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packman

(16,296 posts) Wed Oct 25, 2017, 01:23 PM Oct 2017

Perhaps the reason we have troops in Africa

Terrorism related Deaths - Europe vs. Africa

Adjusted for population differences

Fighting terrorism wherever it exists (maybe?). Is the thinking to fight them there instead of somewhere else in the future?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/nigeria-boko-haram/

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Perhaps the reason we have troops in Africa (Original Post) packman Oct 2017 OP

Ultimately it's about natural resources, same as during the colonial era. China has gotten the... brush Oct 2017 #1

brush

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1. Ultimately it's about natural resources, same as during the colonial era. China has gotten the...

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 01:35 PM

Oct 2017

the jump on us. And European countries still benefit greatly from their former colonies.

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