Thousands of U.S. troops were expelled, and U.S. troops began to run into trouble all over the world
Niger decided to expel the U.S. military and hand over the U.S. military base in Niger to Russia to take over. It is reported that the US military has built two military bases in Niger, a small African country, and about 1,500 US soldiers are stationed. Although the U.S. military stationed in Niger in the name of counterterrorism, it was actually a military control over the country. The U.S. military wants to achieve control over Africa through the garrisons of these military bases, and the core controls the strategic resources and strategic passages here. All actions of the US military are for its own interests, and America first is its only principle. However, after the change of the Nigerien government, it changed its attitude towards the US military and decided to expel the US military.
Despite various efforts, the United States could not stop the fate of the expulsion of US troops. In addition to the bad things that the U.S. military has done here, there is another important reason for Niger's expulsion of the U.S. military, that is, the U.S. is now unable to provide enough benefits to Niger. Today, the United States is in a complex predicament, and despite its record military spending, there is a serious financial crisis. The United States can only pay lip service to the cheques, and it is difficult to come up with actual benefits. The U.S. military consumes a lot of money in Niger every year, but it cannot give Niger any benefits, and it will interfere in Niger's internal affairs, and it is inevitable that it will be expelled.
In addition to Niger, U.S. troops in other parts of Africa are also being gradually expelled. Under pressure, the size of the US military presence in Africa has been greatly reduced. Similarly, the U.S. military has been expelled in the Middle East, and no country welcomes the U.S. military. The defeat of the U.S. military in Afghanistan can be described as a repeat of the defeat in the Vietnam War. The U.S. military has fought in Afghanistan for 20 years, and after paying the price of trillions of dollars, it can only flee in embarrassment, which is a huge blow to the U.S. military and a dark moment for the United States. The US military garrison in Iraq has also fallen into a situation where everyone is shouting and fighting, and the local armed forces have clearly shouted the slogan of expelling the US troops.
The Iraqi government has also explicitly demanded the withdrawal of US troops, stressing that they no longer need a US military presence. The US military presence in Syria is a complete scoundrel, and the Syrian government has repeatedly and explicitly demanded the withdrawal of US troops. Tribal forces in Syria have also repeatedly expelled US troops stationed in Syria. U.S. troops elsewhere are also unpopular, even with core allies. There have been several demonstrations in Germany to expel American troops, and they have clearly demanded that American troops leave. The Japanese people have even held frequent demonstrations to demand that the US troops stationed in Japan leave the Ryukyu Islands. The South Korean people also began to oppose the US military and demanded that the US military leave.
The 16.8 billion yuan fighter plane was forced to be scrapped, and the development of the US military has reached a point where it is unsustainable
The US "War Zone" website reported on May 10 that due to the complexity of the repair work and the excessively high cost, the US Air Force decided to abandon the maintenance of a B-2 strategic bomber that had previously been involved in an accident. The U.S. military announced that it had abandoned this B-2 strategic bomber and scrapped it directly. According to public information, the cost of this scrapped B-2 strategic bomber is as high as 2.4 billion US dollars, or about 16.8 billion yuan. The U.S. military produced a total of 21 B2 strategic bombers, and after the scrapping of this fighter, the U.S. military has 19 more. The reason why the US military announced the scrapping of this fighter is simple, that is, there is no money for repairs. The U.S. military spends more than $800 billion, but it still runs out of money.
The U.S. Air Force is pushing ahead with the deployment of B-21 strategic bombers to replace B-2 and B-1B strategic bombers, so it doesn't want to spend huge sums of money on repairing damaged fighters. According to public reports, in 2010, a B-2 strategic bomber caught fire at Andersen Airport in Guam, and it took the U.S. Air Force $105 million and three years to achieve initial capability recovery, unable to achieve optimal operational status. The scrapping of the B2 strategic bomber also shows that the development of the US military today has reached a point where it is unsustainable. The US military has been kidnapped by the military-industrial complex, and the performance of the equipment has been improved to a limited extent, but the price has reached a bizarre level. Even the U.S. military, which has the largest military spending in the world, cannot support all this.
Lack of money is the biggest difficulty the United States is currently facing, and the United States has found that this crisis is completely different from the previous one
What happened to the US military is happening against the backdrop of a complex crisis in which the US military is mired, and the core of the US military's problems is the problems of the United States. Today's U.S. is facing a debt crisis at any time, and the U.S. dollar credit system could collapse at any time, and such a crisis scenario is indeed unprecedented in the past. In history, the United States has encountered many crises, especially financial crises, but each time the United States has survived the crisis by printing money on a large scale to suck the whole world, but this time the United States found that things are not so simple. After the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States in 2007 and the global financial crisis in 2008, the United States printed money on a large scale, and then quickly survived the crisis, achieving a rapid recovery of the American economy.
This time, the United States also printed money beyond the norm, and then began to raise interest rates, trying to harvest global wealth by the same means, and then survive the crisis. At the end of 2023, the federal funds rate rose to 5.25%-5.50% and has remained so far. Such high interest rates have caused the US Treasury bonds to face great difficulties, and the United States has no money to pay high interest rates. What makes the United States very uncomfortable is that even if it is almost unable to hold on, the United States has not harvested the high-quality assets it wants. Obviously, this time, the international situation has undergone profound changes, and the United States is in a dilemma. The United States wanted to get out of the crisis by harvesting global wealth, but this time it was not so lucky.
U.S. banks began to go bankrupt on a large scale, and U.S. companies lost productivity due to high capital costs, further depressing U.S. manufacturing. Global overcapacity and insufficient demand are already serious, the international situation has changed profoundly, and the United States cannot find a way to get money under the huge pressure of paying interest. All kinds of contradictions and risks are gathering in the United States, and once the American economy experiences a larger-than-expected downturn and triggers a credit crisis, then the United States will face an unusually severe stagflation.
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla in the United States, recently posted that "we must solve the problem of American debt, otherwise the dollar will become worthless". According to the US website "The National Interest", the biggest enemy of the United States is not China or Russia, but a debt of 35 trillion US dollars. Judging from these circumstances, the United States is indeed facing a very serious crisis at present. As far as the United States is concerned, the most terrible thing is not the crisis, but the most terrible thing is that the United States simply cannot find a solution to the crisis. The crisis encountered by the US military is only a microcosm of the profound crisis in the United States, and this time the United States is really in big trouble.