Quote (Kosmos @ Sep 11 2020 05:10pm)
Yes, I'm the one lacking a general education and "knowlage"
Since you seem to be so "educated" you would know that he has repeatedly touted and bragged about billions in arms sales to Saudi Arabia(which is especially hilarious with his recent attacks against his own generals, and previous brags about giving the military everything they wanted, claiming they only want to make the defense contractors happy, how odd that he has been making them very happy with his arms deals), he vetoed a bill to end U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen(which also ties into the arms sales fueling said war), massively expanded bombing campaigns across the world including a record number in Afghanistan(while also doing away with the rules requiring the reporting of civilian deaths), he increased the Pentagon's budget for the fifth consecutive year to the point where it's now near Iraq War levels, added billions to a Pentagon slush fund specifically for war fighting(which he's also raided for his wall because he can't get his own people to agree to pay for it, and has bragged about sending U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia would pay for it. You don't get to pretend that trump is a saint after dropping a MOAB and assassinating a general (which he also threatened to target cultural sites if they retaliated over. Even approved airstrikes and called them back while they were in air and ships in position. You don't get to start a conflict and then stop just short of pulling the trigger and act like you're saving people)
And that does not even include what he has been doing to his own citizens and residents(legal and illegal) of this country, or did you forget his tear gassing for a photo op or his cosplayers in camo gear rounding people up?
Now let's look at your list. He hasn't started an armed conflict with any nation? not for a lack of trying, and he hasn't ended any, he has continued existing ones. He hasn't actually pulled back troops from the middle east, but he most certainly abandoned our allies and gave up a military base to Russia during his "withdraw' so Turkey could move in, which was actually just him assigning them somewhere else. They're talking about pulling a few k out of Iraq(which is also funny because he threatened to sanction Iraq over their response to the assassination he okayed), when they were told to GTFO back in January, yet we still haven't seen anything about that actually happening. He had fuck all to do with israel and the UAE, two countries that weren't even at war with each other, which is actually just another arms deal for fueling more conflicts in the region. He hasn't done a damn thing in regards to North and South Korea except legitimize Kim's position and give him more propaganda to work with. Not to mention he spent a significant amount of time antagonizing them.
You can criticize Obama's foreign policy all you want, I've criticized it plenty my self, his continued Bush era bombing campaigns and extra-judiciary killing of a US citizen was a gorram travesty(but guess what? trump's first mission as president that he botched ended up with a dead serviceman and the death of another member of that very same family that Obama took out, who also happens to be a US citizen, in an operation that they changed their story numerous times about why they were there and claimed to have gathered LOADS of intel over and yet have nothing to show for it.) But to sit here and pretend that he's a saint compared to Obama is not only wrong, it's so divorced from reality that it actually pains me to read it.
Oh and his recent bragging about protecting Mohammed bin Salman from Congress over his killing and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashogg, who was a permanent US resident, who was also working towards his citizenship, who had two children who were also US citizens that lived here. And then bypassing congress to sell more arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, while also vetoing three separate resolutions to block said sales, after he was murdered? yeah, he's such a saint.
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Oh and speaking of his current campaigns in Afghanistan, six of Oregon's CH-47 Chinook helicopters that would've been used to fight the fires in Oregon are currently in the middle east.
This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Sep 11 2020 04:43pm