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Chad Asks US Troops to Cease Operations at Strategic Army Base

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As the US is pushed out, who takes our place? Russia, China, and autocratic regimes. We're witnessing a shift in the global world order.

The people of Chad? Oh wait, I forgot that Africans aren't capable of self-governance /s

So... Russia then? Seriously, that's who filled the void when other coup-riddled African nations kicked out the French. Demonstrably these countries do fail to govern themselves effectively in the long run, Chad's last coup was in 1990 iirc, and the last rebel offensive started 3 years ago. They're paralyzed by Islamic terrorism, which is why the US is there, so no I'd say they aren't capable of self-governance.

The reasons why are undoubtedly complex, but the results are not.

Yet warmongers on both sides insist on bleeding the armory dry with bottomless support for wars halfway across the world.

I used to think that the old joke about boats being holes in the water that you poured money into was funny, until I realized the fervor with which both major political parties drive American military adventurism.

Hasn’t Cuba been asking the US to cease operations at Guantanamo for a while now? How’s that going?

At least technically, the U.S. can claim is has an open-ended lease on the Guantanamo Bay site via an agreement signed in 1903 with the Republic of Cuba, which has no expiration date.

For the bases in Chad in Niger, on the other hand, there is no such agreement. The right to operate is entirely "at will" and can be revoked by these governments at any time. As it appears they just did.

Queue Bugs Bunny saying No with extra sass.

If local governments ask us to leave, we leave. Ask Libya in 1969, the Philippines in the early 1990s, and Iraq (mostly) a few years ago. If South Korea or Japan or Germany were to ask us to leave, we'd be out within months.

(Attention those rushing to type "ACKSHUALLY, what about Guantanamo Bay": Don't beclown yourself. Look into how the US is there in the first place.)

I genuinely thought this was a dude named Chad.

Real alpha energy Chad

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