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If Hillary Clinton is elected president, there will be much much more war mongering.
Inclusive economic institutions and capitalism would increase the prosperity level of the general populace in these countries. Seeing US (and western) involvement in these countries as a desire for conquest is a part of an outdated cold war mentality. Solid governance and improved economics would benefit Russia as well. If anything the Russians should be helping us replace these dictators and slavers because it would make them better off as well, but since Russia is kind of a dictatorship itself, it can't help but perceive US intervention as some sort of neo-colonialism, which it isn't.
Somalia, Mali, Niger... do we have strategic reasons for being in these countries?
US launches first airstrikes against ISIS in Somalia
What about ISIS's goal to conquer every muslim nation, previously held non-muslim nation, or just partially muslim nation in North Africa and the Mediterranean Basin do you not understand?
Are you so brain f#$ked you can not understand the long range (strategic) rammifications of ISIS succeeding in even part of their goals, and how that would encourage terrorism around the world?
One could begin to think you have some little sympathy for the ideals of ISIS.
I have no sympathy for ISIS. ISIS is a creation of Western intelligence agencies and Gulf States to destabilize resource rich countries and countries with major transportation hubs (Syria was going to be a transit point for a pipeline and Somalia is on the Gulf of Aden, which is an entry/exit point for the Suez Canal).
Somalia, Mali, Niger... do we have strategic reasons for being in these countries?
US launches first airstrikes against ISIS in Somalia
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You know nuttin...
You live your life believing one conspiracy after another.
Too bad, sooo very sad.
Have unscrupulous actors taken advantage of situations as they arise? You bet your bippy. But reinstatement of a middle eastern and Mediterranean Basin caliphate has always been a goal of fundamental islamists, always.
ALWAYS.
They do not need or want
denizens of christendom which is "the world of the polytheists" "creating" to "destabilize".
Their frickin goal is to destabilize apostate muslim regimes and Christian nations and raise the caliphate out of the ashes. That is their stated goal! Aaand ... their MO backs up their words.
Somalia, Mali, Niger... do we have strategic reasons for being in these countries?
US launches first airstrikes against ISIS in Somalia
White House officials have announced that President Biden will reverse Trump's Somalia withdrawal of US forces as the fight with al-Shabaab Islamic militants heats up. This includes talk of a return to a policy of indefinite "boots on the ground" - or as one senior official was quoted as saying - "a persistent US military presence" there.
"The American people have extremely low confidence in our military leaders and their ability to assess their own efficacy. How do they expect Americans to believe their justification for occupying Somalia when they can’t even determine who in their own training programs will lead a violent coup afterwards?" Gaetz said in a statement.