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Bullshit. Obama worked towards reigning in the evil empire part of America.
But the mainstream media (Fox News is mainstream. Get used to it.) lied and reported endlessly on drone strikes despite those drone strikes causing fewer casualties than any President after Carter.
No he acted that way, and then extended them and everyone ignored it. If you were antiwar during Bush you found yourself just as angry but far more alone under Obama. Nobody wanted to hear the critiques and it stayed that way until trump round one when all the libs pretended to care again.
He ran on ending the wars and then went forward with NATO Invading Libya and turning it into an open air slave market. Assassination of a us teenager as part of his drone expansion where funerals, hospitals, and weddings were bombed regularly. The surgical drone strike nonsense is propaganda to counter act that his kill lists got press.
How about reviving the espionage act to imprison whistleblowers?? He prosecuted people who leaked that the government used waterboarding and did Gitmo ever close?
Obama ramped up immigration enforcement and deported more people than Bush or trump. He expanded ICE law enforcement powers, increased border security budget and built the cages. He failed to get any positive reform to stick so the end result was more enforcement.
Fuck off with that tan suit washing nonsense honestly. Obama did continue the status quo and put a pretty face on it. Trump does show you what this country truly is. 100%
That statement isn't backed by any data.
"On July 1, 2016, President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring annual accounting of civilian and enemy casualties in U.S. drone strikes outside war zones ("Areas Outside of Active Hostilities"), and setting a deadline of May 1 each year for the release of such report.[27][28] However, soon after taking office, President Donald Trump designated large areas in Yemen and Somalia to be "areas of active hostilities," thus exempting them from disclosure."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_the_United_States_drone_strikes
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-afghanistan-airstrikes-increased-civilian-deaths-by-330-since-2016-2020-12
https://www.ranker.com/list/the-twelve-worst-us-presidents-based-on-body-counts/dralcarroll
https://airwars.org/research/civilian-deaths-by-us-president-in-iraq-and-syria/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
Obama made it public. Bush and Trump hid it.
Obama also classified all 'military aged' males near areas of hostile activities as terrorists. Sorry you were fooled by Obama but he didnt change America and he didnt bring hope or peace to the world. Just a pretty facade that made yall feel justified and superior as he overthrew socialist countries, continues the wars, the torture, and the deportations.
Sure trump is worse. Everyone can see trump is worse but the policy and enforcement are not as far from each other as the Dem establishment and their fanatics pretend. Obamas America and trumps America are the same America. Libya and Syria, extending the patriot act indefinitely, keeping Gitmo open and us troops in the middle east, prosecuting snowden all really cemented that for me.
We are the baddies. We were during Obama and Bush and Clinton and trump just stops anyone from claiming otherwise.
I didn't claim Obama didn't kill anyone. I do claim, supported by links, that he killed less than Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, and Trump.
You claimed he was worse than Bush which is not supported by any data.
I see, my claim was actually that he deported more than bush and trump. Not killed more people in war. Not that he was worse than bush, just not different. Obama turned out to be more of the same evil empire.
I did also claim that instead of ending the wars in the middle east via the NATO overthrow of Libya and Syria, and that the drone casualities are under reported.
No. You made many claims only one of which was about deportation.
The one cool thing about digital communication is you can just scroll up and reread the original lol
Can you not see what you wrote?
You wrote a paragraph on anti war
You wrote a paragraph on Libya
You wrote a paragraph on deportation
You wrote follow up replies about young boys classified as terrorists for kill reports.
Now you claim you were only writing about deportation.
???
If you had an actual point you would just quote him.
He said this:
Obama killed less Bush i provided links already
Then he said this:
He killed less than Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr and Trump. I already provided links.
I didn't argue that.
He was disingenuous to claim he was only talking about deportation only after his drone strike argument was proven to be wrong.
Embarrassing. None of that is what you said that he said.
I referenced the quote and you asked for a direct quote. I gave you a direct quote and now you say he didn't say that.
https://lemmy.world/comment/13368170
He said more than just deportation.
Nazified Ukraine???? Ukraine was invaded by Russia. The invading Russian Wagner troops were called Wagner after Hitler's favorite composer.
Actual Hitler fans invaded Ukraine but you call Ukraine Nazi for defending themselves.
In 1994, Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum which requires the US and UK to defend Ukraine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#:~:text=In%201994%2C%20Ukraine%20agreed%20to,sovereignty%20in%20the%20existing%20borders.
Russia had already violated their 1994 agreement with Ukraine when they invaded Crimea in 2012.
Russia specifically claimed they were only holding practice exercises before their sneak invasion.
