Pro-coup protesters in Niger shout 'long live Putin' as new leaders face calls to cede power |...

I imagine that many Americans are surprised at this outpouring of support for President Putin albeit Russia. Niger has been a colony of France since 1900 to 1960, and still exerts power within the country. Pacification is the euphemism that is used to describe the French takeover and colonization.
The history of France,(Europe) and its colonies is best described by one word, “Rape”. President Roosevelt stated that, “After 100 years of French rule in Indochina, the inhabitants were worse off than
They had been before.” The United States backed the French returning to Vietnam at the end of
WW 2, and supports the French again in Niger. Uranium is at the heart of this and France instead of being fair and just is getting its just due.
I would presume that if America took the moral high ground and supported, Freedom and Independence for all Nations as we fought for ourselves. The cheering would not be for Russia and Putin.