Why Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso are forming a new country

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @CaspianReport
    @CaspianReport  9 месяцев назад +64

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      Good. GroundNews is a front for SleptStein.

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      Hi, I hope you are aware of BetterHelp not guaranteeing licenced professionals to be the "psychologist". I understand you need sponsors to have a stable income but I suggest distancing yourself from unnesecary drama.
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    • @bastaartp7855
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      Also, to add to my comment above, they have been caught sharing sensitive and "confidential" private information like sexual orientation etc. Not a good look.

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      @surroundgatari 9 месяцев назад +1

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    • @surroundgatari
      @surroundgatari 9 месяцев назад +41

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    @user-hf3ym7lh4d 9 месяцев назад +2834

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    • @pepe-zw4de
      @pepe-zw4de 9 месяцев назад +254

      not the first time they've taken money from shady sponsors

    • @R.K.66
      @R.K.66 9 месяцев назад

      As usual Caspian Report sells his soul to criminal sponsors. Nothing new here.

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      Masterworks sponsorship was just 🤢 . Thankfully people make expose vids on these shady businesses

    • @ivanwronsky
      @ivanwronsky 9 месяцев назад

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  • @cy-one
    @cy-one 9 месяцев назад +1262

    Disliked for the choice in sponsor specifically.

    • @thelibertyking6735
      @thelibertyking6735 9 месяцев назад

      Good thing I have reVanced that came with a built in SponsorBlock.
      That said, it is an out of touch, distasteful sponsorship for a company that sells your private information to advertisers. He should know better than this.

    • @thelibertyking6735
      @thelibertyking6735 9 месяцев назад +9

      What the? Now he's deleting comments too??

    • @Bluefalcon6154
      @Bluefalcon6154 9 месяцев назад +18

      I joined I’m tired of these big RUclipsrs using such trash sponsers

    • @cy-one
      @cy-one 9 месяцев назад +38

      @@thelibertyking6735I doubt it. RUclips has been very weird with deleting and shadowbanning posts for years now.

    • @thelibertyking6735
      @thelibertyking6735 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@cy-one Yeah I guess so.
      Anyways here the response I had (if you want a read):
      Good thing I had revanced that has a built in Sponsorblock.
      That said, it is an out of touch, distasteful sponsorship for a company that sells your private information to advertisers. He should know better than this. Is it that hard to lookup your sponsor and their history?

  • @rmmvw
    @rmmvw 9 месяцев назад +462

    ECOWAS decided to close their ports from the Sahel Confederation to economically pressure them. Morocco is using this opportunity to open its ports to them. It's usually said that there are no such things as friendships, just shared interests and you can see how the entire African continent practices that to its full extent.

    • @funghi2606
      @funghi2606 9 месяцев назад +11

      Are they even connected to Morocco?

    • @rmmvw
      @rmmvw 9 месяцев назад +43

      @@funghi2606 only through Mauritania and Algeria. I don't see why those countries wouldn't want to be connected though

    • @Robespierre-lI
      @Robespierre-lI 9 месяцев назад +12

      Morocco is often a little too desperate.

    • @cuber5003
      @cuber5003 9 месяцев назад +20

      Sounds like a publicity statement for political clout, Morocco is somewhat geopolitically close to France and I doubt they'll seriously act on it.

    • @afgsuga407
      @afgsuga407 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@rmmvwmauritania will but Algeria won’t. Kinda defeats the purpose though as they can use Mauritanias deep water port

  • @mrtno4582
    @mrtno4582 9 месяцев назад +2156

    Alliance of Sahel States... the mighty ASS....

    • @freeman10000
      @freeman10000 9 месяцев назад

      An alliance of tin-pot republics.

    • @ThePanEthiopian
      @ThePanEthiopian 9 месяцев назад

      🍑

    • @larsstougaard7097
      @larsstougaard7097 9 месяцев назад +131

      Bad ASS 🌬🍑🫢😵

    • @Popsiclestick27
      @Popsiclestick27 9 месяцев назад +67

      "Alliance of Sahel States, but you may also call us.." "ASS!" "No no, the Sahel Confederacy" "Isn't that kinda negative?"

    • @lostinthesupermarket
      @lostinthesupermarket 9 месяцев назад +64

      still better than having countries named Chad or Niger

  • @diogocarvalho2934
    @diogocarvalho2934 9 месяцев назад +1498

    PSA: BetterHelp sells your data!

    • @KamielDV2
      @KamielDV2 9 месяцев назад +49

      I can't think of a single sponsor that isn't basically a scam with extra steps.
      These companies all rely on influencers to shill their garbage for them.

    • @standad7541
      @standad7541 9 месяцев назад +8

      I wonder who doesn't. ((:

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      @Tribuneoftheplebs 9 месяцев назад +24

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      @Tribuneoftheplebs 9 месяцев назад +17

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  • @tom.mp4
    @tom.mp4 9 месяцев назад +619

    Fucking hell dude, BetterHelp. How have so many youtubers just decided that doing ads for companies with such bad track records is fine now. Come on.

    • @wambugugichuki
      @wambugugichuki 9 месяцев назад +7

      can you send a video link of their purported scam?

    • @tom.mp4
      @tom.mp4 9 месяцев назад

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    • @dunnowy123
      @dunnowy123 9 месяцев назад

      I know...

    • @AceCmbatguy25
      @AceCmbatguy25 9 месяцев назад +11

      Morals don't pay the bills

    • @Go4Broke247
      @Go4Broke247 9 месяцев назад

      Please sponsor them brody

  • @issintf925
    @issintf925 9 месяцев назад +118

    BetterHelp does NOT have licensed psychologists, if you need a psychologist please go to a licensed practicioner

  • @SadSlav
    @SadSlav 9 месяцев назад +520

    "Regime change is a funny thing"
    So memeable

    • @royalroyal2210
      @royalroyal2210 9 месяцев назад +16

      That meme is so Western

    • @talaltariqq_
      @talaltariqq_ 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@royalroyal2210If you know, you know 😏

    • @anon2034
      @anon2034 9 месяцев назад

      It's hilarious!

    • @davewxc
      @davewxc 9 месяцев назад +10

      Insert Myanmar dancing girl with coup in the background.

    • @fwfeo
      @fwfeo 5 месяцев назад

      He’d be in favor of it, if it was US backed, but it’s not.
      So he’s saying it’s bad and doomed to fail!
      I bet he didn’t say that about Ukraine and how is that turning out? How about Georgia and Armenia! They co-opt the ruling class and brainwash the young and position the countries to sacrifice themselves for the US empire.

  • @xultimate1
    @xultimate1 9 месяцев назад +380

    No 😭 he sponsored better help scammers 😭

    • @MiSt3300
      @MiSt3300 9 месяцев назад +8

      Good times bad times don't take such sponsorships, I'd go and watch them

    • @issintf925
      @issintf925 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@MiSt3300 GTBT makes good content, but he has also had sponsors like this

    • @VVayVVard
      @VVayVVard 9 месяцев назад +8

      You mean he was sponsored by them. I doubt he sponsored them in return, that would be weird.

    • @SadiTonmoy
      @SadiTonmoy 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@VVayVVardhe did shout out to them. Not cool.

