Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "What does the departure of German troops mean for Mali? | DW News" video.

  1.  @ulihanel7078  What freedom? Mali has a military dictatorship in power.
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  2. So all UN peacekeeping missions equate to military occupation in your book? You do know, right, that Germany wasn't at it alone? About a third of all the countries in the world were "occupying" Mali.
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  3. You should ask the UN Security Council. Only the UNSC can authorise UN peacekeeping missions.
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  4. What would you say to the other UN peacekeeping contingents that Mali is kicking out together with the Germans? A total of 66 countries took part in the operation, with the bulk of the troops coming from non-Western countries, like Chad, Bangladesh, Senegal, Togo and Egypt -- just to name the top 5 troop contributors. You seem blissfully ignorant of this inconvenient truth.
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  5. Then why did you invite the Americans back? They politely vacated Clark and Subic Bay when Corazon Aquino asked them equally politely. You can't seem to make up your mind about whether you want the Americans in or out. Correct me if am wrong, but isn't there a common interest in stemming Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea? Could it even be so that the Philippines' interests outweigh US interests in this respect? After all, the US isn't losing territory.
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  6.  @heartofsteel7821  You two get a room already.
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  7.  @JosephHoggang-bk4bk  But China was already taking "care of Africa" as an integral part of MINUSMA. Mali's military junta it was a "failure".
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  8.  @chengavitch10  *Thumb. I'm not German, silly. It's funny how you jump to conclusions like a girl playing hopscotch.
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  9.  @nurulhudavijapurwala4936  If conspiracy theories could turn to gold, you'd be all set.
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  10. UN troops from a total of 66 countries are "fleeing" Mali as a result of MINUSMA drawing to an end, just like Germany's. You had better check that yours aren't among them, or it will be really embarrassing.
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  11. MINUSMA. A UN peacekeeping mission. Quick, read up on it.
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  12.  @bahacho9205  You, too, seem blissfully ignorant that the UNSC, which has China and Russia as its permanent members, approved the mission. Are you saying both are puppets of America? OK. For your info, Iran contributed 2 personnel to MINUSMA. China did better with 426, which is not kitten pee, as we say in my country. As to Russia, which provided none, you may want to ask them why yourself, because I don't know the answer. I do know that Russia is certainly no superpower in UN peacekeeping, but truth be told, neither is the US (8 soldiers of theirs served with MINUSMA). I don't think you can call the Americans Caucasian. It's not a race anyway, and they're a very mixed bag racially speaking. For laughs, try Anglo-Saxons, and I'll point out that those ceased to exist after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century.
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  13. If? And it's both most likely, but one privately and the other publicly.
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  14. You're just not well informed. MINUSMA has been the UN's second-most dangerous peacekeeping mission to date, and there have been quite a few. Keep playing first-person shooters and don't mind the news.
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  15. There must've been a referendum in Mali about MINUSMA that everyone but yourself missed.
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  16. Which referendum are you referred to? I must've missed the whole thing.
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  17.  @Daniella162  So there's no credible evidence behind your claim that Russia is "democratically loved by Malian people [sic]". You made it up, in other words.
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  18. Russia has tried that already, offering to pay mercenaries from CAR and Libya to fight in Ukraine. Not a success, it appears.
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