FRANCE 24’s François Picard is happy to welcome Ulf Laessing, Director of Regional Sahel Programme on the Konrad Adenauer Basis. In response to Mr. Laessing, we’re witnessing in Mali the whole unraveling of a broader geopolitical experiment. Russia stepped right into a vacuum left by France, promising stability by means of power. As an alternative, its reliance on mercenary brutality, coupled with a shallow understanding of native dynamics, has accelerated the demise of an-already fraught collaboration. The autumn of Kidal and the coordinated shock offensives reveal a dramatic shift within the steadiness of energy.
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