  • @Feeldartcorp
    @Feeldartcorp 9 месяцев назад +223

    You forgot to mention a very important information about Morocco signing a deal to give the three countries an access to the Atlantic Ocean through Dakhla port in the moroccan western sahara

    • @junsuaiiim998
      @junsuaiiim998 9 месяцев назад +35

      We cannot expect a Turk to talk truthfully about Africa

    • @willieduffie4967
      @willieduffie4967 9 месяцев назад +6

      Yeah......that seems to be an "important omission?"

    • @chrisjackson6605
      @chrisjackson6605 9 месяцев назад +1

      Via western Sahara...

    • @mortenpoulsen1496
      @mortenpoulsen1496 9 месяцев назад +3

      The atlantic via an airport ? 😂😂

    • @Serge-cm5my
      @Serge-cm5my 9 месяцев назад

      ​@junsuaiiim998 He's Azerbai

  • @BrileyBeConsulting
    @BrileyBeConsulting 9 месяцев назад +241

    This use to be the location of the former successive Empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, albeit a slightly different footprint. Their cooperation has some historic undertones.

    • @trueblueclue
      @trueblueclue 9 месяцев назад +40

      Real. History doesn't always repeat but it certainly rhymes.

    • @yaldabaoth2
      @yaldabaoth2 9 месяцев назад

      Scholars may know that but that means nothing. There is no nationality in the region, only tribes. 2/3 of the people there can't even read. And that is why the region will always fail.

    • @jfost281
      @jfost281 9 месяцев назад +40

      Absolutely OP, and these empires were some of the wealthiest and most learned of the era. Despite initial impressions of the Sahara Desert, it's trade routes were a link to North Africa, the Mediterranean and the rest of the world. Obviously, the age of the camel is long past for trade, but it will be interesting to see what the long-term adaptive strategies of this Confederacy become.

    • @andremiller1566
      @andremiller1566 9 месяцев назад +10

      Exactly. An empire is it's true & stable form. Proven by time and power and was only upended in 1893. The most powerful thing to do is revert to true form. Painfully and immediately. The longer they take the less likely they'll ever do it.

    • @cuber5003
      @cuber5003 9 месяцев назад +12

      @@andremiller1566 that's a little misleading, the empire itself was destroyed in 1591, it just survived as a small rump state around a place called dendi until 1901. Rump states can actually survive quite a while in the right conditions.

  • @Rickrickrickg
    @Rickrickrickg 9 месяцев назад +311

    We'll probably see more confederations in South America and Africa in the near future. Industrialization and the need to advance economic opportunities outside of poverty will only force states to pool their resources together

    • @ashapuhin72
      @ashapuhin72 9 месяцев назад

      more likely that were going to witness the rise of madmax environment as this goes on... the world is almost on the brink of another dark age,. the bronze age collapsed, and the most recent dark age , was preceded by mass migration , andits happening again..

    • @ScuffTuff
      @ScuffTuff 9 месяцев назад +32

      You say this but this one is pretty likely to collapse under insurgency fighting and the East African Federation just keeps becoming less and less likely every time they add a new member to the negotiating table before even getting anywhere. I’d be surprised if we saw one in Latin America although I could see some countries integrating more through their already existing economic blocs. MERCOSUR and the Pacific Alliance both have potential although the latter hasn’t really done anything at all in recent years with Mexico more focused on North American integration and most members being in the CPTPP anyways. MERCOSUR on the other hand could always work closer together but with 2 major poles in Buenos Aires and Brazilia, I highly doubt they’d look towards confederation. I do think expansion to Chile and Bolivia would benefit them a lot though. They should be making moves towards improving free trade, mutual market regulations, and a common currency. I don’t think they can implement a common market until they’ve solved several internal security problems but I do think they have a point to start at for a regional economic bloc developing similar to the successes of the EU or ASEAN.

    • @dannyboy-vtc5741
      @dannyboy-vtc5741 9 месяцев назад

      Nah, you underestimate people's greed and corruption, do you remember the arab union? How long it lasted and why it collapsed?
      It's like when people say kosovo and albania or modlova and romania will unite, i always laugh at that, as i know how politics works in reality, have seen it from the inside.
      Do you know all those ministers, and all imployed in their departments, all clerks employed in national assembliea, all national agencies and organisations, constitutional/supreme courts judges and justices and all employed there.
      And besides just the financial and power benefits for those that rule the country, there's also the question of sovereingty, yoi are taking someone to rule upon you.
      So it never works out, it could in some union where everone is equal like the eu, but you never the less give up on a part of your sovereingty, for that you need to have very strong administration and legistlature, so very stable countries, and the benefits from it to outweight the negatives, so it rarely works like that.

    • @iandavidvillaloboswong5180
      @iandavidvillaloboswong5180 9 месяцев назад +4

      There is one famous confederacy on "South America" that is bound to come back one day

    • @iandavidvillaloboswong5180
      @iandavidvillaloboswong5180 9 месяцев назад +6

      Also countries in South America are doing just fine theres no real need to go back to the old borders because we simply dont have any enemies. So we are free to just do things at our own time and not worry about combining strength or whatever.

  • @Mr.Autodelete
    @Mr.Autodelete 9 месяцев назад +205

    Isn’t it true that the CFA frank was made specifically so the French could basically import their resources for free?

    • @WallStreet-ou3ub
      @WallStreet-ou3ub 9 месяцев назад +57

      Yes

    • @massinissadiche1880
      @massinissadiche1880 9 месяцев назад +43

      not free but at a lower price

    • @james6401
      @james6401 9 месяцев назад

      No doubt. Scale it up and you get the American dollar sucking off the whole world.

    • @ugwuanyicollins6136
      @ugwuanyicollins6136 9 месяцев назад +45

      And have an almost monopolistic power on their trade

    • @Mr.Autodelete
      @Mr.Autodelete 9 месяцев назад +23

      @@ugwuanyicollins6136 does this video does this video seem to have a western bias I just don’t know what conclusions to draw on any of these major conflicts right now I like this channel and real life lore but are there any sources any of y’all recommend?

  • @florianmaier104
    @florianmaier104 9 месяцев назад +202

    Niger, Mali and Burkina have already withdrawn from Ecowas in January 24.

    • @Kassiem_42
      @Kassiem_42 9 месяцев назад +15

      Either this video was recorded earlier or they didn't do their research properly

    • @ozcanvural06
      @ozcanvural06 9 месяцев назад +25

      from 71 iq lore? 10:32

    • @Kassiem_42
      @Kassiem_42 9 месяцев назад +8

      @lloyd9500 Thankfully I was never subscribed. Just came across it in my feed haha.
      Also, the reporter comes across as biased and doesn't tell the complete story.
      There are definitely better pages out there.

    • @horacecunningham7832
      @horacecunningham7832 9 месяцев назад

      Gone downhill from the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war ​@@lloyd9500

    • @theizzoshow5180
      @theizzoshow5180 9 месяцев назад

      @@Kassiem_42got some recommendations for me?

  • @slee2819
    @slee2819 9 месяцев назад +467

    Three warlords forming a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual “confederation,” while Islamic Jihadists roam the countryside.
    What could possibly go wrong with that?

