Trump claims he’s the ‘president of peace’ — so why is he bombing so many overseas hotspots? | U.S. has carried out well over 500 bombings across the globe this year, conflict monitors say
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-bombing-strikes-peace-president-9.7028340
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It’s interesting to watch a narcissist in cognitive decline. It would be nice if he weren’t the president but instead just some old doddering fool in an old folks home.
War is peace
Ignorance is strenght
Etc etc
Because he is stupid, and his fans are morons.
He said it was a *Christmas gift*.
Putting the *Christ* back into Chritmas. It what Jesus would have wanted!
Notorious liar says one thing but does the opposite? Oh, wow. Such a surprise.
Everything he says is the opposite, go with that tike and everything makes sense
Because this president is a piece of shit.
Because Trump is delusional. No one apart from his base thinks of him as a “pro-peace” president.
He bombed Iran. He’s almost certainly going to bomb Venezuela. He’s repeatedly voiced intentions to annex Greenland. He’s done the same with Canada. He’s bombed Yemen. He bombed Syria. He started a trade war with China. He bombed Lebanon as well. His own Secretary of War authorized strikes on suspected drug traffickers, without any confirmation of them being that.
Trump is anti-peace.
Norway is watching you..no REAL peace prize for orange turds
‘Trump claims he’s the ‘president of peace’ – so why is he bombing so many overseas hotspots?’ Because he can if he wants to, and no one in his administration or in Congress has the balls to try and stop him.
Wait no, he’s the president of piece, if you’ve got something he wants, he gets a piece of it
Issues of note from this analysis:
>U.S. President Donald Trump earned plaudits from war-weary Americans when he promised during his first campaign to stop dragging the country into conflicts overseas he framed as a waste of money and personnel.
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>But his latest foray into hotspots on other continents, including launching strikes in Africa on Christmas Day, has some supporters questioning whether he really meant it when he said he’s “not going to start wars.”
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>In his second inaugural address in January, Trump said his presidency’s success would be measured “not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”
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>Trump has since started calling himself the “peace president,” boasting about his role in helping end, by his count, eight wars so far this year.
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>And observers note that his multi-country bombing campaign is not exactly peaceful.
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>”If anything, this administration is very pro-conflict,” said Clionadh Raleigh, the president and CEO of Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), an independent and impartial conflict monitor, in an interview with CBC News.
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>The peace talk is all “PR,” Raleigh said.
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>”Trump doesn’t like the idea of boots on the ground — but everything else is fair game,” she said. “The Department of Defence is hyper, and they’re trying to show they can get involved in messy conflicts without getting bogged down like other presidents.”
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>According to ACLED’s data, Trump launched more airstrikes on foreign nations in the first six months of his second term than Biden did in all four years he was in office.
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>While Raleigh says the Biden team was “paralyzed” by a fear of stepping wrong at a time when violence was surging around the world, she noted that Trump officials are “doing the exact opposite,” bombing whatever seemingly worthy target pops up.
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>”They’re saying, ‘We’ve got this military, we have all these guys and all of these bombs, we might as well use them.’ I think that’s the extent of their thoughts,” she said.
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>The frequency of these bombings has prompted angst among some supporters who believed Trump when he said he’d put America first, embrace isolationism and do away with military incursions abroad.
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>Trump’s June strike on Iran to neutralize its nuclear weapons program — an attack that some experts say was successful in taking away the immediate threat the Islamic republic posed to the region — led to some cracks in the MAGA foundation.
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>But for Trump’s war secretary, Pete Hegseth, there is no contradiction between selective military intervention and putting America first.
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>These incursions are examples of “peace through strength brought to you by the warrior ethos,” he said.
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>Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and first-term Trump appointee to the State Department, said Americans deserve answers on how much further the administration is willing to go, given its past promises to avoid war.
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>”This went from drug interdiction, to oil seizures, to regime change and ousting Maduro to bring democracy to Cuba. This seems incredibly convoluted, runs counter to the ‘peace president’ and the notion of ending wars,” Bartlett said in an interview with CBC News.
