from Colonel Cassad. He is completely correct:

"All commentators who suggest that Russia should leave Africa should remember that if we are not in Mali, there will be more tanks in Eastern Europe, and the Europeans will pay for them with Malian gold. If Russia is not in the Central African Republic, there will be more planes in Poland, bought with diamonds and uranium from that country. If the French continue to stay in Senegal and export rare earth metals, there will be more NATO military satellites over Eurasia.

Do you want this? Hardly. Then think before you talk nonsense."