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U.S. hands over $110m base to Niger junta to release 1,000 U.S. Army hostages, watches helplessly as base goes to Russia
American Thinker ^ | 22 Apr, 2024 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/23/2024 4:07:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Another preventable Afghanistan-pullout-like failure, because that's what Joe Biden does.

oe Biden is a lucky bungler.

With no Fox News cameras around and nobody paying much attention to what was going on in Niger, a disgraceful, utterly humiliating exit of the U.S. military from that benighted country now led by a military junta, has dealt the U.S. another strategic blow, and entirely preventably. The crummy little tinpot junta now running Niger has managed to kick Uncle Sam around, much as the Taliban and Iran did, creating an accumulating pattern of lost U.S. influence. And sure enough, they got us good, because Joe Biden let them.

According to the New York Times:

More than 1,000 American military personnel will leave Niger in the coming months, Biden administration officials said on Friday, upending U.S. counterterrorism and security policy in the tumultuous Sahel region of Africa.

In the second of two meetings this week in Washington, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell told Niger’s prime minister, Ali Lamine Zeine, that the United States disagreed with the country’s turn toward Russia for security and Iran for a possible deal on its uranium reserves, and the failure of Niger’s military government to map out a path to return to democracy, according to a senior State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss diplomatic talks.

The decision was not a particular surprise. Niger said last month that it was revoking its military cooperation deal with the United States following a highly contentious set of meetings in Niger’s capital, Niamey, with a high-level American diplomatic and military delegation.

The base was a critical node in the U.S. war on al-Qaida, ISIS, and all their evil little allies operating terrorist operations from the northern African region.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; africa; biden; defeat; niger; retreat; rout; weakness
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1 posted on 04/23/2024 4:07:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Way to go Brandon.


2 posted on 04/23/2024 4:08:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

bookmark


3 posted on 04/23/2024 4:10:09 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: MtnClimber

That would not have happened under Trump.


4 posted on 04/23/2024 4:10:33 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: MtnClimber

‘We don't want your money, use it to sponsor a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland’: Niger's military rulers tell USA

https://www.opindia.com/2023/08/use-your-money-to-sponsor-a-weight-loss-program-for-victoria-nuland-nigers-military-rulers-tell-usa/

5 posted on 04/23/2024 4:11:19 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: MtnClimber
Ali Lamine Zeine is a Muslim.
6 posted on 04/23/2024 4:13:25 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: MtnClimber

Bunch of evil clown dummies inhabit DC.


7 posted on 04/23/2024 4:14:52 AM PDT by dforest
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To: MtnClimber

Another victorious adventure by Joke Potato-Pant (aka mumbles).


8 posted on 04/23/2024 4:16:05 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: McGruff

Wow, ouch, but kinda funny.


9 posted on 04/23/2024 4:16:06 AM PDT by dforest
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t believe anything Brandon’s state department says. Niger probably has something Intel on Biden to blackmail him with so he just gave him the military base. Who knows...


10 posted on 04/23/2024 4:24:24 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: marktwain
His Islamic Highness Teh Halfrican went to bed smiling last night.
11 posted on 04/23/2024 4:24:50 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: MtnClimber
and the failure of Niger’s military government to map out a path to return to democracy

We've seen your "democracy" and it looks more like communism/marxism.

12 posted on 04/23/2024 4:32:05 AM PDT by Pollard ( )
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To: MtnClimber

$110 million doesn’t buy much of a base.


13 posted on 04/23/2024 4:35:17 AM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: McGruff

Thanks for that link

I never heard a peep about that on the MSM.

The press covering for Regime Leader Biden.


14 posted on 04/23/2024 4:40:02 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: McGruff

Wow!


15 posted on 04/23/2024 4:41:11 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: MtnClimber

Meanwhile, from a few days ago...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3259074/chinese-state-firm-agrees-us400m-loan-niger-junta-return-oil


16 posted on 04/23/2024 4:41:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

And get a load of this...

https://www.wearetech.africa/en/fils-uk/news/tech/china-signals-willingness-to-collaborate-with-niger-in-the-digital-sector


17 posted on 04/23/2024 4:42:41 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
"His Islamic Highness Teh Halfrican"

I got it...you are talking about the Obamation that causes desolation.

18 posted on 04/23/2024 4:45:16 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: McGruff

Victoria Nuland. That name again.

And again.

And again.


19 posted on 04/23/2024 4:47:37 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: subterfuge

Uranium.

This is why we’re there.


20 posted on 04/23/2024 4:51:01 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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