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Africa North
Ah... Mali... Ah.. Um... Oh well.
2020-08-22


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#6  Some folks don't like Trump taking the peacemaker mantel so they want to smear him as a closet imperialist supporting coups and such.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-08-22 23:19  

#5  My mistake. President dissolved parliament after the coup. There have a lot protests against corruption before the coup and soldiers weren't getting paid, a capital offense in a kleptocracy.
Posted by: Sluns Gurly-Brown7484   2020-08-22 14:57  

#4  The President dissolved parliament. The coup plotters undissolved it. Don't think too many tears will be shed.
Posted by: Sluns Gurly-Brown7484   2020-08-22 14:51  

#3  Correlation is NOT causation. I heard the same bovine material about The School of the Americas and Central/South American death squads back in the 80's on.
Posted by: magpie   2020-08-22 13:56  

#2  I believe this is a French adventure into a traditional shithole since before the Barbary Confederacy.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-08-22 12:41  

#1  Oh boy, look, it's so great when American globalists mess with other countries. This has never happened before!
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948   2020-08-22 10:29  

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