>Tuaregs have taken the Russian base in KidalWhy are they able to use assault bikes more effectively than Russians in Ukraine?https://files.catbox.moe/69r0ki.mp4
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>>65110237Meh I think the jihadists controlled the city back before 2021, or the Tuaregs were rebelling and then there was some talks that led to them calming down but then the coup happened so they told the gov to fuck off again and took till now to retake the city..... either way this is a return to how it had been rather than a major gain. Now if Gao falls to the Tuaregs/AQ or Menaka falls to ISIS that could be interesting. I wanna see an up to date map in general this one is from november, the 'detailed map' is dog shit for detail.
>Mali got rid of the western forces and relied on russia>russia has bigger problems They probably don't give a fuck which is why this is pretty much a walkover than military victory
>>65110259Has there been word on Tessali and Aguelhok? I've seen Kidal, Gao, and a whole bunch of cities/towns mentioned but not those two cities/towns >>65110274Russia was only there for the gold to be honest.
>>65110331HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH you are 100% a nigger
Russian soldiers in Africa are likely to have lower morale than the French soldiers in Indochina or the British soldiers in Malaya, but even if they return home, all that awaits them is a trip to Ukraine.
>>65110409Idk anon, if I were unfortunate enough to be a russian then I’d rather be deployed to Mali over Ukraine
>>65110237they have hohol aid
>>65110331The French were the only reason Mali survived
Isn't this just the stuff where Russia has already done deals with the rebels letting them run away from the bases with their equipment?
>>65110879Stop trying to cope.
>>65110879Yes, the Russians did a deal, allowing them to leave.
>>65110923The only thing I'm trying to cope with is the lack of TZD by having the Russians get away.
>>65110237Tuaregs vastly outnumber the Russians and local forces attached to them suck ass.Motorcycle assaults work way better in the desert where you can virtually maneuver anywhere. In Ukraine you got woods, bombed out and mined fields that have turned into sludge along with swampy shitness that makes up a lot of Eastern Ukraines landscape. Tuaregs are also really good at hit and run raids having been doing them for centuries.
>>65110237>>65110274Why are African leaders so bad at realpolitik? Shit, Africa is the last continent where realpolitik can be credibly practiced; so you'd think they'd be better at it. Pic not related.
Tuareg Tuareg Tuareg sahur cannot stop winning brosI think they might pull off the Somaliland thing after all
The French and British losing their empires has been outright disastrous for the world.
>>65110237The Sahara is a vast mostly empty desert Ukraine is partly step bog and forest. I'd also point out the Russians are comically outnumbered and likely out gunned in a lot of cases in Mali. Still funny how most African nations have to keep a small army of mercs or they don't function.
>>65110867Oy we contributed too. Apaches and everything. One Apache crashed killing both crew, and then the defense minister resigned when a degraded mortar round exploded in the tube killing two.
>France didn't help us, which is why we kicked them out>Also, please ignore the fact that the Islamists are doing better now
>>65111103>a degraded mortar round exploded in the tube killing two.Lolwut, how does that happen? I mean accidents happen, but how the fuck can there be such an oversight that you're not sending your deployed troops the top shelf stuff first instead of old shit? This is the Dutch military after all.
>>65110237There aren’t mines and drones everywhere in the bumfuck Sahara Desert.
>>65111123They were bought from the Americans (we were short because of Afghanistan) who specifically mentioned that they were not using them, and could not guarantee their quality. Then we just ignored all that and sent our boys to die. During a training exercise. The Apache crashed because of a flight control failure. Also during a training exercise.We have a long history of not giving our troops the tools they need to do their job.
>>65111142>We have a long history of not giving our troops the tools they need to do their jobIt's part of the culture at this point.
RAID AND PILLAGE
>>65111104Incorrect. Butthurt thirdie or specifically butthurt zigger?
