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Mali a foothold for 21st century resource wars in Africa
“In Syria, the terrorists are friends of Hollande. And now they are accusing the ‘terrorists’ in Mali in trying to overthrow a sovereign state. But in Syria, it seems to be ok to overthrow the sovereign state. So we are there to defeat the ‘terrorists’ in Mali, but they are friends in Syria. This is a hypocrisy that is now open for the world to see … Africa is untapped economically, and the West is really racing with China to gain [some] sort of dominance over this continent, because all the uranium, the cobalt, the titanium, the lithium, all the rare earth minerals, the gas, the oil. Africa is absolutely bountiful. And this is gonna be a battleground in the resource wars of the 21st century.”
2 Comments on "Mali a foothold for 21st century resource wars in Africa"
Arthur on Sun, 10th Feb 2013 5:13 pm
Nobody in governing western circles takes al-Qaida serious as a ‘terrorist threat’. Al-Qaida is a convenient myth, a label that can be glued to any group larger than 1 person, provided they are of Sunni muslim faith, wear a beard, know how to correctly pronounce ‘Allah ak-Bar’ and able to shoot a gun. These people can be used as paid mercenaries against assorted inconveniences like the Soviets in Afghanistan, or regimes allied to Iran, like the one in Syria. Also they can be blamed to have carried out attacks against buildings in Manhattan and Washington (no proof necessary) or the attacks in London of 7-7. Oh and when Islamists threaten to take over northern Mali, hurting French resource interests, there we go again, launch the ‘Al-Qaida’ meme again and start the engines of your troop transporter planes.
DC on Sun, 10th Feb 2013 5:18 pm
I wouldnt call Africa ‘bountiful, much less ‘untapped’. The ‘west’ has been extracting resources from that area since well..think the slave trade if that helps. No, the US in only interested in Africa because China is. That aside, RT’s point is well-taken. Sure, Africa has been basically a backwater despite pretty intensive exploitation through-out the 20th C.
If it were not for China wanting to make deals there, the US and its french\uk proxies would hardly be destabilizing the area. Its the middle east playbook, African edition. Except in Africa, you can massacre a few million and it would’nt even make page 9.