this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
77 points (77.3% liked)

US News

364 readers
1 users here now

News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
77
A reminder : (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Rest of the thread

I'm sure that you can hardly do worse than Trump, but still. Here's the famous associated meme :

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In 2016 alone, the US under Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa (3 bombs every hour), up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia. He authorized 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush. 1

[โ€“] Hazdaz 0 points 1 year ago

Good for him. If he signed-off on more air raids using real fighter jets you people would be complaining about that instead. If you think this changes anything, you are deluded.