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Africa North
France exits Mali
2021-12-16
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Response to this story from yesterday.
[ColonelCassad] After many years of deploying French troops in Mali and conducting Operation Barkhan, France is withdrawing its army contingent from Timbuktu without having achieved any significant success in realizing the stated objectives of the operation.

The key military base of the French army was transferred to the Mali army (there will be a Mali Air Force base), which has already invited Russian military specialists to the country instead of the French.

The strategic retreat of the French in Africa continues. CAR, Mali... What's next in line - Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania...

According to the statements of the French Ministry of Defense. From the summer of 2021 to the summer of 2022, the number of the French contingent in Saheil will decrease from 5,000 to 3,000, and from 2023 the reduction will continue.

Posted by:badanov

#7  *what only OrangeMan and a few other elites
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-16 12:13  

#6  ^ The French elites are recognizing what only IrabgeNan and a few other elites here recognize: the West is under assault.

The invaders are coming across the Mediterranean, not the Fulda Gap.

France like America needs to protect its borders, not send troops abroad so that Muslim girls can pursue Gender Studies at Kabul U., or to ensure that Timbuktu Black Girls Code
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-16 12:12  

#5  At least the French have the sense to fold it up and go home.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-12-16 12:04  

#4  I saw it well expressed in an addendum to someone else's graffito:

"Same old tears on a new background."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-16 07:35  

#3  Splat nails it at #1. It's simply human evil and greed on another grid square. I don't see a fix for Afrika in my lifetime for sure. Perhaps it is simply an example of wat must be avoided.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-12-16 07:33  

#2  What's Mali all about? Narcotics.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-12-16 07:23  

#1  There are no solutions to the problems of corrupt shitholes by military interventions of Western countries. All this does is kill people. These people have tons of relatives, all of whom are outraged and join the cause to get revenge. Then it's worse than it was before.

The solution is for the elites in these countries to stop enriching themselves by ruining the lives of their countrymen. But they'll never do this. Compare to our own elites who do the same thing - you think they're going to stop?
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443   2021-12-16 04:36  

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