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And do you hear about the truck bombing in Somalia last Saturday on the 14th ?Well this is not the thread pic but you maybe should not mention Africa when you talk.
Somalia: How Colonial Powers drove a Country into Chaos
Since 1990, there has been no government in Somalia. The country is in the hands of warlords. European and Asiatic ships took advantage of this chaotic situation and fished along the Somali coast without a license or respect for elementary rules. They did not observe the quotas in force in their own country to protect the species and they used fishing techniques –even bombs!- that created huge damages to the wealth of the Somali seas.
That’s not all! Taking also advantage of this lack of any political authority, European companies, with the help of the mafia, dumped nuclear wastes offshore Somali coasts. Europe knew of this but turned a blind eye as that solution presented a practical and economical advantage for the nuclear waste management. Yet, the 2005 Tsunami brought a big part of these wastes into the Somali lands. Unfamiliar diseases appeared for the first time among the population. This is the context in which the piracy mainly developed. Somali fishermen, who had primitive fishing techniques, were no more able to work. So they decided to protect themselves and their seas. This is exactly what the United States did during the civilian war against the British (1756-1763): with no naval forces, President George Washington made a deal with pirates to protect the wealth of the American seas.
No Somali state for almost twenty years! How is that possible?
This is the result of an American strategy. In 1990, the country was bruised by conflicts, famine and lootings; the state collapsed. Facing this situation, the United States, who discovered oil in Somalia a few years ago, launched Operation Restore Hope in 1992. For the first time, US marines intervened in Africa to take control of a country. It was also the first time that a military invasion was launched in the name of humanitarian interference.
The famous rice bag exhibited on a Somali beach by Bernard Kouchner?
Yes, everybody remembers those pictures carefully showcased. But the real reasons were strategic. An US State Department report recommended indeed that the United States must stay the lonely global superpower after the Soviet Bloc collapse. To reach that goal, the report advocated to occupy a hegemonic position in Africa, which enjoys a vast amount of raw materials.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/somalia-how-colonial-powers-drove-a-country-into-chaos/17549
There is a lot your racism doesn't allow you to know about how things are and why they are in Africa. But we blacks who study the situation do know therefore it behooves you to not try arguing with those of us who have studied the situation for years.
It killed 300 people.
The worst terrorist attack in Somalia in living memory
Yet no trump tweet. No mention from most media outlets (BBC, RT, Xinhua, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Huff Po, The Economist, Daily Mail, Drudge Report, Daily Caller)
These are the same people who will go nuts over smaller attacks on White people – #JeSuisCharlie and all that.
Isn't Bill Clinton kind of responsible for the situation in Somalia?
Look at the first line and understand that in 1990 Clinton was not the president. But this is not about who was president of the US when the article talks about all colonial powers to include the British. You see the problem with you republicans is that you won't hear us telling anyone that democrats have been perfect but you guys, well if anything goes wrong its always the democrats even if it is a place where there hasn't been democratic leadership in decades.