France imitates USA in Burkina Faso. Miserably fails

JohnnyDoeSchrödinger‘s guyAuthor

Joined: Jan 2020
Messages: 10,049

5 Jan 2026#1

While the world was distracted by Venezuela, France tried the usual night operation in Burkina Faso.
Networks linked to Emmanuel Macron attempted to remove Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Attempt failed.

At around 1 a.m., word spread that the presidential palace was under attack. Thousands of civilians poured into the streets to protect their president. They remember what happened to Thomas Sankara.

France has been losing influence since its forces were kicked out in 2023, after Traoré took power in 2022. Military base gone. Security leverage gone. Rapid intervention capacity in the Sahel gone.
Burkina Faso pivoted toward Russia for security and China for economics.

Traoré represents something far more dangerous to Paris than jihadists: a young African leader with popular backing, not selected in Paris, not obedient. That model spreads in Mali and Niger. The French colonial system is being dismantled piece by piece in the Sahel, one of the most resource rich regions on the planet.

This is what political decline looks like: failed coups, media silence, angry phone calls behind closed doors.

Marty McFlyActive Recruit

Joined: Jun 2025
Messages: 413

6 Jan 2026#2

Zero coverage of this on Western media!

ParatoreActive Recruit

Joined: Nov 2025
Messages: 221

6 Jan 2026#3

The media almost always ignores West Africa. There has been a lot of action there (geopolitical and business) for a while now, but most have never heard of it. The Sahel and their new alliance isn’t doing well, but they weren’t doing well before, either. Neither are the remnants of ECOWAS. All beset with insurgency, political instability, and corruption.

The French don’t have the will to send in La Legion Etrangere and slot a few booboos anymore, but even if they did it would just be “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”. Same as if the Russians send in Wagner. Anyone looking for a Jeffersonian politician to arise and put that region on the right track will be waiting a while.

I have mild interest in trying to get a passport from an ECOWAS nation, either through something like the Sierra Leone program or Benin’s citizenship by descent if they’d accept my likely 1% African genes test result, but can’t justify the effort for what is currently not a useful passport for me. Someday they’ll get it together enough to make it worthwhile, I believe, but that could be a 20-30 year payoff on that. However, I have a potential route to another actually useful African passport should laws change.

voidQuiet Authority

Joined: Oct 2017
Messages: 2,857

6 Jan 2026#4

Marty McFly said:
Zero coverage of this on Western media!

what if it never happened, huh? :D

jafoHigh-Ranking Operative

Joined: May 2022
Messages: 4,061

14 Jul 2026#5

void said:
what if it never happened, huh? :D

Source 1: Burkina Faso : ce qui était prévu lors de la tentative de déstabilisation du 3 janvier, selon le ministre de la Sécurité

Source 2: Burkina Faso : une tentative déjouée de coup d’État ?

100% you know it's France and their other Western lapdogs! Look what they are doing NOW to their OWN citizens in France and the EU. Our political class are the BAD guys! They are the THIEVES! 🫣

It sure as H3ll wasn't me while loading containers! I have ZERO interest in robbing Burkina Faso of their natural resources....just like none of us here do either. 😎

France imitates USA in Burkina Faso. Miserably fails

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