withdraw support. but the problem is there has been a geopolitical shift so it's no longer true that african countries are as reliant on america or on the european union as they had been previously. so if you consider a country like sudan, sudan has long felt sanctions from the west and after these recent coups, they have been able to return to gulf nations for support. if we consider for example outside of africa, myanmar, relies very heavily on china for support, china is another important part of this story. china does not like to intervene in internal affairs of other countries, respect what is going on, they are not interested in forcing countries to become democratic. they do interfere if a country does something which affects thai ban, shin chan or to bed but other than that, they do not