The Sami people might possibly rank last with almost all other indigenous groups as the least responsible for the climate catastrophe. They have the least contribution to and enjoyed the least benefit from humanity's use of fossil fuels. If there was any justice in this world those wind turbines would have been built on top of the mansions of oil CEOs and shareholders. But I'm a realist so I realise that it is silly to force oil tycoons to give up their massive mansions and wealth and that it is silly not to force the sami to give up protecting their lands and livelihood so that the rest of us can continue to exist.

The only thing that France can do to gain more influence in Africa is to help put Africa on a path to true autonomy over itself and it's resources.

The west treats it like a giant farm and mining operation. No wonder overall Africa wants to get away.

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You're a doomer. You disregard entire humanity's effort and the fact that we have faced multiple crises and have overcame them. You think there is only one solution and that is simply not the truth. We will overcome this as well.

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How fucking propaganda batman. If you're clueless enough to equate the outsourcing of making physical money with the onerous, deleterious and all-around-fucked-up impact that not being able to set your own country's economic policies on the fundamental level that being on the CFA is then you're absolutely not one who should be uttering a word here.

For those who don't know: being able to set strength or weakness of your own currency is incredibly important in being able to make your own goods cheaper for overseas markets, making them more attractive to buy, stimulating your own economy. This comes with trade-offs, but the need for poorer nations to do this is very, very real. By being stuck using the CFA as their currencies, dooms these smaller, fledgling economies to never be able to compete on the world stage. Hundreds of years from now, unless they change this, they'll still be backwater nations.

And has absolutely nothing to do with how your physical money gets created. Lots of even first world nations outsource their physical coin stamping and money printing to other countries, it's completely out of scope of monetary policy.

France has every incentive to keep them weak and dependent on France. France uses all its available power to keep its neocolonialism going, and it's been stupendously successful. Propaganda works though, just watch the comment I'm replying to to see it in action.

We're not starting WW3 for a country that we aren't even obligated to defend.

Trump would probably make him an ambassador

Mhm agreed.. Russia seems to be collecting every fake thing under the sun.

Fake "special forces" who in reality couldn't outperform girl scouts? Check! Fake supertanks? Check! Fake 5th gen fighter jet? Check! Fake referendums? Fake body armor? Fake helmets? Check, check, and check!

So might as well add fake martial artist and actor to the list.

Check out this podcast. It's hilarious and educational!

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Wouldn't be the first time the English sent their unwanted here

At this point anything that doesn’t agree with a certain point of view is propaganda. Stop looking at it through a one dimensional filter!!!

Well I don't really give a fuck what you think because you didn't even have the consideration to read any of my replies otherwise you would have answered them coherently instead of trying to dazzle me with your faux take on history.

You have still yet to back up your original claim, which I attempted to verify myself but could not, presumably because your full of shit. Stick to Austrian balloons kiddo

Laws themselves are only as legitimate as the government that enforces them. Ie, espionage is 'legal' as it is backed by the political and military capital of the country operating the spies. Whereas you robbing a bank is backed only by you and your gun.

Hate to break it up you man but they've already tried and pootin kissed Xi's ass at first but then basically said thanks but no thanks it ain't good enough.

Seems like only way pootin gets out of this is in a wooden casket.. or a body bag..

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Does anyone have a pic from the last 20 years of Seagal standing? Even in his movies he doesn't stand, walk, or run.

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It’s a semantic distinction, for all intents and purposes Siberia was like the American frontier.

I think all soldiers there having a bad time. It's a god damn war where soldiers are trying their best to kill each other. And both sides saying "im fine" or keep silent after they sustain losses, while other side is pointing at each and every small victory. Both sides saying other side is loosing no matter if it's true or not.

Espionage always fascinated me in general. Intelligence agencies are essentially criminal wings of governments to me. Not domestically criminal of course but much of what Intelligence agencies do would be deemed illegal in whatever country they're operating in.

Point being it's a weird field with weird rules and there can be multiple reasons for not jailing spies immediately from maintaining relationships, ensuring your prisoners on the other side aren't abused, to not wanting to give away your hand like you originally stated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/11ajb9g/australia_quietly_expels_major_russian_spy_ring/

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Would there have been if you were told they were ISIS level of evil, though?