Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 days agoThe list is realistically so much longer.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square123linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageThe list is realistically so much longer.lemmy.worldChippys_mittens@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 days agomessage-square123linkfedilink
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days ago NDAA authorizing almost a trillion dollars to the military industrial complex Congress authorizes it. I guess you could just put “Congress” on the list. Or maybe “The Pentagon”. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have died by US bombing in the last fifty years. With Iran, Syria, and Yemen you could probably get to 100k in one or two years. Nevermind our airstrikes across Latin America, the various African states, and our collaborations with Israel in Gaza. Hell, the US can take credit for quite a few kills in Ukraine thanks to our long standing policy of playing both ends against the middle. But you don’t get all that out of “The NDAA exists”. We’ve been passing NDAAs since The Korean War without hitting this level of mass slaughter.
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 days agoThe fact that amount of money being spent is absolutely obscene and the NDAA is effectively the funding for the military industrial complex. I get you don’t think it should be on the list, but an open conspiracy is still a conspiracy.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days ago an open conspiracy is still a conspiracy. US military hegemony isn’t a conspiracy, it’s a popular public policy
Congress authorizes it. I guess you could just put “Congress” on the list. Or maybe “The Pentagon”.
With Iran, Syria, and Yemen you could probably get to 100k in one or two years.
Nevermind our airstrikes across Latin America, the various African states, and our collaborations with Israel in Gaza.
Hell, the US can take credit for quite a few kills in Ukraine thanks to our long standing policy of playing both ends against the middle.
But you don’t get all that out of “The NDAA exists”. We’ve been passing NDAAs since The Korean War without hitting this level of mass slaughter.
The fact that amount of money being spent is absolutely obscene and the NDAA is effectively the funding for the military industrial complex.
I get you don’t think it should be on the list, but an open conspiracy is still a conspiracy.
US military hegemony isn’t a conspiracy, it’s a popular public policy