"But the U.S. government announced that relationship ended in March of last year, after the very Malian army officers the U.S. trained toppled the democratically elected government, which began a chain of woes that led to the Islamists’ capture of the north." The only thing needed to complete this textbook example of blowback is for the Islamists to storm the US Embassy and precipitate a hostage crisis.
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