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2022-02-13 Africa North

French air raids kill 40 fighters in Burkina Faso

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-13 12:52|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 With appropriate 'Non, je ne regrette rien' background musiek.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-13 13:15|| 2022-02-13 13:15|| Front Page Top

#2 One man's "freedom fighter" is another man's dead terr POS...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-13 13:22|| 2022-02-13 13:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Putin gave Macron the go ahead? Russian mercenaries standing down.

Posted by jpal 2022-02-13 14:23|| 2022-02-13 14:23|| Front Page Top

#4 That was Macron's offer: you stand down in our backyard / en Afrique, and the Euros will give you a free hand in your neck of the woods.

If / when the more competent marchers in the State Delartment figure out a formula guaranteeing no NATO expansion and a pullback of forward-deployed NATO missiles on Russia's borders, we can arrive at a similar understanding as what Macron achieved

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-13 14:31|| 2022-02-13 14:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Air dropping pig skin body bags would be icing on the cake.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-02-13 16:33|| 2022-02-13 16:33|| Front Page Top

#6 40 Fighters, or, "We who are about to fly..."

With doom, bold Burkinabes, looming,
Take flight before bombs begin booming!
Hold arms far outstretched
And run round as if tetched,
Making noises of vrooming and zooming!

Posted by Omomock Lumumba4849 2022-02-13 16:43|| 2022-02-13 16:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Or, "Seven at one blow!"

Posted by Omomock Lumumba4849 2022-02-13 16:46|| 2022-02-13 16:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Or, Les Moujes?

Posted by Omomock Lumumba4849 2022-02-13 16:48|| 2022-02-13 16:48|| Front Page Top

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