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[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Some people are unfamiliar with Obama's drones.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 58 points 2 years ago (3 children)

or the genocide in Yemen, or his role as the deporter in chief, or that he engineered the largest transfer of wealth from the Black community to capital interests, or, or, or

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Guns from Libya to Syria = ISIS wasn't great either

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Don't forget Boko Haram got their start of Libya's destruction too.

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The current state of Russia-US relations can be pinned on Clinton and Obama as well

[–] unexpectedteapot@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Absolutely wild that things escalated from a "reset" of relations with russia to the maidan coup in like 4 years, I honestly wish I knew more of what was going on there.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Some people are. This particular people has absolutely no excuse for such ignorance lol

[–] 999@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

Crazy, isn't it?

During his presidency, Obama approved the use of 563 drone strikes that killed approximately 3,797 people. In fact, Obama authorized 54 drone strikes alone in Pakistan during his first year in office. One of the first CIA drone strikes under President Obama was at a funeral, murdering as many as 41 Pakistani civilians. The following year, Obama led 128 CIA drone strikes in Pakistan that killed at least 89 civilians.

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