4chan used to have a good ongoing middle east general that seemed to avoid the rampant shit flinging retardation that makes up 99% of that board. Im hoping most retards would avoid it.
Problem for Haiti is that the MSM really couldn't give a fuck anymore about the place and I doubt will until Kenyan troops are in Port Au Prince. Go for it though itll be a kino general.
Feel bad for those Kenyans tbh, Port Au Prince alone is an urban combat nightmare and is almost a textbook example of somewhere you dont want to be conducting military operations. Theyre walking into a bloodbath.
God nothing amuses me more than the French Seething
>ynr their meltdown when Australia wouldnt buy their subs
1 month ago
Anonymous
Fuck, piggy’s dead, but I yearn for Wagner in Port Au Prince. Maybe we get lucky and putin sends them over there to get them away.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>ynr their meltdown when Australia wouldnt buy their subs
Thank you for the compensation of 850 millions that Australia paid though, and good luck getting any new submarines before at least 2040-2050
Problem for Haiti is that the MSM really couldn't give a fuck anymore about the place and I doubt will until Kenyan troops are in Port Au Prince. Go for it though itll be a kino general.
https://i.imgur.com/ifOOqX6.jpg
I gotta wait till kenyans arrive this year
Now I'm no geography expert, but aren't Haiti and Kenya pretty far from each other?
Yes theyll probably head to Dominican Republic then cross the border there. I suspect theyll get some help moving their people over there.
1 month ago
Anonymous
My objection wasn't their ability to make it over there, seeing as Haiti has no real way to deter such a movement. I'm instead wondering why Kenya of all places feels the need to go through with this operation.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Kenya is trying to asert itself as a regional power and a good performance overseas goes miles to achieving that
1 month ago
Anonymous
1 month ago
Anonymous
Not to mention the combat experience. Normally they could only get that regionally, which either means putting down some rebels somewhere or creating bad blood with your neighbors. But street-sweeping some Haiti morons and going back home? And multiple countries including the US are gonna support you all the way? That's just a great opportunity to grind some XP out of some feral island nignogs.
Planes and ships exist. You have no idea how UN peacekeeping missions work or are funded. The reason why lot turd world countries participate is because that way they outsource salaries of their soldiers and costs of supplying those troops to UN, that is mostly funded by membership fees of western countries.
>ongoing middle east general
You mean /sg/?
/sg/ turned into the geopolitics general, and then into /uhg/ and then split into /chug/. That's not really an example of a good thread.
Maybe a decade ago it was, but it's been corrupted beyond imagining.
>feel like we could do with an african conflict general
Reminder nearly all requests for geopolitical generals are by Russian propagandists who find them easier to censor and police based on the old syria general model
The swarm of news is not nearly that fast and he's right, the few times a ukraine general was tried it was swarmed by /chug/morons almost instantly (and do I even need to mention /sg/).
The Niger junta recently completely 180'd and now welcome France and the US while denouncing Wagner/Russia. They also said they're no longer killing the deposed president. Nigeria is still wanting to invade though, but I'm doubtful that it will materialize
They're getting 3 US-made ones off the bat, then they're working together to get brit ones, and they'll have people who can maintain and repair US-made subs. I know it makes thirdies and the french seethe to see it though.
>angering a super power that can glass your country within hours
>invading a shithole over having an ambassador expelled
1 month ago
Anonymous
Anon, we’ve made up shitty, see-through lies to invade shitholes. We don’t need a reason, but having a somewhat legitimate one gets us more allies involved.
They need the US's help to suppress terrorists. Expelling them would burn that bridge until the return of democracy. Keeping them around gets you a lecture on democratic principles Everytime you pick up the phone, but the US isn't so neurotic as to stop killing terrorists over some African literal who country has a coup.
>Because they're mad at the french, not the US. They only rattle sabers at the US when China or russia pays them and prigo got mulched
This is the only post that's close to the truth.
>angering a super power that can glass your country within hours
a super power that can glass your country within hours
Because the US would just glass the entire junta leadership in less than 48 hours
>Because the US would just glass the entire junta leadership in less than 48 hours
This shit is fanfic.
West African feelings towards the US is mixed but they including ECOWAS hates France. ECOWAS isn't anti-Russian either. They're actually planning to form a regional currency, which would consequently dethrone the CFA Franc. Ghana is alleged to have Wagner presence, and Nigeria is thinking of buying Russian planes. Their only beef is the idea of kleptocratic African governments getting toppled, be it by popular revolutions or military coups.
