US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday he still saw a chance for diplomacy to reverse a coup in Niger, as the West African bloc ECOWAS keeps up pressure on the military rulers in Niamey.
“We remain very focused on diplomacy in achieving the results that we want, which is the return of the constitutional order, and I believe that there continues to be space for diplomacy in achieving that result,” Blinken told reporters.
“The pressure that’s been exerted by many countries including through ECOWAS on the military leaders responsible for disrupting the constitutional order in Niger is mounting.
“I think they have to take that into account, as well as the fact that their actions have isolated them from the region and the world.”
The clueless Blinken — who ostensibly leads the US diplomatic establishment, which was completely blindsided by the coup in Niger — is not coping very well. We are either going to start a neocolonialist regional war to re-impose the deposed president and then incorporate the theater into our global war agenda against Russia, or we are going to suck it up and acknowledge the new government of Niger.
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