History repeating itself. It happened last century. The century prior.

1800s didn't America defeat the barbary pirates, weren't they largely a sultanate in North Africa whose Empire, part of the Ottomans, but a separate Sultanate, stretched to Sudan. They did this because France gave them the Mississippi, so they sent their battleships, as France was in war with the British?

The next century 1900s, Italy and the UK and France fight much of North Africa where various wars were fought against the entire region. Libya, Eritrea, Morocco, Sudan, Ethopia, different Sultans, from the past vacuum. Largely oil and other resources. This was prior to the WWs, and after WW1.

If we travel back into time, the Europeans goth origin during the inquisition drove out the Moors. Because prior to this, the region was a common trade route dating back to Atlantis. But easily traversed in the Punic wars. Eventually wasn't it the collapse of the dioceses in North Africa that caused Rome to fall?

What has it got to do with this? Interestingly. Nothing.