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2021-09-15 Africa North
French Foreign Ministry: our military will leave Mali due to the appearance of Russian PMCs
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Posted by badanov 2021-09-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 Seems like an intelligent choice. Laissez-vous et Ivan vous battre.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-15 08:07||   2021-09-15 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Gotta protect their racket in their former colony. Like a mafia boss preventing a rival gang from intruding on his turf.
Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-15 09:29||   2021-09-15 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Practically from the moment of its independence Mali has been involved in the trafficking of narcotics. Given there are few ways to make a buck in that misbegotten example of a failed state, it is likely the Ruskies will soon dip their beak.
Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-15 10:06||   2021-09-15 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Behold French common sense and pragmatism. Perhaps they could send a few kilos of common sense and pragmatism along with the next shipment of foie gras to the White House. Afri solutions vir Afri probleme? How innovative.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-15 10:22||   2021-09-15 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 There's a lot to look up to about the French. It gets lost in the "Freedom Fries" shuffle.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-15 10:32||   2021-09-15 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Balzac and Proust did not publish picture books. That alone gets my admiration.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-15 10:33||   2021-09-15 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Indeed !
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-15 10:34||   2021-09-15 10:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Call it a literary victory lap.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-15 10:36||   2021-09-15 10:36|| Front Page Top

#9 French Foreign Legion. Grey Poupon. Champagne (with sabery) The Louvre. The Moulin Rouge. I'ma just getting started...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-15 10:38||   2021-09-15 10:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Opening a champagne bottle with a saber.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-15 10:53||   2021-09-15 10:53|| Front Page Top

#11 And yeah, it's saberage, not sabery. I'm getting old and now firmly in "have forgotten more than I ever knew" territory.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-15 10:56||   2021-09-15 10:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Hang on, What's the Russian interest in Mali? To get in on the action before the Chinese gobble up the continent? The Malian government wants a much more brutal ROE?

What gives?
I don't see any national interest there for the Russians
Posted by Tiny Barnsmell3074 2021-09-15 11:05||   2021-09-15 11:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Beachead op...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-09-15 12:40||   2021-09-15 12:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Don't forget the formalization of Canne de Combat.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-15 15:33||   2021-09-15 15:33|| Front Page Top

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