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“Not having anyone to recruit their opinions or participation, the Vietnamese organized themselves into a powerful voting bloc and from then on, you saw all kinds of candidates running for all kinds of seats.”

These elections are likely to result in real-life evidence of a political idea that's all the rage, that there's "fragmentation" among the public, the traditional voting blocs are no more.

But that supply is now under threat as relations between the bloc and President Trump worsen.

But now, with Trump turning American economic power against friend and foe alike, we risk sliding into something closer to autarky, a world where the U.S. stands alone, detached from any coherent bloc.

Burkina Faso, along with two other military-led states – Mali and Niger, has broken away from the regional West African bloc, Ecowas, to form a new alliance.