Africa: Who supports the failed states?

Akin, a Nigerian blogger comments on the newly released “Failed State Index” ^[1]. He notes that the US is less viable than France, the UK and even Chile and ” strong American allies or piles of mess feature in the Top 10 with Iraq (4), Afghanistan (9) and Nuclear Pakistan (10), barely Nuclear Iran come in at 53 excelling by not being in sharp or severe economic decline.”