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Ursprungligen postat av
GretaFlintstones
Så fort Trump sa någonting om att dra ner på krigandet gick ju hela demokratetablissemanget inklusive msm i taket. Även krigshökar inom hans eget parti verkade inte så förtjusta i att sluta kriga.
Varför då?
Han godkände ju den största Pentagon budgetökningen i historien. Militärindustrin har aldrig beställt och smällt av så många bomber som under Trump.
Jag hävdar att ingen president Bombat Mellanöstern lika ofta som Donald Trump.
Varken Obama i sina 8 år
Bush i sina 8 år
Carter under sina 4 år
Tillsammans, har bombat så ofta som Trump beordrade Pentagon att göra.
Kanske en dag får världen reda på varför usa bygger en militärbas i Niger och varför 3 soldater dog där under Trump
Kanske en dag får världen reda på varför nästan hela Trumps kabinett bestod av lobbyister.
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Six months into Trump’s presidency, we now have enough data to assess his own approach. The results are clear: Judging from Trump’s embrace of the use of air power — the signature tactic of U.S. military intervention — he is the most hawkish president in modern history. Under Trump, the United States has dropped about 20,650 bombs through July 31, or 80 percent the number dropped under Obama for the entirety of 2016. At this rate, Trump will exceed Obama’s last-year total by Labor Day.
In Iraq and Syria, data shows that the United States is dropping bombs at unprecedented levels. In July, the coalition to defeat the Islamic State (read: the United States) dropped 4,313 bombs, 77 percent more than it dropped last July. In June, the number was 4,848 — 1,600 more bombs than were dropped in any one month under President Barack Obama since the anti-ISIS campaign started three years ago.
In Afghanistan, the number of weapons released has also shot up since Trump took office. April saw more bombs dropped in the country since the height of Obama’s troop surge in 2012. That was also the month that the United States bombed Afghanistan’s Mamand Valley with the largest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped in combat.
Trump has also escalated U.S. military involvement in non-battlefield settings — namely Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. In the last 193 days of the Obama presidency, there were 21 lethal counterterrorism operations across these three countries. Trump has quintupled that number, conducting at least 92 such operations in Yemen, seven in Somalia, and four in Pakistan.
Hand in hand with Trump’s enthusiasm for air power comes a demonstrated tolerance for civilian casualties. Increased air power in Iraq and Syria has resulted in unprecedented levels of civilian deaths. Even by the military’s own count, civilian casualties have soared since Trump took office, though independent monitors tally the deaths as many as ten times higher. In Afghanistan, Trump’s tolerance for killing civilians has led to 67 percent more civilian casualties in his first six months than in the first half of 2016, according to the United Nations
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