cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/58557
US Africa Command announced that its forces launched a series of airstrikes in Somalia in recent days as the Trump administration continues a heavy bombing campaign in the country, which receives virtually no US media coverage. AFRICOM announced new airstrikes that it said were launched against al-Shabaab in different parts of southern Somalia on June […]
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my biggest hurdle is they never seem to know or care. they are completely checked out about imperial processes and contented to accept that when a GOP president does something overseas, it’s probably bad, but when a dem president does something, there’s probably a good reason for it. and that’s the entire critical lens: a bifocal that lets them ignore the rest of the planet.
frankly, the surest sign ive found for uncovering a fellow leftist is, in discussion, realizing they pay detailed attention to and have a memory of what the US and its vassals & clients do overseas in its name.
because what the US does overseas is intimately connected to domestic processes and the patterns make material analysis much more obvious than the vibes-based bullshit libs soothe themselves with.