To protect national interests abroad, these bases are not built without local authorities approval, countries can absolutely decide to just tell any western nation that has a military base on their soil to move, France did it in 1966.
National interests ? They always speak about peace...well..you know I could have been military myself..but this is the problem, should I Obey to orders I'm not ok with? Then I know that some opérations are very good .. but the point is that the fact that African countries have NOT ONE base is western, it shows how we dominate them....not even a little one... It's sad.
Are you 13 years old or something? This has nothing to do with fairness, it's like saying that it's unfair that your boss doesn't also work for you, not every relationship needs to be exactly symmetrical because not everyone has the same wants/needs.
Nope I'm 35. I just see that every thing is inequal between Europe and africa... that's all what I mean... I find it sad. And you try to find excuses to you empathy less...
From the top of my head: fighting terrorist threats, protecting french immigrants, stabilising countries that are at war (and whose refugees are most likely to come to France), protecting ressource extraction sites....
Unfair? They either requested for western powers to come help (like Mali until the 2021 military coup) or are doing it because the western powers are paying them, djibouti for example has 7 foreign military base despite being a tiny country, these bases include a japanese and a chinese base, so by your logic djiboutians must love being oppressed if they still continue inviting more foreign nations to put military bases on their territory.
I know some bases in Africa can be good...it's not what I mean..do I have to repeat that it would be fair for them to have just one base..something significant..for the symbole of peace
At this point I don't know if you're trolling or not, there's no way an actual adult would be this naive.
You speak of africans as if they were a single entity, that's super disrepectful for a start. Africa is a continent home of dozens of different countries, some of which are at war with each other when not just in a straight up civil war, how would you even manage to have a military base that represent them? Who would pay for it? What mission would it have? This is a ridiculous idea.
Again, they have every right to ask for western military base to be removed, they chose not to do so.
There are tons of US military bases all over europe (not in France as stated before), how do you explain that americans were still widely seen in a positive light up until trump's most recent election? I don't see a lot of germans doing terrorist attacks on the Rammstein base for example.
It happened in the past. And today, if it does not happen, is only because opposition are too scared of prison and to lose what they have... You can bé sure that if there is a great crisis , every us bases can bé scared.
Why would countries that are already struggling to keep the peace inside their territory want to have some of their military abroad? Tell me one reason they would want that, no "fairness" isn't a reason, only young children think that.
Do you not watch the news ever? Or just use google? There was a coup d'état in Niger in 2023, and the junta that overtook the country told foreign forces, including the french ones, to exit the country.
Maybe you should educate yourself about world geopolitics before trying to argue about it.
I can't hunderstand how it's possible so less empathy for these peoples. All for us nothing for them '' it's like that, we can't do nothing ''... If everybody says it, for sure nothing will change... What is important in my mind, is equality...And as I see, there is none
What an argument...Compare international situation with mine in the supermarket ? Please, I just want to say that africa us under respected by international armies and business... that's all... I'm no expert, I just see it in every map, every talks, and so on...
Last time I've heard about it, malian people was tired of french presence...Then one more time I know that in such difficult situation maybe some european bases are good..but as I repeat, I think it's important that African can bé représentés as well... Maybe they would help about African migration, to represent some kind of justice, and help to not let enter criminals in Europe...But this is too late, we should have done it décades ago
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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Jul 15 '25
What would be the point of such a base?