Worse.
Also, just FTR: did you notice the coup in Burkina Faso?
Political analysts pointed out that the friction between the now-ousted president Roche Marc Christian Kaboré and the now-ruling Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba resulted from Damiba pushing for approval of activities of the Wagner group. They want to train the Burkinabé in anti-terror operations and combat against “unconventional” opponents.
In other words: Russia, operating under plausible deniability, has gained a foothold in another African country which used to be quite important in the anti-terrorist operations in Mali as a base for the US and their allies.
This is really, really bad. And I’m speculating that this isn’t just a temporal coincidence.
