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After a [[coup]] in the African nation Burkina Faso in January 2022, residents demanded that Russia intervene and throw the French out.<ref>https://archive.ph/3H6aV#selection-363.0-367.146</ref> In preparation for ground war in Europe, France withdrew all remaining troops from [[Mali]] by May 27, 2022;<ref>https://youtu.be/dp1Gw6irevk</ref> [[Joe Biden]] order US troops back to Africa to pick up the slack.<ref>https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/17/05/2022/biden-sending-us-troops-back-to-somalia-after-trump-pulled-out</ref>
After a [[coup]] in the African nation Burkina Faso in January 2022, residents demanded that Russia intervene and throw the French out.<ref>https://archive.ph/3H6aV#selection-363.0-367.146</ref> In preparation for ground war in Europe, France withdrew all remaining troops from [[Mali]] by May 27, 2022;<ref>https://youtu.be/dp1Gw6irevk</ref> [[Joe Biden]] order US troops back to Africa to pick up the slack.<ref>https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/17/05/2022/biden-sending-us-troops-back-to-somalia-after-trump-pulled-out</ref>
====Nordstream pipeline====
On February 7, 2022 Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, wrote:
{{quotebox-float|"The only way left for U.S. diplomats to block European purchases [of Russian gas] is to goad Russia into a military response and then claim that avenging this response outweighs any purely national economic interest. As hawkish Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, [[Victoria Nuland]], explained in a State Department press briefing on January 27 [2022]: “If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another [[Nord Stream 2]] will not move forward.” The problem is to create a suitably offensive incident and depict Russia as the aggressor.<ref>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/michael-hudson-americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies.html</ref>}}
In October 2022 ''Politico'' reported that French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told the French National Assembly,
{{quotebox-float|"We must not allow the conflict in Ukraine to result in American economic domination and a weakening of Europe...We cannot accept that our American partner sells its LNG at four times the price at which it sells it to its own companies."<ref>https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2022/10/frances-le-maire-warns-against-american-gas-domination-00061111</ref>}}
EU virtue signaling was exposed by a Nikkei study which found 41 tankers had done ship-to-ship transfers of Russian gas off the coast of Greece to be shipped to Europe in the first six months of the war.<ref>https://archive.ph/geBh7</ref>
====Ukraine====
====Ukraine====