American Thinker:
Europe, particularly France, is criticizing the United States for its plans to withdraw some or perhaps all of its 6,000 to 7,000 troops from West Africa. The U.S. is doing this as part of an effort to shift its military assets around the world to re-orienting them to better face possible challenges by the Great Powers, especially China. In doing so, defense secretary Mark Esper and his team question the value of the efforts in West Africa and want to scale them back, as those African militants lack the ability and intent to attack the U.S. homeland.
The same cannot be said of France. Islamic terrorism in West Africa is centered in former French colonies. The French worry that if the militants aren’t countered in Africa, they could spread murder and mayhem to France itself. And then there’s the immigration concern. If backward countries like Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania become failed states, a surge of African refugees could be bound for France and then throughout Europe.
For those reasons, France currently has about 4,500 troops fighting in West Africa. The French fear that the U.S. withdrawal will leave them exposed. An aide to France’s President Emmanuel Macron is quoted in the news agency Agence France-Presse as saying, “American contribution to fight against Islamic extremist groups in West Africa were irreplaceable [emphasis mine].” No doubt. For among other things, the French rely on U.S. intelligence, logistical support, and aerial refueling at a cost to the U.S. of about $45 million a year.
Obviously, France, and by extension Europe, has a dog in this fight. America does not. Interestingly, although it is in their interest, no other European country, aside from France, has seen fit to place any of its troops on the line in West Africa. Yet wealthy Western Europe seems to expect the U.S. to spend its resources and fight in an area where there’s no direct American interest at stake while at the same time adamantly refusing to pay anything close to a fair share for NATO. read more
Fuck Europe
Meanwhile, the Froggies sit on their butts eating cheese and clutching their pearls. I say, let them eat cake!
We aren’t saving you again, Froggies.
Too late for France, it’ll be the first European country to fall to the moslem onslaught. The country is now close to the fatal 10%.
Their fake news keeps the imminent danger they’re in under wraps. Dig in a bit and you find a relentless, across the board, country wide wave of lawlessness by the muzzies. Check out some videos, utterly mind blowing.
Of course we’ve all seen the video of the man on the roof of Notre Dame with the torch…musta been a lost Morman right? And to this day, any repercussions? yeah
10s of 1,000s more of these low IQ moslems flooding into France
would just about seal the deal. Believe it or not but there was a time when France was one of the fiercest warrior states on the planet. They were bad asses who must be spinning in their graves.
Yo! Frogs!
If y’all give a shit about west Africa, have at it!
And if you don’t want the refugees, don’t take em! Pretty simple, even for a Frog.
I perceive no American vital interest.
2500 years of western intervention hasn’t civilized Africa and 2500 more won’t, either.
Sorry Africa CHOOSES to be a shit-hole.
Sorry Europe tries to capitalize off that.
Sorry the Frogs won’t defend themselves.
So sorry, please, but it ain’t our problem.
izlamo delenda est …
Wasn’t Macron pictured with other stalwarts complaining about Trump taking too much time answering questions from the press while at the NATO summit in December?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trudeau-johnson-macron-appear-to-be-mocking-trump-at-nato-summit-in-surfaced-video
Something about biting the hand that feeds you while licking Russia’s paw at the same time.
Fuck france. We better not bail europe out again. twice is enough.
Enjoy your Mohammedans and their vibrant diversity, no-go zones and Car-BQs
Eat our cheese France!
“Yet wealthy Western Europe seems to expect the U.S. to spend its resources and fight in an area where there’s no direct American interest…”
…and then they scream about American Imperialism. Now Macron is finding out that Trump knows where the all of levers are and how to work them.
Why the hell are there any American troops in W. Africa in the first place? We have no business or good reason to be there.
Remember the Tongo Tongo ambush in Niger, back in October 2017? The media tried hard to paint that as a military disaster for Trump, and they were “questioning US military involvement in Africa”.
It appears that Trump had the same questions. Of course, if we do pull out, it will be “Trump Turns Tail in Africa” in all the media.
Coming from the country that knows how to run away best this is rich.
Macaroni did nothing but give Trump a hard time and talk trash about him while praising oblowme so now its time to kiss the ring of the king and bow your head in subservience…. something macaroni will NEVER do because he is too full of Trump-hate.
France made this problem by allowing muzzie into their country for the last couple of hundred years and now expects the USA to fight its wars for it so they can remain safe eating their cheese and drinking their wine in their former homeland?
Screw you and the whore who bore you Macaroni, you made your bed now its time for you to lay in it with the rest of the eurotrash countries that bow down a kiss muslim ass every chance you get.
If memory serves me, the goddamn cheese eating surrender monkeys got us into both Korea and Vietnam. And now they want us to bail them out again? Screw that, send your own troops azzholes.
If France still has a foreign Legion send them. You go, not us!
Last time I looked, the inhabitants of the old colony are French citizens, so go police your mess and leave us the fuck alone. Guess it wasn’t such a bright idea making fun of DJT with your little puppy Justin.
“Europe, particularly France, is criticizing the United States for its plans to withdraw some or perhaps all of its 6,000 to 7,000 troops from West Africa.”
Fuck you France. Weren’t you the ones calling us “imperialists” and kissing Iranian ass last week?