There are still empires... France is still in Africa, the USA has a fancy new drone base in Niger to protect Europe's Nigeria sourced natural gas pipeline, not

There are still empires... France is still in Africa, the USA has a fancy new drone base in Niger to protect Europe's Nigeria sourced natural gas pipeline, not to mention Obama started incursions into 7 African nations. China plagiarized the USA Imperialist playbook from the 50s to the 80s and is currently implementing it in Africa to good effect, even created their own analogue to the imperialist and exploitative IMF and World Bank, the Asian Development Bank. An then you got Russia.