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  This is not going to end well.
context: The French troops are probably quite pleased with this >
  
  Why? >
  
  Would you rather be on a peacekeeping mission in Africa or hanging out at home >
  
  Danger pay is usually 2x normal salary. Some wants to be deployed >
  
  Twice the normal salary? That’s pretty damn good! If memory serves, it was $150 extra per month for the US. I wonder if the Foreign Legion is hiring? >
  
  150 when? Hazard duty pay, combat pay, tax free, it's was 2x in 2008. Mad money on deployment in afg both times. I miss it >
  
  Did you deploy as E1? Only way your math makes sense is if you were Army or Marines. >
  
  E3 amd E4 in marines >
  
  Ok then yea your math makes sense.
  Not that it’s right, but it makes sense lol. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  "The Burkinabe government last Wednesday denounced the accord which has governed, since 2018, the presence of French armed forces on its territory," AIB said, adding that authorities had given France a month to complete its pull-out.
  French troops withdrew from Mali last year after a 2020 coup in the former French colony saw its rulers also inch closer to Russia.
  Demonstrators gathered in Burkina's capital Ouagadougou on Friday to demand the French ambassador leave the country and that the French military base there be closed.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: French^#1 force^#2 Burkina^#3 country^#4 France^#5 >
  
  Let’s see how much they enjoy Wagner once they arrive >
  
  How big is Wagner ffs, didn't they lost thousands of member in Ukraine ? >
  
  They’re huge. They make massive revenue from their mines in Mali. It’s a very lucrative business. They’re rapidly growing but at last count they had 100,000 members globally. >
  
  Followed by them berating France for leaving them in their time of need, when shit goes sideways almost instantly. >
  
  They don't want troops, they want money, those warlord mansions don't buy themselves >
  
  Wagner Group is probably picking out the wallpaper they’ll put up in the French bases. By “put up wallpaper” I mean of course mean rob, rape, and murder. >
  
  I’m goin to take a wild guess that the government here is corrupt and looking to become more corrupt. >
  
  If that was true then they would keep the French around >
  
  It's literally the coup that ousted a coup. It's a kleptocratic government kicking out people who might observe their actions. >
  
  Sounds like the military sold itself out to Putin and the Wagner Group. >
  
  This is not going to end well. >
  
  Ok but we won't come back, enjoy  ;-) >
  
  Nice to know but knowing European history, this is an empty promise. >
  
  For exemple ? >
  
  You won't be given one. Just anti-French or anti-European noise. >
  
  Russia is super active in spreading anti-european sentiment in Africa. They signal boost any conspiracy and those false ideas spread far and wide.
  Then they invite wagner, whom are happy to turn a blind eye to any government corruption as long as they get to rate and steal with abandon. And the people of Africa ones again suffers.
  There are countries in Africa with a bright future ahead of them. But wagner is not present in any of them. >
  
  I mean given the history of Europe and Africa, the Russians really don’t have to do much >
  
  Oh it's easy for them to exploit, absolutely. Does not mean that the people of Africa does not end up suffering more for it. >
  
  Yeah whatever leave burkina i'd suggest (evacuate equipment in good order, don't leave our army stuff behind like stan?) and let them sort their own mess with jihadis. It's their country that's at risk of being taken over by basthit crazies, not ours. It's their problem when their propaganda falsely blaming us could end up facing reality. >
  
  Those are Legionnaires.. 
  They'll leave when they're good and ready >
  
  
  Those are Legionnaires.. 
  
  Lol do you think only legionnaires get deployed in French military interventions? The FFL represents a tiny part of the French army.
  And there are no regular French troops in Burkina Faso anymore (which means no legionnaires either). Only a small French special forces task force (Task force Sabre) is still there if I remember correctly. >
  
  LOL... 50 of the 400 special forces presently in Country are Legion.
  A battalion of Legionnaires are in next door Niger on a tournant basis which totals 2000 troops.
  Legion units traditionally make up half the combat power of French forces in Africa.
  How do I know this?
  Been there ..done that ....still got the t shirt ..
  LPN >
  
  
  LOL... 50 of the 400 special forces presently in Country are Legion.
  
