Last week, the US dropped its MOAB, or “Mother of All Bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used, was dropped on Afghanistan. Though ISIS denied any deaths in the attack, the Afghan government claimed 36 ISIS fighters were killed, and no civilians.
This claim, which did not include evidence of the deaths, was still a questionable outcome for the MOAB strike, dropping an $18 million bomb to kill a handful of ISIS fighters. Faced with that, the Afghan government revised the death toll upward, now claiming 94 ISIS fighters killed, none of them civilians.
Of course, this new death toll similarly came with no evidence it happened either, and the fact that the US has made no public attempt to come up with evidence themselves for the military gains created by the strikes underscores the reality that the MOAB strike wasn’t about Afghanistan at all.
Rather, with President Trump ratcheting up tensions across the world, and playing up the idea of imposing military solutions in Syria and North Korea, this strike once again plays up the narrative that he’s up for heedlessly escalating military strikes, even in a situation where the use of the MOAB wasn’t warranted nor amounted to anything. The big explosion, ultimately, was the whole point, and the death toll very much irrelevant, despite desperate attempts by the Afghan government to justify it.
Good point on it was just shock and awe, but also it kind of popped the intimidation bubble with sheer cartoonishness.
Well we now know that Jared and McMasters are having fun with their newfound power and toys!!! Chump Trump is now just a PUPPET and has ceded power to the Military. At least OBOMBUS had some balls when it came to the GENERALS!!! Chump sucks their balls!!!
The US has wiped out more people in wedding parties with a drone rocket.
Hey, this MOAB served it’s purpose. It made a whole lot of globalists feel better about their micro penises.
I’m beginning to think that Chumpster fraudster dropped the MOAB on Afghanistan for basically the same reason that Truman dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
Reminds me of Andy Rooney saying years ago that for the cost of the Vietnam war we could have given every Vietnamese a Chrysler K car instead.
How much does it cost our military geniuses to kill a bad guy?
And half of America lives in poverty
As my Dad told me
The most most fundamental freedom in America
The thing we fight and die for
Is the freedom to starve to death