Today's D Brief: Somalia withdrawal?; Foreigners join Caucasus fighting; CNO on future fleet; Russi

[rangerrebew]

 Today's D Brief: Somalia withdrawal?; Foreigners join Caucasus fighting; CNO on future fleet; Russia disputes US nuke-pact claim; And a bit more.
 
By Ben Watson
October 14, 2020
 
    The D Brief

President Trump wants to see plans for withdrawing U.S. troops from Somalia, Bloomberg reported Tuesday in the latest sign Trump is trying to deliver on his 2016 campaign promise to bring American forces home from wars abroad.

Somalia’s president even got on the phone with Bloomberg to say he wants the U.S. forces to stay, saying, “We really appreciate the U.S. support, and we are grateful for what the U.S. has done, and we would like to see the troops remain until the work is 100% accomplished,” President Mohamed Abdullahi said.

For a window into Trump’s thinking, here’s what he told Fox Business on October 8: “We’re in all these different sites, fighting in countries that nobody ever heard of. And it hurts us — because you wear out your military. And we have to be always prepared for China and Russia and these other places. We have to be prepared. Maybe North Korea.”

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/10/the-d-brief-october-14-2020/169229/

[Fishrrman]

There's no reason to stay or even to BE in Somalia.
Nothing good can come from there.
The worst of the worst in Africa...

[mountaineer]

Amen. Get us the heck out of Somalia. And if we're still in the Balkans, get us the heck out of there, too.

[LegalAmerican]

There's no reason to stay or even to BE in Somalia.
Nothing good can come from there.
The worst of the worst in Africa...

 

[LegalAmerican]

Amen. Get us the heck out of Somalia. And if we're still in the Balkans, get us the heck out of there, too.

 

DEMON-RATS like wars.  Obama got us into Somalia, Cameroon, a lot of small African places.