American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    23 hours ago

    Well the fact the drone bomber in chief won one makes Trump’s question far more reasonable. There are clearly zero standards.

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      6 hours ago

      Why are drone strikes worse than any other military action ordered by any other president? Collateral damage is less with drones than with artillery or aerial bombardment. And if you’re looking for sympathy for the US citizens who joined Al-Qaida and similar organizations to murder innocent people, you can find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis, which those scumbags also richly deserve.

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      21 hours ago

      Obama met with lots of Middle Eastern leaders and signed many new agreements such as the JCPOA.

      Drones were a pretty new capability and have only increased over time, in fact in the previous Trump term they removed the need for executive approval before drone strikes.

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        6 hours ago

        Trump also changed the rules of engagement to eliminate consideration of how to minimize noncombatant casualties when ordering a drone strike.

        But still the Obama/drone meme remains a persistent bit of brainless propaganda.