The US can’t use its $110 million drone base in Niger
taskandpurpose.com
The US military cannot conduct drone operations from a base in Niger because the country’s military junta has closed its airspace.

Why was it there in the first place I wonder?

  • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Oh. My. This is quite an interesting precedent. Let’s hope we start to see more of this. A new angle on dismantling the machine.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      So when all the extremists that now can’t be monitored and controlled start commiting attacks in other parts of Africa, or sneak over the med to Europe to attack there, that’s a good thing because…?

      • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Because the US is the worst extremist in the world, killing and torturing more people, more systematically, more continuously, and with munitions that poison the land enough to kill the children and the grandchildren who will be born there for decades later.

        The US needs to be stopped.

        • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          So you’re more than happy for people to die in Africa and Europe as long as it’s done by islamic extremists, just as long as it’s not the US? Fucking bizarre mindset mate.

          • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            After the U.S. spent the last 20 years indiscriminately killing hundreds of thousands of people (at minimum!) throughout the world under the guise of fighting Islamic extremists, it’s disgusting to trot out concern for lives as a defense of continuing the same failed policies.