A senior U.S. diplomat said coup leaders in Niger refused to allow her to meet Monday with the West African country’s democratically elected president, whom she described as under “virtual house arrest.”
Posted on 04/22/2024 6:49:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Another Joe Biden foreign policy disaster is in the works.
Joe Biden already turned over the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to Taliban terrorists in September 2021.
Biden abandoned Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years in July by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ secret departure more than two hours after they left.
The Taliban quickly took control of Bagram Air Base, which is only 30 miles north of Kabul, on August 15th and released thousands of terrorists held at its prison. The Americans and Afghans left the Taliban military equipment, uniforms, rations and even sports drinks.
The ISIS suicide bomber who murdered 13 US servicemen and women and 169 Afghans was released by the Taliban from the Bagram Base prison in July.
ISIS suicide bomber Abdul Rehman was incarcerated at the Bagram prison for the past four years until he was set free by the Taliban terrorists.
Abdul Rehman then murdered 13 Americans and 173 Afghans in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul Airport.
Last week we learned about Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy disaster. The situation in Niger could top the Afghanistan withdrawal – if that is possible.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) totally embarrassed the US Army Secretary and exposed Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy catastrophe during questioning this week in the US House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee hearing.
Gaetz exposed the latest Biden foreign policy failure – this time in Niger, Africa.
US troops are trapped in the country allegedly without water and medicine. The Army was likely hiding this to protect itself from embarrassment. Deployed Americans are in limbo and unable to do their jobs and the Biden State Department is completely outmaneuvered once again.
Secretary Wormuth and General Randy George testified before the House Armed Services Committee on April 16th.
Matt Gaetz posted the report on his congressional webpage.
US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, a potential DEI hire, was stunned and speechless when Matt Gaetz confronted her about the trapped US soldiers in Niger a country in tremendous turmoil.
It now appears the US has a trade offer from the military junta in Niger. The Russian-backed military junta in Niger will release the 1,000 US soldiers trapped at the base in exchange for the keys to the $100 million American airbase in the country.
How is it possible that the Biden regime could be so inept?
How is it possible that the US military could be so incompetent?
The US military will leave a $100 million airbase to the military junta.
Aljazeera reported:
In March the country suspended its military agreement with the US. The US military had some 650 personnel working in Niger in December, according to a White House report to Congress. The US military operates a major airbase in the Niger city of Agadez, some 920km (572 miles) from Niamey, using it for manned and unmanned surveillance flights and other operations.
A drone base known as Air Base 201 near Agadez was also built at a cost of more than $100m. Since 2018 the base has been used to target ISIL (ISIS) fighters and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate, in the Sahel region.
There was another anti-American protest in Agadez earlier today.
They did it! The Biden regime capitulated! The US is out!
The Agadez airbase will be evacuated and left available to the Russia-backed military junta!
The Independent.ng reported:
Washington says it has firmed up plans with the West African nation’s military rulers to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops.
The US has also agreed to close down its big drone base near the city of Agadez in the Sahara desert.
Niger is in Africa’s Sahel region, which is considered the new global epicentre of the Islamic State group.
The US has relied on Niger as its primary base for monitoring regional jihadist activity.
An American delegation is to head within days to Niger’s capital, Niamey, to arrange an orderly withdrawal.
This title is misleading. The term "release" suggests U.S. soldiers were/are being held prisoner. There are not.
The title of the article you cited is: "U.S.-TRAINED NIGER JUNTA KICKS OUT U.S. TROOPS, DRONE BASE." Nowhere does the article say that American troops/personnel are being held prisoner in Niger.
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The only way to reverse the decline in this country is to have a generation of good conservative leaders, which I am not hopeful will happen
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‘Conservative’ leaders? Nearly everyone on FR was fellating Johnson on being a “’good’ conservative”. How’s THAT been going since he was VOTED in by the (R)N(C)
Wake me when The Stupid Party starts voting in CONSTITUTIONALISTS instead of their misnomer ‘conservative’ (all they seem to be ‘conserving’ is the illegal status quo)
No doubt about it. This is the first I’ve heard of this.
