maneuvers very closely expected that there would be a coup this week. that said, i think that a lot of western policy makers for a long time have kind of overestimated the kind of stability of niger and underappreciated the fact that this is a country that has experienced many coups throughout its history and also one in which there is still a very fragmented security sector in which there are many rival units, both traditional units, that have kind of been involved in some of these pushes in the past, as well as kind of new special forces units, some that have actually been trained by the us and france that are kind of creating a new political environment, a new political landscape within the military that has been very difficult for the president bazoum to control. i think some would argue that there s something of a domino effect, if you will, that when militaries see that a neighbouring country, that officers have managed to pull off a successful coup in that region, in that countr