{"id":21460,"date":"2025-11-24T20:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=21460"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:07:56","slug":"gold-benzin-und-ein-broeckelndes-regime-wie-mali-zum-schauplatz-von-putins-niederlage-auch-zu-einem-problem-fuer-den-westen-wird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/gold-benzin-und-ein-broeckelndes-regime-wie-mali-zum-schauplatz-von-putins-niederlage-auch-zu-einem-problem-fuer-den-westen-wird\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold, gasoline and a crumbling regime - how Mali becomes the scene of Putin\u2019s defeat and also a problem for the West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \"\"\n\n<\/a>\n\n\n\n

Mali is on the verge of losing a military government that has relied for years on Russian mercenaries, Russian weapons and Russian backing. Exactly where the Kremlin believed it could cement its influence on the continent for decades, Moscow is now losing control as Al-Qaeda cuts the capital Bamako off from the outside world and grinds the state down with a system of blockades, ambushes and extortion. The uprising follows no classic frontline. It follows the fuel trucks. Every stopped delivery is a blow to a junta that has found no way for months to keep the country together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mali\u2019s leader Assimi Go\u00efta owes his position to two coups - one that made him vice president, and a second in which he deposed his former superior and declared himself president. Russia never minded this background. On the contrary, a man without a mandate, isolated from Europe and entangled in internal power struggles, was an ideal partner. Moscow offered soldiers, money and political protection, and in return Mali was to open its resources - gold, uranium, lithium. The Wagner mercenaries, later folded into the so-called African Corps of the Russian Defense Ministry, operated like a mix of private army and resource company. But this alliance also began to crumble. Go\u00efta transferred large sums to Moscow while at the same time holding back mining concessions to secure income for himself. The relationship cooled noticeably before it collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n