>>65110237Terrain. It is extremely difficult for novice riders on cheap China bikes to navigate Ukrainian mud. >t. Legionnaire 22-24, also luv mi motorbikes (simple as)
>>65111104>meanwhile IRL Mali begged for help and France accomplished one of the most successful operations of modern military history by successfully saving the capital city from being taken by the terrorist group and liberating a huge portion of the territory.You know this type of operations two folded, first the chad frog will come and liberate the village and then the low IQ niggers in the village have to hold it against terrorists otherwise the army would spread too thin. Now take into account that the village nigger hate frogs because muuuuh colonialism 100 years ago and other delusional anti white propaganda + russian psyops + extremely poorly equipped Malian army (lmao look at the video, lol even). It's a miracle frogs could accomplish what they've done if you take into account Malians mindset. And then the new Mali government is so ungrateful that it shifts all the fault to the frogs lmao. It's really the ultimate nigger mindset "we can't do bad things it's always white people, we are not responsible for ourselves, please help Russia (or soon china I guess cause you guys are that retarded)"
>>65111054There's a reason and it starts withN
>>65111250https://youtu.be/UyydJOemUQ4The video is a classic one but it's meaningless without audio so here you go guys if you wanna laugh a bit
>>65111250I don't even understand why people bother saying the Frogs are incompetent. I used to attribute it to Anglos being butthurt back in the day, but the landscape of the internet has changed so much that anyone with a brain knows that the Frogs run military operations in Africa. They know their shit back and forth, a huge number of countries speak some derivation of French to a greater or lesser degree, they have good training, good equipment, they know not to get fooled by the locals, and they aren't afraid of committing warcrimes because proving it is next to impossible and the government (regardless of who is in charge) just accepts that's the cost of doing business. They were put in a bad spot in French Guiana last year with the locals wanting the French out but the French clearly weren't willing to allow Algeria 2.0 to happen yet it's a contentious conflict to get embroiled in due to all the eyes on the area as a consequence of the launch facility. I have to see the locals stopped being retarded, or the French are still trying to placate them without needing to get the knives out.
Forgot to drop my WEBM I made yesterday.
Hot off the presses.Russian Afrika Corp posted a message complaining about Ukrainian instructors...no idea how they'd come to that conclusion.
>>65111094You can thank the americans for that.
>>65110237These were teleporting bikes they got off the Iranians
>>65111250Russia and Mali are natural allies when you think about it. >obsession with “manliness” and looking tough>pervasive systemic corruption >normalized brutality >conservative religious society >large, ignorant peasant population that has been oppressed and disenfranchised for so long that they’ve become “apolitical” and don’t even bother fighting the systemRussian culture is virtually indistinguishable from African culture.
>>65111373Ya totally wasn't the USSR giving out AK's like they were candy the commies never armed or trained proxies faggot. Those Empires weren't falling apart before world war 2 even started no they were strong not failing and falling apart. You faggots totally didn't drag America into the origins of most of its modern conflicts.
>>65111256>>65111250There's an old vice news thing, back from like 10 years ago of french battling with insurgents alongside the Afircan troops. It was such a clusterfuck but it was a staple on /k/ for ages. The government troops roll into town in like company strength, get immediately ambushed and freak the fuck out. They burn through all their ammo in like an hour, then call for the French to rescue them. The french come in and clear the town and kill the insurgents in like 20 minutes and it turns out there were like 6 insurgents or something. A wholly negligible number anyway. And all through the video the fat commander of the africans is on his radio screamin random contradictory orders.
>>65111440Found it, it was actually from Mali as well lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQLrbfxeiQThe incomeptence was just staggering. Weirdly, Part 2. the best part which showed the Malians being almost completely helpless has been scrubbed from the net. Part 1 shows some a bit of it. Part 3 is pretty boring, jsut generic : >westerners try to help people who have absolutely zero intention of helping themselvesthat could come from literally anywhere in the world in the past 30-40 years
>>65111329>"Ukrainians could be here..."
>>65110237i remember seeing some drone footage by the anti russian side a few months ago, did they post anything new?
