We take a look at the developments in Niger and the Sahel region a month after the coup that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum. The developments in Niger are reflective of a larger trend which has mounted a resistance to insecurity, exploitation, and French presence
....and they are welcoming insecurity and exploitation by Russia. Prigozhin wasn't there because he gave a shit about those people. He was there to exploit them.
Whataboutism and projection. You can't just say "but what about Russia" when people are fighting against North Atlantic imperialism. This article is about North Atlantic imperialism. Mentioning Russian so-called imperialism is whataboutism.
Also, Russia isn't doing imperialism because it in no way meets the definition of imperialim. It's economy is smaller than Brazil's and smaller than South Korea's. 60% of its exports are raw materials or intermediate materials. India exports 3 times more capital than Russia does. Clearly South Korea and India aren't imperialist. Russia isn't either.
My brother in climate change, we don’t always have to pick a team. We can say neocolonialism/imperialism is bad, no matter by whom it is perpetrated.
The size of the economy of a country trying to profit from another does not have any impact on this. It is completely possible to say it is reprehensible of France to try and benefit from an African country, exactly in the same way as it would be for Russia to do the same thing, maybe with the same methods, maybe with other methods.