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Bolton unveils Trump's strategy for Africa
CNN Politics ^ | December 14, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 12/14/2018 11:33:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

US national security adviser John Bolton unveiled President Trump's strategy for Africa, outlining a plan that he said focuses heavily on countering China and Russia's expanding influence across the region....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: africa; bolton; trump; trumpafrica

1 posted on 12/14/2018 11:33:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Leave it alone..........................


2 posted on 12/14/2018 11:36:12 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Africa is sh!thole central. It has destroyed every superpower that tried to tame it. Let the Chicoms and Rooskies learn the hard way.


3 posted on 12/14/2018 11:59:19 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Africa would benefit from a period of “benign neglect. “


4 posted on 12/14/2018 12:05:54 PM PST by Oratam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Asshattery. Leave it alone.


5 posted on 12/14/2018 12:06:10 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bolton has a neocon plan for Africa. You know..., because their operations in the middle East, Libya, and Ukraine went so well.


6 posted on 12/14/2018 12:10:48 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s only one thing I’d do with Africa and that’s add it to the list of countries that cannot enter the U.S.


7 posted on 12/14/2018 12:17:12 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is our strategy for America? This is where we are being destroyed, not in Asia, Europe of Africa.

Why is Trump letting Pompeo & Bolton play Neoon world police games? I voted specifically against that.


8 posted on 12/14/2018 12:21:17 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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We should just build a giant fence around the continent and not allow anybody to enter it. Like that island off the coast of india


9 posted on 12/14/2018 12:26:16 PM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Egypt and the Suez Canal - focus a lot on that.

If any African country has substantial uranium deposits then focus a bit on that too.

10 posted on 12/14/2018 12:31:44 PM PST by relee (Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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Me Tarzan you Jane?


11 posted on 12/14/2018 12:34:59 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (I taught AOC everything she knows, and it only took five minutes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t think that black Africans really understands what will happen if they’re controlled by China and/or Russia. It would be fun to watch, tho.


12 posted on 12/14/2018 12:39:24 PM PST by myerson
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13 posted on 12/14/2018 12:40:02 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

China’s all about maximizing profits always...Africa affords them natural resource abundance for very low-skilled labor to mine these along with weak or unstable governments so it can sustain control over it’s projects.

Plus they love loaning to 3rd world countries who cannot pay back....thus China ends up with ownership of the projects...be it ports, roads whatever.

Rather like the IMF who creates debtor nations....only they choose who runs those countries to a large part....China just wants ownership....until they’re ready to take over.


14 posted on 12/14/2018 12:40:37 PM PST by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like Afgahnistan, the rare earth elements and oil resources are why we involve ourselves in these sh!thole countries in the first place.

Imho.

5.56mm


15 posted on 12/14/2018 1:00:23 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: caww

Let China have it. They have the balls to control the people and I’m OK with that so long as they keep them there. China will need new frontiers when their motherland gets too polluted. Imagine sitting down to a meal of General Tso’s Gazelle or Kung Pao Rhino. With Spring Bok Spring Roles.


16 posted on 12/14/2018 6:34:45 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: DesertRhino

Bolton must be channeling Teddy Roosevelt again.


17 posted on 12/14/2018 6:38:45 PM PST by TADSLOS (I wish Adam and Eve had been Cajuns. They would have ignored the apple and ate the snake.)
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