    • @uviweboyana8936
      @uviweboyana8936 9 месяцев назад +59

      They can use French as a de facto language
      They share the same ethnicities... so why not give it a shot

    • @elvinaduda4657
      @elvinaduda4657 9 месяцев назад

      Warlords? STOP watching CNN. They are military juntas supported by the populations and overthrew dictators who have been ruling since independence

    • @Eoin-B
      @Eoin-B 9 месяцев назад

      @@uviweboyana8936 A bunch of dictators won't share power even if it means they will be stronger overall. If they tried it, it would break into civil war almost immediately once somebody asks who will lead us "before the people have an election" that probably won't ever come?

    • @jabrae312
      @jabrae312 9 месяцев назад +133

      ​@@uviweboyana8936 they don't even remotely share ethnicity, wtf are you talking about

    • @giljuwu9728
      @giljuwu9728 9 месяцев назад +114

      They're not "warlords". What war have they waged? You seem very uninformed.

  • @seargesoren9391
    @seargesoren9391 9 месяцев назад +172

    PSA: BetterHelp sells your psych data!

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 9 месяцев назад +13

    Whatever happens, I hope peace increases and suffering decreases for the common people of these nations. Thank you for the news update on this. I didn't realize these three were discussing a confederacy.
    God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

  • @bradsillasen1972
    @bradsillasen1972 9 месяцев назад +15

    I hope all the sponsorship comments are taken to heart. I suspect that Caspian Report uses some sort of intermediary to garner sponsors, but due diligence is up to the consumer.

  • @celdur4635
    @celdur4635 9 месяцев назад +80

    This is literally what happened in Europe and everywhere else before countries centralized. Africa needs to go through this process as well. Until new solid borders are formed.

    • @topiheimola69
      @topiheimola69 9 месяцев назад +25

      Exactly, borders they themselves have formed and not colonists from 300 years ago

    • @celdur4635
      @celdur4635 9 месяцев назад +8

      @@topiheimola69 Try 130 years ago, but yeah.
      It wouldn't even say its the colonists fault. Since no african state was centralized.

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn 9 месяцев назад +29

      @@celdur4635 Africa has literally had its own empires. The Songhai, Ghana and Mali empires in the region covered here.

    • @celdur4635
      @celdur4635 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@ArawnOfAnnwn So? they were not comparable on their centralization levels with the processes in other continents

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +11

      @@celdur4635 false, there are examples of centralised African states and even empires, even other than the few exceptions that weren't fully colonised

  • @menofyes1069
    @menofyes1069 9 месяцев назад +125

    The real reason why France getting so hawkish to Russia lately...

    • @bigcity2085
      @bigcity2085 9 месяцев назад

      Wagner got fired by Mozambique. How comical. russians are proving to be incapable of anything these days.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад

      Yep, macron wants to go full Napoleon, but it won't work

  • @omgitsoats-h2e
    @omgitsoats-h2e 9 месяцев назад +150

    The return of the songhai empire?

    • @anon2034
      @anon2034 9 месяцев назад

      When?

    • @anon2034
      @anon2034 9 месяцев назад

      @dunkcsa9780 True!

    • @CraigTheBrute-yf7no
      @CraigTheBrute-yf7no 9 месяцев назад +21

      Inshallah

    • @vincem2759
      @vincem2759 9 месяцев назад +4

      More like the Mali Federation

    • @wyihupoip8105
      @wyihupoip8105 9 месяцев назад +8

      Yes, it appears so. It is important to note that this is what the populations of this countries want. I've been there.

  • @roanwestraat9604
    @roanwestraat9604 9 месяцев назад +74

    It's crazy how quickly france has lost their African influence in this region.
    The last 5 years has been insanity in terms of global politics, changes have been quick and confusing.
    Thanks for bring some semblance of explanation to these things.

    • @DanM-pw9nl
      @DanM-pw9nl 9 месяцев назад +3

      Don't these three countries still use the cfa franc? Regardless of their issues with France isn't it still profiting from them even now?

    • @roanwestraat9604
      @roanwestraat9604 9 месяцев назад +24

      @@DanM-pw9nl they are doing everything they can to decouple from the currency. It's worth mentioning that using the currency does not mean that the host country is profiting by default.
      That said France still retains some strongholds like the currency and uranium mines in Niger.

    • @1antag0nist53
      @1antag0nist53 9 месяцев назад +27

      More like how utterly long it took. France has been continuing colonial practices WELL after the norm

    • @jpb2366
      @jpb2366 9 месяцев назад

      its the hand of russia behind... weakening the Euro so they lower their contribution to ukraine...

    • @kyouskeuzumaki9673
      @kyouskeuzumaki9673 5 месяцев назад

      @@DanM-pw9nlthey are creating new gold currencies for adoptions or their own dollars too and for private sector

  • @nakhunkaewsen8993
    @nakhunkaewsen8993 9 месяцев назад +117

    OH SHIT, ITS SPONSOR BY BETTER HELP💀💀💀

  • @fubytv731
    @fubytv731 9 месяцев назад +36

    CaspianReport and RealLifeLore must be sleeping together.

    • @akashd5690
      @akashd5690 9 месяцев назад

      I watched same topic from real life

    • @crafterrium8724
      @crafterrium8724 8 месяцев назад +1

      sleeping with each other *

  • @michaelcole7359
    @michaelcole7359 9 месяцев назад +32

    Morocco made a deal to allow AES to use their ports.
    Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have already left Ecowas.
    The countries are having resounding success against the radical Islamic terrorists.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +2

      Hey, maybe that African union project can actually work one day, sooon

    • @ricardoxavier827
      @ricardoxavier827 6 месяцев назад

      @@minestar2247 red and green africa cannot unite. Nigeria nad ethiopia must split based in who is green and who is red.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@ricardoxavier827 what do you mean? What is red or green Africa? And why do you want to split them away?

  • @Inoffensive_name
    @Inoffensive_name 9 месяцев назад +34

    Your legitimacy as an information source really takes a hit when you accept sponsors like Betterhelp

    • @5C2WMedia
      @5C2WMedia 9 месяцев назад +8

      So he could say the sky is green but that doesn't matter so long as he picks the right sponsors

    • @DanM-pw9nl
      @DanM-pw9nl 9 месяцев назад

      That's not really the same thing

    • @Inoffensive_name
      @Inoffensive_name 9 месяцев назад +1

      @5C2WMedia Oh, you're spouting false equivalencies instead of asking questions or debating in good faith. Let me do that too.
      So someone speaking falsehoods doesn't diminish their trustworthiness? You'll continue believing anyone no matter how many lies they tell? We should believe everything someone tells us when they're motivated by money?
      Why would you say and advocate for all those things? You sure aren't smart if you genuinely believe all that, which I've decided that you do.

    • @5C2WMedia
      @5C2WMedia 9 месяцев назад

      @@Inoffensive_name 👍

    • @Cookinlikesanji
      @Cookinlikesanji 8 месяцев назад

      I aint reading allat​@@Inoffensive_name

  • @intelligencecube6752
    @intelligencecube6752 9 месяцев назад +4

    I’ve only just noticed how your accent has been slowly melting away! It’s a little bittersweet, I liked the way your voice sounded before 😅
    But at the same time I’m glad you’re feeling more comfortable with another language! Keep up all the good work you’re doing, Caspian Report!