>>65111464>>65111329>Ukrainian instructors, together with Tuareg rebels, knocked out units of the Russian Afrika Korps of the Russian Defense Ministry from the city of Kidali in the Republic of Mali, the channel of the Afrika Korps of the Russian Defense Ministry officially stated. The rebels published a video of fpv drone strikes on Russian soldiers at the base in Kidaly, after which the Russians threw their Malian allies into Kidali and shamefully fled, the Malian troops were completely defeated after such a betrayal. The Russian Defense Ministry writes press releases based on the experience of the war in Ukraine - the Russians announced a successful regrouping from Kidal. Rusya - but! Azawad! Glory to Ukraine! https://t.me/ButusovPlus/28903https://files.catbox.moe/3r169h.MP4
>>65111533More footage on youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maQddGL2Hz0
So in Ukraine is HATO mercs when russia get BTFO'ed. But in Africa its Ukrainian mercs when africans stop the russians.
>>65111568It's vranyo. Few ziggers actually believe it, they just know it's the official cope so they roll with it.
>>65110331>>65111104hello Vladimir and no, the French actually were the one helping Mali successfully repelling attacks and pushing jihadists back deep into the Sahel desert. what happened is you ziggers went in and spew your rotten propaganda all over the place and organized a coup with Wagner. but now it looks like the Russian army is as capable as fighting jihadists as it is fighting Ukraine. losing in Ukraine, losing Syria, losing Iran, losing Mali fucking losers lmao
>>65110237>Tuaregs I dunno, all I saw were Toyotas.
So any word on territory changes beyond Kidal? From what i hear ISIS took the last government border crossing between Niger and mali and apparently the AQ group took Bers near Timbuktu.... Russia also retreated to the last government city on the way to Libya instead of towards government lines.
>>65111250>"we can't do bad things it's always white people, we are not responsible for ourselves, please help Russia (or soon china I guess cause you guys are that retarded)">or soon china I guess cause you guys are that retardedOne of the few things I'm looking forward to over the next few decades of geopolitics going to shit is watching the afroids try to do this on the chinksects and discovering the bugs do not have the western mindset at all and seek to ruthlessly and unapologetically exploit them, and there will be no domestic bleeding heart crowd to whine too about muh imperialism dindu nuffin.
>>65111329learned? pretty sure it just is ukranians on vacation in exchange for french weaponry and funds sent to ukraine
>>65111457I mean imagine the mental retardation needed to fall for russian propaganda now double it and imagine the mental retardation needed to make it your government ideology and spread it via national news
>>65112740So far every African person I know is super happy that china is taking over Africa they welcome them like their saviours against Europe lmao
>>65111054poor education standards so the people are shit at spotting terrible leaders and potential leaders in war torn areas are usually idiot strong men types. You see the same shit for centuries in European history until the industrial revolution when states invested in universal education because an illiterate peasant makes a terrible worker or soldier.
>>65111329I've seen this operators work before...but not in Africa
>>65111054Their corrupt asshole leaders like equally corrupt leaders. Europeans talking about human rights and other boring shit? Nah. Let's go for the guy who acts tough. Ghetto mentality.
>>65112745Because they're idiots if your claim is true which i doubt. China treats africa like a resource to drain. They have no interest in educating or improving their countries other than just to drain their resources. Nice try chang.
Mali and Africa in general needs new partitioning to prevent ethnic conflict
>>65112795Would it really stop ethnic conflict?Better to let them kill each other until there is a winner imo.
>1.5 billion africans mean it is still the white mans responsibility to police their countrieshow about no
>>65111397russia is just nigeria with snow
>>65112745>So far every African person I know is super happy that china is taking over Africa they welcome them like their saviours against Europe lmaoBelievably retarded. Though I honestly I wouldn't be surprised if they are actually happy just because so many have that slave peasant mindset. It's hard to comprehend but I've slowly come to realize a lot of people see kindness or positive virtues as weaknesses or some sort of "oh so you think you're better" and it makes them mad to witness good. If someone literally fucks them hard they go "oh they're so strong and at least they're HONEST about it!!" Would be a weird feel if the chinks really do just brutally fuck Africa and then Africa likes them more than the west anyway.>>65112787>I doubt Africans are idiotsWell, you can have your opinions anon.
