Why do you suppose the US would want to do that?

Why did we invade Libya?

Libya moved away from the USD and got destroyed. Ghadaffi wanted the African countries to unite and get away from the standard. The American imperialists shut that down fast.

Note is was USD and potentially more importantly French African Franc under threat, as Europe was very involved in this.

And this likely one of several other reasons like ensuing oil/gas flowed to west. And his history of supporting terrorism. Wider arab spring and hope to remove dictatorships.

Yes exactly. Europe, specifically france, were spearheading the libyan intervention. The US was a major player too, but mostly to support their european allies. Europe still thinks of africa as its backyard, and France has an extremely neocolonial attitude in the region and openly so. They put the US to shame when it comes to unashamed imperialist interventionism in the politics of their former colonies.

> Europe still thinks of africa as its backyard

I'm not sure this is true and sound's more like wokism than reality.

Absolutly in the running example like French currency. While at the same time France do huge amounts of aid, peace keeping and anti terrorism.

I think its fairer to say most of Europe has abandoned Africa from old. And for france its kinda a dammed if you do/don't problem like with Mali recently. Some people say the french peace keepers are continuing colonialism while others complain that when they leave it makes things worse and they shouldn't.... what is right?