• HowMany@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    We simply can’t keep the war pigs on a leash in America; they demand we use their products and they find a way to make it happen.

    Perhaps if we stopped giving them 2-3 trillion a year and invested that money in Americans rather than blowing up and killing the rest of the world.

    Perhaps.

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      8 months ago

      Crazy thought, but maybe if the Iran backed militant groups don’t want their weapon stores bombed they should stop attacking the US Military?

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        8 months ago

        Stop attacking the… US military… In Syria? Did Syria consent to those bases being there?

        The US is the occupier here. What is it with people and siding with the occupiers?

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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    As tensions soar over the Israel-Hamas conflict, U.S. and coalition troops have been attacked at least 19 times in Iraq and in Syria by Iran-backed forces in the past week.

    “These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.

    The strikes took place at roughly 4:30 a.m. on Friday in Syria (0130 GMT) near Abu Kamal, a Syrian town on the border with Iraq, and were carried out by two F-16 fighter jets using precision munitions, a senior U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said.

    In March, the U.S. military carried out multiple air strikes in Syria against Iran-aligned groups that it blamed for a drone attack that killed an American contractor.

    President Biden has sent a rare message to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Tehran against targeting U.S. personnel in the Middle East, the White House said earlier on Thursday.

    During a false alarm at Al-Asad air base in Iraq last week, a civilian contractor died from cardiac arrest.


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