Jul 3, 2019

Podcast: Algerian military leaders in state of panic, pushing for violenceF

the Algerian crisis

Algerian military leaders in state of panic, pushing for violence

The Algerian military has lost its capability to maintain a reasonable level of objectivity. Its senior command, directed by General Gaid Salah, is now in intense panic mode after it failed to abort the ongoing anti-government protests.  Such panic mode translates into an extremely dangerous situation that risks not only to destroy the Algerian Republic, but it could turn the Algerian territory into another focal point for outside forces, from the likes of the UAE to the Jihadists, where they would wage another of their proxy wars. And we now have the Libyan template as a clear indication of what can happen should Gaid Salah and his Generals continue on this road.

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The Algerian military command has done everything it could to undermine the peaceful nature of the protest movement. But everything they used so far did not work, as it did not elicit a violent response by the Algerian people as the hopped, to justify sending military troops to the street. 

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