>>513784341
Resource-rich Africa is not a strategic asset in the same way as South Korea is, retard. Not only do we expect South Korea to fight for us, but it helps us contain/encircle China. The most important vassals for the United States are the ones that are immediately next to our rivals. This is why we built up Germany during the Cold War, and began building up Poland/Eastern Europe after the Cold War. And if we succeeded in prying Ukraine from Russia, we would have flooded it with cash as well. We need to keep them as dependent as possible, and make them so invested in maintaining the status quo that they'll die for us. Do you understand how empires work at all?