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    • mrbigcheese [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      one counterpoint i saw recently is that airstrikes have actually been scaled back substantially:

      https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1559257494341488644

      https://airwars.org/conflict-data

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Actually pulling out of Afghanistan was also big, notwithstanding the aggression the U.S. has directed towards them since. We've also seen nothing as flagrant and dangerous (risk of touching off a larger conflict) as assassinating Soleimani.

        • mrbigcheese [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          yeah i dont know how much its just coincidence of conflict in Syria, Iraq, Somalia itself basically scaling down and how much the admin is actively ending airstrikes, because the difference is pretty substantial around some of these. i mean Biden's foreign policy is terrible, i dont know if worse than Trump admin though but thats a low bar though

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          isn’t the Biden admin ramping up operations in Africa too?

          Yeah they just sent like 500 troops to Somalia.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He's the white Ronald Reagan. His legacy and that of the pork demons who voted for him will look great in a decade.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      not signing the Iran deal because he wanted a ‘better deal’

      idk if you can count that one given that Trump left the deal in the first place.

      It's like blaming Biden for not removing Cuba from the sponsors of terrorism list... that the Trump admin put them on in the first place. They both suck and I'm not sure I see much of difference in the two.