The failed decapitation strike on day one of the war bought Mali time, but whether or not it’s enough depends on when the counteroffensive is launched and how successful it is, otherwise there’s a growing chance that Nigeria will intervene exactly as its Defense Minister just intimated.
The Syrian experience cannot be a model for anything but for another country crippled by war, sanctions, and theft of natural resources. Mali is not that and its military was not demoralized and fiscally abandoned.
Its odd that decapitation strikes are a feasible military tactic everywhere but in Ukraine.
The Syrian experience cannot be a model for anything but for another country crippled by war, sanctions, and theft of natural resources. Mali is not that and its military was not demoralized and fiscally abandoned.
Ther Syrian military was ten times better then what they have in Mali. Syria was allowed to fall.
Allowed by whom?
Putin.
Nonsense. The loss of Syria was a blow to Russia. Where do you get such loopy ideas?