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I trust Trump about as far as I can throw him, and at the end of the day it's really the Pentagon calling the shots here not the POTUS.

But dudes clearly speaking to a public sentiment here.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Biden and the Dems are so bloodthirsty that Trump is the nominal antiwar position. I hate this fucking place

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trump is the nominal antiwar position

Trump isn't anti-war, or at least I don't trust him to be actually anti-war. He's anti-this-war, but his administration did plenty of hawkish shit towards Iran and Venezuela. I'm not even confident he'll actually do anything to deescalate in Ukraine, I think it's all bluster.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not to mention he ramped up drone strikes 400% more than obama

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

one of the few things I'm willing to give Biden credit for - he stopped the drone strikes

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

same here. and I have never heard a liberal mention it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did he really, or did he just change who's using them?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your counterpoint was valid when the Saudis were bombing Yemen, but ever since that wound down, there are legit less bombings.

Still not voting Biden, but I just believe in giving credit where it's due.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Wow. Credit where credit's due. I didn't know this.

Source

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

same with Orban vs EU

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago

The problem with Trump is not that he can't read the room. On the contrary, that's part of the problem. The room is filled with transphobic, military thumping, chauvinist, xenophobic, treat gobbling bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Gee, why doesn't he feel the same about Palestine? brow

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. us-foreign-policy

  2. Trump knows how to read the room, and ending the war in Ukraine is a rewarding grift. Ending the genocide in Palestine is not nearly as rewarding

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Our big wet boy is a huge zionist

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Love when every Republican president for the past fifty years is ideologically to biden's left

edit: they're right, Bush is the only exception (and still to Biden's left on border and immigration policy)

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

every Republican president for the past fifty years is ideologically to biden's left

Lets not overstate things, mission-accomplished was a fucking monster, probably worse than Trump and Biden.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah on second thought, he's def worse than both, probably worse than both combined depending on how you calculate that.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

come on, don't forget the oil man no-oil

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Senator Biden supported the Iraq attack 2003 and signed off on bunches of his legislation

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I always wonder how instrumental W was to the invasion plan. Not to hand it to him at all, but he always seemed just not interested in being president let alone personally make the invasion a reality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah we really memory holed who may genuinely have been the most evil US president of all time, and that's a pretty fucking serious competition

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Trump was already president and his foreign policy was pretty bad. He threw Rojavah to Turkey and was trying hard to start a war with Iran, assassinated Soleimani, and people just forgot about that when the pandemic started. He tried to coup Venezuela for guaido, remember that pathetic boat thing where they all got caught immediately? Remember the Bolivian coup that Amerikkka was almost certainly involved in?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but see that's comparatively GOOD foreign policy, just a list of failures except for assassinating that guy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Biden also has had a ton of failures. Assassinating Soleimani easily could've started a war that would've killed hundreds of thousands, we really don't need to hand it to him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

He threw Rojavah to Turkey

To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, to be her ally is fatal

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet Biden is still worse

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need an emoji of this with Trump's hair photoshopped on with how often this happens.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

A quick and dirty version

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Biden and any other POTUS runs US Imperialism by the playbook. Trump will not change US Imperialism, but he does disrupt it and panics the deep state (Industrialists and the MIC), I don't think any other POTUS would've gone to the DPRK

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Still paint me skeptical he would really do any meaningful damage.

Whatever I ain't voting for either of them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

We have a saying on Vulcan: Only Nixon can go to China, and only Trump can go to the DPRK

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