The United States has once again willingly abandoned weapons and ammunition in a foreign nation. Niger has been in a state of upheaval due to economic conditions and a corrupt government. The incoming regime has asked the US military to evacuate, and likely to their surprise, the US government has agreed to abandon Niger’s Air Base 201.
The Pentagon spent $110 million to build the base in 2019 and has been spending about $30 million per year on operations. The strategic position helped the US fight terror networks that have migrated from the Middle East. Somehow, this new incoming regime is holding more power than the established US government, and the Pentagon was unable to successfully negotiate keeping this base. “This does make safeguarding U.S. security interests in the Sahel that much harder,” Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Ekman of the Air Force, tasked with overseeing the withdrawal, told the Times in July. “The threats from ISIS and Al Qaeda in the region are getting worse every day.”
The Biden Administration is absent. No one is in charge. Kamala may be parading around as the new elect, but she has yet to hold an official conference. And where is Joe? He’s still technically the president of the United States but has been MIA. Everyone simply accepts he is “in a basement in Delaware,” while the government breaks into fractions that are utterly incompetent. The US government did not even give its own military the opportunity to collect the materials left behind. Biden’s foreign policy is simply to abandon ship and deal with the consequences later when our own weapons are used against our troops.