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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 25, 2023, 04:52:07 pm »

Finally!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/armenia-sees-no-advantage-keeping-164658559.html

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Armenia sees no advantage in continuing to host Russian military bases on its territory after Azerbaijan retook the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian prime minister told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Wednesday.
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Russia's military presence in Armenia includes garrisons in two locations and an airbase. Moscow has long seen itself as the guarantor of Armenia's security in the volatile South Caucasus, a region crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines.

Woke comments:

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Because of Putin's blunder in Ukraine, the ruzzians cannot even project power in their own neighborhood. I expect to see many in the neighborhood rising up against Muscovy meddling.

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Better to just kick the Russians out, they are nothing but trouble.

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Better do it now Russia is weakening by Ukraine

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Russia has their hands full right now.  It may be a good time.

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Russians are a cancer that drain the life's blood in natural resources from every country they occupy.

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Stop delaying and talking about it and just get rid of it already. You know they're bad for your country, they're not welcome, just kick them out and be done with it or its gonna be hard to remove that cancer up your spleen.

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China will own most of Russia.
Posted by: rp
« on: September 11, 2023, 01:48:15 am »

https://twitter.com/TheSyedHaq/status/1701114735846982028?t=HxTC2qDaBb8dpjp0oQe_2Q&s=19
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Never forget when the swine looking soldier called an Iraqi kid as the "Ugliest" kid he has ever seen.

These Satans came in Muslim lands to teach them their "values". #September11 #NeverForget
The subhuman in question didn't bother holding up a mirror to his own face.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 04, 2023, 07:38:46 pm »

https://us.yahoo.com/news/japans-top-court-orders-okinawa-094239589.html

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Japan's top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive government plan to build US military runways

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Okinawa's rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to approve it despite protests by locals who oppose the American troops' presence.

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: July 02, 2023, 01:35:46 am »

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/okinawa-ryukyu-prefecture-front-line-093000385.html

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Okinawan governor Denny Tamaki - who has long objected to US military bases - visits China from Monday.
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According to People's Daily, the Communist Party's mouthpiece, Xi spoke of exchanges between the former tributary state to China and the province of Fujian, where he used to be governor.

"When I was working in Fuzhou, I was aware of the Ryukyu-kan [diplomats' house] and the Ryukyu cemetery there, and that Fujian had a deep connection with Ryukyu," he said.

"There were 36 clans from Fujian [that] moved and settled in Ryukyu," he said, referring to a mass migration event in the 14th century.

A few days later, Tamaki told the media he interpreted the remarks as Xi having "very deep insight into history and culture".

"I take [Xi's statement] as an indication of his willingness to develop future exchanges," he said.
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With a strategic location in the first island chain, Ryukyu was an important trade hub between ancient China and Japan.

Okinawa now hosts more than 70 per cent of US military forces in Japan. Its affiliated island is just 110km (68 miles) from Taiwan.
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Denny Tamaki, however, has long opposed the US military bases on the island, accusing them of bringing negative impacts to locals. He also criticised the new defence strategy.

On June 23, the 78th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa - one of the bloodiest campaigns of the Pacific War in which one out of four local civilians was killed - Tamaki issued his own peace declaration, calling for the easing of tensions and building of mutual trust with other countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region.

"[The defence build-up in Okinawa] and the memories of the fierce ground battle has triggered great concern among the residents and peaceful diplomacy through dialogue is being demanded," Tamaki said in the document.
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In the lead-up to his trip to China, Tamaki told the media he would like to convey to the Chinese side "that we trust each other and want to continue our mutually beneficial relationship".
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After meeting Chinese leaders and economic officials in Beijing, Tamaki will head to Okinawa's "twin province" Fujian in southeastern China to discuss economic and people exchanges with local officials, according to Japanese media.

If only the US would withdraw its military, everything would be so much simpler.....

Woke comments:

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Support activists like Robert Kajiwara who was unfairly detained by the U.S military occupation in Okinawa.

It's time to #DemilitirizeAndDecolonizeThePacific

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how many military bases the US has in the world.  By the way, all of this cost a lot of money annually.

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Don't try to pretend that Japan is not occupied.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: May 02, 2023, 09:23:02 pm »

How colonized is South Korea?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brutal-sex-trade-built-american-123843407.html

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A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers

DONGDUCHEON, South Korea — When Cho Soon-ok was 17 in 1977, three men kidnapped and sold her to a pimp in Dongducheon, a town north of Seoul.