1 month ago
Anonymous
I agree. While I was there I had several locals tell me that they liked the US more than the French or Chinese because we were the only ones who were honest about why we were there.
We dealt with a few Chinese spies who were in the city. They would pay locals to try and sneak under the fence and steal shit from us at night, but OSI and the Gendermes would always nab the Chinese handlers for acting as stupidly and conHispanicuous as you could possibly be.
Not only that, but the US has interests to see the French out. Just like Russia and China, it wants a part of the cake. Seeing how cozy they are with the junta, I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in the coup.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Maybe but I don't know if an unstable west africa is in our interests when so much political bandwidth being spent bickering about if the guy who says they're at war with us is actually our enemy, and with so much pressure to focus our attention on China.
1 month ago
Anonymous
France has no interest whatsoever in Niger. The last uranium mine was closed and everything else is already in the hands of Chinese/Canadian/Australian corporations
1 month ago
Anonymous
The Trans Sahara gas pipeline is important for France and Europe. If you live in Europe you'd know how fucked gas prices are after the Russian sanctions.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>(something that doesn't exist and won't for years at minimum) is important to (my retard degenerated marxist mud person fantasies)
1 month ago
Anonymous
Changes in government could hurt the US’s main goal there (kill ISIS copycats).
1 month ago
Anonymous
Kinda funny how isis pops up in places thst US has interests in
1 month ago
Anonymous
Woah it’s almost as if they are intentionally following them around the world and trying to wipe them out. Waging a war on them even. Globally.
During one of the civil wars in the early 2000s the military used the airport as a base and stored a shitload of ordnance there. Once the war wound down they decided it would be easiest to pull the fuses and scoop the guts out of these artillery shells and just leave them lying around.
The area gets really bad dust storms and combined with the dirt roads it can be really hard to figure out where you're driving. The locals decided to take all the inert 155 shells that had been left behind and place them along the sides of the roads to mark their boundaries, with the tip of the shell pointing in the direction of travel. Ingenious when you think about it, but pants shitting for my boss, who had gotten blown up several times in Iraq just like that.
>The Niger junta recently completely 180'd and now welcome France and the US while denouncing Wagner/Russia. They also said they're no longer killing the deposed president. Nigeria is still wanting to invade though, but I'm doubtful that it will materialize
This entire post is schizo.
201 is a joint US/Niger AF base, the Nigeren compound is off to the left on the satellite picture. The reason why Nigeren planes never land there is because there's only like 10 airplanes in the entire military.
t. I built that base
The Nigeren military was the typical African type. A lot of goofballs to put it mildly, but morale was high and they liked having us.
The local police and federal gendermerie in Agadez were fucking nuts, I watched a traffic stop where the two cops in a hilux pulled out Type 56es and extended their bayonets as they got out to talk to the driver. This was during the peak of the European refugee crisis so there were human smugglers everywhere going through to Libya.
https://i.imgur.com/JJWW7Fk.jpg
Speaking of based hows the French base
There weren't any French in the country when I was there, the locals reeeeeeeally don't like them. There were some Italians at 101 in the capital and they were angry little assholes, I did not care for them.
>The Nigeren military was the typical African type. A lot of goofballs to put it mildly,
Got any funny stories about particular incidents? > I watched a traffic stop where the two cops in a hilux pulled out Type 56es and extended their bayonets as they got out to talk to the driver.
Is this normal in Africa?
So you can kinda make it out from the satellite photo in the OP, but before the airbase runway was finished we would have to convoy out to the civilian airport where the resupply aircraft would land, which involved driving through the outskirts of town. On day zero when my team arrived we found out that the guys we were replacing would be leaving on the C-130 that brought us in, so we'd have to drive back to the base on our own with the Nigeren Air Force gun trucks to guide us.
None of the roads in Agadez are paved, so we were driving out and had made it onto one of those perimeter roads off to the left side of the photo, when my NCOIC who was driving the lead truck starts screaming on the net for everyone to halt, dismount, and start doing 5s and 25s.
I start thinking we were being attacked or something so I ran up to my boss' truck and asked him wtf was going on, and he pointed down in the sand along the side of the road to a whole ass 155mm artillery shell, and my butthole puckered a little bit.
