Country makes call to cancel all visas for Americans

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

With Donald Trump expanding the travel ban inspired by his first term in the White House to 20 more countries, as well as the Palestinian Authority, on Dec. 16, a total of 39 countries from different corners of the world now face either a total ban or restrictions on entering the United States.

Mali, South Sudan, Niger, Burkina Faso, Syria, and the Palestinian Authority have been added to the list of nations whose citizens cannot enter the U.S. at all, first introduced in June.


Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe were meanwhile added to a list of countries facing a block on student and business visas; the list that Trump put in place in June 2025 previously included Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.

"Completely and permanently prohibiting the issuance of visas to all U.S. citizens"
Immediately after their nations were added to the ban, multiple diplomats and heads of state responded with condemnation. Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne issued a statement saying that the Caribbean country's government was "deeply disappointed" given that the justification accusing it of loose rules for granting citizenship by investment "does not reflect the present reality of our laws."


Two weeks after the expansion of the ban, the West African nation of Niger has taken the most drastic step of permanently banning any granting of new visas to U.S. visas in a reciprocal measure until the situation changes.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/country-makes-call-cancel-visas-184700960.html

[dweller]

1. Cutting the US off from the rest of the world

sounds like a predator
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[sheshe2]

2. He is like an abusive spouse.

Keep your wife and or kids isolated from the rest of the world so no one sees or hears of the abuse.

[Igel]

3. Niger ... Eh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gkx78xeg8o


https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/02/whats-happening-in-niger-inside-the-struggle-for-independence-from-french-and-western-neocolonialism/

If you don't like those, there's no shortage of reports all concerning the same facts on the ground. (Just don't bother with Russian, PRC, or the junta's reports. I mean, even the People's Dispatch report sounds pollyanna-ish: All's well, just let us have our ideology and ignore the military junta we adore and the Islamists what want us dead ... It's all good!" Except for the US's overthrow of that peace-and-rights loving Ghaddafi. Probably what they'd call the greatest geopolitical catastrophe to shake Africa in the 21st century.)


Put the two together and you wind up with a nationalist anti-colonial government that somehow came to the conclusion that the Islamist insurgency they're fighting is really about a Western colonialist past and all the West's fault (because locals lack agency or can't be trusted without ideologues in power, I guess). In so doing, they managed to reject any support from most other African countries against the insurgency while posturing and using anything anti-colonialists to promote negative solidarity, even as they gradually lose their fight to Islamists. Note that Niger gives easy access to NW Nigeria.

But they're perfectly okay looking towards the anti-imperialist governments like Putin and Xi--forever in praise of self-determination and non-interference, with no territorial or imperial (or colonialist) ambitions, for that matter. They :heart: the Wagner group.

"Anti-Trump" does not in any sense automatically point to "somebody I want to acknowledge as having any merit."