Rebirth of England.

Chapter 950 Madness

Indeed, as Nigel Inkster said, at this stage the West African Free Trade Area is still mainly an economic alliance.

At least for now, there is no open military cooperation between the countries in the West African Free Trade Area.

As for the fact that countries including Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have purchased some arms from Kolo...

Arms trade is also trade, and these countries obtained the Kolo shilling loan from the United Bank for Africa to purchase arms from Standard Defense Group. What does this have to do with the Kolo government?

Even if the government forces of Mali and other countries receive military training services, it is a commercial cooperation between them and the Protector Military Services Company and has no direct relationship with the Kolo Corps...

At this stage, Barron does not want Chloe to have a direct conflict with the French side, and I believe the French side thinks so too.

Although the performance of the French troops that came to Mali in "Operation Serval" can be described as impressive, the Collo Corps is not those anti-government armed forces in Africa - also in "Operation Serval", the French army also cooperated with the peacekeeping forces sent by the Collo Corps, and the opponent's combat effectiveness also left a deep impression on the French army.

Therefore, France will not be too overbearing towards Kolo.

But military conflict is not an option, but France has also done a lot to infiltrate Colo.

In addition to collecting intelligence through some French companies in Colo, don't forget that France itself has a great advantage in intelligence work against Africa, and their intelligence system is not lacking in intelligence personnel who can blend into the native African ethnic groups...

"CSIB (Colo Security Intelligence Bureau) noticed that a considerable number of the people they knew entering Colo to conduct intelligence work were from France, and they even found that people from the 'swimming pool' were active..."

The "swimming pool" Nigel mentioned refers to the French Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), which is the largest intelligence agency in France. Its headquarters is located in the old barracks near the Dolère Swimming Pool at 20 Avenue Motier in the 141th arrondissement of Paris, hence the nickname "swimming pool".

The predecessor of DGSE was the Central Intelligence Agency led by Charles de Gaulle, which was renamed the French Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence Agency in 1946.

After the French Socialist Party came to power in 1981, it strengthened the reorganization and reform of the intelligence agencies. In April 1982, the DGSE was renamed the "Directorate-General for External Security."

The main task of the Directorate-General for External Security is to comprehensively collect various intelligence on France's foreign politics, economy, military, science and technology, terrorist activities, etc., and to be responsible for detecting espionage activities abroad that are detrimental to French interests; deciphering foreign intelligence through the collected foreign communication signals, etc.

Compared with other similar departments, DGSE is the agency with the largest budget in the French Ministry of Defense.

In addition to funding from the Ministry of Defense, the Directorate-General for External Security also enjoys special funding under the French Prime Minister's so-called "common service regulations."

In 2002 alone, this special funding amounted to 3320 million euros.

According to public intelligence, DGSE currently has a total of approximately 3500 staff members. Africa, as France's main interest, is naturally also an area that DGSE pays close attention to.

Therefore, it was not surprising at all that Nigel said that signs of French External Security Agency personnel activities were found in Colo.

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After the Devonshire arrived in Kolo, two fighter jets from the Kolo Legion flew along on both sides of it.

Although the history of these two fighters can be traced back to the Mirage F1 fighter jets, which were purchased by the government army during the Colo Military Government, and were first put into service in 1970, they were later replaced by the Mirage 2000, which was also half-sold and half-given to the Colo Military Government by France...

Anyway, this is also a kind of ritual...

Prior to this, the Britta International Airport had been occupied by a team of soldiers from the Kolo Corps. After the Devonshire landed, Barron and his party took the convoy on the Devonshire, with Kolo Corps military vehicles leading the way and helicopters escorting them in the sky, and arrived at Jupiter Building, his residence in Britta.

"Don't be so exaggerated next time..."

Barron didn't say anything when he was on the road just now. Now that he was home, he said to Nigel and Errol Brute beside him:

"Withdraw the people from the Kolo Legion. I have enough guards around me."

Errol Brute is the current commander of the Kolo Legion. After Barron arrived in Britta, he went to the airport to greet him in person and came here with him in the same car.

Just after they arrived at Jupiter Tower, there was a full company of fully armed Kolo Legion soldiers on guard around the building.

"Your safety is the most important thing, Your Highness..."

However, seeing that Barron insisted on keeping a low profile, Errol could only instruct his adjutant to order the soldiers of the Kolo Legion to evacuate.

"As long as you have enough control over Chloe, I will be absolutely safe."

Barron's words received a positive response from Errol.

After settling down here, Barron first met Rami Shakfa.

Rami Shakfa has been at Brittany all this time as he is in charge of Matrix Capital, which invests in the blockchain industry.

Rami was naturally very happy to learn that Barron had come to Colo. It could be said that because he had been adopted and sponsored by the other party since he was a child, Rami had feelings of gratitude and admiration for the Duke. In a sense, he even regarded him as an elder like a father and a teacher.

“Since September, after a sharp rise in the second quarter, the price of BitC has once again entered a rapid rise phase after a few months of consolidation, and this time the rise is even more intense than in the second quarter…”

It was through Barron that Ramy came into contact with BitC and related blockchain concepts.

Although he himself became very interested in BitC after that, even as a real "genius", Rami never thought that the price of BitC would rise so wildly this year.

Let’s put it this way. Although the price of BitC reached more than 30 US dollars at the end of last year, at the beginning of this year, this round of BitC bull market started to rise at a price of more than ten US dollars.

If we say that the price has increased nearly 260 times from more than ten dollars to the high point in the second quarter of over 20 dollars, it is already very exaggerated.

Since September, BitC has quickly surpassed $9, and is now approaching $1000...

In almost one year, the price of BitC has increased from a low of over ten dollars to a high of nearly 1200 dollars, a nearly 100-fold increase. From this, we can feel how crazy it is at this moment...

But I'm afraid that what only Barron knows now is that from now until his rebirth in the future, BitC will increase by nearly a hundred times. This is the craziest thing!