    • @jessl1934
      @jessl1934 9 месяцев назад +4

      He's using AI to change his accent to be less noticeable, that's why the bass is blown out in the voiceover audio

  • @francisco2767
    @francisco2767 9 месяцев назад +103

    disliked for the betterhelp sponsorship, cool video though

    • @MusicForHourss
      @MusicForHourss 9 месяцев назад +3

      Why?

    • @ymtzlgn
      @ymtzlgn 9 месяцев назад +39

      @@MusicForHourssthey’ve been caught stealing and selling personal data

    • @desmond-hawkins
      @desmond-hawkins 9 месяцев назад

      @@MusicForHourss they recently settled with the FTC for selling their customers' personal health data (including mental health questionnaires) to Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo and Pinterest, despite telling customers and their support agents that it was private. They also had a HIPAA logo on their website with no matching compliance process in place.

    • @francisco2767
      @francisco2767 9 месяцев назад

      @@MusicForHourssshitty company that has been exposed 6 years ago for employing unlicenced therapists and other quackers, and more recently for selling their customers private (mental health) data while explicitly stating they wouldn't.

    • @rizkyadiyanto7922
      @rizkyadiyanto7922 9 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@ymtzlgnah, just like google and others.

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 9 месяцев назад +97

    Your English has gotten so good

  • @Grimloxz
    @Grimloxz 8 месяцев назад +10

    ⁠Man, the folks on here just comment so confidently yet out of their 🫏 with near ZERO knowledge of the region’s history. The same ethnic groups that are today fractured due to imposed colonial borders were once unified under various empires and states.
    Songhai, Karen-Bornu, the Mossi States, the Hausa Confederation, and of course the Mali Empire among others inhabited the same range. They supported numerous interconnected and enormous well-planned metropolises over their vast empires that encompassed a welter of the modern day “midget” nations. The walled cities found there boasted a mixture of earthen and brick works roughly 3 stories/10 meters high with a circumferences as lengthy as 80miles/120 kilometres. Kano, Sikasso, Gao , Kong, Djenne, Sokoto, and still others. They weren’t the dusty towns highlighted in Caspian’s reel footage. For those who doubt, I too had no idea until I saw the early European renderings of them and then the ruins myself. This is no Graham Hancock fantasy.
    The point being centralisation now would represent a _return_ to prior levels of integration and governance not the introduction of something novel or foreign. But the haughty arrogance and ignorant dismissiveness of many of the commenters is quite instructive. But even _IF_ that weren’t the case, regions like Indonesia, India, and even Europe have integrated. Why not Africa?

    • @Jaromir-Druzba
      @Jaromir-Druzba 2 месяца назад +1

      Finally a proper comment!
      Problem is that for a long time, thanks to media, education and cultural influence it is perceived as if the Europe-centric (including USA, Canada and so on) development is the only one and the only successful. And it is the "western civilization" that brought "light and prosperity" to some "natives" in various parts of the World. But the reality is far more complex. There were many strong and developed countries and unions before that. Take Sultanate of Oman that stretched from his current location all the way down to Zanzibar, for instance. They even figured out how to build new fortresses so that the Portuguese wouldn't reach them by their cannon fire from ships (instead they needed to disembark and attack if they wanted to achieve something). etc etc etc.
      Many other things go for India (let's not dig into the various states that were there before UK), China and many other places.
      So for vast majority of people the processes going on in Africa, Asia and South America are usually from the realm of Rivendell and Minas Tirith. )))

  • @zainmudassir2964
    @zainmudassir2964 9 месяцев назад +31

    Re-establishing the Great Mali Empire

    • @Findgod222
      @Findgod222 9 месяцев назад +1

      Nah songhai empire

    • @thedstorm8922
      @thedstorm8922 8 месяцев назад

      It looks like the Songhai

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад

      Let's hope morroco doesn't invade it again for gold, oh wait, too late, morroco already got there

    • @stellacwickbell7739
      @stellacwickbell7739 5 месяцев назад

      Never invade mali

  • @hans7856
    @hans7856 9 месяцев назад +35

    The way to make this work is to invite Guinea or Mauritania (the most likely countries to agree to that), build a harbour there and construct loads of trainlines inland.

    • @johnsinclair4621
      @johnsinclair4621 9 месяцев назад +14

      *and let China construct loads of trainlines inland.

    • @hans7856
      @hans7856 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@johnsinclair4621 Hahahah, they probably would. Though that would just be exchanging bad for worse.

    • @al-muwaffaq341
      @al-muwaffaq341 9 месяцев назад +8

      Lol good luck with Guinea. Guineas leader use to be in the French foreign legion and his wife use to be a French police officer.

    • @AlexTorres-fo5eo
      @AlexTorres-fo5eo 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@hans7856 How so?

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn 9 месяцев назад +4

      They've already signed an agreement with Morocco and Mauritania.

  • @vulkanofnocturne
    @vulkanofnocturne 9 месяцев назад +64

    I hope it works out for them.

    • @ansumanc
      @ansumanc 9 месяцев назад +2

      its africa, you expect it to work out? 😂😂

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@ansumanc Yeah

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +3

      Maybe I should go into politics to make it even more beneficial to my country

    • @TyroneLangam
      @TyroneLangam 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@minestar2247Best of luck to you

  • @eternalm3859
    @eternalm3859 9 месяцев назад +8

    Morocco already offered granting access to the ocean for Sahel countries via the new Dakhla port currently in construction.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +2

      Yay, long live the king Mohamed the 6th

    • @maralena137123
      @maralena137123 5 месяцев назад +1

      How can the AES use Moroccan ports? Wouldn't they have to go through Mauritania or Algeria?

    • @eternalm3859
      @eternalm3859 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@maralena137123
      yes through Mauritania of course. the trade routes are already established.

    • @chuckybonty4191
      @chuckybonty4191 5 дней назад

      ​@@eternalm3859Mauritania is not part of Ecowas

  • @jameschristophercirujano6650
    @jameschristophercirujano6650 9 месяцев назад +74

    Good that Chad isn't there. The world would lose a Chad if they wanted to be in too.

    • @yahkahivalentinaketor-tay5768
      @yahkahivalentinaketor-tay5768 9 месяцев назад

      Chad and Guinea and even Senegal are on the bubble. Now, there's BRICs + and her New Bank. The global South is about to be free. Nkrumah is giddy right now. The BSR is here!

    • @salakasto
      @salakasto 9 месяцев назад +10

      It's named about Lake Chad, so we would still have a Chad don't worry.

    • @thehorde4868
      @thehorde4868 9 месяцев назад

      😂

    • @jameschristophercirujano6650
      @jameschristophercirujano6650 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@salakasto But we'd lose the Chad shape.

    • @Robespierre-lI
      @Robespierre-lI 9 месяцев назад

      This entire endeavor is incredibly unsustainable. These nations will only thrive if they find ways of dealing with corruption, jihadism, infrastructure problems and being very landlocked in a region that is experiencing desertification.

  • @brianwhite2104
    @brianwhite2104 9 месяцев назад +19

    You neglected to mention one African confederacy that *was* successful, Tanzania

    • @nellym46664
      @nellym46664 9 месяцев назад +5

      Bruh, Tanzania was the equivalent of merging Saudi Arabia & Bahrain. Little difference whatsoever.

