Posted on 04/19/2024 7:15:54 PM PDT by House Atreides
The United States will withdraw its troops from Niger, a source familiar with the matter said late on Friday, adding that an agreement was reached between U.S Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Niger's leadership.
As of last year, there were a little more than 1,000 U.S. troops in Niger, where the U.S. military operated out of two bases, including a drone base known as Air Base 201 near Agadez in central Niger at a cost of more than $100 million.
Since 2018, the base has been used to target Islamic State militants and Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen, an al-Qaida affiliate, in the Sahel region.
Last year, Niger's army seized power in a coup. Until the coup, Niger had remained a key security partner of the United States and France.
But the new authorities in Niger joined juntas in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso in ending military deals with one-time Western allies like Washington and Paris, quitting the regional political and economic bloc ECOWAS, and fostering closer ties with Russia….
… Last month, Niger's ruling junta said it revoked with immediate effect a military accord that allowed military personnel and civilian staff from the U.S. Department of Defense on its soil.
The Pentagon had said thereafter it was seeking clarification about the way ahead. It added that the U.S. government had "direct and frank" conversations in Niger ahead of the junta's announcement and was continuing to communicate with Niger's ruling military council.
Hundreds took to the streets of Niger's capital last week to demand the departure of U.S. troops after the ruling junta further shifted its strategy by ending the military accord with the United States and welcoming Russian military instructors.
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It’s safe. It’s named after a river there. The g is soft not hard.
And they’ll slaughter the rest of the Christians. Not that we should stay either, but I wish US would give the right people refugee status instead of those who who wish to kill us.
“Oh, Frenchie, trolling again? At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that the French were forced to pull out from Niger before this American forced withdrawal. And now FRENCH commercial interests in that part of Africa will no longer have protection from WHAT’S COMING to TAKE those interests.”
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So you like the philosophy of the Great Replacement, hm? You are really desperate for China and Russia/Hamas to replace us in Africa and Europe and everywhere else?
Don’t you think that what you are saying sounds pretty treasonous (if you are American or a Westerner that is)?
“ So you like the philosophy of the Great Replacement, hm? You are really desperate for China and Russia/Hamas to replace us in Africa and Europe and everywhere else?”
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Oh, Frenchie, Great Replacement is well underway in France… certainly much further along than in the America. MAGA Republicans want to see our borders secured and illegal aliens not financed in any way and deported. People such as yourself want to see American taxpayers plundered and saddled with MASSIVE debt but American patriots want that to be avoided.
Frenchie, feel free to expand French involvement in Africa. Feel free to invite tens of millions of your African French subjects to be “refugees” in your nation. After all, what could possibly go wrong with that.
To keep its uranium out of the hands of terrorists and bad state actors.
Ask instead why Russia wants to be there.
Ask yourself why the Russians, the leading ally of Iran, wants a presence in Niger.
You don’t speak for MAGA Republicans, you can only speak for yourself.
When the Russians stick their fingers into places, it always results in masses of refugees fleeing these places. Guess where they flee to?
Not to Russia. Almost nobody wants to live in Russia. Putin has a hard time even persuading Russians to stick around.
“ You don’t speak for MAGA Republicans, you can only speak for yourself.”
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Really?
I wrote: “MAGA Republicans want to see our borders secured and illegal aliens not financed in any way and deported.”
Yes, that IS my view. I’m also pretty sure that it ALSO reflects the views of most MAGA Republicans. Apparently you’re stuck in the Haley wing Neocon rut and that is YOUR prerogative. Feel free to chant ‘RUSSIA!, RUSSIA!, RUSSIA!’ with your Neocon and DemocRAT friends all you want.
probably good.
we can’t afford to police world.
at least it keeps the french from stealing their uranium at 10 cents on the dollar.
We gots troops WHERE???
Means “black” in Latin.😎
Nah, Biden will order them to leave a couple thousand M16’s still in cosmoline. Meanwhile, democrats are banning them at home,
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