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That would be the 3rd unprovoked attack on a country by the president of peace. Is the US just trying to start wars with weakened countries until they finally win one? Pathetic.
Trump has authorized strikes on a whole lot more than 3 countries
Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba are the ones I assume you're thinking of
We've also struck Yemen, Somalia, and Syria. Not to mention the attacks on civilian vessels in the Caribbean
No, Trump is trying to distract from his failures as a human being. He thought Iran would be easy - it wasn't. So he's going after someone he thinks is weaker to keep the distractions going & expecting the usual wartime support from "patriotic Americans." He's worn them out already & ain't likely to get much, IMHO.
I so want out of this shithole.
Way more than three.
Venezuela: In January 2026, U.S. forces bombed Caracas and captured President Nicolás Maduro after months of a naval buildup, oil tanker blockades, and anti-drug strikes in the Caribbean.
Iran: The U.S. carried out joint strikes with Israel (including Operation Midnight Hammer) targeting key nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
Yemen: The U.S. military expanded its air and naval campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen and the Red Sea to protect commercial shipping lanes.
Somalia: U.S. warplanes launched counterterrorism strikes against Islamic State (IS) operatives hiding in the Golis mountains.
Iraq and Syria: The military conducted airstrikes to hit ISIS positions and defend U.S. service members from hostile fire.
Nigeria: U.S. forces executed targeted air strikes against local Islamic State militant groups
Yeah, Islamic State and Houthis, famous non-provokers
the reasons the US claim are irrelevant, certainly propaganda, and probably lies. the US is doing military action in these places. the US is a terrorist state.
Mmmm hmmm, poor ISIS, being terrorized by the US. They just want to vibe and chop some heads off, but mean ole Uncle Sam hates them :'(
After the U.S. invasion, the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer banned senior Ba'ath Party members from government jobs and dissolved the Iraqi Armed Forces.
This mass dislocation of soldiers became the root of opposition to US occupation and eventually the core of the ISIS movement.
Incidentally, also a group the United States clumsily expended in their efforts to harass Iraq's neighbors.
They didn't just ban senior members, they banned every member from all kinds of public employment. And under Saddam, you had to be a Ba'ath party member to hold public employment.
That means that if you were a teacher or a bank clerk in Saddam's Iraq, you couldn't work as a teacher under US occupation. So hundreds of thousands of working people were thrown out of the economy overnight, and a small fraction that large number went on to form Daesh.
I had no idea that they were just minding their own business and the US forced them to chop those people's heads off and take women as sex slaves, who knew
You think that's what happened in 2003?
Nobody's defending Daesh, who were scum. It is however a fact that Daesh came into being as a result of irresponsible US policies during the occupation of Iraq. That doesn't absolve them of responsibility, but it illustrates that US policy in the Middle East has been cruel and destructive for a long time.
It is also a fact that the now-president of Syria who was recently invited to the White Construction Site founded a Syrian terror organization which used much of the same tactics as ISIS, became the Syrian wing of al-Qaeda (remember them?) and that he personally approved Oct7-style attacks on Israel (which were thwarted).
yeah. not like the isis folks arent at all locals who have had girls schools blown up by america so they can control oil.
houthis are provokers, but in good cause.
Like most autocrats, he's just trying to get his country bogged down in as many emergency-powers humanitarian nightmares as possible to avoid going to jail.
just like another autocrat doing the same thing, whom usa is very keen on supportingv with AID.
Not the behavior one would expect of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
Well, so far all FIFA peace prize winners behaved like that 🤔
Yes. Ever since Zelelesky told Trump that Ukraine's elections were suspended over the war he's been desperate to get the US into a full-scale war of its own.
To add to this, I've always heard that if you can't make money in a war your a fool. I mean look how much trump has made this presidency already with the shit he's caused. Gotta feed the military industrial complex!
No, he just wants people to stop talking about the Epstein Files. He'll torch the world to achieve that goal.
The Trump Files featuring Jefrey Epstein
jean E carroll recently been in the news thats why.
Lol, he's not capable of winning anything. That's why he cheated in every election
He won the spot as World's Biggest Fuckwit so there's that..
Can't do election shenanigans "because war" if no war.
Iran will not let them out until after the midterms, there's your war (undeclared like everything since WW2).
That's why he created the Bored of Peace