  Oh lord..... What do we have here?! That's quite the statement considering no regiment or even squad of the Legion is part of the French special forces. Anyone who actually served in the French armed forces would know this lmao.
  There are some Legionnaires in the GCP (Parachute Commando Group) as 3 of the 19 GCP teams are drawn from the Legion (from the 2nd REP more specifically)..... but the GCP is not part of the French special forces. They are a group of elite paratroopers but still part of the French conventional forces. In other words, they could not have been part of Task Force Sabre, as those guys are from the Special Operations Command. Perhaps, there are still a dozen conventional troops in Burkina with TF Sabre and not all have left?!
  
  A battalion of Legionnaires are in next door Niger on a tournant basis which totals 2000 troops.
  
  The remnants of Barkhane are now based in Niger since France withdrew from Mali.... and represent around 2,000 troops in total (all troops, so just not those from the Legion). So how the hell would a battalion of 2,000 legionnaires be there in rotation.... especially when the entire Legion (soldiers, officers and civilians) numbers around 9,000 people and when we know some Legion regiments are permanently stationed in French overseas territories (like French Guiana)? lol
  Peak French manpower during Operation Barkhane (so throughout the Sahel) was 5,100 troops and not even 1/7 of the troops deployed to the Sahel since the shitshow began in 2013 were from the Legion. Where did the 2,000 legionnaires appear from?
  
  Legion units traditionally make up half the combat power of French forces in Africa.
  
  They certainly didn't in either Operation Serval or Barkhane.... When did you serve in the Legion? You're talking as if you were in the Sahel recently but this statement reads as if you served in the FFL during the Cold War or even pre-decolonization, so you'll excuse me.... but we'll put your lack of knowledge on the French military on you being full of shit. >
  
  Lol.  Straw grasping at it's finest. 
  The 2000 troops in Niger INCLUDE Legionnaires not 2000 Legionnaires .
  As for 400 GCP in BK, that's laughable. 
  As for the REP not being considered as special forces, you've been watching too many Navy Seal Podcasts.
  Bk Is an unflushed toilet without the military capacity to do anything other than rob their own people .
  As for your lack of understanding of French military operations in Africa,  there are those who do, and those who read about it ...
  And we both know what you are. >
  
  Hahahahaha thanks for the entertainment. You turned out not to be a clown, but the whole fucking circus in fact. As I had guessed, you've never served in the Legion.... or anywhere else for that matter. Probably never even seen a rifle in your life. Have a good week, sir. >
  
  You play the The Ostrich defense... Quelle surprise.... 
  "It's not happening...deny it at it will go away.  "
  You are at least a general in Call of Duty.  Keyboard commando at its best....
  LPN. >
  
  Was there something to argue in that rubbish of years? lmao. You literally claimed the 2nd REP was SF and then randomly rambled about me supposedly claiming there were 400 GCP in Burkina.... I don't know, lay your hands off drugs maybe, bud?!
  Why are you ridiculing yourself? You think anyone here is going to buy into your schtick after that display. Clueless about something as basic as the structure of a French military he supposedly served in and talks like he's 12 but he's a French foreign legionnaire. Bahaha! >
  
  You're upset.... Wow . Even mistyping "years" for "yours"...
  Did you fail selection or perhaps couldn't get travel docs to Europe?
  Is it the Legionnaire thing setting you off?   
  Did some Legionnaire shag a Crimson Princess somewhere and not pay full rate?
  400 GCP in one shithole country? Is that one of your Call of Duty scenarios?
  Anyway..  you should get back to work.. those floors won't mop themselves..
  LPN >
  
  Africans be like: we want you out, but we want your money. >
  
  The French should kick the Merc Russians out of CAR, DRC, and the Sahel >
  
  Why should the French sacrifice their soldiers lives to do this? >
  
  Because a lot of their businesses depend on extracting resources from Africa and they own rights to a surprising amount of major infrastructure there. There’s no way the French are going to sit idly by, Wagner or the Chinese be damned >
  
