• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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      That’s just objectively wrong, but go ahead with the disinformation.

      If we consider the Koran War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq War, Trump joins Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower in not having officially brought the United States into a new war since 1945. - Linkhttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-modern-us-presidents-new-wa-idUSKBN2A22SN

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        Fwiw, all he said was that Trump was the first president in his lifetime to not start a new war. If he was born in 2016 or after, this would be correct by default. And judging by the quality of their comment, I wouldn’t put it past them

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        Unless the person you replied to is almost 70 years old, Eisenhower wasn’t president during their lifetime. They’d have to be over 50 for Nixon to have been, 60 for kennedy, 45 for Ford, 42 for Carter.

        Reagan, Clinton, and Obama are probably the only ones applicable from your list, and “starting new wars” can be applied to a few of them in terms of the USA becoming infolved, as others have mentioned.

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        Obama involved us in Syria and supported the Saudis bombing Yemen.

        Clinton got involved in the Balkans.

        Reagan funded rebel groups in South America.

        Carter… Actually idk anything this far back.

        You should listen to Noam Chomsky. He’s very very liberal and has some good criticisms of the US involvement overseas. I don’t agree with everything he says but it’s worth listening to.

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      That’s your takeaway?

      This would be like watching all of Breaking Bad and saying Walter White was just trying to earn some cash for his family.

      Astounding.

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      I mean he certainly tried to start a civil war, he’s just so yuge of a failure at everything he does he bungled it.

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        I don’t care about that. I care about the fact that American soldiers committed fewer murders with Trump as president compared to GWB or Obama as president.

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          “The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families,” Trump said.

          The Trump administration’s quiet decision this week to roll back part of an Obama-era transparency rule that mandated reporting of civilian casualties from airstrikes has renewed the stark debate over who dies, and how, in U.S. military action abroad.

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          Well its pretty convenient to state that your guy didnt kill anyone if he orders the military and government to stop keeping count, now doesn’t it?

          Thats like saying you arent broke because you refuse to look at your bank account and see those overdraft notices.

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      Biden actually pulled us out of Afghanistan. Trump had 4 years and punted. So -1 war count for Biden vs trump almost starting shit with Iran.

      Ya want less war. Bidens your guy. It’s like he had a kid that served

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      He literally wanted to bomb Mexico. What planet are you from?

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        likewise I don’t care about America’s internal issues. The part I care about is that he killed fewer people than his predecessors.