    • @brianwhite2104
      @brianwhite2104 9 месяцев назад +14

      @@nellym46664 In territorial extent, that may be. However, they were considered equal constituent parts to such an extent that the country derived its name from Tan + Zan + ia. That is, the Zanzibar part is given equal weight in the name with the Tanganyika part.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад

      Take that as an example

  • @arailway8809
    @arailway8809 9 месяцев назад +44

    I am very pleased with your work, Shirvan.
    The Sahel is a wonderful place to put railroads
    and increase agricultural production.
    Rails to the sea would give them all stronger economies.

    • @bolsa3136
      @bolsa3136 9 месяцев назад +4

      Yeah, desert land great for agriculture

    • @monty3281
      @monty3281 9 месяцев назад

      @@bolsa3136go look up how independent organisations and food banks are working with local populations in the sahel to transform the region into an agriculturally productive area, you will be surprised how much the sahel can be developed if resources and well intentioned people pool together

    • @MisterManTheBestMan
      @MisterManTheBestMan 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@bolsa3136 There is a demand for agriculture. Railroads can meet that demand from what little land is arable. It's a different question if the people can pay for that service.

    • @arailway8809
      @arailway8809 9 месяцев назад +9

      The Sahel receives 8 to 32 inches of rain per year.
      I admit that 8 inches is desert,
      but 32 inches of rain is farmable agriculture
      in the good years. Farmers always hope for the good year.
      I have great hopes for the Sahel.

    • @SebiSuper9mil
      @SebiSuper9mil 9 месяцев назад +1

      would be a good video had it not had a BetterHelp scam sponsorship

  • @TheDarthBuddha
    @TheDarthBuddha 9 месяцев назад +17

    What we are seeing is Africans Building their own Future for Africa.. Well done..

    • @craftsmanceramics8653
      @craftsmanceramics8653 9 месяцев назад

      You mean monkeys $hit in trees? What could ever go wrong with 3 warlords with no shared cultural heritage forming a nation-state with no economy, Islamic war bands roving the countryside, growing desertifaction, and must import food to support desertification,
      *checks notes*
      A bigger failed state.

    • @tbphillips9649
      @tbphillips9649 9 месяцев назад

      @@craftsmanceramics8653western bleached demon

    • @tbphillips9649
      @tbphillips9649 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@craftsmanceramics8653typical western caveman comment

    • @craftsmanceramics8653
      @craftsmanceramics8653 9 месяцев назад

      @tbphillips9649 caveman where?!?! You have the west to thank for our industrial age. There is a reason why sub-saharian Africa is a smathering of failed states...

    • @tbphillips9649
      @tbphillips9649 9 месяцев назад

      @@craftsmanceramics8653 you are the caveman are dumb

  • @adityagodbole9413
    @adityagodbole9413 9 месяцев назад +11

    Loving the new regular content

  • @ikengaspirit3063
    @ikengaspirit3063 9 месяцев назад +7

    9:46 Maybe that is what they claimed it is or what they want it to be but that is clearly not the case. Nigeria for example has blocked its borders to trade since the Buhari administration so not free trade and as part of this, they also increased their tarrifs on rice imported from Asia so it isn't a unified tarrif either. Travel may be easier but you'll still be deported without a VISA. Ghana deported Nigerians when its current economic issues started.
    And those are just the random facts I have come across.

  • @clmk28
    @clmk28 9 месяцев назад +14

    A land locked confederacy will always be at the mercy of their maritime neighbors. I think they seriously need to rethink their long-term strategy.

    • @nicholasbrown668
      @nicholasbrown668 5 месяцев назад

      yes, they should invade their smallest maritime neighbor

    • @wizdalmar7559
      @wizdalmar7559 5 месяцев назад

      @@nicholasbrown668but they have gold oil and diamonds 🤣🤣🤣

  • @azahel542
    @azahel542 9 месяцев назад +97

    Great! Instead of failing alone, they can fail together!

    • @douglassun8456
      @douglassun8456 9 месяцев назад +28

      Three poor, landlocked countries join forces to become... one poor, landlocked country... but bigger.... Okay.

    • @azahel542
      @azahel542 9 месяцев назад +12

      @@douglassun8456 And they're all led by military juntas after a hostile takeover. It won't lead to any infighting at all!

    • @danishh8454
      @danishh8454 9 месяцев назад +24

      ​@@douglassun8456but free not a france slave

    • @GetFochD
      @GetFochD 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@azahel542peabrain

    • @danishh8454
      @danishh8454 9 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@douglassun8456they have largest gold and uranium reserve

  • @matiyak4571
    @matiyak4571 9 месяцев назад +17

    I'm sure they will be able to elect a leader

    • @larsstougaard7097
      @larsstougaard7097 9 месяцев назад

      Putin will help them succeed

    • @indianastan
      @indianastan 9 месяцев назад +8

      Don't bet the house

    • @davianoinglesias5030
      @davianoinglesias5030 8 месяцев назад

      😅those are military dictators who came to power through coups😅haven't you people learnt from Sudan?

    • @anaskhoiri3653
      @anaskhoiri3653 8 месяцев назад +1

      Better chose one man Dictatorship first before form republic

    • @josephtebay
      @josephtebay 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@davianoinglesias5030I'm pretty sure OP was being sarcastic

  • @alrxandersmiths242
    @alrxandersmiths242 9 месяцев назад +10

    Africa needs great condenseing making bigger stronger country’s that can provide for more people. Having a bunch of tiny country’s fighting one another is how Africa has always worked and we should change that

    • @boosterh1113
      @boosterh1113 9 месяцев назад

      What would hold those nations together?
      People need a reason to tolerate their tax dollars/francs/dinars being spent to the benefit of strangers hundreds of kilometres away. You either need some sort of common identity, so people are willing do that, or you need an enlightened despot who is so much more powerful than any of his rivals that he can force people to do this for long enough that they develop a shared identity. The large states of Asia and Europe (e.g. France, China, Russia) can rely on the efforts of emperors past to (often forcibly) homogenize their people, while the large states of the New World (e.g. US, Brazil) are new enough that their regional identities haven't drifted too far away from their common roots.
      But Africa is a mess of different tribes and nations, each with their own language, customs, history, and grievances. Moreover, there is no African version of the Roman Empire, Qin Dynasty, or Abbasid Caliphate that might give them a historical/legendary base on which to build a common identity. Any commonality has to be built up from scratch, either with agonizing slowness and constant (re)negotiation, or with brutal repression and forcible assimilation. Notably, the two major African countries (Nigeria and Ethiopia) are in a near constant state of turmoil and civil strife, specifically because their governments cannot balance the priorities of all of their constituent tribes against each other.

    • @DanM-pw9nl
      @DanM-pw9nl 9 месяцев назад +2

      Larger countries make things worse. Why do you think there are so many independence movements around the world? The area with the resources becomes resentful of the central government taking its wealth. Ethnic groups are forced to compromise on major issues. The religion or race of the current ruler will always receive preferential treatment. Europe is in better shape than Africa yet has much smaller countries. The answer for Africa isn't making even larger countries. Africa is already on the right track, it will simply have inevitable growing pains like all regions do as they develop. China lost millions of people to starvation under Mao. Russia had to suffer through civil war. So did the US. Africa isn't perfect but it will continue to progress

  • @jeffgrove1389
    @jeffgrove1389 8 месяцев назад +2

    You’ve neglected the French holding and exploitation of the CFA reserves, keeping these client states fiscally dependent.