We were just standing there trying to figure out what to do as all these locals were walking past like nothing was going on. Finally the Nigeren airmen hopped out of their truck and asked us why we were being weird. My boss pointed to the 155 and they all started laughing. One of the guys walked over and kicked it, and said "eez nothing" in a thick ass accent, then waved at us to keep on driving. We were more confused than anything by this point, so we made it to the base and found out the full story:
During one of the civil wars in the early 2000s the military used the airport as a base and stored a shitload of ordnance there. Once the war wound down they decided it would be easiest to pull the fuses and scoop the guts out of these artillery shells and just leave them lying around.
The area gets really bad dust storms and combined with the dirt roads it can be really hard to figure out where you're driving. The locals decided to take all the inert 155 shells that had been left behind and place them along the sides of the roads to mark their boundaries, with the tip of the shell pointing in the direction of travel. Ingenious when you think about it, but pants shitting for my boss, who had gotten blown up several times in Iraq just like that.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>Iraqi vet boss trolled by African construction resulting from a leftover gear from a colonial empire
Sometimes globalism can be funny
During one of the civil wars in the early 2000s the military used the airport as a base and stored a shitload of ordnance there. Once the war wound down they decided it would be easiest to pull the fuses and scoop the guts out of these artillery shells and just leave them lying around.
The area gets really bad dust storms and combined with the dirt roads it can be really hard to figure out where you're driving. The locals decided to take all the inert 155 shells that had been left behind and place them along the sides of the roads to mark their boundaries, with the tip of the shell pointing in the direction of travel. Ingenious when you think about it, but pants shitting for my boss, who had gotten blown up several times in Iraq just like that.
Resourceful locals, but fucking hell that definitely sounds like something that would give a GWOT veteran the heebie-jeebies.
No, I was part of the regular base detachment, but I got detailed to the Rad Horse team for about a month to do bitch work for them while they had low manpower. Not fun...
Excuse the phoneposting and fucked up pictures, I'm too lazy to go in and change the resolution.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Are Nigerien girls cute?
1 month ago
Anonymous
The Tuareg girls were pretty cute, they're pretty much african/nafri mutts. There was one lightskinned Genderme that I worked with who totally could get it.
Well I’ve landed on that field a few times appreciate y’all building it.
When I was there the rule was you could drink booze, but we weren't allowed to buy it in the country and you couldn't mail it in either, so we would get real chummy with the C-130 crews from Ramstein and give them a cooler with a couple hundred euros to have them fill up at the class six for us.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Well I’ve landed on that field a few times appreciate y’all building it.
feel like we could do with an african conflict general to keep track of all the PrepHoleonflicts ongoing rather than short lived singular threads
It seems that it would be flooded out
4chan used to have a good ongoing middle east general that seemed to avoid the rampant shit flinging retardation that makes up 99% of that board. Im hoping most retards would avoid it.
I'm trying to get a Haiti general started there due to the Kenya planned invasion
Problem for Haiti is that the MSM really couldn't give a fuck anymore about the place and I doubt will until Kenyan troops are in Port Au Prince. Go for it though itll be a kino general.
I gotta wait till kenyans arrive this year
Feel bad for those Kenyans tbh, Port Au Prince alone is an urban combat nightmare and is almost a textbook example of somewhere you dont want to be conducting military operations. Theyre walking into a bloodbath.
>ynr their meltdown when Australia wouldnt buy their subs
Fuck, piggy’s dead, but I yearn for Wagner in Port Au Prince. Maybe we get lucky and putin sends them over there to get them away.
>ynr their meltdown when Australia wouldnt buy their subs
Thank you for the compensation of 850 millions that Australia paid though, and good luck getting any new submarines before at least 2040-2050
Now I'm no geography expert, but aren't Haiti and Kenya pretty far from each other?
Yes theyll probably head to Dominican Republic then cross the border there. I suspect theyll get some help moving their people over there.
My objection wasn't their ability to make it over there, seeing as Haiti has no real way to deter such a movement. I'm instead wondering why Kenya of all places feels the need to go through with this operation.
Kenya is trying to asert itself as a regional power and a good performance overseas goes miles to achieving that
Not to mention the combat experience. Normally they could only get that regionally, which either means putting down some rebels somewhere or creating bad blood with your neighbors. But street-sweeping some Haiti morons and going back home? And multiple countries including the US are gonna support you all the way? That's just a great opportunity to grind some XP out of some feral island nignogs.
They're being flown in
Planes and ships exist. You have no idea how UN peacekeeping missions work or are funded. The reason why lot turd world countries participate is because that way they outsource salaries of their soldiers and costs of supplying those troops to UN, that is mostly funded by membership fees of western countries.
