Geopolitics
The Sahel's Tragic Trap: How Surviving Coups Creates Hollow States and Empowers Terror
Sahelian military juntas in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso are using the survival of internal coup attempts as a mechanism to purge rivals and deepen their personal dependence on Russia's Africa Corps, making themselves harder to remove even as their militaries fail in the counter-jihadist war. This tragic cycle reveals the grotesque reality of Western-abandoned states forced into the arms of another imperial power, hollowing out their sovereignty and security for the personal survival of a few men, all while Islamist terrorists patiently build their alternative states on the ruins.
