For the last three decades, Rwanda’s leader Paul Kagame has fueled conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ransacked its natural resources. The US and the EU have been Kagame’s partners in crime so they can get a share of the loot.
  • network_switch@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    For those that don’t follow the going ons in Africa. Kagame is pretty much a dictator with western backing. Rwanda funds rebel groups in neighboring countries that happen to staff a lot of well armed, trained, uniformed “rebels.” These rebel groups happen to rapidly take mineral rich regions and adjacent cities. Those minerals then manage to make it to Europe and the US. African countries that oppose Rwandan expansion happen to be treated as examples of despotic regimes in Africa that need to be sanctioned

    They pretty much do the same thing as Israel where they use the military and financial support of western countries to pilliage neighbors to build up tourist attractions and market themselves as the beacon of democracy in Africa

    edit: I still want to clarify that although almost every historical post-1950 dictator/genocidal despot in Africa pretty got their start as a puppet of Europeans, the politics extends much more than just Europeans playing the great game in Africa. Like the whole Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somalia conflict exists regardless of Europe. Al Shabbab and other rebel groups in Nigeria exist regardless of Europe. Sudan though - that’s a very multifaceted proxy war involving western Europe, Russia, USA, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, UAE, …

    The whole Francophone Africa is currently exiting the trainwreck era of French dominance and racing towards another trainwreck

    Regardless what happens in the future, maybe this time we won’t fool ourselves into some more white savior nonsense and end up setting whole regions back another century by playing kingmaker for another resource puppet king