US Troops Expelled from Niger

[Averageman]

Yeah, no doubt. But I would not leave them a shred of anything we built.

How Diplomatic would you like to get with the Biden Administration?
No one trusts them anymore to keep their words or color between the lines, I can't blame them.

[1168]

An entire planet exists outside our favorite news channels.

[chuckman]

How Diplomatic would you like to get with the Biden Administration?
No one trusts them anymore to keep their words or color between the lines, I can't blame them.

My response has nothing to do with diplomacy, but in risk mitigation. With the amount of Islamic extremists and other known terrorist entities in the area, as well as potential Russian competition, I don't want to leave anything of value or use their for anyone else.

[1168]

My response has nothing to do with diplomacy, but in risk mitigation. With the amount of Islamic extremists and other known terrorist entities in the area, as well as potential Russian competition, I don't want to leave anything of value or use their for anyone else.

Known Russian competition. Remember that the resource is uranium.

Wanna say Daesh frontline trace from inside Mali got within 90km of the capitol of Niger like 2 months before the coup.

[Diamondback]

Yeah, no doubt. But I would not leave them a shred of anything we built.

I wonder how many ODAs and Raider teams will have to straphang or mission shop elsewhere....

We tore down Chateauroux-Deols Air Depot (major USAFE and NATO aircraft maintenance hub) almost to the ground when DeGasbag kicked us out in '66, all the way down to takin up the greens from the golf course and jackhammering the slabs the Quonset huts rested on.

[TAZ]

So who is moving in? Russia or China or both.

Go Joey.


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[1168]

So who is moving in? Russia or China or both.

Go Joey.


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[ABNAK]

Russia in. US out.

If I was to wager a guess, I would think it was the Chinese who had the biggest interest in the area because of the mineral mining? They are all up in Africa's shit the last few years.

This could be another "Russia! Russia! Russia!" scream-fest publicly but since a great deal of D.C. is paid off by the Chicoms it makes sense why they'd run interference for them.



ETA-just read 1168's posts and maybe it's the Rooskies too? I hate to see it as a "Chinaman behind every tree" but they have their hands all over Africa.

[SteyrAUG]

We tore down Chateauroux-Deols Air Depot (major USAFE and NATO aircraft maintenance hub) almost to the ground when DeGasbag kicked us out in '66, all the way down to takin up the greens from the golf course and jackhammering the slabs the Quonset huts rested on.

Should be SOP every time.

[SteyrAUG]

If I was to wager a guess, I would think it was the Chinese who had the biggest interest in the area because of the mineral mining? They are all up in Africa's shit the last few years.

This could be another "Russia! Russia! Russia!" scream-fest publicly but since a great deal of D.C. is paid off by the Chicoms it makes sense why they'd run interference for them.



ETA-just read 1168's posts and maybe it's the Rooskies too? I hate to see it as a "Chinaman behind every tree" but they have their hands all over Africa.

Much as I hate to say it, it's because China is smart enough to make the deal without demanding locals adopt their culture / communism. They are just there to "buy stuff", if only we had been as smart. And I'm not talking about giving terrorist groups a pass or anything, just maybe a little less "have you heard the good news" stuff.

There are few things worth going to Africa for, all the gold and diamonds don't begin to equal the hardship that comes from being in Africa. I suppose we have to hunt the terrorist groups that train there and have a capacity to threaten us and I guess keeping track of uranium is important but it wouldn't be a very long list if I was in charge.