politicodiary

Geopolitical reasons are huge determiners of how chemistry between nations remains. The recent unpleasantness between France and Algeria is an example of this.... In a strange turn of events Algeria has banned the military presence of French planes on its airstrip due to an ongoing fight between the nations. "This morning, while filing flight plans for two of our planes, we learned that the Algerians were closing the overflight of their territory to all French military planes," Colonel Pascal Ianni, spokesman for the French military, said to the media. It seems the French president's comment about Algerian sovereignty did not go very well with the Algerians. Emmanuel Macron had said that it seems strange that the Algerian nation came into existence before the French colonisation. It was definitely a derogatory statement that could have hurt anyone's sentiments.  While this has happened, French operations in the Sahel region go unbated. The second act of defiance is wh...