African pushback!

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Because revolutions aren't on TikTok, you probably didn't notice Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger create the AES to resist French influence. For them it's real because yearly, France is siphoning 500 billion dollars away from their former colonies while forcing them to import their goods to France and in turn, forcing them to buy back finished products, all the while investing those billions to the tune of trillions of dollars in dividends which not one nation of Africa benefits from.

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