Nothing is going well for France in Mali. She finds herself in the aberrant situation of defending far from her bases, at great military and human expense (52 soldiers killed), a country which does not want her help, complicates her task at all times and stirs up popular anger against her. . The badly closed wounds of colonization have a good back. The junta installed by a putsch in Bamako two years ago refuses to return power to civilians in the short term. She makes a pact with the Russian mercenaries of the Wagner group, who seek to oust the "competition". Targeted by economic and diplomatic sanctions from its neighbors, it accuses Paris of manipulating them. Demanding a revision of bilateral defense agreements, it is already hampering the overflight of its territory by Europeans.
France did not intervene in Mali nine years ago out of sheer generosity towards a country which risked falling into the hands of al-Qaeda.
It was the result of an analysis of his interests - and those of all of Europe: don't…
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