Security dilemma, resource, and ethnic reasons in that order are indeed largely responsible for the latest phase of the Congolese Conflict, but the unseen complex relationship between France and Rwanda might actually have played the most important role in catalyzing recent events. The latest phase of the long-running and still-unresolved Congolese Conflict threatens to escalate…
The fall of Chad’s French-backed military junta would be a watershed event not just for its region, but for the entire continent as a whole. In fact, it could even ultimately deal a deathblow to the neo-imperial hegemonic concept of “Françafrique”. France is fast losing control of its self-declared and condescendingly described “sphere of influence”…
The unmistakable trend is that French influence across its former African colonies is fast disappearing, with this process paradoxically accelerated by the inadvertent consequences of its desperate efforts to stop all of this. The more that Paris pushes back against multipolarity, the more that everything speeds up at the expense of that declining neo-colonial hegemon’s…
For energy-starved EU, Algeria is no longer a metaphoric dependable girl next door. She’s suddenly blossomed into a hottie who gets chased after by all her divorced former classmates at the high school reunion. Just a year ago French President Emmanuel Macron could hardly bother to give the former North African French colony the time…
The United States’ fight to maintain its global hegemony has reached its third stage. – After the expansion of Nato to the East in violation of Western commitments not to station US weapons in Central Europe, Russia, which cannot defend its huge borders, is under direct threat. – In violation of its World War II commitments, Washington…
Does Liz Truss see herself angling for a top job in the EU or what is seen as a new group which will take over its bigger role with Macron leading it? When politicians believe that they’re against the wall and their careers are in tatters they do anomalous things. Liz Truss, left battle scarred…
