#africom
The US has been expanding its military presence in Africa at a breakneck pace over the last 10-15 years and it’s shocking how little attention it’s gotten. I mean US press doesn’t cover much US military activity and they certainly never cover Africa, so it’s not too surprising, but comparing the scale of the trend to the scale of the reporting is breathtaking. You’ll hear plenty about China’s Belt and Road initiative engaging in some seedy financing plans in African nations, and virtually nothing about the US being the largest and most active operator of drones on the entire continent
the US’s command in africa is AFRICOM, it was founded in 2007 and exists to maintain US influence over african countries governments and maintain access to african resources. africom was involved in the 2012 coup against gaddafi among other things, and is now further expanding under the pretext of fighting the war on terror. i rarely see this ever discussed despite the fact that the US is actively bombing multiple african nations. if youve never heard of it you should look at the resources black alliance for peaceandhood communist blog have about it, or some other articles too
AFRICOM military’s exercise: The art of creating new pretexts for propagating U.S. interests
The US has been expanding its military presence in Africa at a breakneck pace over the last 10-15 years and it’s shocking how little attention it’s gotten. I mean US press doesn’t cover much US military activity and they certainly never cover Africa, so it’s not too surprising, but comparing the scale of the trend to the scale of the reporting is breathtaking. You’ll hear plenty about China’s Belt and Road initiative engaging in some seedy financing plans in African nations, and virtually nothing about the US being the largest and most active operator of drones on the entire continent
the US’s command in africa is AFRICOM, it was founded in 2007 and exists to maintain US influence over african countries governments and maintain access to african resources. africom was involved in the 2012 coup against gaddafi among other things, and is now further expanding under the pretext of fighting the war on terror. i rarely see this ever discussed despite the fact that the US is actively bombing multiple african nations. if youve never heard of it you should look at the resources black alliance for peaceandhood communist blog have about it, or some other articles too
AFRICOM military’s exercise: The art of creating new pretexts for propagating U.S. interests
Waiting for all the Somalian flags and Facebook profile borders from the very same folks so concerned about Ukraine.
