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It’s required to have literally zero knowledge of worldwide piracy and its current state to post or upvote such things.

Anyone know who was backing the instigators? America? Russia?

I’d bet on France. Russia has no interest in removing Traoré as he’s pretty open towards cooperation among two countries. Here’s part of his speech on Russia-Africa summit last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8J5mK7JKMY

One of lemmy.world’s most popular leaders

You might read the “reception” section of their Wikipedia article

The same link literally says:

Wikipedia editors consider Media Bias/Fact Check as “generally unreliable”, recommending against its use for what some see as breaking Wikipedia’s neutral point of view

Ukraine:

• closed border for all males;
• non-stop involuntary draft of unwilling citizens;
• resorts to conscripting HIV positives and people with mental health issues.

Russia:

• first wave of forced mobilization ended half year ago, second wave still not started;
• still has open border for most citizens (which actually helped a lot of them to avoid first wave of mobilization).

In alternative reality created by western massmedia this definately means that Russia is short of manpower. In world of logical thinking this actually means something else.