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Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:46pm

One of our biggest military operations in North Africa will soon come to an end.

The United States will begin plans to withdraw troops from Niger, U.S. officials said Saturday, in what experts say is a blow to Washington and its allies in the region in terms of staging security operations in the Sahel. The planned departure comes as U.S. officials said they were trying to find a new military agreement.
The prime minister of Niger, appointed by the ruling military junta, Ali Lamine Zeine, and U.S. deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell, agreed on Friday that the two nations would begin to plan the withdrawal of American troops, the U.S. State Department told The Associated Press in an email Saturday.

Interestingly, neighboring Chad took the hint and followed Niger's lead.

Chad is threatening to scrap an agreement with the US that allows American troops to operate in the country, signaling the US might lose even more of its military footprint in Africa after Niger ordered a US withdrawal.
According to CNN, Chad’s government sent a letter to the US earlier this month that said it could end the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The letter didn’t directly order the US military to leave, but US officials said that if the agreement were canceled, US forces would have to leave a French military base where they were stationed.

Meanwhile, Iraq has been trying to get U.S. troops to leave for years, and this might actually happen.

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 2:22pm

now there is a choice for these smaller nations

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to have a different 'security backer' which invests
in infrastructure and actually helps, instead of
bleeding resources and creating havoc

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question everything

Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 4:58pm

China and Russia

...have separately established respectful and trusting international partnerships across Africa. These are long-standing and productive bilateral relationships that have not betrayed them. Promises were kept. The nations of Africa have choices.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 04/25/2024 - 12:32am

You were praising Biden for sanctioning Israeli settlers

Care to retract that statement?

BREAKING:

The US has changed its mind and decided not to sanction war criminals in the Israeli army

Israeli officials reportedly said that due to political pressure from all parties, the U.S. has made the decision not to proceed with sanctions against the Netzah Yehuda… pic.twitter.com/Qq5QqaKgcN

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) April 24, 2024

Anything happy to say about Biden on this?

Can we just take a minute to reflect on how fucking INSANE it is that STATE POWER is being used to put down protests of American citizens, violating their rights on behalf of a FOREIGN GOVERNMENT. https://t.co/2lBrYjHq7Y

— B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC (@_iamblakeley) April 25, 2024

I can’t figure out why anyone would try to find something good on Biden after his 50 years of screwing us. Nor do I get the point. Biden has been responsible for millions of innocent civilian deaths since he arrived in government and there is no redemption for it. And that’s not just overseas either.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 04/25/2024 - 1:50pm

You got me

@snoopydawg I guess I'm guilty of being Biden.
Is that what you were driving at?

Johnson

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he called White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and threatened to “intervene” if President Biden slapped sanctions on an Israeli military battalion over its alleged conduct in the West Bank.
“We heard a rumor of this before our [aid] bill was actually brought for a vote in the House [Saturday], I mean, hours before,” Johnson (R-La.) told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“And I’ll tell you what I did, Hugh, and I don’t, I guess I’m breaking news here,” Johnson went on. “No one knows this. But I called the White House immediately and talked with Jake Sullivan, and [Secretary of State] Tony Blinken was overseas at the moment.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 04/25/2024 - 11:12pm

Don’t be silly

@gjohnsit

I guess I'm guilty of being Biden.
Is that what you were driving at?

Where did I say that? You said that Biden was going to sanction some Israelis. I showed how he isn’t going to do that just like he removed the sanctions on the other settlers you made a big deal of.

Biden Admin moves toward actually doing something about Israel

For the first time in Israel's history, the U.S. is getting ready to impose sanctions on one of its military units. This effectively means that the U.S. is admitting that human rights abuses are being committed.

If you want to think that Biden is the 2nd coming of Obama that’s fine, but don’t expect me to swallow it. Again I’m wondering why you are looking for anything good that Biden does. Who are you trying to convince?

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 04/26/2024 - 3:05pm

That was a call-out comment

@snoopydawg

Care to retract that statement?

I've been criticizing Israel and Biden since long before C99P existed.

BTW, Biden's NLRB

(Reuters) - The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a rule extending mandatory overtime pay to an estimated 4 million salaried workers, going even further than an Obama-era rule that was struck down in court.
The U.S. Department of Labor rule will require employers to pay overtime premiums to workers who earn a salary of less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hours in a week.

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Fri, 04/26/2024 - 7:15pm

Henry IV, Part 1 - Act 2, scene 4

@gjohnsit

"But one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack?"

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 04/27/2024 - 1:49pm

I don't have to be told that 90%

@TheOtherMaven of what the Dems do is either just as bad as the Repubs, or pathetic and in no way represents their voting base. I'm not stupid.
At the same time I'm not going to ignore important differences. You have to examine everything and decide for yourself. not just do a "both sides bad". Yes, both sides are bad, but in different ways.

I have no intention of voting for Biden, but since I live in California that probably won't matter anyway.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Thu, 04/25/2024 - 3:31pm

There is an enormous gulf between

"we are going to begin planning to withdraw" and "we are actually leaving". How about "we are, any day now, about to being planning how and when we will eventually begin withdrawing as soon as we decide where and when to meet to determine the size and shape of the table and who will be seated where and where the actual formal meetings around or along this table will be," We've seen this movie before

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by usefewersyllables on Thu, 04/25/2024 - 4:36pm

And even when we leave,

@enhydra lutris

we don't leave. They'll bring home a token few dozen folks, but the other 10K "advisers" will be there forever.

We truly have seen this movie before, over and over and OVER. Just as you say- once the whole table issue is handled, they'll commission a blue-ribbon [panel to investigate setting up a committee to take testimony over the process of deciding to plan a planning council to draw up a drawdown plan- it'll get on the books in about 20never. Faugh.

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.