Well, howdy there internet people, let's Bow again and welcome to the

Roads with Bowe. Today is January 7th, 2024 and this is episode 20 of the

Roads Not Taken which is a weekly series where we go through the

previous weeks events and talk about news that was unreported under

reported didn't get the coverage I think it should or I just find it

interesting after that we go through some

questions from y'all and this week is a little bit different because a lot of

this is news that broke later in the week and there may be

follow-up videos on it over on the other channel. Okay so starting off with

foreign policy.

Iraq is hinting that it may ask the US to leave.

May ask for a withdrawal of US troops

because the US.S. installations there were getting hit by Iranian-backed

militias and the U.S. responded. Iraq has been pretty clear that they need to be the people to respond.

And in a statement, they said, we have repeatedly emphasized that in the event of a violation

or transgression by any Iraqi party or if Iraqi law is

violated the Iraqi government is the only party that has the right to follow-up

on the merits of these violations.

This, we don't know if it's actually going to move to a request for the U.S. to withdraw, but

they're mad.

They are mad. China's spy balloons are back in the news this time

over Taiwan and it is prompting outrage on the island.

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