Let's say European countries decide to colonize Africa again. Every country attacks their old colonies. Would they actually be able to conquer them and hold on to them as long as they want like they did back in the day? No politics involved

unc we in 2025 what recognizing are you talking about while in 20 years Europe will be colonised by Africa

>>213617698 (OP)
if no other countries got in our way and we got 5-10 years time preparation, would be really determined to do it and act with absolute ruthlessness, probably yes. But Tanzania and Cameroon have large populations now, we would have to be brutal to subdue them. Namibia and Togo would be less problematic, we would just have to build up troop numbers and an expeditionary capability, but that's within our abilities as an industrialized nation.

An under appreciated aspect of US hegemony is that they keep euros from chimping out and invading Africa again.
USSR wasnt the sole protagonist in forcing Europe to decolonize Africa.

>>213617698 (OP)
Depends if non-Europeans such as the US and China can intervene.

>>213617698 (OP)
I checked and all our ex colonies combined have only ~100mil people, should be pretty doable

We'd unironically get buttfucked by Russia funding Jihadis

>>213617698 (OP)
Nah. China is too invested in buying Africa to let that happen. I also think Russia would take the opportunity to move further West.

>>213617756
US and USSR deciding only they can be colonial empires who exploit and genocide natives.

>>213617698 (OP)
No lol, In the peak of European colonialism (1900s), Europeans made up 1/3rd of the world population. Europe was the birthplace of the industrial revolution, it made their population explode to unmatched levels meanwhile other races were still stuck with pre industrial population levels. This was fundamental in conquest, it wasnt only the technological level like many believe, that allowed them to dominate.
Today the whole world has experimented the industrial population boom, the difference in power balance just isnt enough to go back to how it was.

>>213617819
We can laser-gas-nuke them from orbit now though

>>213617698 (OP)
African militaries could easily be defeated in a conventional war but the guerillas and insurgents would be a nightmare to deal with.

>>213617819
Population balance can be fixed easily if non-Europeans don't intervene

Chaina should drain everthing and fuck everyone.
And we need to send all boat africans to china then = win.

no. no other powers would tolerate it would fund insurgencies that'd bleed every nation dry very quickly.

>>213617909
The chinese would unironically put them all in concentration camps, if they don't sink the ships and let them drown first

New rules
>other countries can't intervene
>countries are only allowed to attack their old colonies according to the map
>they can't work together or against each other.
>selling weapons etc. are allowed but budgets and economies of each country should be taken into consideration.
>no nukes

>>213618013
What about our colonies? Can we work together with the French/British/Afrikaners since they also held those for a time? Or is it strict adherence to the pre-ww1 borders?

>>213618013
The real obstacle in this scenario is the population in the European countries. Most aren't going to support the war effort or bloodshed required. If for some reason they supported it I think they could do it.

>>213618519
They support the greater israel project just fine. They will 100x support the bloodshed required.

>>213617957
>The chinese would unironically put them all in concentration camps
How? They don't have an experienced army and they would rather sell products to people than camp them.

>>213619851
And Chinese frequently immigrate out into SEA/Korea illegally so the state isn't exactly to obsessive over border policing outside of drugs.

>>213617751
>we got 5-10 years time preparation
That assumes that they aren't militarizing or that Gwrmany isn't being cheap or massively bloating and grafting the process which is super unlikely. Pretty much every Euro state lost the ability to actually have a military sector