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The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist

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— Karl Marx

U.S.-Led War Games in Africa

May 26, 2025

The U.S. military’s Africa Command brought together 10,000 troops from over 40 countries from April 14 to May 23 to carry out war games in African host countries Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana, and Senegal. Outrageously, Israel sent a dozen troops from the same Golani Brigade which massacred 15 medics in Gaza in March.

The U.S. has led the African Lion military exercises for 21 years to demonstrate U.S. military supremacy over the continent of Africa. U.S. officers lead other imperialist forces in countries they formerly colonized. NATO members France, England, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Hungary sent troops. And African leaders sent soldiers to practice brother fighting brother on African soil under U.S. domination: Benin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Libya, and Nigeria. Plus armies from around 20 other countries.

This time soldiers participating in the drills got injured by mistake. But these militaries practice to get ready for the real thing: world war.