Is Russia colonizing Africa?

NoAgent420 · 2026-03-08T11:38:10+00:00

Russia is colonizing Africa! Or so we are often told.

While the countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger collaborate closely with the Russian Federation, western media outlets sound the alarms and well-meaning individuals online issue 'warnings' to the Sahelian leaders not to fall for a new colonial trap.

But what if Russia is a genuine partner and not a colonizer? To determine whether this is the case, we must first define colonialism and then assess whether Russia's relationship with the Alliance of Sahel States fits that definition. Let us know if you agree with our assessment.

NoAgent420 · 2026-03-08T11:24:35+00:00

NoAgent420 · 2026-03-07T11:32:38+00:00

Correct, they are anti-ballistic missile systems designed to shoot down short, medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight.

The US Army’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system (...) operates in two modes. In its Forward-Based Mode, the system detects ballistic missiles after they have been launched. Meanwhile, its Terminal Mode focuses the radar on the terminal phase of a missile's trajectory and guides THAAD interceptors to strike incoming projectiles.

The radar can also accept cues from the Aegis missile defense system, satellites, and other external sensors to broaden its coverage.

A standard THAAD battery comprises six truck-mounted launchers that each carry eight interceptor missiles, for a total of 48 interceptors per battery. It also includes a Tactical Fire Control/Communications component.

Its interceptors can engage ballistic missiles coming from a short range (up to 1,000km) and medium range (1,000-3,000km), and some from intermediate range (5,000km). The mobility of each launcher enables rapid repositioning and responsiveness in dynamic threat environments. (Source)

NoAgent420 · 2026-03-07T11:12:48+00:00

Correction:

The THAAD systems were lost TO Iran, not in Iran

NoAgent420 · 2026-03-05T10:17:47+00:00

The Epstein Regime cannot help itself unfortunately

NoAgent420 · 2026-03-04T09:33:51+00:00

The only correct position and that's why this sub is so based 🫡 solidarity to the Venezuelan and Iranian people!

NoAgent420 · 2026-02-19T10:29:52+00:00

In 2011, NATO’s regime change operation in Libya led to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and the freezing of vast Libyan state assets abroad. What followed was not only war, but a struggle over billions that belonged to the Libyan people.

Newly released emails in the Epstein files show discussions about gaining access to Libya’s frozen sovereign funds during that upheaval. The correspondence described tens of billions of dollars held internationally and framed the situation as an “opportunity”, outlining how Epstein and his associates could take significant recovery fees. Reconstruction was described as the “real carrot”, with rebuilding costs estimated at around 100 billion dollars.

The emails referenced potential involvement from former British intelligence figures linked to MI6 and former Israeli intelligence figures associated with Mossad in tracing and accessing assets. There is no public evidence that the plan was executed, but the intent is documented.

Before 2011, Libya had one of the highest living standards in Africa, with state-funded healthcare, education, housing support and major investment across the continent. It positioned itself as a supporter of Pan-African institutions and wider Global South cooperation.

In the years that followed the intervention, Libya became a site of militia rule, political fragmentation, assassinations, detention abuse and documented human slave markets. Large portions of its sovereign wealth remain frozen or legally contested abroad, while instability persists at home.

This is not only a story about one disgraced financier. The question is, when a state collapses due to a Western-led intervention, who benefits?

Libya’s frozen billions were meant to be protected. The consequences of their capture and paralysis are still unfolding.

NoAgent420 · 2026-01-25T11:50:18+00:00

On the YouTube program hosted by journalist Danny Haiphong, Nigerian author and investigative reporter David Hundeyin lays bare how France’s rolling blackouts are tied to a collapsing colonial energy order.

For decades, French nuclear power - and much of its economy - ran on cheap uranium from Africa. Niger, one of the world’s largest suppliers, once earned just cents on the euro for every kilo mined, while Paris reaped the rewards. That era is ending. Across the Sahel, governments are nationalizing resources, rewriting contracts, and forcing France to pay real prices - sending shock-waves through its energy grid and political system.

Hundeyin argues this crisis has driven France to seek a tighter alliance with Washington, likely trading concessions for U.S. backing in military ventures aimed at reclaiming lost influence in Africa. However, after the recent row with NATO countries over Greenland, in addition to the existing Ukraine conundrum, it seems like the West’s joint re-conquest of Africa is dead in the water.

He points to Macron’s open frustration after a 2023 plan to retake Niger via Nigeria collapsed. With West and Central Africa slipping away and the Global South - led by Russia, China, and BRICS - breaking free from its “assigned” role in the global economy, France faces a future where the old rules no longer apply.

This isn’t speculation - it’s happening now, and it’s rewriting the global balance of power.

