PC: American airstrikes on Aparthied South Africa

Say hardliners take control of South Africa and Aparthied continues

Could United States end up launching air strikes on a surviving Aparthied South Africa similar to Yugoslav wars in either 1990s or early 2000s

Would this encourage a black uprising
 
Say hardliners take control of South Africa and Aparthied continues

Could United States end up launching air strikes on a surviving Aparthied South Africa similar to Yugoslav wars in either 1990s or early 2000s

Would this encourage a black uprising

ANC was going the non-violent route at the time, unless the Gov are putting large numbers of people(ANC or not) into barely disguised Concentration Camps, and attacking their neighbors like the Serbs were doing-- really doubtful
 
Only scenario I can see is if they thought the South African nuclear weapons program, rightly or wrongly, was a serious threat.
 
There is zero.nada chance that the US will bomb a bunch of white people to protect blacks.
Americans are equal opportunity bombers ;)

but I think they would if the situation was dire enough, we sanctioned south Africa and took other measures to get the point across. America has actually tried to do some good in Africa, not always with success granted, and not always with the best of intentions, but honestly better than a lot of others ..

America is no more filled with racists than anywhere else. they are just more apt to report and talk about it, and after the early 70's America was pretty much done with its sanctioned apartheid nature. America has its issues, but America quite often trys to do more for others than it does for its own

so I wouldn't say 0% .. but somewhere around 10-20%

but one could also say that we prefered to do nothing after Vietnam and let them fix their own problems. unlike the soviets in Angola or Ethiopia and other places in Africa.
 
At the same time it must be remembered that until recently the USA and S. Africa had actually been on the same side of the Angolan Civil War, though the US had only provided clandestine support to UNITA/FNLA. The fighting had ended in 1989, and it is probable that the end of the Cold War would radically reshape the geopolitical situation a la Iraq. Also, it must be remembered that as bad as apartheid was, there was no active genocide happening in the same way that there was in the former Yugoslavia. So, unless there is a massive elevation in conflict in S. Africa and the US exhausts all other options, it seems highly unlikely that the US sends bombers to South Africa right off the bat without first arming rebels, etc.
 
You'd need a South African civil conflict and a Boer government with strong Nazi parallels to actually start doing crazy things before it got to the point of American bombardment. Think a Third Boer War but the Boers have R4s with nukes. Of course divulging their likely partners in acquiring them might solve the problem...
 
Even today, there's still a fairly prominent section of American society sympathetic to white nationalism/supremacy. These people would never support bombing a white apartheid regime to support a bunch of black socialist rebels.
 
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