  • @elephantman2112
    @elephantman2112 9 месяцев назад +27

    BetterHelp? The company, founded by an IDF veteran, which is notorious for being loose with its clients' confidential information? Well, I guess it squares with your recent editorial turn....

    •  9 месяцев назад

      ”You sing the song of whose bread you are eating” - Finnish proverb

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад

      The idf? Ok, here is another guy I can bully

  • @jabloko992
    @jabloko992 9 месяцев назад +20

    I think the only way for Africa to prosper is by uniting more and more into a grand federation. They must forge a shared identity and work towards egalitarian institutions that can put an end to the ceaseless ethnic conflicts. Easier said than done, but the current colonial borders clearly don't work, going smaller also won't work as that would lead to literally thousands of dysfunctional micro-states. The only way forward is to go bigger, make it so that no ethnic group holds enough power in a greater union to swing policies in its favor. Only by fairly including every group with autonomous rights and encouraging cooperation instead of competition can Africa escape the past and the present.

    • @DanM-pw9nl
      @DanM-pw9nl 9 месяцев назад +6

      Larger countries make things worse. Why do you think there are so many independence movements around the world? The area with the resources becomes resentful of the central government taking its wealth. Ethnic groups are forced to compromise on major issues. The religion or race of the current ruler will always receive preferential treatment. Europe is in better shape than Africa yet has much smaller countries. The answer for Africa isn't making even larger countries. Africa is already on the right track, it will simply have inevitable growing pains like all regions do as they develop. China lost millions of people to starvation under Mao. Russia had to suffer through civil war. So did the US. Africa isn't perfect but it will continue to progress

    • @asscheeks3212
      @asscheeks3212 9 месяцев назад

      The last time someone "unites a contitent" all of europe plunged into war, twice

    • @jabloko992
      @jabloko992 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@asscheeks3212 ...until they tried again by this time asking nicely and now we have the European Union.

    • @jabloko992
      @jabloko992 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@DanM-pw9nl "larger countries make things worse"
      Say that to the United States of America. Or the European Union (yes, I know it's not a country). Or India.
      What other alternatives are there?
      Everyone criticises the current borders as those drawn by out-of-touch white aristocrats nearly 100 years ago. Africa is positively a shithole, the few places that aren't could become just as bad at any given moment, because a general decided it's coup time.
      Go smaller, down to the tribal/ethnic level? Good luck with that, you would end up with literally thousands of small tribes with absolutely no potential to have proper economies, build infrastructure or engage in trade, but plenty of potential to fight each other. There would be chaos and anarchy on a whole new level.
      The only way forward is to unite. As long as one ethnic group is strong enough to bully the others without oversight, there will never be peace. These are not European nation states with relatively large, well-defined populations of national identities.
      A large enough federal union of nations is the least bad way forward, I'm not saying it would be perfect, but what other alternative is there? Let the Africans fight each other for another 2 centuries? Until the continent stabilises, there will be no investment, no prosperity, no peace.

    • @asscheeks3212
      @asscheeks3212 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@jabloko992 lmao nobody really treats the EU seriously.

  • @giljuwu9728
    @giljuwu9728 9 месяцев назад +21

    Many people from safe, wealthy countries talking crap about realities they do not understand here.

  • @CaptainDiaspora
    @CaptainDiaspora 9 месяцев назад +2

    You put up the wrong photo for General Tchiani

  • @MakeNoise280
    @MakeNoise280 9 месяцев назад +3

    We pray that Senegal will join this group which will be great advantage for the group as they will gain access to shipping port thru Senegal a win win especially Senegal and Gambia and eventually will Gambia be part and complete the union.

  • @ajitt9902
    @ajitt9902 8 месяцев назад +2

    name of the background music??

  • @martin-daniililjin9612
    @martin-daniililjin9612 9 месяцев назад +5

    I like that author doesn't point to any country to blame for the problems that is happening in these countries.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +3

      Maybe they have a European western bias, but at least we know it's france that's the source

  • @farazkhan7035
    @farazkhan7035 9 месяцев назад +1

    very good journalism. keep up the good work.

  • @Bayard1503
    @Bayard1503 9 месяцев назад +4

    And with all this unrest the Tuareg still haven't gotten their independent country.

    • @electrosyzygy
      @electrosyzygy 8 месяцев назад

      Nomadic pastoralists by definition can't have an independent country. They have 'traditional lands' that will always be at the mercy of the sedentary, agrarian and urban peoples. They will eke out an existence from what little resources they have and remain a thorn in the ass of any country they live in until they integrate and abandon that lifestyle.
      Great music though.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад

      They won't, Algeria is still too desert greedy and that desert is useless because of the lack of water

  • @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek
    @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek 9 месяцев назад +1

    Thank You For an Excellent Report!!!!

  • @rarecandy3445
    @rarecandy3445 9 месяцев назад +6

    im sure that togo and benin will be able to offer some sort of seaport access to the confederation, by violent or diplomatic means. i find it hard to believe leaders in any one of these states havent thought of something to fix that problem in the future.

    • @Vista_victorptolemy
      @Vista_victorptolemy 9 месяцев назад +2

      😂😂 any attempt on that will warrant a direct military intervention mainly from Nigeria, which alone is more than enough to deal with the entire Confederacy, this is backed with solid fact. And these juntas knows that

    • @Adsper2000
      @Adsper2000 9 месяцев назад

      They would go bankrupt instantly trying to invade and occupy one of their neighbors. They can’t even keep control of their own borders.

    • @WallStreet-ou3ub
      @WallStreet-ou3ub 9 месяцев назад

      If Niger is attacked it would be war with north of Nigeria with is mostly Hausa people

    • @sonreo5183
      @sonreo5183 9 месяцев назад

      @@Vista_victorptolemy Nigeria cant even provide security to its own citizens. I believe ECOWAS (with the almighty NIGERIA leading the way) gave an ultimatum but nothing so far...🤔

    • @moustaphadiallo600
      @moustaphadiallo600 9 месяцев назад +4

      ​@Nigeriananalyst The proud puppet state of Nigeria can't even deal with boko haram in their own borders. How do you expect them to deal with a logistical challenge outside of their borders?
      And you think declaring war on a group of anti-imperialists is going to gain any African leader some support. That will most likely spread the coup domino to Nigeria. There's also an ethnic group that lives on the Nigeria-Niger border (can't recall their name) who don't exactly feel like they're Nigerians first. Nigeriananalyst? 😂😂😂 I think not. Change your name

  • @IK_MK
    @IK_MK 9 месяцев назад +10

    🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪: _"We want to form a republic"_
    Tuareg People: *Are you sure about that?*

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад

      The tuareg probably also would have wanted Republics, but europeans suck

    • @stellacwickbell7739
      @stellacwickbell7739 5 месяцев назад +2

      Tureg aren’t same as islamist terriost they’re good people the trrriost are just supported by Libyans people and u know how Libyans treat Africans in thier country at the moment not the best pan African state

  • @biggiebagel
    @biggiebagel 9 месяцев назад +27

    Imagine forming a military Confederacy and someone asked "what should we be called?"
    Then someone replies "How about ASS?"

