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African Union rejects military intervention in Niger and dissociates itself from ECOWAS (www.lemonde.fr)
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[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about the Foreign Legion?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No idea, it's specifically unit trained for the colonial crackdowns. I think Mali and Burkina Faso statements basically means that the small scale intervention is hardly possible, so it will be either open war, and for that France would need USA and ECOWAS, or the clandestine spec ops countercoup/civil war attempt.

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to me the colonial crackdown force is quite well suited for the latter, no?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Sure, but i don't know much about the Foreign Legion, so i'm not sure they can operate like this.