[Pearls Before Swine]

...and so the colonization starts. A first, experimental feeler into the lands of human debris and rich mineral resources. It would be ironic if, down the road in Africa, the force that fights the godless Communist Chinese is the delusional force of religious Islam.

[dennisw]

...and so the colonization starts. A first, experimental feeler into the lands of human debris and rich mineral resources
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My thoughts too.

[Lion's Cub]

and so the colonization starts.

They've been in Sudan for several years--they have hundreds, if not thousands of troops there protecting their oilfields.