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +2

      They speak frensh, it's probably SSA or something, but it's still funny none the less

    • @elpito9326
      @elpito9326 8 месяцев назад +6

      It's the AES in French

    • @biggiebagel
      @biggiebagel 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@elpito9326 but in English it's ASS lol

    • @gabrielonibudo5566
      @gabrielonibudo5566 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@biggiebagelit could just as easily be SAS or SSA, so it’s not a big deal. You’re just choosing a weird one.

    • @G73Server
      @G73Server 8 месяцев назад

      @@gabrielonibudo5566it is, the oroginsl is french snd you are just translating

  • @MStonewallC
    @MStonewallC 9 месяцев назад +4

    "We'll call it [Something Fake] for convenience" c'mon now.

  • @wyihupoip8105
    @wyihupoip8105 9 месяцев назад +6

    Caspian Report has gotten it wrong many times. In fact, this channel gets it wrong very often. 😂

  • @abelosula9478
    @abelosula9478 8 месяцев назад

    Very informative. Thanks!

  • @svennielsen633
    @svennielsen633 9 месяцев назад +19

    I have no trust in any of these regimes.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +6

      Who not? At least they are honest in their goals, and they 're fighting imperialist domination

    • @MA-go7ee
      @MA-go7ee 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@minestar2247maybe because spending five minutes to look at the history of military regimes in Africa tells one that they're completely self serving and only use anti imperial rhetoric to win over gullible idiots like you.

  • @samedwards6683
    @samedwards6683 9 месяцев назад

    Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative video. Great job. Keep it up.

  • @joeywheelerii9136
    @joeywheelerii9136 9 месяцев назад +16

    Long Live The Confederacy!

    • @taffingtonboathouse5754
      @taffingtonboathouse5754 9 месяцев назад +1

      Please not that one please not that one

    • @RealWatch1
      @RealWatch1 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@taffingtonboathouse5754 yeah that term's been tainted.... from a certain time

    • @joeywheelerii9136
      @joeywheelerii9136 9 месяцев назад +1

      @RealWatch1 Only from tbe View of Black Americans and Bourgeois White Liberals.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад

      The EAF?

  • @дроу
    @дроу 9 месяцев назад +16

    1:39 Tchuani shown over Mali, when he is Niger's ruler. Just one minute in and i already see that quality of your videos is still subpar as always.

    • @gosnooky
      @gosnooky 9 месяцев назад +1

      By all means, write, animate and upload your own videos. Enthrall us with your acumen.

    • @drunkenslav2334
      @drunkenslav2334 9 месяцев назад

      ​@gosnooky we just want our homie to be accurate

    • @ahmednjidda6182
      @ahmednjidda6182 8 месяцев назад +1

      Why are you so fixated on a minor mistake, if you understand the message then that the main objective, I will advice you do your own video and have us objectively criticize it, am sure you can di 20% of this in your fisrt try.

  • @amundammarline162
    @amundammarline162 9 месяцев назад +3

    The almighty God is with us the Africans...

  • @FarsightAE
    @FarsightAE 9 месяцев назад +4

    When are they quitting the CFA though?

    • @1001Balance
      @1001Balance 9 месяцев назад +3

      Yeah that would the best of it. Then they become a shithole with terrible inflation.

    • @FarsightAE
      @FarsightAE 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@1001Balance They keep complaining about CFA and the French influence. Its up to them to quit CFA if they dislike it so much.

    • @1001Balance
      @1001Balance 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@FarsightAE of course, but nationalism is poor reason. Look what bad currency management leads to in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Guinea, Argentina. It creates a lot of misery for people. Cheaper commodities benefit mainly those that buy the commodities. Actually Europeans should advocate to drop the CFA and have them devaluate the currency every month!

  • @sreckom92
    @sreckom92 9 месяцев назад +16

    I wish them all the best. Hopefully a unified, strong and independent country. Hopefully more African countries see this as an example and carve their own destiny, not live according to borders and guidelines from non-African countries.

    • @JudgeJudith
      @JudgeJudith 9 месяцев назад +1

      Very interesting interpretation

    • @sreckom92
      @sreckom92 9 месяцев назад +8

      @@JudgeJudith Certain African countries, like Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger were part of the French colonial empire. That is actually a wrong statement. They still ARE French colonies. France dominates economy, politics and resources of these countries, fueling it's own nation, while draining the colonies under very unequal policies. Plus, French military has been very active for the last few decades, protecting it's puppets in seats of power.
      Cutting all ties with France would be problematic and painful. But they deserve to carve their own destiny, not let others exploit and puppet them.
      Sure thing, it might turn out ugly. That's why I wish them all the best. I wish they succeed in creating an independent and prosperous state, despite all the odds against them.

    • @JudgeJudith
      @JudgeJudith 9 месяцев назад

      @@sreckom92 Do you think that military juntas generally share prosperity with their citizens? The “turning ugly” will be starving citizens because their new government has totally isolated them from the outside world.

    • @sreckom92
      @sreckom92 9 месяцев назад +5

      @@JudgeJudith Well, if I had to choose between domestic military junta, or foreign colonialists, I'd choose the first option. Even if both don't share the prosperity.

    • @juliankraus1011
      @juliankraus1011 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@sreckom92 And if you knew the record of military juntas in the region you would't be favoring them at all. You can afford that "choice" because you wouldn't be its victim.

  • @dexterelliott5039
    @dexterelliott5039 Месяц назад

    Great idea..Morocco, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and others could band together to form the most powerful Global Alliance. Each would have autonomy without political or religious interference... And the economy of each would likely be enhanced by 50% or more..plus raw materials and agriculture would be purchased within the group..

  • @wizzzer1337
    @wizzzer1337 9 месяцев назад +33

    This feels like trying to make Austria Hungary after WWII

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад

      The eu exists, don't forget that. And no, cause austria Hungaria started as an Austrian empire, so there's a big difference

  • @Boombastic82
    @Boombastic82 5 месяцев назад +1

    The Songjai Empire is back!!

  • @yux.tn.3641
    @yux.tn.3641 9 месяцев назад +7

    think i still prefer East Africa Union

    • @ricardoxavier827
      @ricardoxavier827 6 месяцев назад

      Reds and greens cannot live under the same nation. This break away from ecowas, are made by only greens nations. West africa will never be united as whiles reds be included.

  • @alexishernandez294
    @alexishernandez294 9 месяцев назад

    Excellent news !
    And well explained !
    Great job !

  • @nnkk7742
    @nnkk7742 9 месяцев назад +23

    "The devil is in the fine print." - Butchered. 😭

  • @Vitalitymindd
    @Vitalitymindd 9 месяцев назад

    what is the software that you used for clip
    6:59 ?

  • @keithtarrier4558
    @keithtarrier4558 9 месяцев назад +5

    Very in depth! great upload/video! (as always)

  • @papayabyoure2948
    @papayabyoure2948 9 месяцев назад

    at 0:44 that’s not the picture of Gle Tchiani.

