In the most violent region in the world, the West is realising that it messed up. Protestors in Burkina Faso throw Molotovs at the French, American-trained soldiers overthrow their governments, and Malians wave Russian flags.
After a two-decade American deployment in the Sahel in Africa, the Pentagon has finally admitted that the area is descending into anarchy.
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