  Not that much if you take the official trade numbers into account. The idea that the economy of France depends on Africa is a very common trope among anti-France African militants (out of envy and feeling of humiliation, my two cents). >
  
  Both can be true. Yes the French economy as a whole is advanced, diversified, and large enough to thrive without its African interests. But at the same time there are many individual French businesses that control important swathes of African economies to this day. Who owns Gabonese oil or Gabonese uranium?  You don’t think Elf is influential enough to whisper in anyone’s ears if they need it? Which country are they forced to keep their reserves in?  China or Russia have a long way to go to even imitate what you guys did….errrr do there >
  
  I lived 4 years in Port-gentil (my father was working for Elf/Total) and never met anyone mad at the french or criticising us. But reddit didn't exist at that time.
  Edit: Also those big companies have the same power in Europe, USA and everywhere, not just Africa. >
  
  Just a reminder that France was very much involved in the assassination of former Burkinabé President Thomas Sankara, who oversaw unprecedented reforms in Burkina Faso and raised the standard of living enormously. The man who organized his assassination, Blaise Compaoré, was tried in absentia by a military tribunal in Burkina Faso just last year. The opinion of any Westerner who opposes Russia's foreign policy but worships the West's should be discarded and rightly ignored. >
  
  You're kind of ignoring the part where he couped a democracy to become a Leninist dictator that put on show trials and created an organization that went around to beat the people into submission. Yea he did some good things. When you have total autocratic control it's a lot easier to do that. A corrupt tribal democracy is pretty bad but an all powerful dictator is rarely that much better and Africa has had a history with plenty of them. Turns out they're good for a bit but then pretty bad after. >
  
  Yeah, Sankara brutalized BF with vaccines, medicine, education, and a better standard of living on their own terms.
  Sankara was incredibly popular with the people. I wouldn’t consider suppressing colonial lap dogs that would eventually assassinate him “autocratic”, unless you want to paint all revolutions as autocratic.
  Aside from Cuba, Sankara’s government was one of the most successful examples of a Post-colonial socialist government. >
  
  Cuba is also led by a single party dictatorship though.
  And frankly, "good dictators" deserve the exact same contempt as "enlightened despots" did in the past. >
  
  Interesting take, seeing as how Socialists have done and does Greece a lot of good.
  The vast majority of Cuba supports the party despite constant interference and manipulation from the US (same with France and BF). Democracy happens within the party (i.e. Democratic Centralism).
  There is a reason why the government protestors of the recent Cuban mass-protests were carrying 26th of July Movement flags. >
  
  
  Interesting take, seeing as how Socialists have done and does Greece a lot of good.
  
  I'm not sure what you're talking about? Right now Greece isn't even ruled by socialists or anything really left-wing.
  Left leaning parties have played an important role, of course, and a positive one as well (at least sometimes). That does not mean anyone attempting to install dictatorship would have any right to do so, regardless of ideological persuasion.
  
  The vast majority of Cuba supports the party despite constant interference and manipulation from the US (same with France and BF).
  
  The party could claim that, if there were free elections and they won them with some great majority. Since that isn't happening, they can make no such serious claims, and only easily manipulated people would believe they have genuine popularity. It's after all easy to fake being popular when you are the only legal option.
  
  Democracy happens within the party (i.e. Democratic Centralism).
  
  And anyone outside the party (or anyone inside that disagrees within the party) is imprisoned and/or silenced. That's as democratic as the house of lords in the UK, if not less. Just see the lifetime rulership of Castro.
  
  There is a reason why the government protestors of the recent Cuban mass-protests were carrying 26th of July Movement flags.
  
  Because the 26th of July movement was pro-democracy and against a dictatorship perhaps? You can hardly be seriously claiming that anti-government protests were carrying flags in order to support a government they were protesting against.