How France And The US Cooperate
After some hints to the contrary, it turns out French troops in the Sahel aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. So said President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Feb. 16, even before his virtual summit with France’s former-colonial “partners” – Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Chad – comprising the G5 Sahel Joint Force. Two French Air Force fighter jets operating over Mali after refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker. (U.S. Air Force, Christopher Mesnard) Formed in 2014, it’s described in bureaucratic Paris-speak as “an intergovernmental cooperation framework, in order ...
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