Posted on 06/19/2022 12:07:48 PM PDT by robowombat
cuz they ain’t ghana leave...
What a silly little piece. The motivation for a US base is money. This article is written by a CCP source trying to scold us for doing the same thing they are doing in Africa.
That appears to be NATO Headquarters near Brussels. A place where no one works after five or on weekends. Amazing place.
“The US really is an empire.”
An empire subjugates the people of some locale, using them as labor and stealing the area’s assets like rubber, oil, diamonds, etc. An empire turns the subjegated lands into a protected market for its goods. The United States has conquered lots of places but hasn’t generally stayed unless they negotiate for and pay a fee for the land they use. The United States, until recently, has played the role of global policeman, thus protecting the shipping and cargoes of our allies. This was how the US defeated the Soviet Empire. The last move of that game was to bring China in on “our side.” Part of the deal was these “allies” got access to American markets. Because of the disparity in labor costs this meant lots of Americans lost jobs to their overseas competitors. But once the Soviets fell there was no longer any need to support this huge mission. The US has been withdrawing on a worldwide basis. This is allowing our former allies to fight among themselves. Japan and Korea have been suing each other and Korea has been seizing Japanese assets to pay for war crimes. (Despite a deal having been reached and paid off decades ago. It’s a political move by Korean politicians.) The point is that it is damaging to the American led order and...the US has done absolutely nothing. Had this happened during the cold war the US would have pressured the Korean government and the whole bruhaha would have gone away. S. Korea asked the Obama administration to handle the sinking of the Chonan by the North. Obama sent a stern diplomatic note. During the cold war the US would probably have doubled the sea patrols and flown in some anti missile systems.
The US has packed up and gone home. Our overseas footprint hasn’t been this small since before WWII. Some empire, eh?
Sun never sets on the US empire meme plz.
No good reason. Bring them home.
It is probably a bio lab.
Status of Forces Agreement covers the stationing of armed forces personnel without a VISA or use of a passport, e.g., Japan, The Netherlands, Korea, etc., as well as traveling on a leave status on military orders - no passport. This is just uninformed.
People will find out why with a decade or so.
All the blather from the previous two to three decades will
be forgotten, when these same people or their children ask
why the U. S. didn’t keep those access points knowing “this”
was going to happen.
Folks just never learn.
Even our own people don’t realize that the U. S. has been
far different than other nations, as they repeat that the
U. S. is no different than all those other nations.
They’ll find out.
The United States stations its military presence on the African continent having to do with its counterterrorism campaign and aims to prevent the entry of China into this region. We have never had more than 16K personnel in Ghana and it has been a joint exercise and training location for both countries for over 20 years. This year, the United States is investing over $20 million in training and equipment for the Ghanaian armed forces. We share both combat processes and their bases. We have no base of our own. At best, warehousing.
Wy69
Looking at a map of Africa, one sees that Gahana lies halfway between Liberia and Nigeria. Liberia was established by the U.S in the mid-1800s as a “return to Africa” home for freed slaves.
We had bases there during WWII as a logistical point and refueling point for US transport aircraft and bombers flying the “southern route” from the US-Brazil-Africa-North Africa & Europe.
Nigeria is an oil rich nation which has long been allied to the U.S. Current there are internal wars between radical Muslims and Christians over the control of the country, with may massacres of Christian settlements and church congregations by those Muslims.
Good post.
Out in the Indian Ocean somewhere
There’s a former army post
Abandoned now just like the war
And there’s no doubt about it
It was the myth of fingerprints
That’s what that old army post was for
—Paul Simon
Wakanda forever!!
Sounds like a good staging area to start shipping them back.
When I need experimental brain surgery, I know where I’m going…
Because we are governed by idiots?
The same reason we have bases all over the world.
Forward op centers for when you need them
And you might want to have a base here for contingencies. After all, “here today, Ghana tomorrow!”
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