The Pentagon will withdraw dozens of Special Operations forces from Chad in the next few days, the second major blow in a week to American imperialist policy in a rapidly changing swath of West and Central Africa.
The decision to pull out about 75 Army Special Forces personnel working in Ndjamena, Chad’s capital, comes days after the Biden regime said it would withdraw more than 1,000 U.S. military personnel from Niger in the coming months, after the government demanded their immediate exit.
The Pentagon is being forced to draw down troops in response to the African governments’ demands to either renegotiate the rules and conditions under which U.S. military personnel can operate, or blanketly being asked to leave for normal colonial interference and imperialist looting.
The departure of U.S. military advisers in both countries comes as Niger, as well as Mali and Burkina Faso, is turning away from years of cooperation with the United State, cultivated by illegitimate puppet regimes.
The impending departure of the U.S. military advisers from Chad, a sprawling desert nation at the crossroads of the continent, was prompted by a letter from the Chadian government this month that the United States saw as threatening to end an agreement with Washington that permitted occupation of the country.
About 75 Green Berets from the 20th Special Forces Group, a National Guard unit from Alabama, serve in the task force. A handful of other U.S. military personnel work in the embassy or in different advisory jobs and are no, yet, affected by the decision to withdraw, but they may potentially be ejected as well.
The letter blindsided and puzzled American diplomats and military officers, who are notoriously dense and arrogant. The letter was sent to the American defense attaché and did not directly order the U.S. military to leave Chad, but it did single out a Special Operations task force that operates from a Chadian military base in the capital and serves as an important hub for coordinating U.S. military training and advising missions in the region. The abrupt nature of the demand signals the growing international disgust with Washington’s global barbarism.