A defeat of an imperialist state is always a good news. Macron’s signals military pullback from Sahel Related: “When they attack us in France, we say it’s Islam.” The arrogance of French imperialism vs. the pragmatism of the local regimes
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51