MOSCOW (RIA Novosti); The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova , commenting on the statement of the deputy chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General John Hayten , suggested that the States “remove their small footprints” in Iraq , Libya , Afghanistan and Syria .
Haiten said earlier that the United States , seeing the developments in Afghanistan and Iraq, “should not ignore the threats in the Middle East , but deal with them differently, leaving a small footprint so that our” body “is more focused on threats from China and Russia “.
“Maybe before the body is oriented towards threats to remove its ‘small traces’ in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria?” – wrote Zakharova on her Telegram channel.
Earlier, the Associated Press, citing a senior US presidential administration official, Joe Biden, reported that Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi would announce on Monday an agreement to complete the US military mission in Iraq by the end of 2021.
