Thread by @Suzi3D

This is an argument I'm really happy to have. Because this is a line I hear often and people really believe it. But all is not as it seems.

What was one of the first things Trump did when he got in? Delegate more authority to the CIA for drone kills
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https://twitter.com/CosminVisan3/status/1317930511197736961

Remember how Obama used to have assassination Tuesdays? Where he'd get to "review" and sign off on the CIA drone kill list?

Well certain presidents decided that interferes with their other plans and decided to let the CIA have more say for themselves on who lives or dies
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"Maybe we kill our objective, maybe we kill a guy we thought was our objective"

You don't get to talk authoritatively about drone killing unless you've listened to what the US military drone whistleblowers have to say about it
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https://twitter.com/CosminVisan3/status/1317931963668365313

Correct. And where did Trump go immediately after the CIA?

He went to Saudi Arabia. To stroke an orb. Then to sell them "hundreds of beeellllionnnsss" more weapons. With which they're doing what? Committing genocide in Yemen.

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https://twitter.com/jantiliki/status/1317933195673952259

The problem with Trump and war isn't the wars you think you know about. It's the wars you have no idea are even happening. And which, so long as you don't know, he will never tell you, or care about.

ie. the ongoing US military incursions in West Africa. To steal oil.

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We all know how down Trump is with stealing oil. He makes no bones about it. And he's doing it in Syria too, despite being lauded for his restraint in Syria.

Cos sanctioning them to the point of starvation & stealing their oil is a big improvement. What a humanitarian!

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OK, so now we've gone from "leftists don't want to give Trump any credit for not starting any new wars" to "Trump isn't a hippy" and he just kills less than Obama.

That's good progress. Except we know he's obsessed with getting reelected. Then what?

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https://twitter.com/CosminVisan3/status/1317938584020803584

Trump the didn't-start-any-new-wars-even-though-we-don't-actually-know-what-wars-the-US-is-in-or-how-many-people-they're-killing-per-day-or-in-how-many-countries has constantly rattled the war sabers at Iran, Venezuela, North Korea & even now obscenely at China

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While I *hope* that is just war window-shopping & that he won't do any worse than he's already done with his crippling sanctions on a handful of nations, his Mother-Of-All-Bomb drops, his weapon sales & his secret-hidden-wars & unaccountable drone kills, what will stop him?

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Post-election he'll have no need to pander to his base. The legislature already obstructs him, and in an post-9/11 post-AUMF world he doesn't need them for war anyway, impeachment already failed, where are the checks and balances? Just believing in what he says?

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Now to your core premise, is the other side worse?

Yes probably.

Biden is a walking cadaver who will sign off on whatever the military industrial intelligence media complex tells him to do on any given day

The Obama-Clinton-Biden trifecta are all bona fide war criminals

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So it becomes the Trump mafia vs the Biden mafia & the ultimate losers in either event are the American people who are all constantly being funnelled & conned into supporting one or the other of the mafias even though neither of them are in their best interest whatsoever

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