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Kudos, Slavsquat! You have no peers!

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Oct 19, 2022·edited Oct 20, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Congratulations, Riley, on the first anniversary on Substack! I think you have done extremely well with your blog in a short period of time. You thoroughness, your expertise on the subject, and your mastery of a written word prove to us all that some of the fundamental qualities of a good writer never go out of style. I look forward to your coming posts. Thanks for spending time on uncovering subjects not really touched by anyone else in the English language blogosphere!

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

I'm so happy I came across your blog a year ago. It's one of the things that have kept me sane throughout the madness. Thanks for your work, Riley, it's truly invaluable.

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

How time flies when you are stuck in a hookah lounge

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Keep up the great work with alternative reporting in Russia!

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Thanks, Riley, amazing persistence in the face of odds. BTW, loved that "Beach Boys video"! :-)

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Oct 20, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

congratulations and thank you

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HH7J-Sx80 This is for you Riley😁

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Because Edward Slavsquat's readers are interested in informations based on real news describing the complexity of reality and because French are somehow challenged in it's sphere of influence in Africa by Russia, I advise those interested in the subject to consider the rather relevant analysis provided below.

"""*The interest of the French people hangs upon leaving the EU psychopathic totalitarianism, the NATO and the phony Euro pseudo money.

*The interest of the French peoplehangs upon in distancing themselves with the ethnic nationalists and their foreign supports.

* The interests of the French population of all ethnic and cultural background is to have good ties with Russia.

*The interest of all components of the French citizenry hangs upon first and foremost by having the best relationships with our "cousins", French speaking populations in The ex-Africans colonies whom many parents live in our country (at that point submited by the Anglo-Saxon empire of lies), first and foremost."""

If so called "french interest" (olygarchic interests) hadn't behave very disgustingly in Africa, France wouldn't be challenged in anyway.

For those of you who might be interested in diging deeper:https://fusionnisme.blogspot.com/

France and its best enemies in Africa

October 18, 2022

Leslie Varenne

https://www.iveris.eu/list/notes/552-la_france_et_ses_meilleurs_ennemis_en_afrique

France is contested on all sides of the continent to the point that it no longer has any room for maneuver. If it moves forward openly, there is an outcry; if it moves forward masked, it is spotted and that is even worse. The rejection of French politics - for that is what it is all about and not anti-French sentiment, expatriates have no problem on the continent - has multiple sources and predates the arrival in power of Emmanuel Macron. However, under his five-year tenure, this rejection has reached stratospheric proportions. The music in the media and on social networks is to accuse Moscow of being the armed wing of this protest. However, without being naive and denying the role of Russia, it is only one factor among others that contribute to this climate.

Demonstration during the last coup in Ouagadougou

The reasons for this rejection are well documented; the fundamentals that underpin and sustain the protest have also long been known. They are the support given to illegitimate presidents in the eyes of their populations, the validation of unconstitutional third terms and rigged elections. No French president has put an end to them. These practices despair the peoples who aspire to democracy and suffocate in libertic societies where underdevelopment, nepotism and prevarication reign.

The recent events in Chad provide another masterful illustration of this. Contrary to his commitments, Mahamat Déby has decided, via a pseudo national dialogue, to grant himself the right to stand for re-election at the end of the transition, which will last another two years. Neither the Quai d'Orsay nor the Elysée have communicated after this decision, which shows their embarrassment. If Emmanuel Macron does not approve of this ukase, what can he do after allowing Idriss Déby's son to take power unconstitutionally? The days of the "policeman of Africa" are definitely over; heads of state have a choice of partners. The president of the new world acts like those of the old world. The worm was in the fruit as soon as Mahamat Déby was sworn in in April 2021.

The variable geometry policy is the other major criticism levelled at France. In Mali, "an illegitimate and illegal junta", in Chad, in Burkina Faso and in Guinea, juntas that enjoy a certain benevolence. With the war in Ukraine, in addition to the disproportionate resources sent to Kiev, another "double standard" is revealed even more bluntly. Unlike the Boutcha massacre, never have major killings such as those in Duékoué, Côte d'Ivoire, March 2011; Ogossagou, Mali, March 2019; Yirgou, Burkina Faso, January 2019, given rise to requests for emergency meetings at the Security Council. However, the lack of international reaction to these massacres is experienced as a form of racism and is systematically mentioned among the critics.

The alignment of France in the "Western camp" after its reintegration into the integrated command of NATO in 2009 has contributed to the degradation of its image on the Continent. This return marked the trivialization of its voice in the concert of nations, a voice that had the diplomatic vocation of a bridge between East and West, North and South, as Dominique de Villepin said at the time. The end of this singularity materialized in 2011 with the wars in Syria, Ivory Coast and Libya. The conflicts in these last two countries have created the groundswell that is now engulfing France.

Thus included in the Western camp, France is paying for the military adventures of the United States, from the Balkans to Iraq and Afghanistan, including those in which it was not involved. For it is the entire West that is being condemned for decades of warmongering and all its work. The journalist Ian Hamel quoting the essayist Hamid Zanaz writes in Mondafrique: "In the Arab-Islamic world, in editorials, comments on social networks and television sets, Putin is presented half-heartedly, sometimes even openly, as a hero who defies the colonialist West. The climate that prevails in Africa is not exclusive to the continent. On October 16, in Haiti, demonstrators brought out Russian flags to oppose any hint of American intervention.

France does not benefit from this alignment, nor is it paid in return. The United States distanced itself from Paris so as not to be contaminated by its bad image. Alerted by the votes of certain countries, concerning Ukraine, at the United Nations, they are trying to regain control by playing the camp of the discontented, following the example of Chad where they support the opponent Succès Masra. They do not wish to

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Talent! It takes talent! Love the out of key BeachBoys. Had to reset my ears after that.

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Félicitation Riley!

I might be able to do something to help with the overprice hookah lounge you in the coming week.

Gamarjoba!

Lionel

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Congratulations, Riley! 🎉🥂 Substack is a wondrous, life-transforming place, and I'm happy to be battling tyranny and propaganda together 🙌

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Oct 20, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Thank you for your vigilance. Russian governmental vaccine envy has taken me aback.

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Feliz cumple !!

(What kind of music is that ?

I'm not a doctor but it looks like you make a hypo-californian seizure Riley !)

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Thanks for the waltz down Memory Lane.

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Congrats! And gogogo!

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