Niger has opened their arms to the Russian military [1], who will do nothing but plunder them and descend the (formerly democratic) country into more poverty and chaos.
They deserve to reap the fruit of their corruption and incompetence.
Does this include the $55B in aid the US has committed to over a 3 year period? I assume those funds could be used elsewhere if Africa is going to round that investment up itself.
> “We’ve agreed to begin conversations within days about how to develop a plan” to withdraw troops, said the senior State Department official.
That’s a lot of abstraction laters :)