything to fix it, neither did the Russians, and neither will the Turks or whoever the fuck comes after them. The only relationship we need to have with Africa is trade with the few countries on this cursed continent that manage to reach 90 IQ and FRONTEX turning back the boats in the Med.
>>64322393>DÉFEИSE DE FUMERNigger litteracyor russian psyopscall it
>>64312359>their
