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 how strategically important a U.S. base in Niger is, or if it’s worth the expense of maintaining. Still, it’s not the ideal way to exit, and Russia apparently sees value in possessing it. Hopefully we are at least taking our equipment with us this time.
Biden and his DNC and intel-Neocon controllers wanted a proxy war with Russia
And they got a proxy-war with Russia.
Enjoy the consequences
Stupidity, arrogance and a true lack of strategic thinking reign in Washington DC
It bears repeating.
London and Washington DC are new global Comintern for Neo-marxism - globohomo, open borders, earth-worship, anti-Christianity, elitism. They spread this through the world (and domestically in the USA) through color-revolution and subterfuge.
We are the (neo) Marxists now
As soon as the troops are out they should carpet bomb it.
Chalk up another success story to the totally inept Biden administration. I still believe if Mexico decides to invade the US with this administration in power we are lost.
Afghanistan. Niger. Next, Washington DC. PLEASE!
This smells like an obama betrayal.
The standard Biden outcome.
STUCK ON FAIL.
I think that he [Biden] is doing an excellent job of destroying the United States of America. Of course he has the idiot segment, A/K/A public, aiding and abetting him. But he is in there pitching.
Obozo/Biden Whitehouse is at it again.
As for the military: “In Niger, the U.S. has had two military bases, called Air Base 101 and Air Base 201, and first started drone operations in 2013. While Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, its geographic location and natural resources have increased its importance to global powers. Specifically, Niger’s location gives the U.S. ability to engage in counterterrorism throughout much of West Africa.”
Absurd!! To coming Niger and West Africa is an absurdity. Someone was paid off in the Obama administration. Who?
“coming” should read combine. These damned services continually try to outthink the poster.
We should have never been there in the first place.
How much is Xo Xidung’s kickback this time? Is it still 10%?
Why were we there? To back up the French who used a corrupt “democracy” to rip off the resources and feed their nuke plants in France. Anyone who grew sick of French presence was deemed an —”ISIS Terrorist” and put down. It drove many an African into their ranks. If the French hadn’t been so greedy it might have kept power for another few decades. Russia is being Russian, opportunists using 19th Century “Great Game” politics to gain position and resources. They will use a bit of power to leverage into a force they can use (much like England in the 19th Century).
So we have been paying for 1,000 American troops in Niger, but none to stop the invasion at our Mexican border.
Maybe we ought to spend more on reversing our slide into the 3rd World and less on playing Global Policeman
Why we WERE there.
Thanks for that...
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