German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has openly questioned the continued participation of German soldiers in the EU’s training mission in Mali ahead of her visit to the West African country. Baerbock noted immediately before her departure on Monday evening for a multi-day visit to Mali and Niger that the Malian government had “gambled away a great deal of international trust in recent months, not least by dragging out the democratic transition and intensifying military cooperation with Moscow.” “To simply say ‘keep it up’ now would be misguided in my view,” Baerbock added. Baerbock’s visi…