how awful :hillary-apartment:
Too much conspiracizing in these comments. Sometimes good things happen, people.
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Honestly, Fuck you. This isn’t good. We are just letting our control over the world slip. What would you say to the trans drone pilot who lost their fucking job?
The flip side of that is that the drones are coming back to the US.
the site seems extremely reputable, having volunteers/journalists from the middle east to assist in reporting
The doubt is that he's actually ceasing imperial activity and not just building political capital to start bombing a different place.
The "Axis of evil" has shifted. It's being centered back on South America and China.
That's fair, Africa is definitely on the list. Especially with Somalia being absolutely leveled in the past 10 years. Black Ops in South America, boots on the ground in Africa, and a shifting of all naval force to the South China sea.
Not bombing China, but moving forces that way. Bombing South America is not out of the question though. Especially Venezuela.
We assist in the "anti-terror" campaigns in the Philippines and Indonesia, so yeah checks out. We will just shift our drones to blowing up villages on islands instead of deserts
THIS FUCKING SUCKS. What a step backwards. Senile Joe fucks up on foreign policy again. I don’t have a voice there, unfortunately. But don’t worry, it’s not all bad at work: we’re coming for your student loans and just passed an infrastructure bill with very little money for the public transit grift
pivot to asia? or logistical crisis? I'm pleasantly surprised but like... why would they do this?
edit: or some more amerikkkan shit with data? but there's separate categories of claimed and alleged strikes so
The War on Terror has basically petered out and they're switching to the new cold war with China. It's good that this is happening, but it's bad that the thing that's replacing it is the possibility of thermonuclear war.
maybe some of these often drone striked countries are getting defacto protection from China now?
Wait is that seriously comparing what Biden has done in his 10 months in office side-by-side with Obama's 96 months?
Yeah that comparison is pretty sus, but it does seem like the program has tapered off.
Drone strikes haven't fully stopped and probably won't, Biden has all but said as such. They have decreased by about 80%, which - I'm just saying it takes 5 minutes to vote in a vote-by-mail state and this was worth the 5 minutes.
And yeah, Trump expanded the drone war leagues beyond what Obama did. I was not expecting Biden to massively scale back the drone war after 15 uninterrupted years of expanding it.
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There was absolutely no evidence he would end drone strikes before the election. There was no good reason to vote for Biden.
Come on, this was worth that family in Kabul, it takes 15 min of your life to vote, like how they will never get even 15 more minutes alive again.
Again, there was absolutely zero evidence he would do this. And what family in Kabul, the one Biden drone striked already? I don't think voting for Biden helped them any.
That's my point. They die in Biden's vengeful warmongering, maybe they would otherwise, but regardless this is what you are voting for. I am saying voting for Biden means killing them, whatever minimizing of drone strikes has to be put in the context of THIS still happening. If it is such a big deal and you really ought to vote for Biden, then what are they? Acceptable loses?
Americans are so ready at the drop of a hat to defend their empire and slightly less bloodied hands. People want an excuse to endorse or support crimes while feeling a bit better about it. I don't give kudos or props, let alone a vote to the man who blew up a family and said it was fair game
You realize I was agreeing with your comment right?
Trump literally turned over strike authorization to the military, Biden took that back and isn't authorizing every strike like Obama/Trump did prior to turning it over
interesting question that isnt fully answered in the thread
may or may not be a factor but its hard not to be suspicious
they say they use multiple gov sources (NATO, British, Russian) and middle eastern volunteers/journalists to arrive at the numbers, not solely sourced from the US
So proud that he didn't do any between Dec 2021 and Jan 2025 :biden-leftist:
All the people who came of age in the post9/11 Bush years and watched the failures of Obama's foreign policy are now employed in the lower echelons of the state and are not buying anti-insurgency spending (not counting internal police spending). Now it's all about China and developing power projection.
EDIT: The transitory phase of a crumbling empire where insurgency tactics are turned inward and outward power projection is amplified to a series of points.