Definitely not even close to being a ‘president of peace’. Given the president’s propensity these days to go along with whatever people around him are saying though, it’s likely that the hawks in his administration are ascendant and are egging him along.
Calling airstrikes ‘peace’ because there are no boots on the ground feels like redefining the word rather than changing the policy. Less visible war isn’t the same as less war.
Peace is noble and being a ruler that cultivates or bring peace is worthy of praise and high social status. So he desires it.
However choosing who lives and dies. Who to rain destruction down upon. With but your word hell visits those you choose. That makes you feel powerful. So he desires it, and since it’s easy, he does it.
Praise and power.
Because he and his supporters are reactionaries and authoritarians who equate social status with power and violence as the purest form of power. They want to construct a social hierarchy and support violence as the way to sustain that hierarchy. This same pattern is then reflected from small to large social organization (family, community, workplace, state, international relations). But as they believe these things and act on them, they also want to believe they’re good people, so they construct elaborate bad faith narratives around their actions and supposed principles. This is the basic substance of right wing thought, amplified and made more obvious by his crassness and his followers’ extremism.
Hence, once appointed to a position of power, people like Trump start using the institutions of state to do violence. It doesn’t particularly matter whether that violence is effective, just that it happens and is seen to happen. He thinks that makes him a strong leader and his followers see him as one because he does these things. As for the president of peace thing, that’s directly tied to the aforementioned bad faith. His follower want violence done to people abroad and at home, but they also want to feel good about that, so they pretended their vote for Trump was not because he was a violent racist promising “retribution” towards his (and their) opponents, but because he would “bring peace”, “fix the economy”, and so on.
In short, it’s bad faith and immorality on both sides, supporters and leaders alike. A malignant narcissist who reflects the “values” of his supporters.
I am glad he didn’t get the legit Peace Prize. He got the phony prize from FIFA instead.
The media are the BIGGEST pussies ever. RIP America I hope that China wins the AI race cause fuck having you idiots in control of it.
Regards,
Australia
Because his moron followers are stupid and because no one, literally no one, is willing to hold this war criminal accountable. So this is what we have because dumb fucking Americans voted for it.
So, fuck them, too.
But but…. they’re peace bombs aren’t they?
“I’m gonna bomb everyone till I get a Nobel Peace…”
I mean… if he causes the war he ends… they have nobody else to give it to.
now it is on to: Let’s build battleships, that won’t sink when fired on by Drones. That is the idiocy of his ideas, While at the same time, we are going to the moon. See, so much bs, is this his plan to flood the zone with so much BS that we forget about EPSTEIN?
Because he’s a sociopath and loves murdering brown and black people. They don’t count in his demented and psychotic world view
He’s not called the Psychopath Liar in Chief for nuthin’.
He has used the military to be a distraction for other things he is doing. Dropping bombs is also his way of being macho. His administration kills people that they feel are not worthy, just like they deport people they deem not worthy.
This administration does not value life of ordinary people!
“I will start a war in every single country on Earth to distract from the Epstein files”
It’s not war if US soldiers or civilians don’t die
He will kill and destroy anything and everything for peace. He is the one true orange Jesus.
Peace of the grave…
Classic 1984 doublespeak – “War is Peace”
He lies about everything… so that’s a start.
What Trump says and what Trump does are two very different things.
He is the “president” of piss, not peace. Pissing on fundamental human rights.
He also says he’s highly intelligent so there’s that
Oh my gosh, is he a liar?
The delusion is off the charts with this guy, and has long surpassed a dangerous level. Next up he will petition the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
It’s because he lies.
We so much power you could make the world better by far
But there is no profit in Peace is there Trumpet
The supposed “peace president” also insults, bullies , and threatens others on a daily basis. Peaceful? I think not.
Cause he is a full of shit
Conservatives claiming Obama killed more people with drones than any president ever in 3, 2, 1…
The article seems to question his hypocrisy like it’s something new and different.
Bombing for peace
Because he can lie as much as he wants! No one there to call him out on said lies.
If he is called out just yell “Joe Biden” and denigrate the other side while no one calls him out on his lack of responsibility or the further lies he lays out.
Must be a good job if you can get it?