She was about to begin high school, but instead of pursuing her dream of becoming a ballerina, she was forced to spend the next five years under the constant watch of her pimp, going to a nearby club for sex work. Her customers: American soldiers.
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In the postwar years, many of these women worked in gijichon, or “camp towns,” built around U.S. military bases.

In September, 100 such women won a landmark victory when the South Korean Supreme Court ordered compensation for the sexual trauma they endured. It found the government guilty of “justifying and encouraging” **** in camp towns to help South Korea maintain its military alliance with the United States and earn U.S. dollars.
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U.S. troops stayed in the South under the U.N. flag to guard against the North, but South Korea struggled to keep U.S. boots on the ground.

In 1961, Gyeonggi province, the populous area surrounding Seoul, considered it “urgent to prepare mass facilities for comfort women to provide comfort for U.N. troops or boost their morale,” according to documents submitted to the court as evidence. The local government gave permits to private clubs to recruit such women to “save budget and earn foreign currency.” It estimated the number of comfort women in its jurisdiction at 10,000 and growing, catering to 50,000 U.S. troops.
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**** was and remains illegal in South Korea, but enforcement has been selective and varied in harshness over time.

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I served in Okinawa and Thailand in '66-'67, where the situations were similar.
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There was little or no racism against mixed-race offspring in Okinawa, so long as the father was white. Black babies, however, were shunned

This is why we also need:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: April 12, 2023, 04:53:33 pm »



All of these need to be shut down.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64479712

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The deal, which in part reverses the US' departure from their former colony more than 30 years ago, is no small matter.
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The history of violence and abuse by US troops in the Philippines is still a sensitive subject. There are an estimated 15,000 children left with their Filipino mothers when their American fathers went home.

"We have a long history of inequality in our relationship," says Renato Reyes, secretary general of New Patriotic Alliance, a left-wing group. "The Philippines has been forced to shoulder the social costs. There's a history of ****, child abuse, and of toxic waste."

The US' return to the Philippines is strongly opposed by the country's left-wing groups.
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"The Philippines still has a colonial mentality - it looks to the United States as its big brother."
Posted by: 2ThaSun
« on: April 12, 2023, 03:09:09 pm »

US, Filipino troops kick off biggest-ever military drills, what is the message to Beijing? | DW News
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More than 17,000 US and Philippines troops are holding the largest ever joint military exercises between their countries.
Called the Balikatan drills, these are an annual feature, but this year, the size and scope is bigger. For one, troops are rehearsing how to sink a ship with a rocket barrage in waters across the South China Sea and Taiwan Straits.
This is where tension has been building for years between Manila and Washington on one side and Beijing on the other. China and the Philippines both lay competing claims to island groupings in the South China Sea. And this is influencing what the Philippines will be rehearsing in these latest drills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRMsXoG7eeE
Posted by: guest98
« on: March 02, 2023, 02:13:02 pm »

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/2/macron-says-era-of-french-interference-in-africa-is-over

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Macron says era of French interference in Africa is ‘over’


French president begins four-nation tour of Africa to renew frayed ties, while anti-French sentiment runs high in some former African colonies.

https://youtu.be/OriFSrfxMjA

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President Emmanuel Macron has said the era of French interference in Africa was “well over” as he began a four-nation tour of the continent to renew frayed ties.

Anti-French sentiment has run high in some former African colonies as the continent has become a renewed diplomatic battleground, with Russian and Chinese influence growing in the region.

Macron said France harboured no desire to return to past policies of interfering in Africa before an environment summit in Gabon, the first leg of his trip.

“The age of Francafrique is well over,” Macron said in remarks to the French community in the capital Libreville, referring to France’s post-colonisation strategy of supporting authoritarian leaders to defend its interests.

“Francafrique” is a favourite target of pan-Africanists, who have said that after the wave of decolonisation in 1960, France propped up dictators in its former colonies in exchange for access to resources and military bases.

Military revamp

Macron on Monday said there would be a “noticeable reduction” in France’s troop presence in Africa “in the coming months” and a greater focus on training and equipping allied countries’ forces.

Last year, Macron toured Cameroon, Benin and Guinea-Bissau in his first trip to the continent since winning re-election, seeking to reboot France’s post-colonial relationship with the continent.

The tour was to “show the commitment of the president in the process of renewing the relationship with the African continent”, a French presidential official said, who asked not to be named. It signalled that the African continent is a “political priority” of his presidency.

Posted by: guest98
« on: February 28, 2023, 03:52:42 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/27/macron-pledges-to-reduce-french-military-presence-in-africa

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Macron pledges to reduce French military presence in Africa

France is to reduce its military presence in Africa and transform its bases into partnerships with African soldiers, Emmanuel Macron has said ahead of a crucial trip to the continent this week.

