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If we're talking specifically about this Venezuela coup attempt, Obama did equally bad things.
Can't remember when Obama bypassed congress and attacked another country, but I must confess I don't have a 1:1 timeline of Obama's presidency.
Obama literally attacked Libya without congressional authority and that's not even the only time he bypassed them. His government argued the 2001 AUMF gave him the authority to do so which is the same law Trump is using for his strikes.
Thank you! That's an example on the same niveau. Do American presidents need congressional authority to follow resolutions by the Security Council?
I consider bombing weddings, starting the policy of drone strikes, starting the double tap policy (war crime btw), and expanding the Iraq war which led to the death of over a million Iraqis to be fucking awful. Tbh thats not even half of the awful shit he did in service of American imperialism, just the worst examples I could think of on the spot. Congressional approval of these actions doesn't make them any less bad and we shouldn't be upset with Trump for bypassing congress, we should be upset over his ceaseless murder of innocent people and violations of foreign political sovereingty. Why does the decorum of politics matter more to you than the immense violence of the American war machine?
There's no discussion of how horrendous any of that are, but that is not what I wrote about.
Good for you if you can disregard unlawful and unilateral actions of a fascist. However as I wrote, I cant see neither Biden nor Obama act in such a way and would they have, I would have been extremely surprised.
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