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Africa Subsaharan
France secretly owns 14 countries. Using the CFA franc system, France controls the monetary sovereignty of 14 nations, making up nearly 200 million people.
2023-02-27

LOL if France didn't control them they'd just use their own currencies and they'd print trillions of new dollars and ruin their economies with hyperinflation.

I like how they dismantled the power grid of the one country who refused to sign up with them, then funded rebels. Idiots...
Posted by:Fat Bob Thrart2867

#8  India for the Indians!
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-02-27 21:52  

#7  Is Corsica part of Africa now?
I really must keep up with these global tectonic shifts.
Posted by: SteveS   2023-02-27 21:49  

#6  really? 500 armed man? English, do you speak it motherfucker?

/Samuel Jackson, bitch
Posted by: Frank G   2023-02-27 20:50  

#5  
Posted by: ACA JOE   2023-02-27 18:50  

#4  An anecdote I read many years ago, Supposedly...
When France was rolling back its colonial empire they presented their former possessions a bill for all of the colonial 'improvements'. Chutzpah R Us the Gallic Edition. Unless the new countries joined the 'Francozone' and were happy little satellite states from then on. As the story goes one colony refused and the French rolled up all the telephone and electrical cables, boxed the transformers and took all the faucets and doorknobs from the public buildings.

A 'Too Good To Check' story, true, but I still find it amusing.
Posted by: magpie   2023-02-27 18:32  

#3  ...
And this is an unknown fact...
Wtf is wrong with people ffs?
Posted by: Nomad   2023-02-27 13:57  

#2  Looks like their monopoly is Mediterranean and Baltic.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-02-27 10:47  

#1  Hey, as long as they have their carbon emissions in line with the UN and WEF, then I don't think anybody cares.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-02-27 00:26  

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