The liberation of Crimea was in 2014. It's unclear how treaties should affect a province/people requesting assistance from oppression, as a result of a fascist coup, incidently by US and UK. Not surprising that a treaty is not interpreted as a suicide pact.
You already lost the argument about fascist when you invaded with troops named after Hitler.
Putin has been in power for 24 years!
Zionist Supremacists and all oligarchy that allies with them for their seat at the trough, have been in control over US for 75 years. Russia's military production complex is largely owned by Russia and doesn't have to operate at a profit. In US, they own you, and don't have to produce working equipment to take all of your money.
The core definition of naziism includes anti-communist/soviet ideology that for Ukraine has morphed into anti-ethnic Russian ideology. I'm sure there is a Russia that owns Hitler's favorite breed of dog as well, and you should use that to totally be convincing in your trolling.
There is no communism in Russia today. Industry is owned by private individuals.
Zionists? Because Nazis are famous for supporting Jews?
Why are there so many Russian billionaires?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarchs
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/31/russian-billionaires-supply-kremlins-army-military-industrial-complex-proekt-a82013
None of the Russian Millionaires and Billionaires actually produced their wealth. They got it from extracting the surplus value of the workers in their companies. Russia is capitalist and has been since 1991.
Much of them from CIA puppet Yeltsin regime. Yes, Putin allowed most of the rich to stay rich. But this war is not a giveaway to Russian oligarchs the way it is in the US.
Putin didn't just allow them to stay rich. He made them rich.
https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/moscow/deripaska.html#:~:text=Oleg%20Deripaska%2C%20born%20in%201968%2C%20is,Russia%27s%20youngest%20billionaire%20at%20age%2035.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Timchenko "In 1991, Putin gave Timchenko an oil export license.[2] Timchenko then founded Gunvor, which has now exported billions of dollars-worth of Russian oil."
Why is Yeltsin a CIA puppet and not also Putin? Putin has given the US everything they wanted. Russia's military and youth have been diminished. Former Russian friendly / Neutral countries have joined NATO. Russian natural resources have been internationally sanctioned giving a business advantage to the US. Putin works for America.
Deripaska may have had corrupt aid from CIA puppet Yeltsin. He is married to his daughter. Telegram guy didn't make his money from Russia government. Timchenko also got rich under Gorbachoev/Yeltsin. Link connecting him to Putin was "receiving an oil export license". Before Putin got into leadership.
Yeltsin (and Gorbo) gave away most of the "sweet privatization" to west. Movies from the period treat Russia as joining humanity. Western media has invoked Putin Derangement Syndrome on the sheeple ever since, largely due to his anti corruption efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Russia
Since the war, Russia has passed Germany and Japan to be 4th largest economy. Any Russian who is not a demented former Yeltsin puppet understands that NATO is not a defensive alliance, and Ukraine's war provocation is an existential threat to Russia that must be defeated. The gains made by Biden over EU colonies was absolutely spectacular for the US, but new admin threatens their commitment to subservience. Narrative that Russia is winning seems closer to reality.
You can't blame new billionaires on Yeltsin when Putin has been in power over 2x longer than Yeltsin.
Yet Putin gave America everything they wanted- an expanded NATO from countries that were formerly neutral.
As to Russia surpassing Germany and Japan, that's not supported by any data:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
PPP GDP is where Russia went to 4th.
Old billionaires on your list got their wealth during Yeltsin. Derepaska close ties to Yeltsin. The success of Telegram is not due to favours granted by Russian government.
CIA brainwashing monopoly over EU politicians and media is not Putin's goal. CIA is independently more powerful than Russia, and how they provoked the war despite Putin's peace preference.
I listed an old Billionaire who directly owes his money to Putin. I listed a new billionaire that you claim shouldn't exist because only in America do people work for capitalist overlords. Kirill Shamalov wasn't made a Billionaire by Yeltsin.
Putin's goal is the destruction of Russia. Germany needs Lebensraum. They couldn't invade Russia like 1941 so instead they got their puppet Putin to get Slavs to kill themselves. Russian Slavs kill Ukrainian Slavs and in 10 years German investors will buy up cheap land in Russia without a single German casualty. The US supports it because they get more NATO allies. China gets cheap oil and no competition from Russia because Russia is building artillery instead of electric cars. Putin gets to keep his Billions. ( How did a politician with an average salary of $110,000 us dollars get $200 Billion?) In return, Putin's children get to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars and live in complete safety.
What do you get out of it? A chance to die killing Slavs so that Putin can secure his $200 B for his children?