US troops are never “coming home.” Trump’s NATO is an ever increasing family that gives an ever increasing blank check to military-industrial profiteers-Manlio Dinucci, Voltaire...(What is Trump's plan for peace? What is his plan for ending US weapons sales outside the US?)

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NATO “is a blank cheque unanimously given by the Allies to the military-industrial complex."…Trump: “I think that NATO should be expanded and we should include the Middle East, absolutely. We [Americans] can come home, largely come home and use NATO” to continue US intervention. 1/9/2020…Niger officially became a new US combat zone in March 2018..."The [US] Air Force’s New Base In Niger Is Getting A Major Addition Before It Even Opens," 8/26/19, thedrive.com

12/8/2019, “NATO Summit: War Party Strengthens," Manlio Dinucci, Voltaire


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[Image]: NATO “Family photo with Her Majesty the Queen, the Prince of Wales, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and NATO Heads of State and/or Government,” Voltaire 

“While Trump and Macron wax polemic in front of the cameras in London, in Niger without too much publicity, the US Army of the US Command for Africa (AfriCom) transports with its cargo planes thousands of French soldiers and their weapons to various outposts in West and Central Africa for Operation Barkhane, in which Paris engages 4,500 soldiers, mainly Special Forces, with the support of the US Special Forces in combat actions as well. At the same time, the armed Reaper drones, supplied by the USA to France, operate from Air Base 101 in Niamey (Niger). From this same base, the Reapers of the AfriCom US Air Force, which are now redeployed to the new 201 [US] base in Agadez in the north of the country, continue to operate with French forces. [“U.S. Troops in Niger to Receive Combat Pay, Pentagon Says,” NY Times, 3/7/2018, “The Pentagon said on Wednesday that American troops in Niger had been authorized to receive imminent-danger pay….The decision to include Niger in the list of combat zones where troops receive extra pay was made on Monday."]  

The case is emblematic. The United States, France and other European powers, including multinational groups competing for markets and raw materials, are becoming more compact when their common interests are at stake. For example, those they have in the Sahel which is rich in raw materials: oil, gold, coltan, diamonds, uranium. But now their interests in this region, where poverty rates are among the highest, are being threatened by popular uprisings and by the Chinese economic presence. Hence Operation Barkhane, which, presented as an anti-terrorist operation, engages the allies in a long-term war with drones and special forces.
 
[Map: Niger shares a border with Libya] 

The strongest cement that holds NATO together is the common interests of the military-industrial complex on both sides of the Atlantic. [Germany’s so-called Green Party is eager for a separate European military mission in Persian Gulf]. This one has been strengthened by the London Summit. The Final Declaration [1] provides the main motivation for a subsequent increase in military spending: “Russia’s [alleged] aggressive actions constitute a threat to Euro-Atlantic security”. The Allies commit not only to increase their military spending to at least 2% of GDP, but to spend at least 20% of it on arms. This objective has already been achieved by 16 of the 29 countries, including Italy. The United States is investing more than 200 billion dollars in 2019 for this purpose. 

The results are visible. On the same day as the NATO Summit opened, General Dynamics signed a $22.2 billion contract with the US Navy, extensible to 24, to supply 8 Virginia-class submarines for special operations and Tomahawk missile attack missions, including nuclear warhead missions (40 per submarine). Accusing Russia (without any evidence) of deploying intermediate-range nuclear missiles and thus burying the INF Treaty, the Summit decides “to further strengthen our ability to defend ourselves with a set of nuclear, conventional and anti-missile capabilities, which we will continue to adapt: as long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance”. This card includes the recognition of space as the fifth operational field, in other words a very expensive military space programme of the Alliance is announced. It is a blank cheque unanimously given by the Allies to the military-industrial complex. 

For the first time, with the Summit Declaration, NATO speaks of the “challenge” arising from China’s growing influence and international politics, emphasizing “the need to confront it together as an Alliance“[1]. The message is clear: NATO is more than ever necessary for a West whose supremacy is now being questioned by China and Russia. Immediate result: the Japanese Government announced that it had purchased the uninhabited island of Mageshima, 30 km off its coast, for $146 million to make it a training site for US fighter-bombers against China.” 

Manlio Dinucci 

Translation
Roger Lagassé 
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Source 
Il Manifesto (Italy) 

[1] “London Declaration”, Voltaire Network, 4 December 2019.
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Added: “Despite the presence of French and American troops [in Niger]...past campaigns have failed to curb violence.”

 1/13/2020, “Niger Sacks Army Chief After Deadliest Attacks in Years,“ Reuters via US News, Niamey
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[Map: Niger shares part of its border with Libya] 

“Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou has replaced the head of the army after two of the country’s deadliest attacks in living memory killed at least 160 soldiers and prompted a rethink in the battle against jihadist groups, the government said. 

Ahmed Mohamed led the army for over two years, a period marked by a steep rise in attacks by militants linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda that culminated in a daytime raid on a remote army base on Thursday that killed at least 89 soldiers. 

That attack came less than a month after another on an outpost that killed 71 soldiers and raised questions about Niger’s ability to contain the spread of jihadist groups across its western border from Mali and Burkina Faso. 

Major General Salifou Modi was appointed Mohamed’s successor on Monday, the government announced after a cabinet meeting. 

Niger said it would launch a new military offensive against militants, but past campaigns have failed to curb violence despite the presence of French and American troops. 

Attacks in Niger have risen fourfold over the past year, killing more than 400 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, a non-profit research organization. 

Military campaigns by armies in the Sahel, a semi-arid swathe of land beneath the Sahara, have also been marred by human rights abuses, which analysts say have pushed some civilians into the arms of the jihadists. 

In addition to the Islamist attacks, countries in the region, especially Mali and Burkina Faso, have struggled to cope with deadly ethnic clashes between rival farming and herding communities.”
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Added: US isn’t a country, it’s a borderless mailing address for a mass murdering parasite which couldn't exist without unlimited access to US tax dollars. The armed “US military” we pay for has never been allowed to stand on our soil and enforce the deadly 2000 mile US southern border. It defends borders everywhere in the world except the US. 

For what “national interest” are US combat troops stationed in Africa rather than on the 2000 mile deadly US-Mexican border? We’re told it’s a US “national interest” for US combat troops in Africa to help locals open a dental hygiene center. If it’s also about “defeating terrorists,” how is a terrorist sitting in Africa thousands of miles away going to possibly harm Americans? One of two ways. One, by taking advantage of the undefended 2000 mile wide open US southern border. The second is by taking advantage of lax US visa enforcement. The mafia running the US can only be stopped by separating it from US taxpayers. This in turn can only be accomplished by breaking up the US into a few parts. 

1/7/2020, “Our global missions: Soldiers serving as…dental hygiene teachers in Niger,” David Horowitz, Conservative Review
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Added #2: Look at Trump’s actions, not his words. He doesn’t “bring US troops home.” Trump is an easy touch to send US combat troops to every hell hole in the world except the deadly 2000 mile US-Mexico border: 

1/14/2020, “Macron urges US [taxpayer] help in anti-jihadist fight in Sahel, but solutions lie in Africa and may not be military,” france24


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Above, Macron, “The Boy King,” image via Rush Limbaugh 
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