Posted on 10/30/2023 6:21:08 AM PDT by RandFan
Yes
Ping
Syria and Niger, America’s best allies.
Who could have foreseen instability in Niger?…
Didn’t Obama send them to that hellhole ?
Probably
Correct but who is going to do it?
“The disaster the Obama administration helped unleash in Libya has had lasting consequences for the region. Libyan arms, including heavy weaponry such as anti-aircraft guns and surface-to-air missiles, have been traced to criminals and terrorists across the region, including in Niger, Mali, Tunisia, Syria, Algeria, and — tragically pertinent — Gaza.”
If I’m not mistaken, we operate a very large drone base in Niger ostensibly for surveillance vs extremist terrorist groups throughout Central Africa
Whether this alone justifies such a large boot print, I do not know.
Maybe we’re just there because China and Russia ( Wagner) are there and growing in influence
Once TPTB created “ AFricom” I think DoD sewed ourselves into a perpetual cycle of justifying troops to defend against “ security threats to the US”
Current U.S. involvments:
American military intervention in Niger.
American-led intervention in Syria.
Second U.S. Intervention in the Somali Civil War.
American intervention in Yemen.
American proxy war in Ukraine.
American joint operation in Gaza.
It is completely out of hand financially.
Your hunch was right - they have been stationed there since 2013
I’d like to see a Jay Leno-style interview of Americans on the street: “Find Niger on a map!”
I’m not espousing a position one way or the other on whether to be involved in Niger, or anywhere else. But let each branch stay in its own lane. The President needs the freedom to play political chess anyway he sees fit. (Although I think the present president’s game is 52 pickup.) Congress controls the purse strings and the president controls America’s interactions on the world stage. We wouldn’t want to hamstring a future president just because we don’t like the present one.
As for what America does and where we do it, I’d appreciate a reason why America has an interest in this or that country that requires us to deploy blood and treasure. Unfortunately, there’s nothing this president can read off the teleprompter that I’d believe. Still, he’s in the office and the office has powers and privilege whether we like how it’s being used or not. We diddle with that power and privilege at our future risk.
Rand says it’s to ostensibly clean up the mess in Libya.
One thing begets another...
The fingerprints of Susan Rice are all over this tortured process of expanding military bases into Africa. She was trying to make amends for counseling Bill Clinton to minimize the Rwanda genocide because the language (“genocide”) and timing of the US actually doing anything to stop it…was inconvenient to his reelection cycle.
Consider the growth of US military presence in Africa as a form of equity and inclusion into the world of western- military managed ( or instigated) chaos and insecurity
And this doesn’t even include the domestic wars against the taxpayers of our own Nation by the current administration.
“As for what America does and where we do it, I’d appreciate a reason why America has an interest in this or that country that requires us to deploy blood and treasure.”
That is the question of the last half century Sir... I completely agree.
Lol…a mess in Libya we almost certainly deliberately created ( or maybe our national security and policy establishments really are just stuck on stupid)
Now I’m afraid we are trying to create the same chaos in Syria to shadow the fact we aren’t willing or able to tackle Iran directly
It is completely out of hand financially.
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The US gov. doesn’t worry about finances. They can print money as they please and have mechanisms to take money out of the economy. What they worry about are resources: Oil, bodies for the military, cheap labor, and other material resources for technology.
What they are concerned about at the moment is more meat for the military. Have you seen the demographic targets of the latest military recruitment commercials? It’s a good indicator of how ethnicity and culture are changing in the US. It doesn’t look like new immigrants are eager to be pawns for corporatist oligarchs in government.
That’s one step in the Democrats ten step plan to destroy our military.
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