“ Putin had a hugely successful African conference”
Oooh.
Impressive.
Doesn’t impress the dullard class.
To people who think and invest of millions of dollars on modern bases in Niger and other countries in Africa, it means a great deal. Those bases, we built them for the Russians who currently occupy them.
Ask the admin stooges’ best pal, Macron, about getting his colonialist arse thrown off the continent since. He was panty wadded in the extreme.
But for a strategic thinker like you, losing Western access to all of Africa’s resources, and giving them to Xi and Putin is something to snicker at.
What a simp.
“But it also leaves a counterterrorism gap that U.S. officials are struggling to fill as security threats from extremist groups in the Sahel grow.
One of those groups, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin, known as JNIM, is active in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger and is looking to expand into Benin and Togo. Those expansion locations could be used initially as hubs to rest, recuperate, get financing and gather weapons, according to U.S. officials, but the group also has increased attacks there.
“Niger was immensely helpful for us as a location because it was in the Sahel and it was adjacent to those areas where the threat is most concentrated,” Ekman said. Now, he said, the challenge is battling the insurgency while having to get access from outside Niger, which makes it more difficult.”!
As a matter a fact, I posted about that conference on FR. I tried to call attention to just how successful the conference was and the implications of that success. The implications I predicted? Just what has actually happened since.
The implications were above your thinking level then, you’re strutting you limited level again today.