15k upvotes on r/politics, at least the comments don't totally suck (but boy are some people really trying)
"The Biden Administration used next-generation 'green bombs' in the latest airstrikes on Syria, these eco friendly explosives discharge seeds upon impact and bury them in the rubble."
Yo that's dope. Didn't know we could link shit in emojis.
AP NEWS/REUTERS 2032: "Biden Admin-era 'Green Bombs' found to have seeded massive wave of invasive plant life in Syria, destroying crop fields and unbalancing delicate ecosystem currently deteriorating under mounting effects of climate change"
Neolibs be like "targeted drone strikes rarely result in collateral damage. Diamond Joe is based. NATO is based" then this news story drops and they don't bat an eye. To be fair I would rather Biden in charge than most of his neoliberal ghoul counterparts, he was the only one in the control room who didn't want to authorize the SEALs to take out OBL back in 2010 which they use as an example of Obama being the Based droney good man but I think is a good sign of Biden's instincts being to use less force if at all possible.
-Soulja
We already know the military will act on their own when the President doesn't do what they want because that's what they did with Trump. The bad part of this is that because it's Biden and a "good man" in office, when it happens again nobody will care or notice. Any suggestion that it happens again will be written off as a wild conspiracy. If he refuses to bomb targets they want to bomb, they'll just cut him out of the loop.
I think something else I wanted to convey is that this headline of "we almost killed these innocent people but didn't" doesn't really leave me feeling much better about our presence in the middle east lol.
It gives me serious "we are a moral army" vibes and it's an obvious propaganda play. Am I just a giant lib for pointing this out because everyone else here already sees that?
No it’s a good point. If the DoD was trying to push a deliberate PR story to try and associate Biden’s presidency with “American imperialism but moral” this is exactly what they’d draw up. (but yes you probably are a giant lib regardless)
-Soulja
Oh yeah, this def plays into that big MRA talking point about men being viewed as disposable by feminists; dead men don't make headlines etc.
First you say no collateral deaths.
Later there's a dire situation where an exception seems warranted.
Then the exception becomes the rule.
When you're so high on imperialism you actually believe the president has to be told town might have women and children in it.
Yesterday I was about to beat up this guy but then I saw that he had glasses and thought "Nah... Fuck it"
Well, I’ll let my consent be manufactured and say Obama would have gone ahead with the second strike, so plus one for Biden I guess
The intention of the strike was to signal to leadership in Iran that the new administration would respond to provocation in the Middle East but is not seeking to escalate tensions. The Journal reports officials as saying that a confidential message was also sent to Tehran following the strike to reinforce the point.
The president would like you to know that he's not escalating, and if Iran does anything that irritates his foreign policy ambitions it's because they're the escalators.
I'm going to walk forwards and throw missiles out like this, and if you get hit it's your own fault
