Since taking office, President Trump has set two specific trends in US military operations across the Afghan and ISIS wars. He’s talked broad escalation, and he’s also granted an ever-growing level of autonomy to military commanders.
Unsurprisingly, this has had a broad impact on the way those wars have been fought, and at this point US airstrikes in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan are all at multi-year highs, with the former two seeing their highest level of strikes in the ISIS war, and Afghanistan at its highest since 2012.
Increased autonomy means less and less obstacles to attacks, and hence more and more attacks. The US seems to believe that more attacks would necessarily improved the wars, though in Afghanistan the situation has continued to worsen throughout this latest escalation.
Officials are claiming this has yielded “progress” in Iraq, though that appears to simply be a conclusion drawn because the US has progressive increased its airstrikes throughout a period in which Iraqi forces were already retaking territory.
Pouring gas on a fire will NOT extinguish it. The USA, not North Korea, is the greatest threat to freedom and democracy on this planet! And the only reason this goes on and on and on through the years is the pathetic “awareness” of the brain dead American public. People CAN make a difference but it is going to take lots more education about REAL: FACTS AND INFORMATION before there’s enough of a majority to shake down the walls of the Deep State! I am deeply disappointed in President Trump’s capitulation to everything he said he detested during his campaign. Either he is a good liar, a coward or he is just being blackmailed or threatened to the point where he has no choice but to accede.
He’s a liar and a coward just like the rest. Seems the military industrial complex has taken over the government. Death and destruction for everyone. Including us with our corrupt military police departments.
Yipee!!!
The sick truth is that people elected, who don’t comply with Deep State wishes, are killed and replaced with loyalist imposters in costume. DC and the MSM today are criminal freak shows.