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Is this good or bad for people of Chad?
The short-term at least, sounds worse.
Is this good or bad for people of Chad?
The subtitle might give more context: > Déby had ruled for 30 years and won a sixth term in elections last week
So, it depends on how you view "western powers", I guess.
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The subtitle might give more context: > Déby had ruled for 30 years and won a sixth term in elections last week
"He was one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders and a close ally of western powers..." So, it depends on how you view "western powers", I guess.
What matters is what replaces him, not whether western forces like him. I don’t understand folks who are like “the west is bad, therefore anyone the west supports is bad and their passing is good.”
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The subtitle might give more context: > Déby had ruled for 30 years and won a sixth term in elections last week
Are these elections or "elections"? I don't know anything about Chad.
Chad is near top of the list.
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The subtitle might give more context: > Déby had ruled for 30 years and won a sixth term in elections last week
Are these elections or "elections"? I don't know anything about Chad.
So, I'm guessing "elections" is probably closer to the true state of affairs.
Is this good or bad for people of Chad?
From https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/chad/overview - "Chad ... is ranked last on the World Bank’s Human Capital Index.". This would indicate weak institutions which gives very little reason for optimism.
It is extremely rare for the head of state to die as a direct result of battlefield engagement.
Can anyone picture BoJo, Trump or Biden jumping off a chopper in Overtheristan killing locals?
In the West we use the term "who live by the sword shall die by the sword" (Matthew) but only as a warning. I think it illustrates the disconnect between these worlds. What is warning in one place/religion is a _promise_ in the other.
My wife (Japanese) would laugh "at the cowardice" displayed by somebody who questions the right to revenge (an eye for an eye) or hesitates taking their life to save the honor of their family, etc ...
This sounds alien to Westerners if not terrifying to those in power to have an honor based system. It is why media in all German speaking countries use the word "clan" only in a racist sense reserved for specific minorities and aimed to criminalize those who live in these older forms of social groups (with perhaps hundreds of people)[0]
While most are quick to denounce an evangelical missionary[1] hopping of the boat in the Andaman sea to "convert the local heathens", it's much easier to turn a blind eye at every-day injustice against alternative forms of social groups (Roma in Europe come to mind, refugees, or indeed very large families of South Easter European decent that would automatically be labelled terrorists or criminals, Bosnians, Kosovo-Albanias, etc).
[0] a clan in Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna etc is never somebody "good" e.g. the strong family bond here is caricaturized as an organized criminal and only mentioned in relation to drug or human trafficking.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-usa-murder-idUSKCN1...