Thalassin
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- Joined
- Aug 29, 2016
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- Location
- Franche-Comté, France
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Socialist
FAST HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION
Under De Gaulle's presidency, the French colonies in Africa became independant, peacefully for most of them (except Algeria as 10% of the population was french), and so France started to create links with those ex-colonies, sometimes by unethical means like supporting dictatorships, coups and etc. This network of relations was also supported by the USA during the whole Cold War as they didn't have the influence in Africa to do it by themselves. But in the XXI° century, the construction of these links doesn't match anymore with the reality of the African continent. Now I'll try to explain my opinions about this and we'll then be able to discuss about it.
FRANC CFA's CASE
Two different monies both named Franc CFA are in use in a very large part of the french ex-colonies, BUT there's a large problem about it : Central banks regulating them suffer of a veto right on their economic policy owned by the Banque de France, plus a very big part of their change reserves has to be stocked in France. So I think this french hegemony have to stop because it can (not always) block necessary policies and afterall as now french money is the Euro it doesn't offer an economical strenght in Africa to the country as it was during the Cold War. Atthe place, let's make two Eurozone-likes in Africa.
NEW MILITARY ALLIANCE
In my opinion, France should left NATO (Most of Europe + USA and Canada will not be really affected by the loss of one country) in order to create a NATO-like alliance with France and its ex-colonies in subsaharian Africa which wants to, and then maybe add Maghreb countries. For me, it's just necessary according to the situation of Africa in our days. Most of african countries armies lack of experience and quality, and the others mostly use Cold-War vehicles (a lot with french origin as they were light, cheap and well armed). The exemple of Mali is clear : used in collaboration with the Malian troops, the french army just made the islamists go backward and now the risk they take control over the whole country is quite low.
DEMOCRACY IN FRANÇAFRIQUE
As I already said it, support of dicatorships in Africa is one of the black points of the french history. But now we can change the Western behavior about it and fully support democratic transitions in those countries. That's why the UNO/French Army intervention in Centrafrica is decisive in my mind, because it will show us what works and what doesn't works in a situation like this.
Under De Gaulle's presidency, the French colonies in Africa became independant, peacefully for most of them (except Algeria as 10% of the population was french), and so France started to create links with those ex-colonies, sometimes by unethical means like supporting dictatorships, coups and etc. This network of relations was also supported by the USA during the whole Cold War as they didn't have the influence in Africa to do it by themselves. But in the XXI° century, the construction of these links doesn't match anymore with the reality of the African continent. Now I'll try to explain my opinions about this and we'll then be able to discuss about it.
FRANC CFA's CASE
Two different monies both named Franc CFA are in use in a very large part of the french ex-colonies, BUT there's a large problem about it : Central banks regulating them suffer of a veto right on their economic policy owned by the Banque de France, plus a very big part of their change reserves has to be stocked in France. So I think this french hegemony have to stop because it can (not always) block necessary policies and afterall as now french money is the Euro it doesn't offer an economical strenght in Africa to the country as it was during the Cold War. Atthe place, let's make two Eurozone-likes in Africa.
NEW MILITARY ALLIANCE
In my opinion, France should left NATO (Most of Europe + USA and Canada will not be really affected by the loss of one country) in order to create a NATO-like alliance with France and its ex-colonies in subsaharian Africa which wants to, and then maybe add Maghreb countries. For me, it's just necessary according to the situation of Africa in our days. Most of african countries armies lack of experience and quality, and the others mostly use Cold-War vehicles (a lot with french origin as they were light, cheap and well armed). The exemple of Mali is clear : used in collaboration with the Malian troops, the french army just made the islamists go backward and now the risk they take control over the whole country is quite low.
DEMOCRACY IN FRANÇAFRIQUE
As I already said it, support of dicatorships in Africa is one of the black points of the french history. But now we can change the Western behavior about it and fully support democratic transitions in those countries. That's why the UNO/French Army intervention in Centrafrica is decisive in my mind, because it will show us what works and what doesn't works in a situation like this.