It’s like a ten minute walk
About as far as the US and Iraq
>ongoing middle east general
You mean /sg/?
/sg/ turned into the geopolitics general, and then into /uhg/ and then split into /chug/. That's not really an example of a good thread.
Maybe a decade ago it was, but it's been corrupted beyond imagining.
>feel like we could do with an african conflict general
Reminder nearly all requests for geopolitical generals are by Russian propagandists who find them easier to censor and police based on the old syria general model
>you must be a vatnik
no I just like happening news and dont want the threads to be buried
The swarm of news is not nearly that fast and he's right, the few times a ukraine general was tried it was swarmed by /chug/morons almost instantly (and do I even need to mention /sg/).
Paranoia, take your meds
America is now actively participating in the war against Mali. This provocation will not stand. The gloves are coming off.
The Niger junta recently completely 180'd and now welcome France and the US while denouncing Wagner/Russia. They also said they're no longer killing the deposed president. Nigeria is still wanting to invade though, but I'm doubtful that it will materialize
What are you talking about they just announced they're going to expell the French and American ambassadors
Just the French.
God nothing amuses me more than the French Seething
Who's seething? France told them the only one legitimate to make such a demand is the legal government and they told them to get fucked.
>Biden cucking the french not just with Australia but also NIGER.
based
Australians don't want mutts in their country, they are getting British designed submarines not amerimutt.
>wagner PMC's head honcho dies in a plane crash
>US starts making gains in Africa
who coulda seen that coming
not biden
They're getting 3 US-made ones off the bat, then they're working together to get brit ones, and they'll have people who can maintain and repair US-made subs. I know it makes thirdies and the french seethe to see it though.
Why are they not expelling the US?
Because the US would just glass the entire junta leadership in less than 48 hours
>invading a shithole over having an ambassador expelled
Anon, we’ve made up shitty, see-through lies to invade shitholes. We don’t need a reason, but having a somewhat legitimate one gets us more allies involved.
>angering a super power that can glass your country within hours
They need the US's help to suppress terrorists. Expelling them would burn that bridge until the return of democracy. Keeping them around gets you a lecture on democratic principles Everytime you pick up the phone, but the US isn't so neurotic as to stop killing terrorists over some African literal who country has a coup.
Because they're mad at the french, not the US. They only rattle sabers at the US when China or russia pays them and prigo got mulched
>Because they're mad at the french, not the US. They only rattle sabers at the US when China or russia pays them and prigo got mulched
This is the only post that's close to the truth.
a super power that can glass your country within hours
>Because the US would just glass the entire junta leadership in less than 48 hours
This shit is fanfic.
West African feelings towards the US is mixed but they including ECOWAS hates France. ECOWAS isn't anti-Russian either. They're actually planning to form a regional currency, which would consequently dethrone the CFA Franc. Ghana is alleged to have Wagner presence, and Nigeria is thinking of buying Russian planes. Their only beef is the idea of kleptocratic African governments getting toppled, be it by popular revolutions or military coups.
I agree. While I was there I had several locals tell me that they liked the US more than the French or Chinese because we were the only ones who were honest about why we were there.
We dealt with a few Chinese spies who were in the city. They would pay locals to try and sneak under the fence and steal shit from us at night, but OSI and the Gendermes would always nab the Chinese handlers for acting as stupidly and conHispanicuous as you could possibly be.
Not only that, but the US has interests to see the French out. Just like Russia and China, it wants a part of the cake. Seeing how cozy they are with the junta, I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in the coup.
Maybe but I don't know if an unstable west africa is in our interests when so much political bandwidth being spent bickering about if the guy who says they're at war with us is actually our enemy, and with so much pressure to focus our attention on China.
France has no interest whatsoever in Niger. The last uranium mine was closed and everything else is already in the hands of Chinese/Canadian/Australian corporations
The Trans Sahara gas pipeline is important for France and Europe. If you live in Europe you'd know how fucked gas prices are after the Russian sanctions.
>(something that doesn't exist and won't for years at minimum) is important to (my retard degenerated marxist mud person fantasies)
Changes in government could hurt the US’s main goal there (kill ISIS copycats).
Kinda funny how isis pops up in places thst US has interests in
Woah it’s almost as if they are intentionally following them around the world and trying to wipe them out. Waging a war on them even. Globally.
