What war is worth fighting for in Africa?
What pressing existential threats to the US are there in Africa that requires troops on the ground there?
Let the Chicoms play over reach in Africa with themselves.
Let’s quit playing World Cop for once.
I want you to try to think in terms other than spending and over-reach.
What do you think goes along with being in those regions? We supply them. We utilize logistics. It’s all training for when we need to do it in an emergency.
What happens when we do pull all our forces from these places?
Do we keep the equipment sitting idle, or do we just let it rot and then don’t have it?
All our military transports, the training, other equipment, the methods and practices that need to be used over and over to remain sharp, evaporate.
When we no longer have troops on station fighting battles, we only have men who have never fought battles training others how to fight.
There is so much more to this than just pulling back our troops and patting ourselves on the back for making a really great move.
Some of this is absolutely destructive to our readiness.
What happens when we pull all our troops home?
Why we cut our troops strength.
This means all the men we had trained, are wasted.
The next conflict we have, we have far fewer experienced men training newer soldiers how to fight.
Our ability to be up and running become woefully inadequate.
At at time when China is reaching out, you want us to pull everyone home.
Then when we need bases over there, we have none. China was them and fully staffed.
You couldn’t be doing more to help the Left if you tried.
Red China will take Africa; they have over a billion people, and can make a permanent commitment to sending reinforcements to Africa. European colonizers couldn’t do that.
I have no problem with Red China running Africa as a colony; since we already do business with them, this will simply broaden the scope of that business.