>>65110237Tessalit is also said to have been taken by the Tauregs as well. And apparently Aguelhok is going to be handed over fairly soon as well. It's expected that Anefif will also have the Mali government withdraw from it once the forces retreating from Aguelhok arrive.
Requesting exfil ASAP.
>>65112833>TessalitI heard Tessit fell which is a different village on an oasis south of Ansongo over in Gao province. From what i heard the russians were fleeing to Tessalit.
>>65110398What was the post?
>>65110259Kidal, Gao, Sévaré, Tessalit, Bourem, Intahakha, Tessit, Labbezanga, Ber have apparently all fallen to the various groups currently operating in Mali. And apparently JNIM managed to kill Mali's National Intelligence Chief as well. The Russians also apparently got ambushed by ISIS when they were retreating from Labbezanga. Gunfire is also being reported in Menaka as of 10 hours ago>>65112853According to Suryak (yes, I know he's a lolcow), Tessalit has been taken over by the Tauregs and the Russians are planning on handing over Aguelhok and Anefif. Expect the Kidal and Gao regions to be completely taken over in the next few days if the pace of "peaceful transfers" and violent takeovers manage to stay the same
>>65112879>Sevare and BerKind means Timbuktu's days are probably numbered as well right?
>>65112886Give it another week or so and I think this current offensive will see the norhern portions of Mali under the complete control of ISIS, the Tauregs and JNIM
>>65112907Probably, but will it mean anything long term? This is basically what the situation was before France got involved so the governments can theoretically come back if they pull their heads out of their ass (pretty unlikely desu).Actually ya back in 2013 the rebels controlled the entirety of Mali north of Mopti with Diably being the southern/western extent of their control in january 2013 but by February France had cleared out basically every settlement except Aguelhok
>>65111329>at least I won't be facing khokhols in Africa>blyyyyyyaaaaa
>>65112920>This is basically what the situation was before France got involvedMali was being ran by a relatively pro-French/West government at the time though. And unless the current retard in chief changes his mind about the French and the West, I doubt he'd come crawling back to France for help. There are rumors that allegedly place the leader of Mali as having pre-planned his escape from the country due to internal documents saying that the capital was under extreme risk of falling into militant hands
>>65110245what are they doing?
>>65112868Some delusional nigger claiming France did not save Mali from total collapse
>>65112826>but atleast everyone got hyped
>>65111541I like that Africans fight wars the way my 12 year old mind envisioned how wars were fought.
>>65112886Hullabaloo and howdy doo! Musty prawns and Timbuktu! Yeltzy bye and hippity hoo! Kick 'em in the dishpan! Hoo hoo hoo!".I think I was vaguely aware Timbuktu was a real place but I sure as shit didn't know where it was and I still don't, but now I know it's in africa.
>>65111457Ok so looking into this, it looks like Part 2 was scrubbed from the internet by the Malian and French governments through various dubious legal mean and copyright strikes like 10 years ago because it was too embarrassing for the Malian government.
>>65112879>The Russians also apparently got ambushed by ISIS when they were retreating from Labbezanga. Gunfire is also being reported in Menaka as of 10 hours agoLol, I guess the cope the orcs had negotiated this with the rebels and would stay in Mali nder a new government was just a cope. JUST LIKE IN SYRIA lol.I wish that faggot who was claiming on here that not only would Russia stay in Tartus but expand their operations under the rebels would come back so I could rub his stupid zignog face in it.
JNIM parading with a russian Chekan Ural-4320 MRAP delivered in 2025
>>65110237Islamic State Sahel Province captured the old French military base in Labbezanga
>>65113336The lines shift forward and back all the time. Pretty hard to fight superior numbers of suicide waves
>>65112740>there will be no domestic bleeding heart crowd to whine toFTFYYou'd be surprised. As prosperity in China has grown, a middle-class with middle-class sensibilities has emerged. Animal rights is a growing movement and I've seen police get cancelled because they beat a stray dog to death, that dog-meat festival is on thin ice and represents a kind of last hold-out of that sub-culture. The big exotic meat markets have all shut down or gone behind closed doors where only people in the know can find them.Third world charity is growing too, though the party keeps a lid on it because it's probably directly contrary to their exploitation plans but the Confucius foundation directs those people to projects that assist geopolitical objectives and provides cover for spies.There will come a time when China has become too westernised to avoid western problems.>>65112741>learned? pretty sure it just is ukranians on vacation in exchange for french weaponry and funds sent to ukraineThat sounds pretty likely.Though the Taureg are probably the ones building and operating the drones, it's not that hard and you can train a pilot in a week with a laptop and accessories.Anybody who can handle a soldering iron can build a drone, so the building can be taught in a few hours and there was probably already a few who knew how.I'm sure the tourists may have held some workshops for the locals, as a cultural exchange sort of thing.
