War, for those in power, is a game of power and profit; for powerful countries, it is a way to grab the interests of other countries. But for ordinary civilians, war is synonymous with disaster, once there is a war, the light is displaced, the heavy is destroyed, even if you can escape the gunfire, you have to endure the test of famine.
Just like Somalia, which was once the overseas trading point of "Zheng He's Voyage to the West", it has experienced various wars in the past two hundred years. Although Somalia gained independence from the British in the 1960s, it also spent 26 years of relative peace. But with a war against repressive rule, the somali country has been mired in years of war.
Somali residents have to worry about the war on the one hand, and on the other hand, they have to make a living under the muzzle of the gun. But even so, anarchy in Somalia has erupted in a humanitarian crisis, especially for the southern population, which is facing a test of life and death.
In such circumstances, the United Nations decided to go ahead and improve the lives of the local population. Initially, the United Nations organized UNOSOM, sending observers to organize humanitarian relief work on the ground in Somalia. But rescue efforts came to a standstill because of attacks by local warlords.
Subsequently, the United Nations decided to deploy peacekeeping forces in Somalia, and it was at this time that the United States took the initiative to ask for help and was willing to go to Somalia to "uphold justice" and "solve the problem of famine and save refugees.". So why, in the name of "solving the famine", the American soldiers, as soon as they arrived on the ground, copied the guys, can they solve the famine with weapons?
In fact, this also speaks to america's ulterior motives. The United States traveled to Somalia not just for humanitarian relief. For the United States, humanitarian relief is nothing more than a passport to ensure their reasonable and legal access to Somalia.
Moreover, the U.N. resolution's "by all means" regulations to deliver food to aid refugees in the South also give U.S. troops the right to use weapons locally without restriction. In this way, U.S. forces, cloaked in the guise of peacekeepers, carried out "political missions" in Somalia.
In the U.S. military's mission list, two tasks are the most important. One is to ensure that local oil extraction rights remain in the hands of U.S. companies. In fact, before peacekeepers entered Somalia and before the overthrow of the Barre regime, the United States had acquired more than two-thirds of Somalia's oil exploitation rights. In the eyes of the United States, no matter how the war is fought, the oil must go to the United States.
Moreover, long before the somali war, the United States had infiltrated Somalia and intended to firmly control the country in its own hands. It can be said that the United States entered Somalia in the melee, not for humanitarian relief, but to protect the right to extract oil on the ground.
As for the second task of the US military, it is to ensure that the regime killed from the melee is "close enough to the United States." Therefore, the United States hopes to help some warlords close to the United States to establish an "American order" in the local area by intervening in the local civil war by force. But because of the revolt of other warlords and the antipathy toward the Americans, the U.S. support program was severely frustrated.
It can be seen that the United States itself did not regard humanitarian assistance as a task, so it did not hesitate to participate in the Somali civil war and try to "solve the famine".