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Originally Posted by kalos72
Haiti doesn't have a refinery I dont think so yeah the crude mostly.
Why would the Foreign Legion be there do you think? Cuban/Haiti militias I get..  |
I just imagine that the French are trying to secure petroleum resources around the world. Hence their presence in the Persian Gulf. Personally I think if they really needed access to serious oil supplies they'd be mucking around in Libya since it's right across the Med and the French have clearly gone to some lengths to turn the Med into a French lake.
So, working from their Caribbean islands and from French Guyana, they are trying to secure any intact refineries and oil fields in the region. If Haiti (a former French colony) had some reasonably intact fields then the French would investigate the options for controlling it.
I presume the use of the Foreign Legion because I presume a massive build up in the Legion. All that military talent wandering around the planet with little in the way of food & shelter (or national authority to work with) would mean a recruiting bonanza for the Legion. They could be picky and still keep the training grounds filled to bursting. Why send French kids to die overseas when you can get some foreigners to do it for you? Especially when French citizenship may be the most valuable commodity on the planet.
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