While pretending there was a "Shift to Asia" (which obviously couldn't really be done because Biden's boss doesn't like that kind of thing), DoD did their long-cherished shift to "Mother Africa" as part of Biden's muddled foreign policy. The plan was to build expensive bases (which the Russians will be occupying) and pretend to fight terrorism. Yes, that's out on the fringe, where terrorists aren't being supported with US tax dollars, but it was only expected to look good in the MSM.
And the soldiers sent there? Who in "Team Biden" cares about them? They're probably MAGA anyway!
So we were fighting yet another undeclared war on the down-low, and yet again we got our asses handed to us because no adults were in charge.
See a pattern yet?