Looking at East Africa and the United States, although both had few footholds in Northwest Africa—East Africa had Togoland and Dahla, while the United States had only Liberia—the roles they could play were far greater.
For example, in his previous life, during World War II and the Cold War, Monrovia, Liberia's capital, had rendered outstanding service to the construction of America's global hegemony.
During World War II, Port of Monrovia was an important transit hub for the United States to transport supplies, troops, and aircraft to North Africa and the European battlefield. At the time, Robertsfield Airport in Monrovia was a key hub on Pan American Airways' Atlantic shipping routes and also an important transfer base for the U.S. Air Force.
During the Cold War, the U.S. National Security Agency established enormous communications and surveillance facilities in Liberia to monitor communications in Europe, Africa, and the Soviet Union.
During World War II and the Cold War, whether America's opponents were the Axis powers or the later Soviet Union, they were all European nations. Northwest Africa was merely a secondary theater in their wars and competition with the United States.
Therefore, once the world entered an era of peace—or rather, an era of American unipolar hegemony—the United States' attention toward Liberia would naturally decline.
But after the colossal East Africa rose in Africa, the situation changed completely. Liberia was very likely to become an important long-term foothold in America's global strategy.
Even in peacetime, driven by the need to compete with East Africa, the United States would maintain military and communications facilities in places such as Monrovia for a long time, using them to monitor the East African Navy's movements in the Atlantic Ocean, as well as East Africa's trade trends.
In the future, Europe's major powers would also strengthen their