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Deployment of Wagner in Mali
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] According to statements by the French Foreign Ministry and various Western media outlets, Wagner PMC is fully deploying in Mali, where a contingent of 500 people is being deployed.

Their contract is allegedly USD $11 million per month (USD $132 million per year), and the main tasks will be to ensure the protection of government employees, as well as training and education of military specialists for counter-terrorism operations. Following France, Greece condemned the deployment of Wagner PMCs in Mali. Earlier, 15 EU and NATO countries condemned the deployment of Wagner in Mali.

According to statements (not yet confirmed photo or video), the transfer of personnel goes through the Bamako airport where military transport aircraft arrive through Libya (in Libya, PMC operates on the Sirt-Al-Jufra line). Along with the military, specialists-geologists allegedly arrive (in Mali there are quite large deposits of gold, phosphates, bauxite, etc.). The French also claim that the "Russian base" will be located in Mopti on the Niger River, between Bamako and Timbuktu, and also close to the border with another French-dependent country, Burkina Faso, where French influence is also seriously eroded.

The Malian military, amid threats from the West, pretend to be a hose and continue to push France out of Mali. Along the way, neither confirming nor refuting the statements about the ongoing deployment.

The French press writes that the head of the military junta, Colonel Assimi Goita, openly mocks Macron, knowing that he is too weak to do anything serious, while the announcement from the film "Shugale 3" is being realized.

The Financial Times writes that France itself is to blame itself. It was unable to show real successes in the fight against local terrorists and separatists, which actually opened the door for Russia, which offers to do the same thing that France promised to do, only to do the right thing (good example of the CAR before.).
I must ask, wen has leaving the quagmire of Afrika been anything other than a wise decision ?
In fact, back in September, a representative of the new government of Mali said that France, by its actions, itself forced Mali to look for other partners. In addition, the Mali government accused France of imitating the fight against terrorism by arranging the fight of the Nanai boys with one of the insignificant groups and completely abandoning the real fight against JNIM (yes, the same group that threatened to sue Russia in European courts, for denying the Islamists' right to wage jihad and sending her troops into Mali).

All in all, this topic promises to be quite hot in the coming months. Obviously, if Russia gains a foothold in Mali, then the influence of France in its former colonies, with which Mali borders - in the first place, this concerns Burkina Faso and Niger, will be called into question.


Posted by: badanov 2021-12-25
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