Has Trump ended endless wars? Will Trump end endless wars?
https://in.reuters.com/article/usa-election-foreign-policy/factbox-the-foreign-policy-issues-that-divide-trump-and-biden-idINKBN26925L
IRAN
Trump has questioned the benefits of U.S. military interventions in
the Middle East, especially the 2003 Iraq invasion, and pulled out of a
nuclear deal reached with Iran, European nations and Russia under
President Barack Obama.
But Trump sent more troops to the region after the withdrawal increased tensions with Iran.
Biden has said he would deal with Iran through diplomacy and re-enter
the agreement, but only if Iran first resumed complying with the deal’s
restrictions on its nuclear program.
After Iranian proxies and U.S. forces clashed in Iraq, Trump ordered
the January strike that killed powerful Iranian commander Qassem
Soleimani.
Biden said the strike “put the United States and Iran on a collision
course” and proposes a narrower focus for the U.S. military in the
region on counterterrorism and working with local allies.
Biden wants to end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, which Trump has defended.
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https://www.laprogressive.com/what-difference-will-biden-make/
But one story that can be reasonably argued is that for the people of
the world subjected to U.S. state criminality, the reoccupation of the
Executive Branch by the Democrats will not bring any change in U.S.
behavior.
Both parties support the imperatives of U.S. imperialism reflected in
Trump’s 2017 National Security Strategy that centers an adversarial
relationship with Russia and China and committed to maintaining U.S.
global hegemony.
Both parties supported the obscene increases in military spending, with Biden promising that he will spend even more!
The rightist character of the Democratic Party is such that at their national convention the alignment of right-wing #neocons and #neoliberals is not even being hidden.
So, while the fear is supposed to be around a further growth of
“fascist” forces represented by Trump domestically, for the people of
the world the real fascism of
anti-democratic, brutal regimes supported by the U.S.,
murderous sanctions,
STARVATION in Yemen, and
right-wing coups in support of fascist forces in Honduras, Brazil and Venezuela
will continue unabated.
This is precisely why from the perspective of oppressed nations and
peoples’ in the global South, it should not be surprising that some
might see progressive and radical support for either colonial/capitalist
party as an immoral and counterrevolutionary position.
Ajamu Baraka
Black Agenda Report
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https://www.mintpressnews.com/yemen-war-poised-to-turn-more-deadly-israel-enters/271323/
Grim statistics
The numbers are astonishing.
Since 2015, Saudi-led coalition warplanes have pounded the country with over 250,000 airstrikes.
Seventy percent of those have hit civilian targets, killing more than
100,000 people since January 2016, according to a report by the Armed
Conflict and Location Event Data Project (ACLED).
Those numbers do not include those who have died in the humanitarian
disasters caused by the war, particularly STARVATION and thousands of
tons of weapons, most often supplied by the United States, have been
dropped on hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, farms, factories,
bridges, and power and water treatment plants.
#yemen #antiwar #starvation
