President Obama has unveiled a five-year $550 million “rapid response force” plan for Africa today, during the third day of a summit with African heads of state in Washington.
The program is to begin this year with an initial $65 million in military subsidies to African Union member nations Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Tunisia.
The plan will eventually expand to include other AU member nations and will cost $110 million annually, with hopes of increasing their military capacity for launching AU and UN “peacekeeping” missions.
Several of the nations included in the plan are nations whose militaries have poor human rights records, and nations like Mali have usually been on the receiving end of UN operations as opposed to suppliers. The US is keen to increase the size of these militaries and, no doubt, get them used to using US-exported arms.
At one point the US had designs on dramatically growing their own military presence in Africa, by way of AFRICOM, though they appear to have scrapped that idea in favor of propping up proxies in the region.
Because the US government hasn't effed up enough regions of the world.
Since Barack Hussein Obama took office more wars been the agendas then anything els. Giving $500 million here $500 million there and yet $5 billion for Ukraine and now $550 million for "rapid response force" in Africa means that Neo fascism and kind of ISIS "oppositions" are the only "opposition" that USG been cooperating with, but we have to wait and see what these "oppositions" in Africa going to call themselves.
At the same I winder if Saudis and UAE regimes are going to pinch some of that $550 millions?
What exactly does he want to respond TO? And "rapidly"? Has GITMO been closed yet?
Well, if someone lights fireworks in the area, the US need to be able to respond immediately with missile attacks, drone strikes, and a ground invasion. All marketed as some humanitarian intervention against an evil tyrant endowed with a superhuman army ready to take over the Hamptons.
This mission among all other USG militaristic mission and the costs as such are the reason for GITMO not being closed, USG is at war with the world so they have to keep it open.
The Antarctica Brigade is next…to rapidly respond to TP's…that's Terror Penguins for those of you that hate America and have your head in the glacier.