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Why does "Chinese Influence" need to be "countered"? Not everything is a sport/competition, America.
anytime america says they're "countering" anything they're already pouring 10x the budget anyone else is pouring into it.
that 2 billion is on top of tens of billions they've already been spending. Think of AFRICOM. Think of the IMF and the World Bank.
Weren't there some rare earth minerals found in an African country recently?
The US also sent at least 500 troops to Somalia recently and that doesn't even include all the contractors and shit plus all the other units already in or around Somalia or other African countries. Like hardly any media covers it more than just the announcement that some troops are getting/got deployed there. It's kinda hard to find good info about a lot of it for me
Whoever said AFRICOM 2.0 would be the Next Awful Thing, come on down and claim your prize.
2 billion dollars over ten years. 200 million dollars a year divided between several dozens of countries.
This is more "bribe somebody by funding his cousin's freedom and democracy think tank" money or "Radio Free [insert_baddie_location]" money than its "fund a new war" money.
At least that is something.
FREEDOM :dean-smile:
DEMOCRACY :dean-smile:
WOKE :dean-frown:
SJW :dean-frown:
YUP IT'S AMERISHART TIME
Sorry to be the one to tell you this USA, but no one outside "the west" likes you.
I know the truth hurts, but that's just how it is.
Oh yeah, this is true. Otherwise our scandinavistan asses would not be here lol.
Even us yanks hate yanks. Damn yanks, they ruined yankland
The destruction of Libya caused a lot of weapons to flow south. Now the US intervenes in those countries as part of counter terrorism. Intervention begets intervention.
Looking forward to all the nuanced, polite discourse that will be on :reddit-logo: and elsewhere regarding African nations and their governance.
Also looking forward to whatever corrupt bastard that gets propped up to murder whatever ethnic minority they feel like
