07-31-2020, 02:46 PM
Not to mention that the Ugandan military is a big buyer of Russian and Chinese arms, and the US may well be using that to get a close look at military tech of these two countries (they usually only give money to foreign countries so that they buy US made weapons, but in the case of Uganda, that's different).
Still, the French never really left their colonial empire, quite the contrary: once Belgium left the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, France rushed in to fill the power gap, expanding their influence all over French-speaking Africa.
At least, the former Belgian colonies don't use the Franc CFA, which was pegged to the French franc and is now affixed to the euro, and which is administrated directly from Paris...
Still, the French never really left their colonial empire, quite the contrary: once Belgium left the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, France rushed in to fill the power gap, expanding their influence all over French-speaking Africa.
At least, the former Belgian colonies don't use the Franc CFA, which was pegged to the French franc and is now affixed to the euro, and which is administrated directly from Paris...