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US/France threaten intervention in resource-rich Niger - Fears of war in West Africa
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France does not sources 40% of its uranium from Niger, quite far from that. 10% of uranium it uses comes from Niger. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/uranium-mines-niger-worlds-7th-biggest-producer-2023-07-28/
Apologies, didn't fact checked and didn't meant to spread misinformation. Allow me me to rephrase the unanswered question:
Defend it's asset huh?
But isnt it weird that nigers uranium produces ~6% of Frances electricity while only 11% of nigers citizens even have access to electricity?
Unfortunately your comparison still makes no sense, you are comparing the proportion of fuel coming from a location to the proportion of the population that benefits from a service that use the fuel in question.
Really not meaningful 😅
Had to read your sentence 4 times to understand what youre trying to say. Could have just said "no I don't think it's weird at all"
My point is not that it's not weird at all, it's that in addition to quoting completely false numbers, you put forward a comparison that makes absolutely no sense. The numbers compared are not "weird" or "not weird", they are absolutely not comparable.
Interesting, now I doubt that we just have super opposing political views, rather we have super different working brains 😅
Hope you will answer to this one too!
Let's say you have a garden. I take fruits and vegetables from your garden and add them to the dishes of some of my family members, maybe only to garnish the dishes of my 6 favorite kids. Meanwhile, most of your family members don't have any food at all. You start to complain, want me to stop taking fruits and vegetables for my well-fed family because the garden is yours, your family is hungry, it could somehow benefit from the garden and its fruits and vegetables. Then you hear this:
Would you stop or continue complaining?
Gotta love that Western "free speech"