Another Retreat: Joe Biden Withdraws from
Niger, Leaving Behind $100M Military Base
Breitbart Africa,
by
John Hayward
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/21/2024 2:16:27 PM
The U.S. and Niger issued a joint statement on Sunday that set a deadline of September 15 for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces. The departing American troops leave behind a $100-million military base built to support counter-terrorism operations in the Sahel region.
The disposition of Airbase 201 in Niger’s city of Agadez was left unclear in the joint statement, which held out hopes that the U.S. and Niger might be able to work on “issues of mutual interest” in the future.In a conference call with reporters on Sunday afternoon, a senior Defense Department official said the departing American forces would bring “sensitive equipment, lethal equipment, [and] hazardous equipment” with them.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/21/2024 2:48:27 PM (No. 1722260)
A $100,000,000.00 US military base given away to the Nigerians so that they can hand it over to their new Chinese friends to take over. This will all be in exchange for new roads, power plants, factories, and other things that the Chinese will offer/give to gain influence over the Nigerian government and people and turn them against the US. It will give the Chinese a stronger foothold in Africa to take Nigerian natural resources.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/21/2024 2:53:13 PM (No. 1722263)
To #1. The base was in Niger, not Nigeria.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/21/2024 3:05:04 PM (No. 1722266)
The democrat communist media partners have been instructed to bury this story. They are always loyal.
30 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
rochow 5/21/2024 3:50:04 PM (No. 1722282)
'Mutual interest'??? There is nothing in Niger that we want or need.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
daisey 5/21/2024 4:09:29 PM (No. 1722298)
This has Obama written all over it. Weaken the US. Weaken our military. Barry continues his transformation of all things Imited States.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 5/21/2024 4:11:55 PM (No. 1722299)
Joe deserves more than 10% for this one! /s
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/21/2024 4:29:52 PM (No. 1722307)
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is where all those billions are really going. Tens of ,millions invade our country. Where is the money for them to do that coming from, US. They have to be fed and housed and clothed. Again, money from US. Free medical care for them - US. And so on.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/21/2024 4:33:23 PM (No. 1722309)
Biden hasn't mentioned it...his staff won't let him, no one can count on what might come out of his mouth when he is reading off a statement from the teleprompter, attempting "Niger" is tooooo risky.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 5/21/2024 4:43:32 PM (No. 1722312)
Oh no! First Afghanistan...and now Base Corn Pop ! Place the withdrawn troops on our Southern Border, if it can be located.
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Joe Biden didn't withdraw from Niger and provide the enemy with yet another military base; he can't find his way off a stage. This is Obama and his associates that are calling the shots and they should be given the "credit."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/21/2024 6:03:08 PM (No. 1722349)
The Obama Doctrine. If it's bad for the United States, do it! Biden is doing all the things Obama wanted to do but wouldn't ever get his hands dirty doing it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Scribelus 5/21/2024 6:04:33 PM (No. 1722351)
What!?! No sacrificial Americans remain? How non- Bidenesque.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/21/2024 6:21:19 PM (No. 1722367)
Joe has no idea what is going on. Some other bozos decided this.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/21/2024 8:34:27 PM (No. 1722426)
Destroy every building on that base and salt the very earth there.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/21/2024 8:50:21 PM (No. 1722432)
Why were we even there? These people terrorize each other by cutting up neighboring tribes with machetes and stealing their women. The ones with money carry black market AK-47s and are of no harm to us except for the ones who have come across our border in the past three years. Meddling with third world politics is a bad habit that we can't seem to break.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rama41 5/21/2024 8:57:55 PM (No. 1722438)
I read recently that, for the past few months, American forces have been sharing Airbase 201 with the newly-arrived Russians. That should be an interesting handover.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/21/2024 9:18:14 PM (No. 1722451)
#16, I also have read more than one story that as our guys are moving out, the Russians are moving in.
If I recall correctly, the local government turned against the US and ordered our guys to leave.
More blundering by this Clown Car administration.
From the description in one of the stories, I was able to find the base on one of the online map/image websites.
From the looks of it, if the US spent $100,000,000 building this place, the American Taxpayers got hosed, big time.
Most of the money must have gone to bribery, because the facilities looked like, well, [feces].
Regardless, this is another Zero/HairSniffer operation to weaken American influence around the world, and weaken America.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
janjan 5/22/2024 12:10:38 AM (No. 1722495)
Due to the behavior of a holier-than-thou condescending, incompetent diplomat, we have been ejected from Niger, leaving another $100 million worth of military equipment and arms for Niger to abscond with. Is there a country left that this demented freak hasn’t lost the respect of?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mifla 5/22/2024 4:48:28 AM (No. 1722537)
Tell me again how I am not paying my "fair share" of taxes?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/22/2024 9:54:51 AM (No. 1722705)
Another retreat by Obama/biden and the idiots who run the White House...I can't wait for November 2024 election...if General Patton had retreated in Germany...WE would all be speaking German now...well...I speak German now...but only because I was under German rule for the first seven years of my life.....
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