Because that is the subject of this thread. The French are talking about pulling out of the Sahel. They have been fighting a war there for years now.
France is pulling back from Africa’s fastest-growing conflict.
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Because that is the subject of this thread. The French are talking about pulling out of the Sahel. They have been fighting a war there for years now.
BidenPresident
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France is right to get out. These battles are all local and have nothing to do with international politics.
Matt Dillon
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Islam has killed, raped, enslaved, and tortured multiples of more people than Christians ever have.
Despite being 600 years younger.
Libya is MENTIONED in the OP as "regional instability" ( the Bardo museum shooting Tunis/2015 as well)
You say Libya (Maghreb) doesnt matter - but Libya has weaponized and has been occupied by ISIS-
so you cant disregard Libya as the cause ( or as Biden called Libya Syria ..ROFL)
It may leak out, much like the Taliban's Afghanistan became a sanctuary for Al Qaeda. A lot of things are possible, but you are more likely to be right, it will not become a problem for us.
The problem keeps being that France is forced to prop up some very corrupt governments in Africa. That being said, I doubt the people fighting the French would create better governments. Colonization created a real mess in Africa, and it is taking a long time to work it out.
BidenPresident
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US killed 1,000,000,000 innocent Iraqis.
lol French national are supposed to be replaced by international forces..
does that make you less squishy about counter-terrorism in Africa?
France killed this guy:
Mr. Marlboro’: The veteran jihadist behind the attack in Algeria
https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/world/meast/algeria-who-is-belmoktar/index.html
Born in 1972, Belmoktar grew up on the edge of the desert in southern Algeria.
He traveled to Afghanistan in 1991 in his late teens to fight its then Communist government. He returned to Algeria as a hardened fighter with a new nickname “Belaouar” – the “one-eyed” – after a battlefield injury, and joined forces with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in its brutal campaign against the Algerian regime and civilians deemed to be its supporters.
Belmoktar later claimed he met al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in the Sudan in the mid 1990s.
According to Jean-Pierre Filiu, a French scholar who has extensively studied AQIM, Belmoktar rose steadily through the ranks to become the GIA commander for the Sahara.
After a popular backlash against the terrorist group in Algeria, Belmoktar switched allegiance to a spin-off group – the GSPC – in 2000, and continued to operate in the sub-Saharan region.
The GIA was the forerunner of AQIM, which still counts many Algerians in its leadership. Belmoktar remains associated with this fissiparous group – but is very much his own man.
To make money, “Belmoktar increasingly engaged in smuggling, earning the popular nickname ‘Mr. Marlboro’ … he also was involved in the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and illegal immigrants,” Jean-Pierre Filiu in a 2010 Carnegie Paper.
Matt Dillon
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ORLY? I assume you have some proof? Dumbass?
There were never that many to begin with, cupcake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000,000
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
As for what the Bushes did there, I abhor it. I cannot change it, though.
ISIS is one of the weakest factions in Libya. They do not even control a city anymore. They have turned to terrorism, because they really do not occupy any of Libya anymore.
BidenPresident
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Feel free to post your statistics on the number of dead from the US invasion of Iraq.
Matt Dillon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000,000
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
I can't change that. It was a bad thing. Never supported it.
But uhh..Iraq never had 3x the population of the US.
BidenPresident
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Post the numbers. I never read blind links.
What did I write? I also have written "Libya is a failed terrorist ridden state." many many times
Yes I know ISIS was driven from Sirte years ago, but they all just didnt go away.
They are a main source of regional (Maghreb/Sahel) terrorism, and arms flow across the continent still
BidenPresident
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France to scale down West Africa military operations
June 10
France is to scale down counter-terrorism operations in the Sahel region of West Africa after eight years, President Emmanuel Macron has said.
The existing 5,100-strong task force will be incorporated into a broader international mission, he announced.
French forces have been operating in Mali, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, and Burkina Faso to fight militants.
Last week, France paused operations in Mali following a military coup.
Militants linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group have strengthened their grip on the region, which has become a front line in the war against Islamist extremism.
It is also a major transit route for illegal drugs, weapons and jihadists.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57418757.amp
June 10
France is to scale down counter-terrorism operations in the Sahel region of West Africa after eight years, President Emmanuel Macron has said.
The existing 5,100-strong task force will be incorporated into a broader international mission, he announced.
French forces have been operating in Mali, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, and Burkina Faso to fight militants.
Last week, France paused operations in Mali following a military coup.
Militants linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group have strengthened their grip on the region, which has become a front line in the war against Islamist extremism.
It is also a major transit route for illegal drugs, weapons and jihadists.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57418757.amp
Matt Dillon
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Iraq never had 3x the population of the US, tard.
Most likely Iraq could fit into Texas.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/iraq/texas-usa
Yes it could.
too bad though. French soldiers were the best in Africa - their missions were not corruptible
BidenPresident
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France realized Mali was unstable. There may be no stability for a while.
BidenPresident
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BBC commentary:
As a reminder, it was Mali which in 2013 called on France for assistance. But France now finds itself criticised for condemning the coup in Mali yet supporting the Chad army's appointment of Idriss Déby's son as the nation's new leader, which Chad's opposition parties have called an "institutional coup".
Meanwhile Mr Macron says he cannot accept that Mali has decided to open a dialogue with the very jihadist groups that French forces in the country are fighting against.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57418757.amp
As a reminder, it was Mali which in 2013 called on France for assistance. But France now finds itself criticised for condemning the coup in Mali yet supporting the Chad army's appointment of Idriss Déby's son as the nation's new leader, which Chad's opposition parties have called an "institutional coup".
Meanwhile Mr Macron says he cannot accept that Mali has decided to open a dialogue with the very jihadist groups that French forces in the country are fighting against.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57418757.amp