  • @jake_edinburgh
    @jake_edinburgh 9 месяцев назад +16

    Add guinea to the mix & they have sea access.

    • @s9ka972
      @s9ka972 9 месяцев назад +3

      Adding Mauritania benefits more

    • @Kinghassz
      @Kinghassz 9 месяцев назад +3

      Or Senegal or Mauritania

    • @Robespierre-lI
      @Robespierre-lI 9 месяцев назад +11

      The coastal west African nations have been on the rise, economically and in human development. Guinea is among one of the highest. They almost certainly want nothing to with these sahel states's instability.
      ECOWAS actually seems to have been working, all in all.

    • @Jean_Jacques148
      @Jean_Jacques148 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@Robespierre-lIthen why is the human rights and development of these countries still been terrible? Also, these Sahel states were *also* a part of ECOWAS, but have have little actual benefits.

  • @rifmaffia
    @rifmaffia 8 месяцев назад +1

    name of background music?

  • @TodaysAnalysis
    @TodaysAnalysis 9 месяцев назад +11

    First the East African Federation!
    Now the Sahel Confederacy!

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 8 месяцев назад +2

      There is also the magrebi union but it's old and failed. Africa is on the road of unionising

  • @kiritugeorge4684
    @kiritugeorge4684 9 месяцев назад +15

    Your introduction to the region didn't even summarise its historical politics. For example, so much prosperity and wealth generated from the region under empires like Ghana

    • @brotherlyleader9281
      @brotherlyleader9281 9 месяцев назад +14

      @@thechairman1306they didn’t need Europe, Europe needs Africa much more than Africa needs Europe

    • @moah2012
      @moah2012 9 месяцев назад +5

      The leaders were wealthy, not the average person. Ghana, Mali, and Songhai were servant states. (I don't use the word "slave state" because the servants had some social mobility to be an advisor)

    • @kiritugeorge4684
      @kiritugeorge4684 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@thechairman1306 The empire of Ghana traded with Europeans? Hold up, what are you talking about?

    • @kiritugeorge4684
      @kiritugeorge4684 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@moah2012 Conditions for the average person were far better in the region that amongst its contemporaries. Ancient Ghana for example, was far better than ancient Greece

    • @kiritugeorge4684
      @kiritugeorge4684 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@thechairman1306 The Mali empire was no significant empire by the time the portuguese circumvented the West African coast. In addition the primary form of wealth generation was, amongst sahelian states, gold. If anything, any of your arguments would prove there is a big incentive to kick Europeans out as they corrupted trading patterns in the Sahel.

  • @SeriouslyBadFight
    @SeriouslyBadFight 9 месяцев назад

    How do you make map graphics like this? And what is it called

  • @Nzambi237
    @Nzambi237 9 месяцев назад +7

    The AES opted out of ECOWAS already... And they'll be fine.

  • @dutchie1770
    @dutchie1770 9 месяцев назад +1

    not including the built in ad, i watched 5 different ads...

  • @WLH3eLiTe
    @WLH3eLiTe 9 месяцев назад +13

    That’s literally the Songhai empire again.

    • @Findgod222
      @Findgod222 9 месяцев назад +3

      Based

    • @MalevolentBite
      @MalevolentBite 9 месяцев назад +3

      Not literally because that empire had access to the ocean.

    • @WLH3eLiTe
      @WLH3eLiTe 9 месяцев назад +5

      @@MalevolentBite all they need is Senegal

    • @MalevolentBite
      @MalevolentBite 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@WLH3eLiTe Now that would be great literal Songhai empire lol.

    • @Buurba_Jolof
      @Buurba_Jolof 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@MalevolentBite Songhaï hadn't access to ocean. Most of the online maps about african empires are approximative. Songhaï empire was entirely in the Sahel without any access to ocean

  • @TheOriginalJAX
    @TheOriginalJAX 9 месяцев назад +1

    "The Devil is in the details" is the expression not "fine print" it predates corporate contracts which is where that phraseology comes from.

  • @leanderbarreto980
    @leanderbarreto980 9 месяцев назад +12

    Many countries should merge

    • @larsstougaard7097
      @larsstougaard7097 9 месяцев назад +3

      Yes make it one united continent called " Great Wakanda " 🐒🦧🐪🐘🦒🦓

    • @IvyMercedes1687
      @IvyMercedes1687 9 месяцев назад

      @@larsstougaard7097 obsessed racist

  • @tytrvd
    @tytrvd 9 месяцев назад

    Great stuff so much info!

  • @donaldpetersen2382
    @donaldpetersen2382 9 месяцев назад +6

    Yay Caspian got the goods

    • @NARUTOCHIGGA
      @NARUTOCHIGGA 9 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/user/shortsvFmXtXeJdoA?si=CkhvNFCbr3rUHDgp

  • @elibolton6235
    @elibolton6235 8 месяцев назад +1

    Therapy and perscription drugs for depression and anxiety are a joke. The only thing I could feel on the drugs was anger and sadness; every drug I was put on made everything worse. Made me numb to what little joy I had in my life. I hate watching videos to distract me from my thoughts just to get BetterHelp ads reminding me of my struggles acting like it's a simple fix.

  • @timmy-wj2hc
    @timmy-wj2hc 9 месяцев назад +13

    The French always retreating.😂😂😂

    • @JABN97
      @JABN97 9 месяцев назад +2

      They did pretty well during the 2013 intervention, for 1.

    • @sans_hw187
      @sans_hw187 9 месяцев назад +1

      Just like the US then right?

    • @pablobilbao9258
      @pablobilbao9258 7 месяцев назад

      @@sans_hw187 And Russia. These powerful countries rely mostly on their armament, but their forces are not as motivated as those who are fighting for their country's survival.

  • @emiliobertrandbungegonzale9961
    @emiliobertrandbungegonzale9961 9 месяцев назад +1

    you put tchiani and goita the other way round at the start

  • @saladmcjones7798
    @saladmcjones7798 9 месяцев назад +4

    Lol. I’ll believe it when I see it.

  • @verones11
    @verones11 8 месяцев назад +2

    This is most propagandized I have watched in a long time. Leaving ecowas is the best move for these nations. They have done a much better job combatting these jihadist in a few years than the French and UN troops have done over 10 years. Where the hell are you getting your information from?

    • @talaltariqq_
      @talaltariqq_ 8 месяцев назад +1

      But as usual, they will give credit to French and others 🙃

  • @michaelowino228
    @michaelowino228 9 месяцев назад +2

    Good video.

  • @bigjared8946
    @bigjared8946 9 месяцев назад +1

    This will definitely work, trust me bro.

  • @jak3669
    @jak3669 9 месяцев назад +11

    Bad analysis.
    Never mentioned how the turmoil is caused 90% by France.

  • @carl9901
    @carl9901 2 месяца назад +1

    they need to partner with mauretania, maybe have china invest in a big seaport and train infrastructure

  • @davroch7620
    @davroch7620 8 месяцев назад +3

    It's funny, your videos are always a collection of nonsense reflecting the politics of NATO or American neoconservatives, with beautiful moving images and a voice trying to sound serious.
    That's why I watch your videos, you are a compass pointing south. Just having an opinion contrary to yours is not far from the truth. 😂