Mali isn’t unraveling — it’s being gutted by a junta that swapped foreign masters, silenced dissent, and called the wreckage “sovereignty.” This reporting shows a state that can stage rallies but can’t defend a single village or even acknowledge massacred civilians. When your own factions are accused of aiding insurgents, you’re not governing. You’re collapsing. And the only people holding the country together are the ones the regime has already abandoned.
"The ruling regime" is the ruling government. "Militant groups" are terrorist groups. And they are backed by the US which aims to topple the government because it challenged decades-long US and France military occupation of Mali.
"“**No human life is more valuable than another**,” said a Bamako-based woman whose family lives in the Mopti area and asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. **Two days of national mourning were declared in honor of the slain defense minister, she noted, but for over a week, the government issued no comment for the estimated 50 people killed around Mopti**."
The two emphases are absolute facts - they are also in direct contradiction to each other.
This woman really sums up much of what is driving suffering for all life on Earth.
There's this fundamental imbalance in our current existence: a yearning by the overwhelming majority for a world ordered around basic human values met with violent contempt by the few who enjoy power at any expense.
Mali isn’t unraveling — it’s being gutted by a junta that swapped foreign masters, silenced dissent, and called the wreckage “sovereignty.” This reporting shows a state that can stage rallies but can’t defend a single village or even acknowledge massacred civilians. When your own factions are accused of aiding insurgents, you’re not governing. You’re collapsing. And the only people holding the country together are the ones the regime has already abandoned.
"The ruling regime" is the ruling government. "Militant groups" are terrorist groups. And they are backed by the US which aims to topple the government because it challenged decades-long US and France military occupation of Mali.
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"“**No human life is more valuable than another**,” said a Bamako-based woman whose family lives in the Mopti area and asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. **Two days of national mourning were declared in honor of the slain defense minister, she noted, but for over a week, the government issued no comment for the estimated 50 people killed around Mopti**."
The two emphases are absolute facts - they are also in direct contradiction to each other.
This woman really sums up much of what is driving suffering for all life on Earth.
There's this fundamental imbalance in our current existence: a yearning by the overwhelming majority for a world ordered around basic human values met with violent contempt by the few who enjoy power at any expense.
All terrorist need to die
What we see is a world overflowing,
Where there are too many people and not enough to do.
All flocking a world degraded from overflow.
From China to Africa, and those drawn in from the excess.
There's not much to do but watch it happen.
Its all been done. we cant stop it.
That's the tragedy.
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