The recent events are a direct test of the junta’s proposition that Russian-backed security assistance and the suspension of civil liberties could deliver stability where democratic governance and Western-backed security assistance, including from France and the United States, had failed over the course of preceding decades. And the resurgent sweep of militant attacks is bound to resonate across similar juntas in the region, such as those in Burkina Faso and Niger, that had deposed their own western-allied governments.