LWestern wars in Africa are on the increase. In 2008, the USA created Africom, a single command center for all their military operations in Africa. Since then, there has been the Ivory Coast, Libya, Mali… Not to mention Somalia and Congo, theaters of violent indirect wars for years. Africa specialist and author at Investig'Action of the chaos strategy, Mohamed Hassan explains the reasons for these repeated attacks. Led by a West in the midst of a crisis, their backdrop is the fight against China and the control of raw materials. First part of a series of three articles on the causes and consequences of the war in Mali (IGA).
What preceded: crisis and war
Since the 70s, capitalism has been in crisis. The reaction of the world leaders of capitalism in the 80s consisted of an ultraliberal policy and a bitter ideological offensive against communism. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, this policy was formulated in the famous Structural Adaptation Programs (SAPs) which severely weakened states and swept away all that remained of infrastructure and social services. In the capitalist world, all the rules have been removed, especially in the banking world. Labor laws, social security and trade union rights have also been called into question.