Wednesday News Breakdown | Sahel Independence, Europe Destabilisation, Prospects for Pakistan

Okay. Welcome to, what is, I think, our second Wednesday news breakdown for members only. I have a few different stories today. It probably, inshallah, won't be as long as Sundays was. I'm gonna talk about again the Sahel region, Europe, and Pakistan.

So the first story has to do with Niger. So America accused Niger of supplying uranium to Iran and allegedly issued direct threats to the Nigerian government over the expansion of their ties with Iran and with Russia and with China. US more or less unilaterally imposed the presence in Niger of 1,000 military personnel in a military base, and I believe it was an air force base. And then they required Niger to pay some of the cost of the operations of that military base and those military personnel. Washington also did not fully disclose or did not freely disclose what in fact their military was even doing in Niger.

And they even conducted, unauthorized reconnaissance flights over the country, all while not actually assisting, Niger, Nigerian forces, against, terrorist groups in the region. Although that was the the whole pretense for why they were there. That was whole pretext for why they were there. So Niger looked at all of this and they correctly regarded it as highly disrespectful and as a a a colonialist violation of their sovereignty and their independence and have thus therefore ordered the Americans, the American military to leave Niger. Now the decision to terminate military cooperation with The United States and to demand the immediate withdrawal of American troops from their territory is a powerful statement, both symbolically and practically.

The explosion of US military personnel from Niger, has obviously very significant implications for American interest in the region. The removal of of of those 1,000 American armed forces, disrupts America's, military operations in the Sahel region, where Niger obviously plays a very central role. This this move by Niger throws The United States grand strategy in the region into disarray, particularly since Niger has has been a key hub of US military activities in West And North Africa. America's expulsion not only affects their ability to use counterterrorism as a pretext for their military presence, because obviously the The US has very little to to actually offer Africa in terms of actual equitable fair cooperation and collaboration. So they have typically fabricated, manipulated, and exacerbated security threats because all they are really interested in, all they're really interested in doing, and all they really understand doing is forceful domination.

So of course, it also hampers The US's great power projection against countries like Russia and like China in Africa and specifically in the the sash of countries. Neger's decision to suspend its military cooperation agreement with The United States, was imposed upon them in the first place, This reflects, I think, a broader sentiment, among all of the African, African countries regarding the fundamental disrespect that they have historically suffered, from Western nations. It signals a shift in the, in the in the whole region. Countries are increasingly seeking to assert their sovereignty and their independence in the way they conduct their international relationships and with whom. This action is part of a pattern that we see in the Sahara region where nations are reevaluating their partnerships with western countries, and they're exploring new alliances obviously, like such as with China and with Russia and with the other BRICS nations.

Neighboring countries like Burkina Faso and Mali have also distanced themselves as we know from Western forces, Western nations, and turned to alternative partners. This decision by Niger, I think, to break off cooperation with The United States highlights a growing frustration with the, interference and condescension that they've historically, suffered and endured from their western so called partners. So the expulsion of western forces from the Sahel, including obviously French troops, and the rejection of US military presence in Niger indicates a desire for greater autonomy and a reevaluation of their traditional alliances which they have every right to do. The shift suggests that African nations are increasingly willing to assert their own interests and to seek partnerships that align more closely with their own strategic objectives and their own national priorities. The evolving dynamics in the region underscore a a changing geopolitical landscape where African countries are redefining their relationships with western powers on their own terms.

And they're exploring new avenues for cooperation and collaboration, which is not something that we have actually seen before. Or in any way, we haven't seen it succeed in the past because anytime it has been attempted, the West has intervened usually violently to overthrow any government that was attempting to behave in a non aligned and a sovereign manner. So the Sahel region is witnessing a new era of African nations reclaiming their economic sovereignty and political independence after centuries of colonization. And I think that this trend is very likely to continue throughout the region, throughout Africa. And they're they're they're gonna seek to they'll have to balance their relationship with Western powers and with the new partners like Russia and China in pursuit of their national interest.

But it it it also further demonstrates both the decline of Western influence and their inability to update their approach to the global South. They can't stop being racist. They can't stop being supremacist. They can't stop being bullies and colonizers and tyrants. They can't adapt to the new reality that no one is scared or impressed with them anymore.