The French president’s comments came as anti-French sentiment runs high in several former colonies in the Sahel

“The [military] bases as they exist now are a heritage from the past,” Macron said. He promised to “Africanise” the bases in the coming months. Some would become “academies” that would be co-run by French and African armies. The number of French soldiers would go down, but there would be increased efforts on training and equipment.

This “reorganisation … does not intend to be a withdrawal”, he said, adding: “We will remain, but with a reduced footprint.”

The promise to overhaul France’s military bases comes in the wake of France’s recent withdrawal from Mali and Burkina Faso after military coups led to fallouts with Paris. First, the ruling junta in Mali led to French troops leaving last year, then army officers running neighbouring Burkina Faso followed suit last month, asking Paris to empty its garrison of about 400 special forces.

Macron said France must show “deep humility” in Africa, amid what he called an “unprecedented historic situation” of security challenges and the climate crisis.

The French president has been under pressure to step up his Africa policy since a landmark speech he gave to students at a university in Burkina Faso six years ago, in which he pledged to break away from France’s former post-colonial policies in Africa and criticised the “crimes of European colonisation” promising a “truly new relationship” between Africa and Europe.

After the African independence movements in the 1950s and 60s, Paris had still intervened regularly in the domestic affairs of its former colonies and for decades retained sway through business and political ties under an unofficial policy known as “Françafrique”.


Macron said the era of Françafrique was firmly over but acknowledged there was more to be done to boost Paris’s relationship with African countries. He added that a new law would go before the French parliament in the coming weeks to fix a “method and criteria” for returning artworks to African countries from French museums.

But he hit out at the Russian mercenary Wagner group, which is present in Mali and Central African Republic, calling it the “life insurance of failing regimes in Africa” saying it was waging a “predatory” drive for mines and natural resources and committing violence against civilians, including ****.


Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 14, 2022, 12:19:19 am »

This needs to happen more:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-marines-wandering-outside-military-001945094.html

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A group of 15 U.S. Marines stationed at Camp Gonsalves in Japan was confronted by local residents after the soldiers strayed off their training area.

The Marines reportedly encountered residents of the nearby Higashi village in the Okinawa district of Kunigami District after losing their way to the camp's Jungle Warfare Training Center at around 3:40 p.m., reported Stars and Stripes.
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A representative from the Defense Ministry’s Okinawa Defense Bureau shared that as the Marines made their way back to camp, “they were chased by a group of locals, and one of them tried to take a gun from the Marines.”
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Miyagi, a known advocate against the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, later told the Okinawa Times: “I got close to them and grabbed a gun, but we didn’t chase them.”
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Miyagi has been against the bases since discovering the large amounts of military waste the U.S. forces left in a former military training area in northern Okinawa Island.

In 2021, local police searched her home after she was accused of placing a small amount of military waste in front of the U.S. Marine Corps Northern Training Area gate. During the search, authorities confiscated her personal belongings, such as her computer, video camera and smartphone.

Pollution, noise and alleged violence committed by U.S. base personnel have fueled the growing anti-base movement in Okinawa over the years.

How much longer must we wait before the bases are shut down?

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The Japanese public at large resent the presence of US military bases in their country. And no--they are NOT protecting Japan as most people here in the USA believe. Japan is used as a forward staging base. Period. The bases on the main (large) islands are largely tolerated with the military there undergoing 'orientation' on how to properly behave off base. But the Marine base in Okinawa is completely unnecessary with the Marines off base often acting badly, running afoul of the law and committing outright criminal acts.

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looks like occupation of Japan continues , 77 years science the war ended.

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What are these criminals doing in Japan anyway

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Leave the locals alone. Haven't you destroyed enough of their island already?

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White kids have been harassing the Japanese locals for decades. At an outdoor noodle shop one kid looked at three elderly Japanese men and said "Nagasaki" and made an explosion with his hands with sound effects.

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The Japanese have been brainwashed through 80 years of occupation to believe whatever the USA tells them. Who's to say Japan wouldn't be friends with China if the USA wasn't there for 80 years telling them about the evils of communism.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: August 28, 2022, 03:31:53 am »

Good work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBykSWxGjlc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland

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New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw Nederland; Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was a 17th-century colonial province[4] of the Dutch Republic that was located on what is now the East Coast of the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

The colony was conceived by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in 1621 to capitalize on the North American fur trade. The colonization was slowed at first because of policy mismanagement by the WIC, and conflicts with Native Americans.
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The Dutch West India Company introduced slavery in 1625 with the importation of 11 black slaves who worked as farmers, fur traders, and builders.