Because Americans are fun and interesting people
Thanks for sharing, have a (You)
>The Niger junta recently completely 180'd and now welcome France and the US while denouncing Wagner/Russia. They also said they're no longer killing the deposed president. Nigeria is still wanting to invade though, but I'm doubtful that it will materialize
This entire post is schizo.
201 is a joint US/Niger AF base, the Nigeren compound is off to the left on the satellite picture. The reason why Nigeren planes never land there is because there's only like 10 airplanes in the entire military.
t. I built that base
Any thoughts on the Nigerian military based on your experience with them? Good, bad, ugly, whatever.
The Nigeren military was the typical African type. A lot of goofballs to put it mildly, but morale was high and they liked having us.
The local police and federal gendermerie in Agadez were fucking nuts, I watched a traffic stop where the two cops in a hilux pulled out Type 56es and extended their bayonets as they got out to talk to the driver. This was during the peak of the European refugee crisis so there were human smugglers everywhere going through to Libya.
There weren't any French in the country when I was there, the locals reeeeeeeally don't like them. There were some Italians at 101 in the capital and they were angry little assholes, I did not care for them.
>The Nigeren military was the typical African type. A lot of goofballs to put it mildly,
Got any funny stories about particular incidents?
> I watched a traffic stop where the two cops in a hilux pulled out Type 56es and extended their bayonets as they got out to talk to the driver.
Is this normal in Africa?
So you can kinda make it out from the satellite photo in the OP, but before the airbase runway was finished we would have to convoy out to the civilian airport where the resupply aircraft would land, which involved driving through the outskirts of town. On day zero when my team arrived we found out that the guys we were replacing would be leaving on the C-130 that brought us in, so we'd have to drive back to the base on our own with the Nigeren Air Force gun trucks to guide us.
None of the roads in Agadez are paved, so we were driving out and had made it onto one of those perimeter roads off to the left side of the photo, when my NCOIC who was driving the lead truck starts screaming on the net for everyone to halt, dismount, and start doing 5s and 25s.
I start thinking we were being attacked or something so I ran up to my boss' truck and asked him wtf was going on, and he pointed down in the sand along the side of the road to a whole ass 155mm artillery shell, and my butthole puckered a little bit.
We were just standing there trying to figure out what to do as all these locals were walking past like nothing was going on. Finally the Nigeren airmen hopped out of their truck and asked us why we were being weird. My boss pointed to the 155 and they all started laughing. One of the guys walked over and kicked it, and said "eez nothing" in a thick ass accent, then waved at us to keep on driving. We were more confused than anything by this point, so we made it to the base and found out the full story:
During one of the civil wars in the early 2000s the military used the airport as a base and stored a shitload of ordnance there. Once the war wound down they decided it would be easiest to pull the fuses and scoop the guts out of these artillery shells and just leave them lying around.
The area gets really bad dust storms and combined with the dirt roads it can be really hard to figure out where you're driving. The locals decided to take all the inert 155 shells that had been left behind and place them along the sides of the roads to mark their boundaries, with the tip of the shell pointing in the direction of travel. Ingenious when you think about it, but pants shitting for my boss, who had gotten blown up several times in Iraq just like that.
>Iraqi vet boss trolled by African construction resulting from a leftover gear from a colonial empire
Sometimes globalism can be funny
Resourceful locals, but fucking hell that definitely sounds like something that would give a GWOT veteran the heebie-jeebies.
Red horse guy?
No, I was part of the regular base detachment, but I got detailed to the Rad Horse team for about a month to do bitch work for them while they had low manpower. Not fun...
Excuse the phoneposting and fucked up pictures, I'm too lazy to go in and change the resolution.
Are Nigerien girls cute?
The Tuareg girls were pretty cute, they're pretty much african/nafri mutts. There was one lightskinned Genderme that I worked with who totally could get it.
When I was there the rule was you could drink booze, but we weren't allowed to buy it in the country and you couldn't mail it in either, so we would get real chummy with the C-130 crews from Ramstein and give them a cooler with a couple hundred euros to have them fill up at the class six for us.
Well I’ve landed on that field a few times appreciate y’all building it.
Speaking of based hows the French base
Wake me up when frogs start blasting them
The ultimatum just expired. We'll see what's gonna happen. Will the junta attack the French embassy? Or will the US pressure the French to leave?
NO FUCKING N WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STAWP ITTTT!!!!! AAAAAAAAGGGHHH!
If the ECOWAS get the French to join them then I don't think that Niger, Mali & Burkina Faso will be able to resist them for long