Africom: the United States African Command is a unified combatant commands of the US armed forces headquartered at Stuttgart, Germany, responsible of coordinating military actions all over Africa with the exception of Egypt. Africom has been created under Bush administration and revitalized by Obama. Why? The initial and official reason was to control terrorism actions in the continent. Heard that, been there. :-) What if we scratch the surface? We see oil interests and attempts at counterbalancing Chinese grasp on the continent. Africom coordinated the US attacks on Lybia for the first time in its history managed by its General Carter Ham.
How did African countries like a US military presence on their territory? Not well would be an euphemism, Africom has been rejected by dozens of African governments, experts and organizations of human rights. Africom is such a welcome organization on African territory that had to set the HQ in Europe...that says a lot, doesn't it? Using the words of Horace Campbell, professor of Afro-americans studies and political sciences, Africom is a deception.
NATO: The general plan of NATO is to have control on Mediterranean area and hold it as its own property. Out of the 20 countries in this area only 3 do not belong to NATO or have no partnership with its programmes: Lybia, Lebanon and Syria. Since 2006 Lebanon is under a naval NATO block. Now the same naval block will be applied to Lybia. Guess who will be the next?
CONCLUSIONS
Joke time! "We now have wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya! Aren't we out of money? You can't simultaneously fire teachers and Tomahawk missiles."
Cost of this war: The first 7 days of war in Lybia cost at least 12 million euro to Italy, UK spent at least 20 and USA more than 400 – of which 130 million only for Tomahawk missiles fired so far: each of them cost 750.000 euro.
The most expensive part of the Italian mission is the air attack: the 32 sorties of Italian Tornados cost 10 million euro. Each sortie is 300.000 euro if anti-radar Harm missiles of 200.000 euro each are not dropped.
Armageddon: From the viewpoint of the bigger picture, the world is steadily in a conflict status. Taxes are raised and the money collected will serve the purpose of bombing other countries to secure resources instead of investing in its the own population. Why building value to destroy it in the war? Why raising public debts in spiral way? Already now we see bigger slices of populations in western countries getting poorer, and this is just the beginning. Weapon industry will get stronger and with more power they will increasingly invest in R&D to come up with more sophisticated weaponry. What kind of future is in store for us?
Key takeaway points: To conclude, let's go over together on what we shall remember:
Lybia revolution is different to Egypt and Tunisia revolutions. In case of other arab countries the revolts were spontaneous and justified, in the case of Lybia the revolution has been organized by foreign powers to effect a regime change and seize local resources
The war is not a humanitarian expedition, but its purpose is to bend Lybia to the imperialists' will
The humanitarian intervention concept has been upgraded: no need to wait for massacres to be carried out but in this case fears of bloodbaths were enough to intervene even if Gheddafi had not done them (yet)
This article does not want to defend Gheddafi who is most likely a criminal, but would like to highlight how the Human Development Index of his country is the highest of Africa with high expectancy of life (78) and with doubled or tripled salaries since Gheddafi's rise to power
The arab consensus from neighbouring countries was the fruit of an exchange: the light on violent repressions in these countries would have been turned off on the mainstream media if they accepted to support the attack on Lybia
EU ambassadors in Lybia have backed proposals by Gaddafi's regime to establish an indipendent mission to assess the situation on the ground but this has remained unanswered
Personal conclusion: Finance, oil, imperialism, militarization, globalisation: all is part of the New World Oder's agenda; therefore I reckon that the Lybian population will get out of these troubled times if they will oppose alltogether to the neocolonialist invasion; this is the scenario we need to hope for.
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