> I must admit I am not all that informed on the details of French wars in different African countries. So I can not speak on those details. I think this is so

> I must admit I am not all that informed on the details of French wars in different African countries. So I can not speak on those details. I think this is somewhat in tension with the tenor of your claims above, e.g.— > Well if you try far less you can lose less. But of course also if you have far less, even those much smaller loses are just as big a deal as the much larger loses for the US. Of course Gaddafi is a reasonable example in the other direction, but I’d point out that Françafrique is still entirely under Francophile dictatorial rule—even the CNSP is content to permit French forces to remain; it was Macron who threatened to pull out. Contrast this to Iraq (lost to a great extent to Iran). I suppose there is increasing CAR-Russia coöperation, but given Françafrique’s scale, the CAR is much less important than Iraq.