Turmoil in Benin

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🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉

Dec 7
David Hundeyin: 🇧🇯 Benin Coup Shows 🇫🇷 Macron’s “Geopolitical Instruction” to 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Investigative journalist
@DavidHundeyin
warned that the recent coup attempt in Benin is a flashpoint for a rising wave of political upheaval, sovereignism, anti-colonialism, and Pan-Africanism across West Africa, revealing Paris’s direct influence over Abuja’s military and underscoring Benin’s strategic role as a de facto French staging ground. He described the trend as “definitely not slowing down,” directly challenging “the perceived neo-colonial influence of France.” Its occurrence in a traditional French stronghold, he cautioned, signals that no country is immune: “If it can happen somewhere that the French would have thought they had locked down… then what’s to say that it’s not going to happen in 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire or in 🇬🇦 Gabon?”

On Nigeria and ECOWAS’s rapid intervention, Hundeyin dismissed the narrative of “helping the government,” asserting that the operation followed a “geopolitical instruction… delivered from Paris to Abuja that under no circumstances must this coup be allowed to succeed.” He described the alignment as unprecedented: “The firewall has been taken down” between France and Nigeria, giving Paris direct leverage over Abuja’s military. ECOWAS, he said, served only as “a sort of geopolitical rubber stamp” to legitimize a decision made in France.

Hundeyin spelled out France’s strategic imperative in Benin, describing the country as a “de facto staging point” for monitoring the anti-French Sahelian Alliance (AES)—specifically the bordering nations of 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso and 🇳🇪 Niger. The stakes, he stressed, were existential: if Benin fell, the landlocked AES “automatically has one of the busiest ports in West Africa, which changes the entire dynamic completely.”

With the Beninese president silent amid ongoing airstrikes, Hundeyin described the situation as a volatile “mopping up” operation by authorities. He concluded that the rebellion remains persistent: “Clearly, there is at least a faction of the Beninese military which is not on board with a return to the status quo. This is not something that we have heard the last of.”

https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1997813910980714496

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Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸

🚨🇫🇷🇧🇯 BREAKING: FRANCE has ordered Nigeria to deploy troops to stop the REVOLUTION in Benin

❌🇳🇬 At the same time, Boko Haram is SLAUGHTERING civilians across Nigeria

https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1998151926563885376

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Sy Marcus Herve Traore

Dec 7
Today, the whole world has seen how this man picked his phone and called a puppet in Nigeria 🇳🇬 and told him what to do to thwart a coup that was underway in Benin 🇧🇯.

Guess what, that useless puppet decided unilaterally to send fighter jets of his country to go and bomb a neighboring country.

We have also seen how French helicopters were hovering over Cotonou. In spite of all that, some skeptics still believe that Africans are incapable of governing themselves, and that it has nothing to do with foreign interference.

These people will kill just to keep Africa where it is. But they will not be able to stop the wind of change that is sweeping across the continent. France is a cancer in Africa.

https://x.com/marcus_herve/status/1997793728681890072

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Adémọ́lá.

17h
You’re not defending democracy in Benin Republic, you’re defending the interests of your colonial partners in Paris.

https://x.com/OgbeniDemola/status/1997927558760042799