>>65112765>I've seen this operators work before...but not in AfricaAah, I see your kung fu is East-Ukrainian Dragon Fly style. I have fought your master!
>>65112795>Mali and Africa in general needs new partitioning to prevent ethnic conflictThe Taureg are in the process of expressing strong opinions on the importance of that and how it should be achieved.
>>65112745>So far every African person I know is super happy that china is taking over AfricaAt certain times in certain years, China has a problem with hoaxes spreading across their social media about african students in China being beaten/raped/robbed by Chinese police/students/teachers or whatever.The source of these always turns out to be fake stories published in African papers, that get picked up by African students and translated and reposted to their chinese contacts, which then spread across Chinese social media.The objective of these stories is to sway local elections somewhere in Africa using the anti-Chinese-imperialist vote.
>>65113366America and France managed it for decades
>>65112795>implying the problem is the frontiers and not niggers themselves Always makes me laugh, they truly can't process any blame, they always have to double it and pass it to whites
>>65113401>reports of Chinese niggersafaris confirmed with 95+% accuracyThank you for verification, comrade.
>>65113469>Thank you for verification, comrade.What always amused me about this during my time in China, was that this was all just collateral damage from some election tampering on the other side of the world.The expat groups I was in on wechat would all blow up with these and there'd be shock and outrage and incredulous reactions and it would take a while before someone, who'd been around long enough to see it before, would speak up and point out how often this has happened before.Nobody believes the official story that it's fake of course, it takes someone finding the original footage to show that it's taken completely out of context before people will accept that it's disinfo.
>>65113469>The Chinese get to have state sanctioned human safaris for undesirables and degeneratesGIWTWMC
Did the Tuaregs never even consider how similar their name is to "toerags"? Why would they do this to themselves?
>>65113401>hoaxesmy slant eyed friend, you literally have a cat torture industry, cool it with your face saving butthurt
>>65113556>The US and Britain's aid comes with strings attached, like force sterilisation and promoting feminism to wreck your society.Sure thing, Ivan. Sure thing.
>>65113556A thief from the US will at least sell you a car, a thief from russia will steal whatever cars you have too
>>65113544>Did the Tuaregs never even consider how similar their name is to "toerags"? Did the Germs consider this?Did the Yanks consider this?>Why would they do this to themselves?They speak a Berber language, it's a pretty ancient language family that was potentially one of the languages in use in the Egyptian kingdoms, a related language is known to be used in the new kingdom (so about 1k-1.5kBCE) but is related to a language spoke in the Tunisia area about 9kBCE as well.So they were speaking something related to their modern language at least twice as long as stonehenge has existed.Tuareg are an *ancient* people.>>65113552>my slant eyed friendI literally just identified myself as an expat and nothing I said was flattering to China.>you literally have a cat torture industryI certainly don't and neither does China, I can't begin to imagine what kind of /pol/tardation leads to a post like that.There are however *literally* posts in this thread explaining why whatever things you're misrepresenting to be a "torture industry" have gone underground or died out in modern China.>>65113556>promotes female education to break up societyWhat kind of society depends on keeping women ignorant to survive?>that's why South Korea turned into what it is now.Aah, now we know exactly who you are. And what your problem with women, China, US, and Russia is.Did the Russian whores in Busan laugh at your micropenis or where you too timid to even buy time with them?
