Echos has had some success with interventions in the region before. Niger is a much larger and more complex country to intervene in than most of the ones that Echos have done before. The risks are really very high. This could spiral quite badly. And that would leave a trail of real humanitarian destruction"
The Economic Community of West African States may yet try to restore President Mohamed Bazoum militarily. Either way, Niger’s status as a bulwark against jihadism is threatened. America’s Republican hopefuls are courting Moms for Liberty, a pressure group with some outlandish ideas; we meet a few of them (10:51). And the design principles of a good flag (19:33).
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