There is perhaps no better person to explain the popularity of coups - now seemingly stretching down to Central Africa from the Sahel - than General Mamadi Doumbouya, the 43-year-old who has been the interim president of Guinea since 1 October 2021.
  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    When even News24 is saying this and going against the western narrative, you know it’s obvious.

    He overthrew Alpha Condé, 85, on 5 September that year, after taking part in the US Army’s special forces commanders’ course.

    That happens to be the same training received by Colonel Assimi Goita, who is the same age, and was a leader in Mali’s coup.

    (The USA is not proud of that.)

    Are you sure about that? I think the US is pretty happy with this, reduces French influence in Africa, kills the French sovereign neocolonial project of Francafrique. Gives the US room to operate in.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So, I guess a question that needs to be asked is why democratic systems aren’t working as intended in these countries. If there is such hatred of the current government that a coup is wildly popular, why aren’t state institutions able to force a change of power democraticly?

    And are the coups just setting up another government to overthrow a few decades from now?

    • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      America and more broadly western money doesn’t really tolerate the locals to participate in the democracy in countries that might come to the wrong conclusions democratically. In those situations, we install a management layer into their government that is easily mistaken for vassal state puppetry by the people who actually see it in action.

      From the perspective of the locals, this ‘democracy’ was installed by an externally funded military coup and is a tool of foreign hegemony. Democracy is what we wrote on the package, but it’s not what they got when they opened it up.

      Edit: I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these coup leaders were trained by American military.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I thought the problem was France in this case.

        But again, what exactly is breaking? And what prevents a coup in the future blaming the existing government of corruption as well?

        • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          The only way to prevent a coup is through national domestic tranquility coupled with unchallenged military supremacy. Since we have yet to see such a thing emerge on Earth, it’s governments are still subject to being violently overthrown, sometimes publicly, sometimes covertly.