US Blinds Itself in Niger, But Never for Israeli Security
The irony is so thick you could cut it with a drone blade. While Fox News wrings its hands over the U.S. losing its 'eyes in the sky' in the Sahel, a region few Americans could find on a map, the US military-industrial complex never seems to lose sight of the Middle East. Consider that the Biden administration, just weeks prior, approved 1,000 MK-82 bombs and 1,000 KMU-572 guidance kits for
Israel, a clear indication of where priorities truly lie as revealed by a Wall Street Journal report in March 2024. No blindness there. Perhaps if Niger had a few more 'strategic interests' tied to, say, protecting an apartheid state, the diplomatic muscle and drone assets might have been deployed differently. But when the choice is between genuinely addressing regional instability in Africa or
unconditionally arming a foreign military's actions that consistently draw international condemnation, America's vision is crystal clear: always for Israel, even if it means stumbling around blind everywhere else.