France's Era of Exploitation Ends Permanently!

Hello everyone and welcome to Geopolitical Trends. So excited to be with you as always. As an analyst, I ask, is France coming to a grip with the reality of the new global order, especially in Africa? In this video, I'm going to provide you my assessments about France's decision to officially withdraw its ambassador and soldiers from Niger, and how this marks now a new era in the world of geopolitics, especially for Africa writ large. Let's dive in into these fascinating developments. Well, well, well, Macron, French president that is, has finally come to grip with the reality on the ground that his country, France, is no longer welcomed in Niger permanently. So this is exactly what Macron announced and decided to do, is to withdraw the French ambassador and soldiers, all of them, from Niger. So the withdrawal of, of France's ambassador from Niger— his name, by the way, the ambassador Sullivan— is the latest steps in escalating tensions between both France and Niger. We all know after the military coup, or the revolution that is, since the Nigerian military took over in July. So now it's official, it is official that France soldiers, which is about— yeah, it has about 1,500 soldiers will be leaving Niger permanently. That's it, they're done. And this is going to be in the upcoming weeks and months, but it is expected that the full withdrawal, the presence of France, will be officially over by the end of the year. In other words, you have no presence of diplomatic or military in Niger by the end of this year. So, so this outcome, of course, is the result of the Niger junta not only revoking France's ambassador's diplomatic privileges and immunity, but also the cancellation in August, which happened— it was on the 3rd of August. I remember this one exactly because I think I did a video on it. So 3rd of August, of all agreements, Niger canceled all the agreements that it had with France under the previous, or the removed, President Bazoum. So of course France wanted to challenge that by rejecting this cancellation on the pretext of the council's lack of legitimacy, but Macron efforts went nowhere. The military junta said, forget about it, whatever you do, we done, you're out permanently. So, but here is the shocker into all this. Niger also not only wasn't satisfied with just kicking the French out, they also banned— and it's confirmed, it has confirmed already— this, it's banning now its airspace from all French commercial aircraft. In other words, said differently, any French airplane will not cross through Niger airspace or it will be shut down because that will be a violation. So, so this is what I find very, very interesting about this. So the question that you need to ask, I need to ask as an analyst, is will other African countries follow suit because they already— mind you, two French, two former French colonies in North Africa, Morocco and Algeria, already, especially Algeria, already decided to get rid of the French language in its education system and replace it with English. Morocco is working on that based on the last research that I found, so I won't be surprised that Morocco also will get rid of French language and replace it with English language. So, and by the way, it was a copy based on the research that I did. It was a copy by the French air agency letter to air carriers dated on Saturday, September 23rd, which was just 2 days ago. It shows that Niger's airspace is available to all national and international commercial flights except for French or charter aircraft from France, including the Air France fleet. And this is according to French channel. So that tells you what's been reported sometimes in Western media versus what the reality. But this comes out of the, the horse's mouth, as we say, the saying goes. So So France only said that it was not flying in Niger airspace. No, it was banned. They didn't want to say, well, we were banned from flying over because we will be shut down. So that's what I found very interesting. What do you think? Because I like to keep these videos short and concise. What do you think of these developments? Will other countries in Africa who were once colonized by France will follow suit? So make sure to leave me some answers in the comment section. I always like to read your feedback. And, and, uh, and by the way, if you like the content of this video, please hit that like button and don't forget to subscribe. I will greatly appreciate it. As always, remember, geopolitics impacts your daily life in more ways than one. Till next time, bye-bye.