🇧🇫“We are not in a democracy, we are in a revolution.”

One year on, Capt. Traoré used today’s speech to reaffirm the core principles of the revolution: order and discipline.

In his view, no meaningful social, economic, or political transformation is possible without them. On the War: Since the beginning, many armies offered to help us fight, but we refused; we chose to carry out this fight ourselves. We thank those who offered help.

(Likely talking about turning down combat support from the Russians, and intelligence support from the US)