138
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
138 points (99.3% liked)
chapotraphouse
13545 readers
745 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Hillary Clinton would have carpet bombed Syria. She expressly stated she was going to No Fly Zone them and in private conversations said Libya was a model for how to toppled Assad.
how could she have done that? i mean without starting a war with russia and immolating us all. that's what restrained Trump too, he loved bombing Syria when he did, he didn't actually have a friendlier disposition on that front
It’s HER TURN to start WWIII
Pretty sure there were already US troops in Syria "doing stuff" so it wouldn't be that hard to just start escalating things to the point that "oops, we did a carpet bombing".
like you could've escalated Syria into a world war for sure, if you wanted, but i what i don't see is a reason Clinton would've been more obliged than Trump to have done that.
I mean, Libya was a Clinton project right? Turned that place into a nightmare for, practically no other reason than to show that "I've got what it takes to run with the Boys!"
the reason was the ownership of the oilfields. there is no reality in which Trump or some other republican would not have jumped right on that.
Which is weird, 'cause with my baby brained understanding of Ghadaffi, he would regularly swing back and forth between being okay working the USA and that seems like it could have made better long term sense to keep him around as a handy face/heel instead of fully going through with a coup that can't be good for oil production/distribution.
i mean clinton would've came in in '17, the deployment of russian forces kind of nixed either party's ambition to do a libya in syria