‘It’s like a bad monster movie’: U.S. officials who helped train Nigerien troops reel from coup
‘It’s like a bad monster movie’: U.S. officials who helped train Nigerien troops reel from coup
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‘It’s like a bad monster movie’: U.S. officials who helped train Nigerien troops reel from coup
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The US should have given scholarships to smart young Nigeriens to study STEM and social sciences in the US. With the same amount of money spent, the US could have sponsored literal thousands of students. These students will return to Niger and gradually uplift their nation. This is what the British Commonwealth is still doing today. Merely training their military will result in such coups.
Why wouldn't these students just stay in the US.
Okay so let's say they don't train these guys, their training was in counter terrorism, so what happens when Boko Haram or one of the many other militant groups comes calling? STEM folks aren't generally going to stop marauding assholes murdering people over religion, or ambition, as a matter of fact they will probably be some of the first victims.
There's a reason why society has law enforcement officers and soldiers, because criminals don't give a shit about the law and don't respect other's, and militant leaders and tyrants don't give a shit about society and sovereignty.
Currently Society needs both soldiers and STEM grads, as well as a slew of other professions, and that's not changing anytime soon.
I don't think that person was saying that soldiers need to be wiped out of existence, just that the US should train people how to make their countries better instead of how to kill people better. Or that's what I got out of it anyways.