>>65113556HAHAHAHAHA
>>65112822>Which ones are corrupt?The ones giving away all their nation’s natural resources to China and Russia in exchange for personal bribes
>>65112822>Meanwhile their rulers presided over 5x-10x population growthWho live in absolute squalor and depend on foreign gibs, how can you be this retarded?
>>65113556>The US and Britain's aid comes with strings attachedAs it should. Why would we give aid to a government/NGO without making sure they can pass an audit? You want to make sure the aid money is actually being used to dig wells and vaccinate kids rather than buy a government official a new car. >USAID engaged in forced sterilisations in South Korea and in Latin America, India, Bangladesh, using aid as a weapon, literally threatening to starve them if they didn't let them do family planning.I wish this were true but even USAID was not this based.>USAID also promotes feminism and female education to break up society Female suffrage is not why you have designated shitting streets Pajeet.
>>65113556This reminds me of a classic joke. An African is complaining to an American that they can never get anything from America without being lectured whereas China just builds them a road for free. The American replies by saying theres no such thing as a free road. "There you go with your lectures!" Replies the African.
>>65113976It's probably a seething homotroon vatnik trying his damndest to derail the thread. The sudden explosion of western culture war talk in the thread is a good indicator of vatnik presence, especially in a thread pointing out russian failures.
>>65114013
>>65114013>It's probably a seething homotroon vatnik trying his damndest to derail the threadBased on >65114021, I think you might be correct.
>>65112879Apparently the Russians pulled out of Menaka and are currently huddled up in the nearby abandoned UN refugee camp. Knowing that IS-Sahel absolutely hates the Mali government and the Russians, I think that its going to be a Turkey shoot fairly soon unless the Russians can somehow convince IS to allow them to pull out of the Gao/Menaka region entirely
>>65114443Damn the Russians are attacking Camp Re-fugee? Let's panty raid them back.
>>65114443I didn't have UN peacekeepers protecting Wagner from ISIS on any of my bingo cards.
>>65114443can’t believe ziggers have me rooting for isis
>>65114486It's abandoned
>>65114475>>65114443>>65114486>>65114580ISIS TOOK THE FORT STAR FROM THE RUSSIA
>>65110237>more familiar with the terrain>poorer drone coverage from the Russians, even fewer infantry and motorized units available to intercept what the drones missed>flat dry desert more conducive to rapid movement than the Ukrainian steppe which is rained out for at least half of the year>likely clandestine support from Ukraine
>>65114569The funny thing about ISIS is that in Africa they are merely the mid-level extremists, JNIM is AQ who are the 'low level' extremists, then you've got ISSP which is ISIS, but then you get over to Nigeria where you've got Boko Haram who ISIS cut ties with because they were too much.Honestly the situation in the wider Sahel will be interesting to watch in the next month or so. If Mali continues losing ground then I wouldn't be surprised to see Burkina Faso and Niger also lose even more ground against JNIM and ISIS (not that those 2 are working together but they seem to be focusing on different areas). Burkina Faso has already lost about half the rural areas of the country while Niger has it's capitol almost cut off from the borders by a lot of different groups. I don't know anything about how all the groups feel about each other though beyond JNIM and ISIS not liking eachother so idk what happens if the rest of Niger's desert areas fall and ISIS controls all the way to Chad. Chad seems fine i guess but then if they get taken out you've got the RSF in Sudan and the Central African Republic never got over it's civil war.... then you get to the Congo and South Sudan...... Suffice to say but if the situation doesn't stabilize or improve soon then Africa will likely enter a doom spiral instead of the holding pattern it's been in for the last few hundred years.
>>65114443So far the rebels have seemed content to allow the Russians to withdraw when asked. It's the Malian forces they're really after.
>>65111743>losing IranThey aren’t fucking helping Iran in any meaningful way. And Iran might be better off for it all things considered. They’ve done better at fighting the United States and Israel than Russia would have in the same situation. They’ve actually managed to force the US to essentially sue for terms that are largely in their favor, which would put them in a pretty exclusive club (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Red Cloud’s Lakota, the United Kingdom, Cuba arguably)
>>65114637What illicit substance do I need to consume to have hallucinations like this?
