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When then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Sudan after the popular revolution that led to the ousting of military-Islamist ruler Omar al-Bashir, his main agenda was a simple trade: America would lift sanctions when Sudan agreed to sign the Abraham Accords.

Through his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump enjoys warm relations with the de facto Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known by his initials, MBS.

Clans fought against each other in the Somali civil war that started after the overthrow of long-time ruler Siad Barre in 1991 and the worst of the fighting continued until 2001.

If you’ve been the ruler of a world-dominating social media apparatus for nearly 20 years now, are you going to cave so freely when governments finally get it together and try to tell you how to better run things?

For the political administration, too, is treated as a purely personal affair of the ruler, and political power is considered part of his personal property.”