Doesn’t look like the Pentagon is in any hurry withdrawing troops from Niger…
‘Playground of Choice’: Iran Mobilizes to Drive U.S. Troops out of Iraq…
The US has the cudgel of the American dollar to prevent its expulsion from Iraq, but will the Biden administration use it?…
JoeBama Returns U.S. to Dependency on Mid-East Oil, Plans on Sending More Troops to Trade Blood for Oil…
From their DC perspective: all systems/processes that increase U.S. global influence are good; any policies/processes that reduce U.S. global influence are bad…
End Stupid Bush’s War Today! by Eric Margolis…
After 19 years of war, over $1 trillion in spending, 2,400 dead and a torrent of lies, the US may now be facing an end to its longest war. The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001. There were three reasons: 1. to cover up the humiliation of the tough-talking Bush administration for being caught sleeping on […]
U.S. Begins Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan…
American troops have begun leaving Afghanistan for the initial troop withdrawal required in the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement, a U.S. official said on Monday, amid political chaos in Kabul that threatens the deal. Hundreds of troops are heading out of the country as previously planned, but they will not be replaced as the U.S. moves ahead […]
Pentagon Sending Another 3,750 Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border…
The Pentagon says it will send 3,750 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to put up another 150 miles of concertina wire and provide other support for Customs and Border Protection. The additions announced Sunday will bring the total number of active-duty troops on the border to 4,350. The announcement is in line with what […]
Iraq War Victims Allege Pharmaceutical Companies’ Bribery Led to U.S. Troop Deaths…
The families of dozens of U.S. troops killed or injured during the war in Iraq filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against several U.S. and European pharmaceutical and medical supply companies, alleging that the corporations knowingly financed the anti-American militia Mahdi Army through bribes and kickbacks to officials at a government ministry controlled by the group. […]
U.S. Sends Dozens of Troops to Somalia, First Time in Decades…
The U.S. military is sending dozens of regular troops to Somalia in the largest such deployment to the Horn of Africa country in roughly two decades. The United States pulled out of Somalia after 1993, when two helicopters were shot down in the capital, Mogadishu, and bodies of Americans were dragged through the streets. The […]
Yesterday, It Was Helicopters. Today It’s 500 U.S. Troops Arriving in Romania…
Five hundred U.S. troops began to arrive in a Romanian Black Sea port with tanks and hardware to bolster defense in this East European NATO nation. The U.S. embassy said the “Fighting Eagles,” 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, will be stationed in the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in eastern Romania, on a rotational basis…