I've been thinking a lot about the US War Machine, ever since Trump decided we needed to get out of Syria. The more I think about what Trump did, the more I think his decision was an act of courage to buck the nearly unanimous deep state and Military Industrial Complex. He was putting Americans first, because I'm not sure we have any material interests in not just Syria, but in the Middle East. The fact is we create more terrorists over there through our military actions than we kill. It's a losing game and for what? Oil? We are net producers of oil. We are energy independent. We don't need Saudi Arabia and we don't need the Middle East.
There are other wars where we have no interests either. Somalia. Let's talk about blowback. In Somalia, we have an undeclared war going on and it is creating a lot of Somali refugees. The US starts to feel sorry for those refugees, because in part, we are creating them, so we give them asylum in the US. You know where many of them now live? In Minnesota. There are so many Somalis in Minnesota that they typically will vote Somalis into all their political positions. Recently, one of those Somalis elected to the US House was Ilhan Omar, one of only two Muslim women elected to the House in the last election. Ilhan Omar has since said several anti-semitic things and is a full supporter of Socialism, the Green New Deal, and anti-Israel policies. She is a Manchurian candidate.
Why should we care? Because as usual, the only enemy that will bring down the US is ourselves. We go to far off lands to wage war for no other reason than to enrich the MIC and to pretend that we're the good guys policing the world and the ultimate blowback are more terrorists and now the election of Muslim Somalis into our House of Representatives. Talk about a direct line from action to consequence. We need to smarten up people. I hope Trump is absorbing things like this. He's a smart man, so likely he already see is, which is why he decided to pull out of Syria. We need to stop policing the world, get our allies to do their share, and spend more of our treasure and lives helping Americans right here at home. AMERICANS FIRST.
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"A Massive War On Autopilot" - US Airstrikes Surge In Secret War In Somalia
With so many little wars to keep track of, you probably haven’t noticed that the US has quietly been increasing its airstrikes against targets in Somalia.
And, as RT's Polly Boiko points out, it seems few people in Washington have either.
In recent months, dozens of Al-Shabaab terrorist suspects have been killed by American drones and planes in Somalia, reportedly thanks to a surplus becoming available from Syria. However, in a familiar pattern, the US military has denied any civilians were harmed, while locals and aid agencies deny that denial.
A former US ambassador to Somalia told the New York Times:
“It could be there is some well-thought-out strategy behind all of this, but I really doubt it.”
Another former US government official described Somalia as a “massive war on autopilot.”
RT's Polly Boiko takes a look at a secret secret war no one’s noticed. |
