"Climate Change" or Oil?

Timothy Birdnow

Any wonder why America can't win wars, with such imbeciles running our military?

Pentagon Official Frets Climate Change Is Driving Africans To Join Jihadist Groups

I hate to tell this moron but most of these Jihadist groups aren't taking willing recruits, but rather shanghai them.

Yes, southern Africa has suffered from a severe drought but that is easily explained by the El Nino conditions we experienced.

Certainly Climatologist Judith Curry doesn't blame the drought on "climate change".

And this dimwit doesn't know the difference between north and south Africa; according to the Africa Center:

Of these theaters only Mozambique is in the south; the rest are central to north. The major drought conditions are in the southern parts of the continent.

Duh.

Yet this guy holds a high post in our military.

According to the Daily Caller article:

"The New York Times reported in June that the expensive effort to stamp out jihadist influence in West Africa "has largely failed” after a decade of work, and a September analysis by Reuters found that the number of violent incidents involving terrorists in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso has almost doubled in the time since 2021."

What else has been happening since 2021? I believe it's called the Biden Administration.

Could it be that poor foreign policy has freed the Jihadists to run wild there? Could it be that high fuel prices and economic malaise are more responsible than "climate change"? Energy usage is a coefficient of prosperity and it takes energy to move goods and serviced even in dirt poor countries with limited modern technology. In fact the very poor nations are more vulnerable to spikes in energy prices as that spikes all prices and they can ill-afford to pay the inflated prices for stuff.

If Jihadists are gaining ground in Africa isn't it likely caused by Bidenflation? Anybody?

Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart certainly blames Biden for impoverishing Africans even more by his energy policy. Biden has been pushing African nations to "go green" when so-called green energy is not capable of supporting a developing economy, and he's used all sorts of pressure and sanctions to force these nations into line.

Isn't a rise in Jihadi recruitment a coefficient of THAT?

The Sahel relies heavily on imported oil and gas. So too does Somalia, which has a good sized oil reserve (at least 30 billion barrels)but cannot produce any of it. Ditto Mozambique which produces no oil of it's own. Chad produces some oil while North Africa produces much, but these are places that have always been crawling with Muslims, and were in fact colonies of the Islamic world before the Europeans came in. It doesn't take much to recruit jihadists in either of these last two.

If this Bidenbot wants to point a finger over the rise of Jihad in Africa he needs to first look in the mirror.

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