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By aiding the 🇮🇱 slaughter in Gaza, Joe Biden has been accused of participating in war crimes.

But "Genocide Joe" is far from the 1st president to have done so

In this thread, I will show how successive presidents have perpetrated war crimes & crimes against humanity

1. Joe Biden

Apart from directly funding and facilitating the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Biden:

+ Strongly supported the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, helping push through conflicts that would go on to kill millions of people, according to a study from Brown University - watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

+ Biden was also the architect of "Plan Colombia" - the militarization of the drug war in Latin America, whereby the US sent vast amounts of money and military hardware to the far-right Colombian government, who used it to fight a bitter counter-insurgency war against leftist guerillas under the guise of eradicating drugs. The United Nations estimates that 7.4 million Colombians were internally displaced in this war, which few in the US have even heard about. mintpressnews.com/mass-incarcera…

2. Donald Trump

Some of Trump's worst actions included:

+ Removing the US from global anti-nuclear weapons treaties.
+ Supporting a Saudi-led genocide in Yemen, supplying arms and political support to the government in Riyadh.
+ Dropping "The Mother of All Bombs" on Afghanistan - the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat.
+ Ramping up illegal sanctions against Cuba 🇨🇺, Venezuela 🇻🇪, Iran 🇮🇷 and many other countries.

3. Barack Obama

Obama rapidly expanded the US drone program. He also led a successful regime change attempt against Colonel Gaddafi in Libya 🇱🇾, turning Africa's most prosperous nation into an open-air slave market.

The 44th president spent more than a billion dollars on a regime change operation against the government of Syria 🇸🇾, which included training an army of Jihadists and supporting Al-Qaeda.

By the time he left office, the US was bombing seven nations simultaneously: Iraq 🇮🇶, Syria 🇸🇾, Pakistan 🇵🇰, Libya 🇱🇾, Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Yemen 🇾🇪 and Somalia 🇸🇴.

4. George W. Bush

President Bush launched the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, lied the United States into invading Iraq, oversaw a massive global torture program, and implemented the beginnings of the surveillance state we know today.

5. Bill Clinton

As president, Bill Clinton:

+ Ramped up deadly sanctions against Iraq, killing an estimated 1 million people, including half a million children under five.

+ Bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan 🇸🇩, causing a huge shortage of medicines that led to tens of thousands of deaths across the country.

+ Bombed Yugoslavia under false pretenses.

6. George H. W. Bush

The elder Bush was CIA director during the "Dirty Wars" in Central America, whereby the US government funded, trained and armed far-right death squads across the region, who killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people.

He also oversaw the first Gulf War and invaded Panama 🇵🇦, deposing President Noriega in the process. Bush's excuse was that Noriega was wanted to stand trial for drug trafficking charges -- crimes Noriega committed while on the CIA payroll.

7. Ronald Reagan

While president, Reagan:

+ Supported fascist death squads in Nicaragua 🇳🇮 in an attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government.
+ Helped to implement a genocide of the Maya people in Guatemala 🇬🇹.
+ Helped Saddam Hussein use chemical weapons against both Iraqis and against Iran 🇮🇷.

In 1986, the International Court of Justice found Reagan guilty of what amounted to international terrorism.

8. Jimmy Carter

Carter is often remembered as among the least violent US presidents. Yet he still:

+ Armed and supported an Indonesian genocide against East Timor 🇹🇱 that killed around 250,000 people.
+ Supported fascist military dictatorships across Latin America.
+ Defended Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia 🇰🇭.

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And check out my latest article, where I uncovered a network of (ex-)Israeli spies working in top US media outlets, including the New York Times and CNN.

mintpressnews.com/revealed-israe…