See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/kieft's-war/

To be American is to have a duty to eliminate all Dutch (and other Western) colonialist bloodlines.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: June 09, 2022, 04:25:54 am »

https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-calls-greece-demilitarize-aegean-134427939.html

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Tuesday called on Greece to withdraw its armed forces from Aegean islands, warning that his country will challenge the status of the islands if it fails to demilitarize them.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a joint news conference with his North Macedonian counterpart, that Greece has been building a military presence on the Aegean islands in violation of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the 1947 Paris Treaty. He said the islands were ceded to Greece on condition that they be kept demilitarized.

“The agreements are there but Greece is violating them. It’s arming them. If Greece does not stop this violation, the sovereignty of the islands will be brought up for discussion,” he said. “It’s that clear. You will abide by the agreements.”



It would become easier for refugees to cross the Aegean if Turkey controlled the islands again (as it did back in Ottoman times). Turkey should invade.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: June 06, 2022, 08:20:56 pm »

The correct way to respond to Western military presence:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-fighter-jet-cut-front-120503600.html

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Chinese fighter jet cut in front of an Australian plane and dumped debris into its engine, likely forcing it to abort its mission, officials say
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The incident happened on May 26 in international airspace over the South China Sea, the ministry said Sunday. The South China Sea is an area where China has tried to assert dominance to gain a strategic advantage in recent years.

There is no reason for Australia to have any military presence there in the first place!

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Richard Marles, Australia's defense minister, told 9News that a Chinese J-16 fighter jet cut across an Australian P-8 maritime-surveillance aircraft and released "chaff," which are small pieces of metal debris used to confuse missiles.

"The J-16 then accelerated and cut across the nose of the P-8, settling in front of the P-8 at a very close distance," Marles said.

"At that moment it then released a bundle of chaff, which contains small pieces of aluminum, some of which were ingested into the engine of the P-8 aircraft," he added. "Quite obviously, this is very dangerous."

Which civilization invented fighter jets? Again, it is retaliatory violence (and poetic justice) for any civilization which did not invent a given machine to use that same machine against the civilization which invented it. This is one of the most important principles we teach here.

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In February, Australia said a Chinese military vessel pointed a laser at another P-8 patrol aircraft to try and distract the pilot, calling it "reckless."

Which civilization invented lasers?

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/australia/
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: May 12, 2022, 08:21:54 pm »

Finally China understands how its military can be used:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-gained-nothing-ukraine-war-093000215.html

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On China's relations with its neighbours, Yan said Beijing should consider providing security backup to them to improve relations.

China is locked in maritime disputes over the South China Sea with several Southeast Asian nations, and over the East China Sea in Japan. Some of its neighbours are concerned about China's rising military power, and moved closer to the US for security backup.

"China should consider providing security guarantees for neighbouring countries. This is not to help them invade others, but to provide security guarantees when others invade them," he said.

"When you don't provide security for others, others will ask you why you need so many weapons? When you say 'I made this gun to protect you', he is not afraid of you having too many guns, but when you tell him 'the gun I made will never protect you', he will be very scared".
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: April 25, 2022, 10:46:57 pm »

Good work:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mali-jihadists-claim-capture-fighter-144159642.html

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Mali's biggest jihadist coalition says it has captured a Russian fighter with Wagner, the Kremlin-linked security firm allegedly hired by the country's military junta.

The claim was made in a statement sent to AFP late Sunday by the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), although it provided no evidence to support the assertion.

"In the first week of April, (we) captured a soldier of the Russian Wagner forces in the Segou region in central Mali," the GSIM said.

The group said the Russians had taken part in a massacre in Moura, central Mali, last month -- an event whose outlines have been reported by Human Rights Watch (HRW).

"These murderous forces participated with the Malian army in an airdrop operation on a market in the village of Moura, where they confronted several mujahideen before encircling this locality for five days and killing hundreds of innocent civilians," it said.

It is the first time the GSIM, an Al-Qaeda-linked alliance and the biggest jihadist network in the Sahel, has announced the capture of a Wagner operative.
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HRW says Malian soldiers and white foreign soldiers, who did not speak French, executed 300 civilians in Moura between March 27-31.
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Wagner has also been accused of abuses in the Central African Republic.
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Last week an army document and officials said a Russian national operating alongside Malian soldiers had been killed by a roadside bomb in the centre of the conflict-torn Sahel state.

The death marked the first confirmed Russian fatality in Mali.

Related:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/united-nations/msg12649/#msg12649

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/duginism/msg10830/#msg10830