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| Dante9 said: He's made it a point to not start wars but rather end them, and he did just that in his first term. I expect him to tow that line now as well. However, not everything is under his control. |
Obama ended America's involvement in the Iraq War. Trump started ending the Afghanistan War but it was Biden who pulled the last remaining troops out under Trump's sloppy plan albeit I did agree with pulling out, I just did not agree with how it was done, it was a fucking mess. The Syrian War continues to this date, the Ukraine War was ongoing during Trump's Presidency and he did nothing to stop it. The Saudi-Yemen conflict is still ongoing. So I can only really give him credit for ending one war and ultimately he didn't finish the job, Biden did.
His assassination of the Iranian General came very close to spiralling out of control, it was extremely reckless, meanwhile Trump fans are shouting that allowing Ukraine to use Western Missiles on Russia is escalation, Lol. It's massively hypocritical to take the stance that America directly bombing an Iranian General is absolutely okay but Ukraine (not America, not UK) using missiles on Russia is too far. Now if UK flew over and dropped a bomb on Sergei Shoigu then maybe they'd have a point.
Trump increased troop levels, deepening reliance on private contractors, dramatically scaled up aerial warfare. His term saw four years of growth of the Pentagon budget. And loosening even the minimal drone rule restrictions that were already in place, he expanded the United States drone wars. He worsened conflicts, dropping more bombs, stoking further conflict, and massively increasing the rate of civilian deaths. Trump did nothing to end U.S. support of the SA-Yemen war, he repeatedly used his veto power to override bipartisan majorities in Congress that tried to stop U.S. military involvement and block the flow of arms to the conflict. Trump shredded the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty that ensured transparency between the U.S., much of Europe, and Russia, and failed to extend the critical New START Treaty with Russia.
Conflicts don't cease to exist just because Americans stick their heads in the sand.
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