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| Foreign Affairs › U.S Threatened Niger To Stop Doing Business With Russia & Iran - PM Says (Pix) by WriterNig(op): 6:03pm On May 14, 2024 |
https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/ASKDFA7XWAKUDQROPFCYHBCRKU.JPGPrime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine in Niger's capital, Niamey, in December. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu/Getty Images)A crucial military relationship between the 🇺🇸 United States and its closest West African ally, 🇳🇪 Niger, ruptured this spring after a visiting U.S. official made threats during last-ditch negotiations over whether American troops based there would be allowed to remain, ultimately leading to US troops expulsion, according to the country’s prime minister.
In an exclusive interview, Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine put the blame for the breakdown squarely on the United States, accusing American officials of trying to dictate which countries Niger could partner with and failing to justify the U.S. troop presence, now scheduled to end in the coming months.
Niger has been central to efforts to contain a growing Islamist insurgency in West Africa.
The rift between the former allies has created an opportunity for Russia, which has moved quickly to deepen its relationship with Niger, dispatching troops to the capital, Niamey, last month to train the Nigerien military and supplying a new air defense system. Russian and U.S. troops now occupy opposite ends of an air base.
“The Americans stayed on our soil, doing nothing while the terrorists killed people and burned towns,” he told The Post. “It is not a sign of friendship to come on our soil but let the terrorists attack us.
We have seen what the United States will do to defend its allies, because we have seen Ukraine and Israel.”
Zeine also took offense at what he said was U.S. officials demanding that Niger not engage closely with Iran and Russia, two of Washington’s adversaries.
He claimed there was an ultimatum to have security with the U.S. or be close to Tehran and Moscow, while pursuing an Iranian deal for uranium would result in American sanctions. Zeine said Niger has not signed a deal for uranium.
“First, you have come here to threaten us in our country. That is unacceptable,” he told The Post. “And you have come here to tell us with whom we can have relationships, which is also unacceptable. And you have done it all with a condescending tone and a lack of respect.”
Niger fell to a military coup last year, which saw the placement of Zeine as prime minister after the ouster of the country’s former president, Mohamed Bazoum.
Since then, the nation has grown more hostile to western forces closer to U.S. adversaries, welcoming Russian military trainers this year and Iran’s president in a state visit.
Niger ordered France to withdraw troops before negotiating with the U.S. on a new agreement that ultimately culminated in the Pentagon announcing it would eventually withdraw all its forces last month after more than a decade in the country.
The coming withdrawal is another setback for the U.S. in the African Sahel region, which has experienced multiple coups in the past few years that have ultimately benefitted Russia. Washington Post || The Hill 
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Discovers 511 Billion Barrels Of Oil & Gas In British Antarctica (Photos) by WriterNig(op): 8:33pm On May 12, 2024*. Modified: 9:00pm On May 12, 2024 |
American democracy about to visit Antarctica.
But luckily Russia is already there so they can't do shit. 
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Discovers 511 Billion Barrels Of Oil & Gas In British Antarctica (Photos) by WriterNig(op): 8:32pm On May 12, 2024*. Modified: 10:17am On May 13, 2024 |
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| Foreign Affairs › Russia Discovers 511 Billion Barrels Of Oil & Gas In British Antarctica (Photos) by WriterNig(op): 8:31pm On May 12, 2024 |
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2024/05/11/TELEMMGLPICT000184427401_17154398430920_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg🇷🇺 Russia has discovered vast oil and gas reserves in the Antarctic, much of it in areas claimed by the UK.
The surveys are a prelude to bringing in drilling rigs to exploit the pristine region for fossil fuels, MPs have warned.
Reserves totalling 511 billion barrels of oil, about 10 times the North Sea’s entire 50-year output have been reported to Moscow by Russian research ships, according to evidence given to the Commons Environment Audit Committee (EAC) last week.
It follows a series of surveys by the Alexander Karpinsky vessel, operated by Rosgeo – the Russian agency charged with finding mineral reserves for commercial exploitation.
Antarctica is meant to be protected by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty that bans all mineral or oil developments. The UK’s interests are overseen by the Foreign Office – but it has been accused of ignoring the emerging crisis.
Junior minister David Rutley last week told the EAC that his department had decided to trust Russian assurances it was just conducting scientific research, adding: “Russia has recently reaffirmed its commitment to the key elements of the treaty.”
Experts on the region disagree, warning that placing any trust in Russia to stick to its obligations was naive – as shown by its invasion of Ukraine.
Klaus Dodds, professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway College, an expert in Antarctica, who also gave evidence, said Russia’s activities were far closer to prospecting for oil and gas than to genuine science.
“The Antarctic Treaty faces renewed challenges not least from bad-faith actor Russia and increasingly assertive China.
“Rosgeo has been engaging in seismic surveys and other related surveying work … Russia’s activities need to be understood as a decision to undermine the norms associated with seismic survey research, and ultimately a precursor for forthcoming resource extraction.”
The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) forms the largest and most southerly of the UK’s 14 Overseas Territories – and the least hospitable with 99pc of it covered in ice. Credit: Telegraph UK || Daily Guardian 
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: U.S Soldier Arrested In Russia, Accused Of Stealing (Photo) by WriterNig(op): 6:37pm On May 07, 2024*. Modified: 6:53pm On May 07, 2024 |
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