Ekaterina Girnyk21:29, 04/19/24
Chad has called on the US to withdraw its troops from a military base in the country.
Chad, a key Western ally in the fight against jihadists and Russian influence in Africa , has called on the United States to withdraw its troops from a military base in the country. Bloomberg reports this with reference to a letter from the Chief of Staff of the Chadian Air Force.
The move comes a month after Niger—another key Western ally in the region—suspended a security agreement with the United States amid a series of coups that have left military-ruled governments in the Sahel, a tropical savannah region in Africa that includes twelve countries and 300 million population) established closer ties with Russia while simultaneously severing ties with the West.
The letter to the US military attache in Chad was intended to “warn the Americans that we have decided to stop their activities.” This was confirmed by Foreign Ministry spokesman Ibrahim Mahamat Ahmed, who declined to comment further.
Chad’s request comes just ahead of presidential elections that are widely expected to be won by the country’s interim leader Mahamat Deby, who seized power three years ago after the death of his father, who ruled for 30 years.
In January, Déby became the latest Sahel military ruler to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and stress the need for “sovereignty.”
The military rulers of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, who seized power over the past three years, have also cut security ties with their former allies in the West amid rising anti-Western sentiment in the region, especially against former colonial powers.
Russian influence in Africa
Earlier, the Financial Times wrote that Russia is gaining impressive points on the battlefield for influence in parts of Africa (Niger and its neighbors in the Sahel region).
“Any vacuum left by Western forces in the Sahel is being filled by Russia, which is taking over the anti-terrorism fight with some short-term successes, but also with its own methods and agenda. Shocked by Moscow’s powerful anti-Western disinformation campaigns, observers note how Russia’s presence in Africa is expanding and reorganizing in the “post-Prigogine era,” the publication says.
In April, it became known that the Wagner PMC began the first large-scale recruitment of mercenaries in Africa after the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin .
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The bad reputation of the US, because of well reasoned accusations of hypocrisy, has consequences. To a large degree, that’s the consequence of the frivolous, illegal and very much counterproductive Iraq war. It will take a long time to repair the damage, and Joe Biden, with his questionable support for the rightwing extremist Netanyahu, is the wrong repair man, sadly. ☹
“The bad reputation of the US, because of well reasoned accusations of hypocrisy, has consequences. To a large degree, that’s the consequence of the frivolous, illegal and very much counterproductive Iraq war.”
So what about Saddam were you ok with?
I have to ask only because nobody will give me a straight answer.
I was fine with the Iraq war. Nentanyahu is also ok with me. Eurotrash was fine with RuSSian oil and gas from 2014-2022, allowing Putler to earn enough ca$h to finance the full scale war against Ukraine. Still no Taurus. THAT is hypocrisy! 😎
I was not fine with the Iraq war, with Netanyahu’s atrocities, with Russian oil and gas, and with Putin’s 2014 invasion, and I do have the comments and tweets to prove that. Looks like my record is better than yours, Mike. Sad to read that you’ve been on the ethically wrong side of history. 🙁
Klugscheisser!
Sturkopf! 😛
Absolut. 😈
Grey Goose.
🙂
Nobody had to be ok with Saddam to be aware that he most probably hadn’t been a serious threat to the US and that no good evidence proving the opposite had been presented. So, George W. Bush, other than his dad, didn’t have a valid cause for an attack on this country. The mere advantage of a violently enforced regime change wasn’t a legal reason for war, under international law that is binding for the US. That’s not simply my view, but the expert one of the UN secretary at that time, too:
“Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq
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