The United States has recently withdrawn its troops.
As everyone knows, Americans' dollars are escorted by the US military, and they are escorted by military bases; if the United States loses the military bases deployed around the world, then it will gradually lose its global deterrent capability, and the US military without deterrence capability will naturally gradually lose its dollar hegemony. Recently, however, the Americans announced that they were going to make a withdrawal.
The places where the United States retreated this time were Niger and Chad. These two places play a very important role in controlling the Western Pacific and West African regions. In particular, this is the basic plate of France, and the military bases here can effectively contain France and make the French uncomfortable when necessary.
The main reason why the United States will withdraw its troops this time is that Niger unilaterally announced the suspension of its military cooperation agreement with the United States.
At the instigation of the United States, Niger agreed to the Americans' request to build two military bases here. In exchange, the United States would provide Niger with $100 million in investment. However, this $100 million investment is not an easy one. After getting this 100 million US dollars, Niger became poorer and more chaotic, and the Americans openly said that these military bases were used to fight terrorism, and as a result, the terrorists became more and more opposed.
Not to mention economic cooperation, the economic cooperation of the Americans is to mine locally, and to put it bluntly, they treat this place as a colony + a source of raw materials.
Coupled with the well-known Junji of American soldiers, Niger has not had a good life after getting this 100 million US dollars.
Finally, last month, they could not bear it anymore and demanded that the United States end military cooperation.
There is one thing to say, if it had been put ten years ago, no, even three years ago, it would have been impossible for any country to make this request to the Americans. Although any cooperation with the United States will not only fail to bring about substantive development, but will even be held back, creating chaos at home, and even bringing about military action, do you dare to agree to the demands of the Americans?
As soon as the American soldiers arrived, they will subvert your government as soon as possible.
But now the Americans are no longer as strong as they once were. Can you imagine a superpower, in order to safeguard its own regional interests, personally go down as a pawn and the agent of the agent of the agent personally started to fight, and even brought an aircraft carrier battle group without being able to get a bargain?
In fact, it is now the case, the Houthis, the proxy of the Americans and Russia, the proxy of Iran, are in a difficult battle in the Red Sea. Of course, you can say that the Americans are not using all their strength against the Houthis, but the problem is that now that the United States is facing confrontation with China, a conflict with Russia, and a war between Israel and Iran, do they really have the ability to deal with the Houthis in Yemen with all their might? No, no.
The decline of the Americans was the first confidence of Niger to resist the United States.
Of course, with the first confidence, there will be the second confidence, and the second confidence will come from China and Russia, which are ready to cooperate with Niger.
The first is Russia, which is going to cooperate militarily with Niger. The Russian military base will replace the U.S. military base to protect Niger and help Niger fight the remaining terrorists and militants in the country.
At the same time, China signed a package of economic cooperation agreements with Niger and helped Niger mediate, with the help of China's mediation, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lifted a series of sanctions against Niger, including border closures, financial transactions bans and the freezing of Nigerien assets. In addition, China intends to assist Niger in building a railway to integrate it into the West African Railway.
At present, the United States and France are in a trench, especially in dealing with Russia, since the United States cannot spare all its energy to help Ukraine, then it can only rely on France, and it is not good to continue to give France eye medicine.
At the same time, China and Russia have both intervened in the situation in Niger, both in terms of military protection and economic construction. In the current environment in which the United States is mainly focused on Israel and China, it is natural that they do not want to continue to interfere in Niger's affairs. Of course, the most important thing is to save money, and recently the United States approved a 61 billion Ukraine aid bill, which will certainly not be taken from the money used to deal with China and protect Israel. As for where to draw from, it is naturally those places that are not the core areas of influence of the United States.
So this wave of Americans shrinking from Africa can only be said to be imperative.