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.
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I'm not sure where you've been; the invasion has been underway for quite some time now.
$110 mill isn’t the cost. The base is fairly substantial. But yes most facilities there are “expeditionary” and can be moved or left behind.
Once again the criminal perv biden maladministration FAILS. They sure do despise the American Citizen. What pathetic criminals.
I’ve been saying the same thing for a couple of years now.
Current Niger versus USA! ~ Hello and welcome to Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/niger
Niger: ‘We don’t want your money, use it to sponsor a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland’: Niger’s military rulers tell USA
the military leaders of Niger reportedly replied. “We don’t want your money. Use your money to fund a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland.”
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Damn… is there enough money in the ENTIRE federal budget to have even a small chance of accomplishing that?
You would have to outlaw spoons and forks.
This is funny 😆😁
‘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/
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