Mercenaries out. Rwandans in. ISIS sorted and nobody is bribing or profiting from human misery. Let's hope it remains that simple when African nations needs help.
https://twitter.com/RobCyubahiro/status/1472193619712958464
As you guessed, it's not that simple. Rwandan troops effectively dispersed ISIS and they regrouped. Rwandan and state sponsored assistance is preferred to ramshackle mercenaries but at some point outside forces will use the insurgency for leverage. allafrica.com/stories/202112…
Africa has roughly the same number of countries as we have states. Imagine if we have open wars in over a dozen states and violent insurgencies in another dozen. africacenter.org/spotlight/auto…
To the outside world violence in Africa is an intriguing data mapping exercise. To those on the ground it is a constant reality. You can imagine from the data that there are few places where the fear of violence is not pervasive. vizwiz.com/2018/08/armed-…
It won't just be Africa, violence will increase next year in not just Africa but Europe and Asia. All indications point to national and transnational groups taking advantage of the U.S. and international retrenchment and the secondary effects of Covid. fpri.org/article/2021/1…
The biggest problem these hotspots have is that we may not give a shit. Ukraine, Venezuala, Sahel, DRC, Mozambique, Afghanistan etc are not going to get "better" without someone moving the needle towards stability hard. And that plan simply doesn't exist. acleddata.com/2021/08/05/mid…
Why not care? Because America is under threat and nothing cools globocopping faster than being under attack. But are the sources for that threat outside this country and are we being targeted. Yes. War isn't the same. csis.org/analysis/milit…
We are under attack by enemies, Frenemies and bad actors. People who are exploiting the chaos and division created by Trump for their own purposes. The FBI is still unravelling the domestic and foreign fuckery of 2016. That was five years ago. fbi.gov/investigate/co…
What we can learn from foreign intervention and intelligence operations is that certain key players are insidiously and slowly undermining multiple nations including the U.S. in their survival or expansionist agendas. There will be no Pearl Harbor. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/p…
America has armed insurgents. America has seditious and destabilizing foreign backed forces. The question is will Rwanda come to our aid when the frog jumps out of the pot? Or will we not even notice when it does? heritage.org/defense/commen…
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