I used to think berets were lame but I've officially had my mind changed
I like how each beret is a different color. They could get a power rangers thing going on, but with berets instead of full-body jumpsuits.
When their powers unite they can reincarnate 
Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore: “Today, our relationship with Russia is primarily strategic. With Russia, there are no restrictions on the equipment we want to purchase. Others impose restrictions on us. They support us in terms of training, logistics, tactical training, and everything else. They provide support in these aspects."
The west just can't understand that sanctions don't work when countries can just go trade with someone else. This is yet another fantastic example. The US won't sell us shit? Okay we'll buy it from their enemies instead.
I hope the US sanctions the entire world.
I wrote a well cited essay in an English 101 class about how sanctions don't work and often have negative results, I got a great grade and it seemed clear based on the evidence, but these mofos just can't help but sanction. It must be useful in some way to the people doing it but what could be a personal benefit?
It must be useful in some way to the people doing it but what could be a personal benefit?
Financial speculation likely plays a part. It might seem geopolitically insane that Europe traded cheap russian energy for expensive american/norwegian/russian but through third parties energy... but everyone who's invested in American LNG is making a killing. And Europeans who own the privatized import businesses are also making a second killing too.
That aside there just seems to be a culture of sanctions. The west is used to breaking weak nations by isolating them from western finance, capital and technology. By sheer inertia this keeps on going despite how a country like China can just keep on prospering, or how countries like Russia and India can more than make do as well. Or how all the new economic powers mean that countries like the ASS group just has options and people to talk to.
Is western finance good at insurance? Probably. But it's not like Mumbai, Shanghai or Singapore can't do the same service.
The world is so lucky that China focused on self sufficiency and innovation instead of just becoming a western owned sweat shop.
cutting off from a market suddenly is probably useful for insider trading, at least. just keep it under wraps and keep the info to yourself so you can get the juicy stocks
like one of the biggest proponents of sanctioning iran is the cashew industry, too, and iran has a very large cashew industry, so it pushes a competitor out of the market. essentially protectionism with extra steps
It worked for a while when the hegemony was absolute or there was cold war ideology stuff for them to work with, but it turns out rigging the game only works as long as you're the only game in town.
When the Free Market doesn't exclusively benefit the empire :/
I hope the US sanctions the entire world.
Back to isolationism, with extra steps
Traditionally the West then targets you for destruction for becoming an ally of the enemy (i.e. trading with the only people that would trade with you).
The U.S: No Turkey we won't allow you to get the F35 because you bought S400 from Russia >:(
Russia: Yes United States of America? You want 31 Mi-17 helicopters? are you going to pay us? ok good they're on their way.
next up: common currency
Mali flag but it's their berets
Mali flag after being submerged in a river by an oil refinery for a week
traore is pretty hot. hope his politics are like sankaras
He cites 
as an inspiration and was apparently a member of a Marxist group in University. So I'm leaning towards based.
In a joint statement following the two-day meeting in Mali’s capital Bamako, the foreign ministers spoke of the “great potential for peace, stability, diplomatic strength and economic development that a strengthened political alliance offers”.
“The ministers… guided by the ambition to ultimately achieve a federation uniting Burkina, Mali and Niger recommend the creation of a confederation to the heads of state of the Alliance of Sahel States,” the statement said.
Bad A.S.S.
“The ministers… guided by the ambition to ultimately achieve a federation uniting Burkina, Mali and Niger recommend the creation of a confederation to the heads of state of the Alliance of Sahel States,” the statement said.
everybody talks about the Bell Riots 
and Irish Reunification of 2024 
but there's a couple ideas for a unified africa in there too. in the 60s it was lame "united states of africa" but luckily it was never mentioned on-screen and eventually they prophesied this confederation.
In the 1977 Writers'/Directors' Guide for Star Trek: Phase II – the abortive second series – Uhura was noted as having instead been born in the "African Confederacy". This may have led to the naming of Geordi La Forge's birthplace as the African Confederation in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode TNG: "Cause And Effect".
united states of africa
African Confederation
The good confederates
Beret is when no colonialism and the more berets you have the more tears are in the mayo
May the confederation be the dawn of a new and brighter era
i really hope they get guinea and chad in on it, apparently theres been talks on it?
They unite into the Gigachad Republic
Berets are lame unless you wear them with conviction. Ya gotta mean it
Just look how Sankara wore his comically small beret. It would look ridiculous normally but somehow wasn't on him.
So decaids are happening in nw Africa rn?
Fuck yeah!!
Sahel Confederation
nice! berets are back?
just ordered mine, should arrive next week
idk if this is just a western military thing but aren't you supposed to soak your beret and wear it to form it to your head and prevent wrinkles? and also, isn't the insignia supposed to be on the front and not the side? i genuinely have no idea about the military traditions of these countries so they are probably to their own standards.
I honestly don't get the practical point of a beret. Not big enough to keep your head warm but also provides no shade.
It looks cool but that's about it.
If you arent looking cool while resisting the West why even bother ....
Military berets used to be bigger and provided some shade, but in modern times they’re used because they’re cool. Really the SAS made them popular in culture and now they’re associated with elite units as a status symbol. I’m not sure about African nations history with using them, but I assume it’s just colonialism and the elite status from before.
The fuck is this weird shit?
They still wear that kind of stuff today btw
Those are the ones that were bigger and provided some shade lol you can shift it towards the sun for some protection.
They have their own standards.
Berets if i can recall correctly, you CAN wet them and shave them with a razor to be more droopy but it honestly doesnt matter. Its just a stupid hat at the end of the day.
Berets are lame when worn by westoids, with the exception of the RA.
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