And they can't wrap their heads around the fact that the moment any country in the global South, in The Middle East, in the Muslim world, the moment that we have any options, the moment that we have any alternatives, any opportunity to get away from you, we do it. You have no concept of just how much you're despised and how deep the resentment and the anger against you is. How deeply you yourselves planted the seeds of that anger and that resentment and how strong the roots are of the tree of anti western sentiment that you yourselves cultivated in our lands. You don't understand, how we've been praying and we we we've been waiting for any chance to finally rid ourselves of your presence because your presence, is nothing but, interference and disruption and imposed weakness and subjugation. You actually convinced yourselves that we liked how your boot felt on our necks.

And you actually seem surprised to find out how much we always hated it. You're surprised because you never listened. You're surprised because you never cared. You're surprised because your supremacist mentality made you incapable of hearing our grievances. Your supremacism made you only capable of hearing what you wanted to hear.

So now when the entirety of the global South is rejecting you and expelling you, you're bewildered. I mean, who are Mali and Niger and Burkina Faso to defy America? Some of the poorest countries on earth. But why are they poor? Because of you.

And you think we don't know that? Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso are three of the reasons that you're rich, and you're why we are poor. And you imagine that we're not intelligent enough to figure that out? We've been knowing that. We know it ages ago, but we're only now able to actually drive you out.

And like I said, the moment that we have the ability to get rid of you, we do it. And if you're surprised, well, that's a you problem. Okay. So now let's look at Europe. The president of Moldova, Maya Sandu, announced that they were gonna hold a referendum on Moldova joining the EU in October.

So let's look at that. The ongoing geopolitical drama that is Ukraine, and the countries around Ukraine, the accession of Moldova to the European Union, is obviously a significant step that will but but it will predictably lead to Moldova joining NATO, which will only intensify tensions with Russia. I mean, the potential scenario of Moldova joining NATO will definitely heighten the tensions in the region. And I think predictably so and and that's by design, particularly concerning the situation in Transnistria. Transnistria is a is a is a breakaway region in Moldova with a pro Russian orientation and a large number of ethnic Russians.

And it's a it's a long standing source of conflict and tension between Russia and Moldova, and within Moldova. With the the ethnic Russians in Transnistria have even requested protection from Moscow, just like the Russians in Donbas and in Crimea also requested support and protection from Russia against the Ukrainians. So if Moldova were to join the EU and then subsequently NATO, which is predictable, that will put Moldova almost inevitably into a military conflict with Russia, which then puts NATO into a military conflict with Russia. So in my opinion, this whole idea of, Moldova joining the EU appears to me to be part of that whole plan that I've always talked about to expand the Ukrainian conflict into the, neighboring countries, thereby escalating the prospect of, war and conflict across the entire European continent. I mean, president Sandhu is basically regarded as a western puppet.

So she's just playing her part. She's playing her role in trying to she's she's following the plan in trying to turn the entirety of Europe into a conflict zone, as I've always talked about. And now continuing with Europe, specifically the issue of Europe's destabilization, we have this story. I'll quote, if if we want peace, we must prepare for war, says European council chief Charles Michel, that he has urged Europe now to prepare for war with Russia, which as he says, quote, unquote, will not stop at Ukraine. Now he went on to say, the EU is facing the greatest security challenge, its greatest security challenge since World War two.

If we don't give Ukraine enough help to stop Russia, we'll be next. Two years after the, war began, it's clear that Russia will not stop in Ukraine just as it did not stop in Crimea a decade ago. That is what he said. He said it continues its destabilization tactics in Moldova, Georgia, and the South Caucasus, the Western Balkans, and even further afield. This is what he is claiming.

Russia possesses a serious military threat, to the European continent and to global security. We must be well prepared, he said, in terms of defense and go into a quote unquote war economy mode. It's time to take responsibility for our own security. We can no longer rely on others or depend upon the election cycle in The United States or elsewhere. We must strengthen Ukraine, and Europe's capacity to defend a so called democratic world.

A stronger Europe will also, help to strengthen, the NATO alliance and improve our collective defense. Okay? This is what he said. But okay. Now consider this.

The Financial Times reports that the European nations face a shortfall of €56,000,000,000 to meet their NATO defense spending. They they have a pledge that they're all supposed to spend 2% of their GDP on NATO defense spending. Countries like Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium have been struggling to meet that NATO set quota or that that that that target due to their own suffering economies, their high debt levels and their budget deficits and so on. And the fact that they're barely surviving anyway. Despite initial efforts in Europe to increase defense spending, they have fallen short of their 2% GDP target relying heavily on of course The United States for security.

