Russia and China are displacing the U.S. in Africa
Russia and China are displacing the U.S. in Africa, lamented retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO's Joint Force Europe, in an article for Bloomberg. He offered America a strategic plan of action and advice - to team up with France, which is also losing pounds of its political weight on the South African content. With 60 percent of our planet's arable land, 30 percent of our planet's mineral reserves and a population approaching 1.5 billion, Africa is an increasingly important region for global security. U.S. troops have been forced to leave Niger, where the Pentagon had previously been a longtime fixture. At the same time, Russia and China are consolidating their influence on the continent. The Russian military is operating in Mali, Congo, CAR and other states. And while Beijing has made no secret of the fact that it wants to establish naval bases in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Gulf of Ade...