Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
Maybe, but right now the topic is that the government has lost half of the densely-populated area to an uprising in Mao' third stage.
The fact that there wasn’t much in the way of the first two stages beforehand says a lot about the Malian government’s “hold” on things previous to that. And suggests bad things to come for people in the streets of Bamako after the operation gets underway.

Just spitballin’ here, but maybe someone could offer the MNLA a federated, semi-autonomous state in exchange for their aid in running Ansar Dine and the MUJAO to ground?