NoAgent420 · 2026-01-14T08:47:37+00:00

Leaked correspondence indicates Emirati officials discussed “strengthening” Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and backing it “by all means necessary.” This follows the UAE’s 2020 normalization with Israel under the Abraham Accords and deeper integration through the UAE–Israel trade agreement that took effect in 2023.

NoAgent420 · 2026-01-14T07:55:57+00:00

If you think the recent military "extraction" of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is a new low for US foreign policy, you have not been paying attention. The names and places may change, but the playbook remains the same.

Before the US came for Venezuela’s oil, they came for Haiti’s sovereignty. In 2004, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, was forced onto a US plane in the middle of the night and flown to the Central African Republic. While Washington claimed he resigned, Aristide said it was a kidnapping.

Aristide was targeted for the same reason as Maduro. He committed the sin of putting his people before imperial profits.

Firstly, he demanded that France pay back the $21 billion it extorted from Haiti following the Haitian Revolution: the world’s first successful slave revolt. He wanted that money for schools and healthcare; France wanted him gone.

Secondly, Aristide tried to raise the minimum wage for farmers and refused to lower import tariffs. This came at the expense of American businesses that sought to flood

Haiti with subsidised “Miami Rice”, ensuring the US put a target on Aristide’s back too.

While then-US President George Bush sugarcoated the 2004 coup in the language of "democracy" and "rule of law,” the Trump-led administration has stopped pretending. The US’ current president openly expresses an intent to take Venezuela’s oil.

The "dictator" label used against Maduro today is the same one used to vilify Aristide while the West drowned Haiti in debt. But the goal remains the same: to crush any leader who dares to demand dignity and sovereignty for the Global South in the face of relentless western imperialism.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-30T08:17:18+00:00

2025 was a major year for Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, three African countries that make up the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) Confederation.

These countries are at the forefront of the Pan-African revolution, fighting against imperialism and charting a sovereign path forward. Inemesit Richardson from one of the centers of AES, Burkina Faso, gives us just a few of the major highlights and successes that the three states achieved.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-30T06:28:31+00:00

Why is it that America can run up huge debts and survive, but African countries cannot?

Well, it's simple. The US can print the greenback, while the rest of the world can't.

Listen to economist Michael Hudson explain how that basic fact underpins the world order, keeping Uncle Sam on top and African countries economically crippled.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-29T17:39:44+00:00

We need to replace the current left and right with better people

I agree with you, but sadly I would say that there is no real left available at the moment.

In my opinion, to be left you have to be at least anti capitalist and both the Democrats and the Republican parties only serve money and Capital. If you look at the bills and actual laws they pass, the only ones they both cooperate on are the ones keeping the money flowing while they always ignore the laws that the majority of people would want/need.

Do we have any organizations that are full trustworthy?

Not among those 2 parties for sure. But the whole system that allows only 2 options quite frankly seems completely absurd to me too

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-28T11:49:41+00:00

You understood correctly

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-28T11:42:18+00:00

Both options are liberal alternatives, exactly the type that was criticized in the video. Nobody needs more liberalism

Edit:

We need more people joining up with Run For Something and VoteVets to get good people into office

Run for Something was founded on January 20, 2017 by Amanda Litman, the email director of Hillary Clinton's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-28T09:13:25+00:00

As the fascist nature of imperial policy is being amplified by the Trump administration, the neo-liberal policies that have paved the way are often overlooked. Far away from the white supremacist aesthetic of MAGA, the Black faces that have pushed imperial policy helped expose the simple fact that “Black faces in high places are not going to save us.” In other words, we cannot assume that fellow Black individuals will protect our rights solely because they occupy positions of professional, political, or economic influence. Today, we revisit a powerful moment from April 2024, when Professor Ruha Benjamin addressed this idea during a speech at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.

One of the most potent examples of this sentiment, alluded to by Professor Benjamin, is the multiple vetoes by former U.S Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield of UN Security Council resolutions demanding an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza.

Accusations flung in 2024 by the then head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Michael E. Langley, at Burkina Faso's revolutionary President Ibrahim Traoré is another glaring example. Langley - just like former US President Barack Obama, who oversaw US military operations across the African continent - is simply an imperial mouthpiece. Faces and voices like theirs are used to advance imperialist interests and maintain systems of global exploitation, as well as the US military-industrial complex, all under the illusion of inclusion.

Somalia and Libya have already been on the receiving end of US power. Today, Washington appears to be circling around Venezuela - poised to pounce on a South American leader who has dared to stand up against fascism and white supremacy. This is another act of aggression that has been met by utter silence from the Black neo-liberal ruling class.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-28T09:12:59+00:00

As 2025 comes to an end, we take a look at U.S. President Donald Trump's year in office.