The introduction now also of new EU fiscal rules is expected to enforce it's intended to enforce budgetary discipline so called, which means of course, even greater austerity for the population with every available penny, every available euro, every available pound to be spent on debts and on defense. The the European Union's rhetoric of preparing for war against Russia while it's struggling to even meet its NATO financial obligations is just a comedic paradox. The EU's call for readiness and defense, preparedness against, the potential Russian aggression, which they themselves are provoking. It just rings hollow when member states themselves face a budget shortfall or spending shortfall of €56,000,000,000. As always, there's a huge disparity between their words and their actions.

I mean, while the EU is emphasizing the need to confront so called threats from Russia, the inability of Europeans to even fulfill their financial obligations to NATO undermines the credibility of this, you know, so called defensive posture that they're making. It raises questions about the EU's ability to effectively respond to the the security challenges that they themselves are provoking. Obviously, is just gonna make Europe even more vulnerable and even more weak on the global stage. They're gonna lose their their relevance completely. And in my opinion, this again is a is pretty clearly being engineered just like the completely unnecessary provocation that led to the war in Ukraine, and the completely ill conceived, sanctions against Russia that only succeeded in punishing Europe.

It has had no effect whatsoever, negatively on the Russian economy, which wasn't predicted by anyone even including myself. And now they have the the the as I said, the planned entry of Moldova into the EU, and likely after that, into NATO. So they're actually stoking a war that they're not prepared to fight, which can only mean that they're preparing for defeat, for instability, and overall collapse of Europe. And again, this is entirely predictable. It's an entirely predictable outcome.

Ellen, there's an entirely predictable outcome. It seems to me fairly obvious that this is an outcome that is specifically being sought. You're trying to achieve because it's too obvious what will happen. And if you wanted to avoid it, the ways of avoiding it are also obvious, but you're choosing not to do that. So that means that the predictable outcome, the predictable negative outcome is precisely the outcome that you're looking for, it's precisely the outcome that you're pursuing.

And this is what I've been saying on my channel for two years now, that the entire Ukraine fiasco is actually project and program for the destabilization of Europe, and it's moving at pace, and it just continues to move along with potential spillover conflicts now, including Moldova. We could also see potential conflict involving Poland. And as I said, they're they're literally trying to start a war that they already know they're not prepared to fight, which means that you're just trying to actually undermine and sabotage your own nations. Because the leaders of those nations, the leaders of the EU nations don't work for the good of their nations. And that's what happens again, as I've talked about many times, that's that's what happens when you let private sector power which has no nationality, it has no national loyalties, but you let private sector power capture your states, capture capture your governments, and capture your politicians.

Then those politicians no longer serve and no longer have any interest in what actually happens to the countries that they are supposed to be representing, that they were elected to represent. They represent the interests and they pursue the agendas of those who have no ties to your country and to the safety and stability and security and prosperity of your country. So now let's look at the, at the last story. This returns returns us again to the Muslim world, to our part of the world, but it's not a new story, but it's still worth talking about. And this has to do with, Pakistan's desire to join BRICS.

It's still uncertain, of course, as to whether or this is actually gonna happen, but frankly, hope it does. I think this could be the only way for Pakistan to actually finally resolve and finally free itself. The EU this is the quote. The EU is facing the greatest security challenge. In my opinion, this could potentially be the only way that Pakistan could ever finally resolve what has been decades of insecurity, decades of instability, decades of manipulations by manipulation by the West, and basically decades of a more or less very entrenched seemingly permanent state of crisis in that country.

If they were to join BRICS, I think that that is a great hope for them and and I'm very optimistic that if they were able to join BRICS, inshallah, that could actually resolve all of the sort of problems and negative aspects that that people around the world associate with Pakistan. Pakistan's decision to to to seek membership with BRICS last year, I think it was in November they sought it. Obviously, it has serious implications with with regards to their relationship with the West, particularly with The United States. Joining BRICS could provide Pakistan with great economic opportunities, geopolitical leverage, and a chance to align its foreign policy or calibrate its foreign policy more closely with the approach to international relations of BRICS. I think that it could finally liberate Pakistan from what has been decades of insidious Western interference and manipulation.

