In a move that will surely worsen Somalia’s slow-boiling coronavirus crisis, the Trump Administration has quietly ramped up a bombing and covert raiding campaign, a major escalation of a war Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports.
New reports show an escalation in civilian casualties from U.S. operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia — and a pattern of U.S. denial about the scale of the problem.
How the U.S. military feeds at the Terror Trough
An Iraqi politician once said that the problem in his country was that parties and movements were “too weak to win, but too strong to lose.” This is increasingly the pattern for the whole region and is spreading elsewhere. It carries with it the possibility of an endless cycle of indecisive wars and an era of instability that has already begun.
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