Drone strikes have nearly phased out completely under Biden

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

The most anti-interventionist President in history, probably.

https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1559257494341488644?s=20&t=PdBTbt1Ew7...

[MiddleRoad]

Good, they’re inhumane.

[T'Chenka]

Dark Brandon is redirecting his offense energy from war crimes towards owning Republicans. Based.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

This is good. I won't say drone strikes are always wrong but they've been way overused.   

Somalia chart needs to be updated though, as there's been at least one strike there this week.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

But when he does use them he destroys terrorist masterminds.

[John Dule]

This must be mostly due to technological advancements beyond Biden’s control, right?

[Santander]

Trump did such a great job at making the world more peaceful and secure that Joe Biden barely needs to do anything.

[Kamala's side hoe]

This must be mostly due to technological advancements beyond Biden’s control, right?

YMMV, can’t tell if that’s actually the case

It turns out airstrikes alone are just as militarily limited as they were back in the 1940s, when terror bombing accomplished little in the fight against the Nazis and Imperial Japan. Years of strikes in Yemen and Somalia achieved nothing but further destabilization of those beleaguered countries. Only in support of ground forces — as strikes were sometimes used to support the Iraqi military and Kurdish peshmerga in their fight against the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017 — is air power even tactically effective. And in the process of defeating ISIS, Trump's callous disregard for human life led to a botched 2017 airstrike in Mosul that killed 278 civilians, the worst death toll from a single American attack in the entire Iraq conflict.

To my considerable surprise, Biden seems to have internalized some of these lessons. Immediately after taking office, he set up a new system requiring White House approval for any strikes outside of active war zones (and later published Trump's loose rules that enabled so many civilian massacres). Now that the occupation of Afghanistan is over, that requirement applies almost everywhere, and it appears Biden is extremely reluctant to grant approval. Where Trump oversaw more than 1,600 air and artillery strikes in Iraq and Syria during his first 11 months in office, Airwars reports just four during Biden's term so far. Strikes in Somalia fell from roughly 75 last year to fewer than 10 this year, with no civilian casualties. And in Yemen, the annual total dropped from about 18 to maybe four, with fewer than 10 casualties of any kind. (Precise figures are unclear because some strikes are classified.)

[Alben Barkley]

Fewer drone strikes overall but used effectively when they are is good. Dark Brandon knows precisely when and where to strike!

[Progressive Pessimist]

Fewer drone strikes overall but used effectively when they are is good. Dark Brandon knows precisely when and where to strike!

Gives "precision strikes" a new, more literal definition.

[GregTheGreat657]

Brandon did a based

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

Maybe all the drones went






On Strike

[Liminal Trans Girl]

DARK Brandon Rises!

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

brb gonna post this on a leftist subreddit for make minds explode because they keep saying Dems do drone strikes but this time with pride flags on the drones

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

hearing reports that Marianne Williamson has been working out with DoD allowing them to use chakras to deliver highly precise destruction to all targets, rendering drone strikes irrelevant

[GeneralMacArthur]

This has been true for a while, and nobody cares.  People just keep saying the opposite and posting the LGBT Bomber meme, and so if you polled people on the left I bet 80%+ of them would say Biden is doing the same amount of drone strikes as Obama/Trump.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

brb gonna post this on a leftist subreddit for make minds explode because they keep saying Dems do drone strikes but this time with pride flags on the drones

How did they handle it?