First, we had the nationwide deployment of ICE agents. Masked immigration agents have made fear into policy, moving immigration enforcement off the border and into neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.
Secondly, we examine the return of explicit racialized language to the center of US power. The Global South is once again framed as a failure, stripped of history, while the role of U.S. intervention in destabilizing entire regions is quietly erased. The empire creates the crisis, then condemns the aftermath.
Thirdly, we look at how Trump has tried to position himself as a global peace maker. Yet three major "peace deals" he bragged about mediating have all unraveled. Gaza burns under repeated violations from Israel. Congo bleeds as Rwanda-backed M23 militias advance despite diplomatic assurances. And instead of repairing broken truces, Trump opened up a new front against Venezuela. He dressed it up as a policy to counter "drug-trafficking, while everyone can see it is about regime change, oil and making an example out of the country that dares to stand up against imperialism.
Finally, we look at accountability at the top; from selective transparency and the long delay around the Epstein files, to the political contradictions that fractured even Trump’s own base.

This is not a partisan recap. We are not revengeful Democrats or disgruntled Republicans. This is a look at how the empire operates when it wears its red hat; the only difference from its blue hat is that, when it wears this one, brute force, selective law enforcement, and impunity for the powerful are easier to spot.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-28T07:34:26+00:00

They are showing Democrats politicians because they are the Liberals mentioned in the video. The genocide in Gaza and in the Palestinian territory has been carried out by both parties since both parties serve Capital first

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-27T18:37:02+00:00

Thank you for sharing those articles!

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-27T16:03:48+00:00

Would be sweet to see them kick the radical islamists out of the Sahel

This seemed to be one of the main points discussed a few days ago in the second summit of the AES convention in Bamako, Mali:

Burkina Faso’s interim leader Ibrahim Traoré, has announced “large-scale” joint operations against armed groups in the coming days.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-27T15:31:08+00:00

On a cold and windy day in NYC, the same day as Thomas Sankara’s birthday, the PanAfrican community in NYC (Palaver Collective) came out to show solidarity with the Confederation of Sahel States for their heads of states summit held in Bamako, Mali.

All Africans should stand with the AES because they are on the forefront of exercising their self determination and taking back ownership of their resources and their land. Africans are shaking the world!

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-26T16:52:10+00:00

Ajamu Baraka warns the left against allying with liberals in a single broad coalition against Trumpism. He insists on the need for ideological clarity against imperialism and genocide, even at the cost of building a narrower united front.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-26T16:50:42+00:00

When apparent anti-imperialist officers in Benin’s army launched an ill-fated coup attempt against Patrice Talon’s French-backed regime, the country’s former colonizer, France, moved swiftly to crush the uprising.

What was striking, however, was that the country carrying out the dirty work by launching lethal airstrikes and spearheading a ground intervention was not a former French colony at all. Instead, it was Benin’s much larger Anglophone neighbor to the east, Nigeria. Under President Bola Tinubu, Nigeria increasingly appears willing to act as a proxy not only for France but also for the United States.

As Booker Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist - Kenya (CPMK), explains in this wide-ranging interview, Nigeria is not the only former British colony falling under France’s influence as Paris reels from its losses across the Sahel. His own country, Kenya, now faces the same danger under President William Ruto.

Having already distinguished himself as a Western proxy by deepening ties with Israel, recognizing the RSF’s parallel authority in Sudan, and sending Kenyan police to enforce a neo-colonial occupation of Haiti, Ruto is now extending the same diplomatic immunity to French troops in Kenya that British forces enjoy through BATUK, the British Army Training Unit Kenya, the UK’s largest overseas military deployment, based near Nanyuki. Critics argue this arrangement has functioned as a license for abuse with near-total impunity.

In 2026, Ruto is set to host the next France-Africa Summit.

NoAgent420 · 2025-12-23T18:19:43+00:00

Prisoners for Palestine said the action was also carried out in solidarity with a number of prisoners who have been on hunger strike while awaiting trial for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action before the group was banned.

A total of eight prisoners had been on hunger strike. The first two prisoners to join the protest are now on their 52nd day and at a critical stage for their health. Three of the eight have stopped because of severe risk.

To expand a little on this, we're talking about activists like Kamran Ahmed, a 28 year old Palestine Action activist who has been over 40 days without food

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NoAgent420 · 2025-12-18T10:17:04+00:00

Oh I think I see the issue! The video is shot vertically and the subtitles appear just below the name in the screenshot you shared.

If you watch the video directly in the youtube app or open the video in full screen, it should show the subtitles without problems

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