Chad Asks US to Cease Operations at Strategic Army Base

[Hoodat]

Chad Asks US to Cease Operations at Strategic Army Base

Katarina Höije  |  04/20/2024  |  05:18

(Bloomberg) -- Chad called on the US to withdraw its troops from an army base in the central African country that’s one of the West’s few remaining outposts to fight a roiling jihadist insurgency in the region.

The move comes a month after Niger — another key Western ally in the region — suspended its security agreement with the US, amid a series of coups that have seen military-ruled governments in the Sahel forge closer ties with Russia while cutting those with the West.

Chad has alerted the US “to stop their activity at the base,” according to a letter to the US defense attaché seen by Bloomberg. The letter, signed by the air force chief of staff Idriss Amine Ahmed, was verified by a foreign ministry spokesman, who declined to comment further.
US broadcaster CNN on Thursday reported that Chad had asked US troops to leave the country, citing a separate letter sent to the US defense attaché.

“Chad hasn’t asked US forces to leave,” a US state department spokesman said.  .  .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chad-asks-us-troops-to-cease-operations-at-strategic-army-base/ar-AA1njrRO



First, Niger.  Now Chad.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Why is America protecting France's former African colonies?  It was cleaning up France's mess in Indochina that got us into Vietnam.

It's bad enough the British suckered the US into securing its former protectorates in the Middle East.

[Fishrrman]

Chad?
Why are we there?

Let Africa solve its own problems.
It has already inflicted enough damage upon the civilized world, anyway.

[berdie]

If I understand this correctly...there is a military base there (as there was in Niger).

If I were skeptical...I'd think they want our stuff.

[GtHawk]

If I understand this correctly...there is a military base there (as there was in Niger).

If I were skeptical...I'd think they want our stuff.

So, let them have their land back....after we return it, more or less, in the condition it was before we got there...there may be a considerable amount of cratering than when we got there Let them cozy up to the Russians and Chicoms and get all their weapons and foreign aid from them and not a penny or drop of blood more from Americans.