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Trump weighs sending another 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not sure how a country of 203 million in 1970 (census data) would have sent a multiple of its population to war in Vietnam?!

Your numbers are off by a LOT.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oops, wrong order of magnitude. Well spotted.

As our foremost intellectual in the cabinet Markwayne Mullin would say, that was a misspoke 🙂

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for correcting your post, now it makes sense and really shows how fucked the US is. This will get much worse for everyone involved and everyone of us.