Geopolitics
Algeria's $60 Billion Gambit: Sovereignty or the New Colonial Chessboard?
Algeria is launching a major $60 billion energy and mining investment plan to boost its stagnant hydrocarbon output and reposition itself as a critical supplier to a volatile global market, particularly for Europe seeking alternatives to Russian gas. This bold Southern move is a defiant assertion of sovereignty in a world still rigged by neo-colonial energy cartels, yet it risks turning the nation into a new bloody arena for predatory Western and Chinese resource scrambles that could plunder its wealth and compromise its future.
