[dtx1]

And africans are unable to throw out the french boston tea party style because...?

[DonHopkins]

Because the French military has better weapons to dissuade them from doing that than muskets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion

And you couldn't figure that out for yourself because...?

[DonHopkins]

To banned account AlgorithmicTime:

I'm proposing you read the article I linked to, and notice that the actual link and title of the article itself literally has the word "dissuasion" in it.

>In his book La paix nucléaire (1975), French Navy Admiral Marc de Joybert explained deterrence:

>Sir, I have no quarrel with you, but I warn you in advance and with all possible clarity that if you invade me, I shall answer at the only credible level for my scale, which is the nuclear level. Whatever your defenses, you shan't prevent at least some of my missiles from reaching your home and causing the devastation that you are familiar with. So, renounce your endeavour and let us remain good friends.

To dtx1:

See Popehat's Law of Goats.

[dtx1]

So did the british in india, yet somehow india isn't a british colony anymore. What an impossible thing to have happened, almost as if peaceful revolution is not the same as all out total war against a superior power. But then again, the americans won against the well trained and superiorly armed nuclear super power afghanistan too and now it's just another american colony forever. Oh wait...

[eliasmacpherson]

So in your opinion as they could theoretically defeat a European military power through revolt, they are not intentionally oppressed?

It's an old strategy, Divide et impera - there's a lot to learn from the thousands of years of history of it.

[dtx1]

You don't need to defeat them in open war, as if France would mount an all out war to "save" their colonies from a peaceful revolution. Worked for India but that was impossible too I guess? But thats not what those poor oppressed people want. They get really annoyed when France doesn't help them with their problems [1] but that's just France opressing them by NOT sending enough military. Either way it's always Frances fault

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210926-mali-accuses-fra...

[eliasmacpherson]

Not just Mali. Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin and Niger.

I would encourage you to read more about Divide and Conquer, the territories mentioned above, French activities there, and resist the temptation to use a single article to generalize what millions of people want.

I think you are hopelessly naive about military affairs, revolt does not work like you think it does and comparing India vs post war Britian and the Boston Tea Party to a much more nuanced contemporary corporatist form of colonialism is ignorant.

[DonHopkins]

So ignorant that I'm surprised he doesn't just admit to being a troll to avoid being seen as and proven to be that ignorant by his own words.

But even then, Popehat's Law Of Goats would still apply:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Popehat%27s%...

>Popehat's Law of Goats

>He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker.

>He claimed he was just pretending to be racist to trigger the social justice warriors, but even if he is telling the truth, Popehat's Law of Goats still applies.