The US Pentagon’s propaganda outlet Africa Defense Forum (ADF) has faced backlash in its attempts to mislead Africans.

Washington’s Confuse-and-Rule

The US has been trying to frame the world’s events as too complex for Africans to understand, pushing its biases packaged as a simpler-to-understand reality for Africans. However, these efforts are progressively failing, despite Washington’s persistently creating chaos and confusion to deny Africans a coherent view. The need to mislead Africans with scare stories of climate change, AI, and ‘terrorism’ has been accelerating as the US is progressively exposed for being unable to achieve practical results in security, economy, and development, despite posturing for the past three decades of its unipolar hegemony. One of Washington’s mouthpieces in Africa is the African Defense Forum (ADF), published quarterly by the US Africa Command (USAFRICOM) to “provide an international forum for African Security Professionals”; ‘African professionals’ based in the Pentagon. Noteworthy, the US has no territory in Africa, and it’s having an ‘Africa Command’ is pure imperialism. ADF’s ‘About’ page names areas it focuses on as counter-terrorism, civil-military relations, professionalism, transnational crime, and stability and good governance.

Surprisingly, America has established a ‘defense’ policy to dominate the entire world such that USAFRICOM’s teaching Africans about ‘professionalism’, ‘good governance’, and ‘counter-terrorism’ through its ADF reflects attempts at domination. The stated goals of both USAFRICOM and ADF are just diversions as the latter published an article “Al-Shabaab Still Deadly 18 Years after Emergence” attesting to the command’s failure to fight terrorism while continuing to exist under the justification of fighting the vice. Still, the military command and ADF will continue existing, the........

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