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Russia’s African coup strategy - Microsoft Threat Analysis Center shares report on Russian influence operations in Africa, focusing on the Niger coup

blogs.microsoft.com Russia’s African coup strategy - Microsoft On the Issues

Today we are sharing a report from the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) on Russian influence operations in Africa, principally focused on the Niger coup. We believe it is vital there is wider understanding of the ways in which the internet is being used to stoke political instability around t...

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Russia’s African coup strategy

blogs.microsoft.com /on-the-issues/2023/09/01/russias-african-coup-strategy/

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Microsoft has a threat analysis center?
- What do you think Clippy does in sleep mode?
- These days it’s more a concept than a place; the employees are almost all remote workers.
- Cybersecurity mainly for their customers. I guess the data they gather can show trends. Fuckin' gov-sponsored hackers, man.
- Why do you think the military pays them billions in ambiguous contracts?
  
  Because they don't want to move past Windows 3.1?

Microsoft... Threat Analysis Center??
Since when does Microsoft cover geopolitics? Why is the software/video game company talking about coups in Africa?
- Windows Defender is actually a mercenary software

Oh no westies are mad about losing control over their colonies.
- Colonialism is terrible because it deprived people from their right to self determination.
  But somehow, when Russia organizes a coup against a democratically elected government in the 21st century, this is totally fine. Oh, yogthos, the public display of your cognitive dissonance is a wonder to witness day after day :)
  
  There is zero evidence for your conspiracy theory that Russia is organizing coups, while there is plenty of evidence that these are popular coups against western repression. You are a shameless propagandist, and one of the most dishonest people I've had the displeasure of interacting with on this site. Here's what's actually going on in Africa for people reading this thread https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/02/niger-and-the-sahel-are-pushing-back-against-insecurity-exploitation-and-france/
  
  You're stretching the definition of democratic especially if you're extending that to all of these countries that have recently experienced coups.
  
  Unironically the coup has given the people more self determination than being a Neo-colony. Democracy in those countries generally have just Europeans or Americans voting for the government instead of the people. And western Africa specifically has been exploited by France on record even after colonialism "ended".

I would say is "what is Russia trying to do start WW3?" But then I have to stop myself because as a USA citizen my country has done and still does the same things. It just feels like the point of governments and society is so we can collectivly find better solutions to our problems not to topple other societies for our own gain.
- You think Russia is toppling African countries for its own gains? It's far more likely that it's providing material support for anti-imperialist and decolonial movements in order to open up more fronts that the North Atlantic has to deal with.
  
  You realize the USSR fell more than thirty years ago, right?

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