Bidumpers, etc. Warmongers, You Must Be Proud

H. E. Panqui · Sep 16, 2020

PoS said:
So no new wars under Trump then. Thanks for proving my point.

...seems like your orange man-crush is committing 'acts of war' in many countries and GREATLY INCREASING murder and mayhem in some...bombings have apparently increased greatly under your hero...of course it's very very very hard to get any honest reporting on the murder and mayhem your stinking republicrats have inflicted and are inflicting around the planet...the $ecret $quirrels lie to you and keep you in the dark and you loooooooooooooooooooove it... you will fight over the puppet$ the puppetma$ter$ feed you... not too bright...

NYT: US Wants to Expand Drone War Into Kenya - News From Antiwar.com

NYT: US Wants to Expand Drone War Into Kenya

Trump administration has carried out a record number of airstrikes in neighboring Somalia
Dave DeCamp Posted on September 15, 2020

A report from The New York Times says the US is seeking the authority to carry out drone strikes in Kenya to attack members of al-Shabab, a militant group the US has been heavily bombing in neighboring Somalia. The drone war against al-Shabab in Somalia has dramatically increased under President Trump, who loosened the rules of engagement for the campaign in 2017.

The report, which cites four anonymous sources, says the new authorities are awaiting the approval of President Trump and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. The desire for this new authority stems from a January al-Shabab attack on Camp Simba, a military base in Manda Bay, Kenya, that houses US and Kenyan forces. The January ambush killed three Americans.

The Times sources say the new authorities are not only for self-defense but also would allow offensive strikes to stop a suspected threat. The authority would have some limitations. For instance, the US would need permission from the Kenya’s government to carry out drone strikes, which is not the case in Somalia.

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has conducted a record number of drone strikes against al-Shabab in Somalia under President Trump. In 2019, the US conducted 63 airstrikes in Somalia, the most in a single year. The first seven months of 2020 saw more US airstrikes in Somalia than were conducted during both the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, combined.

The war in Somalia is so underreported that it is tough to know how damaging it has been to the civilians on the ground. AFRICOM usually claims its airstrikes only kill militants and only occasionally have to admit to civilian deaths if there is enough outcry.

Fledermaus · Sep 16, 2020

H. E. Panqui said:
...seems like your orange man-crush is committing 'acts of war' in many countries and GREATLY INCREASING murder and mayhem in some...bombings have apparently increased greatly under your hero...of course it's very very very hard to get any honest reporting on the murder and mayhem your stinking republicrats have inflicted and are inflicting around the planet...the $ecret $quirrels lie to you and keep you in the dark and you loooooooooooooooooooove it... you will fight over the puppet$ the puppetma$ter$ feed you... not too bright...

NYT: US Wants to Expand Drone War Into Kenya - News From Antiwar.com

NYT: US Wants to Expand Drone War Into Kenya

Trump administration has carried out a record number of airstrikes in neighboring Somalia
Dave DeCamp Posted on September 15, 2020

A report from The New York Times says the US is seeking the authority to carry out drone strikes in Kenya to attack members of al-Shabab, a militant group the US has been heavily bombing in neighboring Somalia. The drone war against al-Shabab in Somalia has dramatically increased under President Trump, who loosened the rules of engagement for the campaign in 2017.

The report, which cites four anonymous sources, says the new authorities are awaiting the approval of President Trump and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. The desire for this new authority stems from a January al-Shabab attack on Camp Simba, a military base in Manda Bay, Kenya, that houses US and Kenyan forces. The January ambush killed three Americans.

The Times sources say the new authorities are not only for self-defense but also would allow offensive strikes to stop a suspected threat. The authority would have some limitations. For instance, the US would need permission from the Kenya’s government to carry out drone strikes, which is not the case in Somalia.

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has conducted a record number of drone strikes against al-Shabab in Somalia under President Trump. In 2019, the US conducted 63 airstrikes in Somalia, the most in a single year. The first seven months of 2020 saw more US airstrikes in Somalia than were conducted during both the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, combined.

The war in Somalia is so underreported that it is tough to know how damaging it has been to the civilians on the ground. AFRICOM usually claims its airstrikes only kill militants and only occasionally have to admit to civilian deaths if there is enough outcry.

Why do you dislike bombing terrorists?

H. E. Panqui · Sep 17, 2020

Fledermaus said:
Why do you dislike bombing terrorists?

[..little does fleder know but if the world champion 'terrorists' (please see dictionary) were getting bombed he probably wouldn't like it at all...but then again, maybe he's a masochist and/or america hater and he'd get a thrill running up his leg if DC was bombed!] :cuckoo:

Fledermaus · Sep 17, 2020

H. E. Panqui said:
[..little does fleder know but if the world champion 'terrorists' (please see dictionary) were getting bombed he probably wouldn't like it at all...but then again, maybe he's a masochist and/or america hater and he'd get a thrill running up his leg if DC was bombed!] :cuckoo:

Hey, look.

A non answer.

Al Shabab. Why is it evil to fight the terrorists?

H. E. Panqui · Sep 21, 2020

US Sends Mechanized Troops, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Back Into Syria - News From Antiwar.com

US Sends Mechanized Troops, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Back Into Syria | Spokesman says troops are there for force protection

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US Sends Mechanized Troops, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Back Into Syria
Spokesman says troops are there for force protection Jason Ditz Posted on September 20, 2020

Citing increased complexity in the US operation in Syria, the Pentagon has announced they will send a small contingent of mechanized infantry, and several Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles, back into northeast Syria.

Officials are describing this as a “force protection” mission, and are linking it to an incident last month in which a US vehicle was side-swiped by a Russian vehicle. The US forces in Syria are confined to a small area, and officially they are there as part of a mission to take Syria’s oil.

There are currently an estimated 500 US troops in Syria, and this deployment will see an estimated 100 more troops sent to the country. Though media reports are calling this a show of force, it’s not clear that an extra 100 troops are going to mean that much in the grand scheme of things.

These troops will be moving in through Kuwait. Though the US presence in Syria is fairly small, even 100 additional troops could be quite expensive, and make this war for oil even less economical for the Trump Administration.

H. E. Panqui · Sep 27, 2020

Arming the Planet: the USA as the World's Leading Weapons Dealer

For the past several decades, the United States has been the world’s leading producer of major weapons systems and the leader in global arms sales. More of these sales have taken place in the globe’s most volatile region, the Middle East, than in any other region of the world. The so-called...

www.counterpunch.org

"...The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress published an annual review of conventional arms transfers until 2017, when the Trump administration blocked such information from the general public. The last CRS summary appeared in 2018 and recorded that the United States ranked first in arms transfer agreements (nearly half the global total) and first in value of arms deliveries (more than one-third of global sales). Deliveries to Egypt, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia dominated U.S. sales.

Israel does not even appear on the list of weapons recipients in view of U.S. largesse, which includes President Obama’s 2016 record-breaking $38 billion deal over a ten-year period. The deal with Israel was followed by the sale of 36 Boeing F-15 fighters to Qatar and 24 Boeing F/A18 Super Hornets to Kuwait.

There has never been a more important time to debate President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning about the insidious economic, political, and even spiritual effects of what he called the “military-industrial-congressional complex.” For the past twenty years, the United States has been in a permanent state of war with a government, an economy, and a global system of military bases that virtually ensures conflict. The fact that this important issue is not part of the presidential debate of 2020 is particularly regrettable. It’s long past time for congressional leadership to take on this “complex.”