If Pakistan had already been a member of BRICS in my opinion, I doubt that Imran Khan would have been deposed in the manner that he was or deposed at all, for example. Of course Pakistan's bid to join BRICS is something that people have been talking about for a long time. Pakistan's talking about it, all of Asia's talking about it, India obviously. It's seen by people who support it as an opportunity for greater international cooperation and multilateralism because Pakistan is really a key player. Under Imran Khan's leadership, Pakistan sought to build greater relationships and greater cooperation with global South powers including of course the BRICS nations and including, of course, Russia and China.

Because they have a a greater degree of common interest, natural common interest between Pakistan and the BRICS nations, between Pakistan and China, between Pakistan and Russia, and between Pakistan and the Muslim world. They have a greater natural common interest than say, Pakistan with America or Pakistan with England or Pakistan with France or the West generally or Europe. Joining BRICS could potentially settle Pakistan firmly on the side of anti imperialism and liberate that country from western interference. Pakistan has long been caught between the influences and rivalries of the great powers like The US and Russia and China. That ever actually establishing a clear sort of unified alignment with just one power, with one single power.

They're continuously trying to balance between all of them. Now of course American intelligence and military influence within their Pakistani counterparts is quite deep. And that has given America disproportionate and undue control, I think, over Pakistani policy. So joining BRICS will likely be opposed by some segments, some elements within the Pakistani military and Pakistani intelligence quarters. So I think that inroads need to be made into those areas, into those elements in the power structure in Pakistan.

Inroads need to be made by countries like the Saudi like Saudi Arabia and The UAE. Because I think those countries represent ideal intermediaries between BRICS and Pakistan, and between the Americans and Pakistan. I think the GCC involvement in Pakistan, and specifically in the Pakistani economy, will help to dislodge that country from Western independence and Western domination. Potentially, think that BRICS membership could even help to resolve the long standing tension and conflict between Pakistan and India because BRICS the BRICS organization emphasizes cooperation and collaboration and unity and harmony between their members. And I think that India, even though they're perceived as sort of being the shaky wheel of BRICS, they have consistently, even if it's after some period of awkwardness, they have still consistently come down on the side of bricks, and they have adopted the uniform position of bricks.

For example, the their official public stance on Gaza, which essentially follows the same script that's being recited by all of the BRICS members despite India's or or despite Modi's animosity towards Islam and towards Muslims. I tend to think that most of the problems and the hostilities and the rivalry between states and the disputes between states have often been if not fabricated and manufactured by The United States, they've been exploited and manipulated and exacerbated by The United States. So I think that if mediation were to be handled by more mature nations, then I believe that most disputes and most animosities between countries can be resolved just through simple recognition of common mutual interests and Allahu Anam. This is the historic Muslim approach to the world, our our approach to international relations, and it is also the general ethos of rich. It's the way they do things.

So I think that if we were to decouple ourselves from the West, from western paradigms, western ways of thinking, and we return to a more sane, more rational, more adult approach to the world, our Islamic approach to the world, then I think that we'll be able to build a system of global order that doesn't require or that doesn't rely upon stoking hostilities between countries and stoking rivalries between countries as a a tactic or strategy for maintaining control, but rather a system of collaboration and mutual benefit that doesn't require any member or or or any country to subjugate and dominate another just in order to keep keep the so called peace and and and and secure so called stability because America is only securing their own stability. The West has only ever been securing their own stability, their own security by means of destabilizing and causing insecurity throughout the global South and throughout all of the other countries in the world that are not part of the West. All of the countries that are excluded from their so called international community. But their way of doing things obviously has just created greater instability, greater insecurity, greater danger, greater violence throughout the world, and poverty, and misery, and tyranny.

And Pakistan has been one of the main victims of that very system by which the West maintains its control, maintains its dominance by imposing upon their so called allies. You can never really be an ally with someone who's stronger than you. You can you can only be a tool for them. And that's what Pakistan has been for the West. That's Pakistan has been for America.

And I think if they were to join BRICS, if they're allowed to join BRICS, if they're accepted into BRICS, I hope that they will be, then this could potentially be their path to finally securing their own economic sovereignty and political independence Insha'Allah. Okay. That's it for this week. That's it for Wednesday. Insha'Allah, we'll see you again on Sunday for the next news breakdown and update and so on.