“Washington is really in this position where it feels like an appropriate response to the coup is withholding assistance, yet that could be the move that triggers the collapse of the economy and which the international community and Washington then gets blamed for. We also don't know what kind of pressure Hamdok [Abdallah Hamdok] is putting on the US admin. The US clearly wants to support Hamdok since he has been the centrepiece of US policy. If he wasn't prime minister, the US wasn't going to tolerate or recognise this government.”

by: Cameron Hudson