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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.