Those troops need to be extracted like yesterday.
Why haven’t they been air dropped supplies?
The Marines have troops on ships just for this purpose.
It’s going to be difficult to keep this quiet.
The junta would not allow any flights to resupply the troops with food or medical supplies nor would they allow them to leave. They were in effect held hostage, though not in name. The junta wanted something from Biden in exchange for letting them leave, and apparently they got whatever it was they wanted..................
A senior U.S. diplomat said coup leaders in Niger refused to allow her to meet Monday with the West African country’s democratically elected president, whom she described as under “virtual house arrest.”
‘We don't want your money, use it to sponsor a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland’: Niger's military rulers tell USA
ROFL!
FYI ping
I would be happy just to have people who love America more than they love politics, UN, WEF, MIC or some other organization that is anti-American, unfortunately I don’t think that’s possible.
I was agnostic on Mike Johnson I didn’t expect much and got even less
I’m afraid it’s too broken and shattered. We’ll never recover and even remotely look like we once did.
There will be pockets and we always have the blueprint for re-building...The Constitution of the United States of America.
Old days:
1) Declare war against the U.S.A.
2) Surrender
3) Get buried under avalanche of U.S.A. foreign aid
Now days:
1) Declare “Death to America!”
2) Sell American weapons left behind by The Swamp
3) Send your people to cross U.S.A. border illegally
In order for there to be a conservative tendency, movement, or (eventually) party, the FOUNDATION is, "what are we promising to conserve?"
This does not exist, and never has existed, for the so-called American "conservative movement".
And let's be honest. There is no agreement on this site about a starting point for what is to be conserved.
33AD?
325AD?
1453?
1860?
1898?
1913?
1919?
1933?
1945 (lots of fans here)?
1959?
1973?
1988?
2008?
December 2019?
You see the problem. The "conservative" house is built on sand, and the waves are washing it away.
Here we go again.
Get our people out then obliterate the entire base with B-2 strikes
Is Niger currently holding 1,000 US Soldier? Since when? Source?
No!
They/Niger are telling our drone pilots/maintenance crews and intels to leave!
Here’s an article out today.
Yes, Oreno of France still has a uranium asset in Niger, but they were the only uranium company operating there. After all, France considered this part of Africa their sphere of influence.
Canada was similar to the USA - it shut down all its uranium mines because of environmental and market reasons (a lot of enriched uranium coming from Russia in the 2000s)
One large company stayed in business - Cameco.
There are Canadian mining companies, not in operation, sitting on uranium reserves that are the same, or bigger, than Cameco’s
There’s no shortage of the stuff - only the political will to approve, build and operate mines.
@Assuming we get a conservative president, we will be decades recovering from Biden. If we don’t, we’re going to be Cuba and eating our pets.”
With all those fat juicy libs around??
I believe that as well, only Devine Intervention which I think is coming after we suffer the wrath of God, you can’t operate like we are and not think we are in real danger.
When a society has a significant percentage of people who think it’s perfectly fine to mutilate children, a society that is on the road to mainstreaming pedophilia, then we are too far gone to turn back in any traditional way.
That’s why I don’t really stress over the day-to-day happenings, I can only take care of myself and family.
Give them the keys, get every last one of our people out of there, and then level the airbase. Carpet bomb with B-52s. That's the only sensible thing to do.
Almost. Obama would have thrown in some pallets of cash.
But maybe I speak too soon, the troops haven't been released yet...
Yup !
My view is that God-fearing leaders and elites and rulers can make any political system work.
And if you don’t have that, any political system will decay and collapse.
All the countries of the West are living thru the end state failure of Regimes based on Enlightenment thinking.
Nothing will change until they totally collapse.
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