>>65114657Water
>>65113582Tuaregs aren't ancient they are completely disconnected from the past and have no continuity. This is the same retarded misconception that a modern muslim egyptian is literally the cousin of Ramesses 2.
>>65114657If Trump had decided to bomb Russia instead of Iran, the Russians would have likely shit the bed almost immediately and sued for whatever terms the US demanded (ex. withdraw from Ukraine). Iran on the other hand has managed to not only force the US to give up on any notions of regime change (the regime is more entrenched than ever if anything), but gained the right to to extract tribute from any vessel going through the Strait of Hormuz, which is not only great for the Iranian treasury, but a massive blow to US naval preeminence in its own right (not being able to guarantee freedom of the seas in one of the world’s most important waterways).
>>65114677did a tuareg fuck your mom or something?
>>65114694So who’s the current leader of the IRGC? Is it the cardboard guy?
>>65114694Iran is literally blockaded you dumb sand nigger
>>65114703Not that anon but isn’t it just that Khomeini guy’s son and his cadres? Regardless it doesn’t seem like a pro-western government is gonna be taking over any time soon unless we put boots on the ground
>>65114701>did a tuareg fuck your mom or something?Could you blame her?The men veil themselves as protection from lustful western women.
>>65114714>Regardless it doesn’t seem like a pro-western government is gonna be taking over any time soonNot with that attitude, bomb the fucker.
>>65114720>They don't give a shit but the alleged and self-proclaimed freedom of navigation guys can't keep the lanes open. That's sad.NTA but I don't think anyone is looking at Iran and saying, yeah, we can totally take USA. Let's start a fight.
>>65114703That’s Ayatollah Khanmeni (not to be confused with predecessor, Ayatollah Khanmeni) you’re thinking of. The current head of the IRGC is Ahmad Vahidi, who assumed the role on March 1st after his boss, Mohammad Pakpour, got blown up.
>>65114720>Iran is fine being blockadedCome on, no one’s brown enough to believe this.
>>65114720Holy cope lmao they tried running the blockade and got fired on and their vessel seized lmao
>>65114720>w-we didn't need those ports anyway
>>65114597The Tauregs are not IS though. IS previously ambushed a retreating Africa Korps convoy about a day or so ago.
>>65114713And I just paid $60 to fill up my tank, why would I care if Iranians have a marginally worse quality of life than they did a few months ago? What the fuck do we actually get out of this? Goodest Goys Award?
>>65113556Ching wong to you too.
>>65110259Tuaregs are not jihadists, they have different end goals and methods but sometime partner to fuck Mali's junta up.French forces did not fight Tuaregs, the agreement was: have your territory, you'll get no trouble if you don't help jihadists and back then Mali's government wasn't dumb enough to try and fight them while also fight jihadists.First thing the junta did was to take back Kidal
>>65114443The tuaregs convinced the jihadists to let Russian leave as a gesture of goodwill to try and negotiate with them a future agreement or something.It was hard and took a long time to do so as per a Tuareg leader.
>>65111142>>65111123They were also stored for months in standard shipping containers which meant they were way above allowable temperatures for a long fucking time.
>>65110237Remind me again how the FUCK can you get overrun when attacked on flat terrain with no vision obstruction for miles?
>>65115036Ehhh it's not that flat, you are either in the sandy part where every hundred feet there's a new dune to hide behind or the rocky part which has plenty of hills.
>>65110879Yes and the russian corpses returned to Moscow under their own power.
>>65111224Hope now the End of History is finally dying we can get games like Generals again, the Warbands of DORF look a lot likr GLA although I am going to go full Union of Imperial States because damn I miss so much sending superheavies to wipe everything out.
>>65112886>>65112907I hope IS doesn't fuck Timbuktu like they did those other historical places. I know it's just mud buildings, but they're very nice mudbuildings.
>>65111250Is this the power of the highly mobile french legion?
