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Maybe not so much the Brits, but the French still have exploitative relations with their African ex-colonies; look up the CFA franc.

• motorest 1y ago
  > (...) the CFA franc Why do you think this is relevant in discussions over who would respond to shutting down the Suez canal? I mean, do you have a map?
  • gpvos 1y ago
    That's only one of the topics in this thread, it's about western (colonial) involvement elsewhere in general. Just have a look at the line of parents of this comment; you were the only one who reduced it to the Brits. I was directly replying to "as if there's still a British empire syphoning the economies of their colonies all the way from Great Britain", and the French are another, similar, Western power that's still doing that; they are also being talked about in sibling threads. Finally, questions like yours derail the discourse much more than comments like mine.