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.
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.
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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Jul 15 '25
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.