>>65111329NO MATTER WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU TRY TO HIDE LITTLE ZIGGERS, THE DRONES COME FOR YOU
>>65115137Timbuktu is mostly surrounded by the AQ group so it should be fine,
>>65111270France is one of those countries you love because they are massive autists who can't let their sense of glory go, we all know KGB tried to subvert everything but somehow frog huge ego protected them from the major effects of PUCCIAN subversion.I hope we can get monke going out french style but we can't have everything in life.
>>65111397Not really, niggers can still occasionally find the courage to revolt.
>>65115137Syria IS is not the same group as the Sahel IS
>>65111250what the fuck is going on with his mouth
>>65115179Looks like a chin trap meant to cover the mouth? Probably useful in the sand.
>>65111329>top quality drone footage ruined by your average hamas-tier editingat least they didn't have freeze frames and red circles & arrows.
>>65115179It's a mask. Don't know why he wears it, though.
>>65113393>End of History neoliberal diatribe about the blank slateYou never learn eh?
>>65113396Fatal Flying Drone chops off your fuckin' head!
>>65115179>>65115184>>65115196muzzled for everyone's safety
>>65114637Iran's entire strategy has been reduced to take a sea lane filled with civilian ships hostage, not saying it's not effective against neoliberal fags and boomer cons but any other human group in history qould have just used US superior arsenal to turn the iranian coast into a radioactive firewall so traffic may be resumed, the fact you are even going to pull the "you are inhumane" card shows how weak the current people in charge are, even that faggot Hegseth has no balls to do what should be done.
>>65115149That's something at least.>>65115172I'm not soo familiar with African IS groups. Some of the ones in Libya seemed to go for historical ruins too.
>>65115184Is that not the padding meant for the chinstrap though?
>>65111329>desert blues starts playing
>>65110853>the eternal khokhol strikes again
>>65115136The fps ukraine war games are gonna be sick
>>65115036Those dunes are kinda funky. It's not perfectly flat so there's plenty of military crest to use creeping up there from what I've seen from swedish and finnish documentaries from mali. Combine that with russian incompetence of not having layered OPs to provide early warning, reaction time etc then yeah. This is what you get
>>65111054Average IQ of 60 in Mali.>why is everyone in this part of the world acting like they're mentally retarded?>they're easily influenced by emotional claims that are utterly false>they make retarded choices whenever they're available>they're short sighted and will take actions for minor immediate gain with severe long term consequences every time!They're actually just mentally retarded. The ones who are slightly less retarded know there's no point trying to save the sinking ship so they might as well just loot what they can and not worry about anything else, since there's no point. There is no fixing it.
>>65115196No one cared who he was until he put on the mask.
>>65112795The Tuareg are workin on it!
imagine being named after a vw
>>65115640>military crestDamn khokly, hiding ragheads.
>>65115522It took me a second.
>>65112745>every African person I knowdo you live in Africa or are you talking about paid shills on X or diaspora?
>>65116117It's probably a paid shill, but his script is outdated.Very broadly generalizin, Africa never liked Europe's patronizing attitude that came with the gibs. So they welcomed China as an alternative. But they're already learning that China isn't trustworthy like daddy Europe.
>>65116136>patronizing attitudeyeah, like asking them to try to implement some basic rule of law, the nerve
>>65116136>China isn't trustworthy like daddy EuropeThat's a strong statement.Perhaps say that they found China isn't trustworthy either.
>>65111054Russia is a weaker patron. The advantages of this are that they can't exercise as much control over you and you can better negotiate with them. The disadvantage is that they can't really protect you which is the whole point of having a patron
>>65115189>Red arrows .... Le baddd
>>65116117Working in a hardware store in Europe I had a lot of double nationality Africans as customers, who purchased machines to send back home to their company or farm.They complained to me about the Chinese stuff, they basically said that while it was cheap, it broke down quickly and parts were impossible to get. For comparaison some of them bought part for 20 or 30yo Stihl chainsaws, few Chinese companies even survive that long.>>65116139The thing is that in a "dog eat dog" type of society if you ever get to power it's easier and smarter to just steal everything you can while you're there, because everyone else expects you to and expect their share.Creating a democratic system with the rule of law is actually really hard because you need to build up people's trust for decades first.
