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Sure, but the article makes it seem almost malicious or deliberate, when my impression is that it’s simply good old German bureaucracy in action.
Sure, but the article makes it seem almost malicious or deliberate, when my impression is that it’s simply good old German bureaucracy in action.
Good read, but damn the author really has it in for Germany. I think the case against them is greatly overstated.
I hope they learn good lessons from this. The main strength of the US military is its logistics, and being unable to deploy a simple pier is concerning.
I would prefer to see a non-military solution.
Me too, but that would only really work if Haiti had a functional government to maintain order. Unfortunately that ship has sailed.
Kenya as far as I know has no experience in operations of this type — do you think it’s reasonable to expect them to do this alone? It makes sense that the US are helping to get this up and running. I expect a fuller handoff when whatever they’re doing is in place.
What would convince you?
Americans don’t seem to understand that every time they swoop in to ‘save’ Haiti, what they are really doing is enforcing the same colonial ideals that landed Haiti in the mess to start with.
You might find the article reassures you on this point if you decide to read it!
The truth is that the United States outsourced the Haiti mission to Kenya. U.S. President Joe Biden has admitted as much: “We concluded that for the United States to deploy forces in the hemisphere just raises all kinds of questions that can be easily misrepresented about what we’re trying to do,” Biden said in May during a news conference with Kenyan President William Ruto, adding, “So, we set out to find a partner or partners who would lead the effort that we would participate in.”
Ha, sorry about that — the President of Kenya, actually. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/23/fact-sheet-kenya-state-visit-to-the-united-states/
a Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti
This is very odd, but also very intriguing. The President met with Biden a month ago, so this tracks. I kinda hope this happens just to see how it plays out.
Edit: this will also be a great test of who reads past the headline. There are going to be a lot of knee-jerk “Murica Bad” comments.
Have you seen videos of the skirmishes at the Kashmiri border? It’s absurd, like something out of a bad alternate history movie.
I was wondering how they “punctured” this military vessel, then I watched the video… They’re fighting it out on freaking zodiacs.
Ironic username!
They didn’t judge you on skin color […] but they were still […] racist as fuck.
I don’t understand which definition of “racist” you’re using here, but OK. Romans didn’t care what colour you were, as long as you were educated and spoke good Latin. They even had two Maghrebin emperors.
They’re merely retvrning to tradition, although the ancient Romans weren’t nearly as racist.
Umm ackshually it isn’t in real-time, it happened 300 million years ago /pedant
I didn’t know Cuba was actively supporting Russia.
Cuba has been staunchly aligned with Russia for like 70 years. That was the major reason for the US embargo in the first place.
someone with a fucking conscience in the command chain should have stopped this.
Based on the article it sounds like many on the US side did strongly oppose this, which is slightly reassuring. I’m going to tell myself the goons that went ahead with this were MAGA.
“We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”
But to what end in this case? Impede their pharma industry? It doesn’t even make sense. It’s so childish and spiteful.
Can’t wait to read about this on Al-Jazeera!
They’re about to get Molon Labe’d
Yeah, that may be right.