If I was president my personal pet project would be expanding the line of succession. I want it so vast there is an apocalyptic scenario where the Mayor of Indianapolis becomes president
🇲🇱 Recent developments in Bandiagara and the wider crisis expose the limits of Gen. Goïta’s counterinsurgency strategy, mainly his refusal to pursue serious mobilization/recruitment.
In key parts of central Mali, it is JNIM imposing itself while certain villages attempt to fight back. FAMa appears reduced to a distant garrison force here, showing how much rural terrain the state has ceded.
The government chose to defeat JNIM/FLA militarily, which I agree with, but they have shown no urgency in building the manpower needed to actually win this war. Why?
Western terms for these (diverse) African social realities are almost always inaccurate, so those who try to explain them with simple analogies to European feudalism or Atlantic chattel slavery should be viewed with some suspicion.
@GavJacobson@Equatormag I came to Equator excited from the interview about the Atlantic and was disappointed to read something indistinguishable in framing/goals from an Atlantic article
@ProudBavaria It's especially bleak in Arab history where so many vital sources never make it to translation (esp. in regards to Yemen and North Africa)