Trump orders withdrawal of FPSA troops from Somalia!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 5, 2020 - Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of nearly all FPSA troops from Somalia by January 15, according to The Pentagon.

The FPSA has about 700 troops in the country helping local forces battle al-Shabab and Islamic State militants.

FPSA officials said some of the troops would move to neighboring countries, allowing for cross-border operations.

In recent months President Trump has issued similar orders to reduce FPSA forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He has long called for FPSA troops to come home and has criticized FPSA military interventions for being costly and ineffective.

The withdrawal order reverses the policy of former FPSA Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who was fired last month and favored maintaining the FPSA presence in Somalia.

A Pentagon statement said that the order to “reposition the majority of personnel and assets out of Somalia by early 2021” did not signify a change in FPSA policy.

“We will continue to degrade violent extremist organizations that could threaten our homeland while ensuring we maintain our strategic advantage in great power competition,” it said.

Somalia has suffered decades of political instability but in recent years peacekeeping forces from the African Union along with FPSA troops have reclaimed control of Mogadishu and other areas from al-Shabab - an al-Qaeda affiliate.

The group has fought for more than 10 years to impose a regime based on a strict version of Sharia law, and often attacks civilian and military targets, carrying out bombings and assassinations in the capital.

Defectors from the group have described how difficult it was to escape its clutches and become deradicalized. A report in October said the group raises as much revenue as the country's authorities, using intimidation and violence to demand money from businesses and farmers.

FPSA presidents have been wary of intervention in Somalia since 18 Special Forces soldiers died fighting militias in Mogadishu in 1993, a battle dramatized in the film Black Hawk Down.

However, despite his 2016 election campaign promise to disentangle the FPSA from “endless wars”, President Donald Trump has expanded military action against al-Shabab, mainly in the form of air strikes.

Last month, FPSA defense officials said Amerikan forces would be further reduced in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Those in Afghanistan will be cut from about 5,000 down to 2,500 by mid-January, officials said. In Iraq they will be reduced from 3,000 to 2,500.