• hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    517·
    19 hours ago

    In my entire lifetime, only republicans have started wars, and only democrats have ended them. I’m almost 40.

    In fact, Kamala said that Iran is the greatest threat in the world.

    And Donald Trump started a war with them.

    • Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml
      161·
      13 hours ago

      In my entire lifetime, only republicans have started wars

      Are you less than two years old? Did you already forget that the most recent blue government invaded Yemen and prepared to invade Iran?

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      19·
      7 hours ago

      The US has not formally declared war since WW2, so formal declaration cannot be your threshold.

      Wikipedia has got a list of “wars” in the 21st century that the US has participated in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States_in_the_21st_century

      Every president during this period makes the list.

      Edit: to clarify I’m not saying Wikipedia is straight facts. It’s a convenient list. Using any other list is fine too.

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        310·
        18 hours ago

        Are you implying that Joe Biden started the Ukraine War and the Gaza War?

        • Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml
          112·
          13 hours ago

          NATO had been pushing for war with Russia for a while. It finally got it.

          So yeah, either of the recent blue governments can be said to have started the war.

            • BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml
              41·
              5 hours ago

              History started on the day Russia invaded. Anything leading up to that can safely be ignored. We have always been at war with oceania

            • Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml
              71·
              7 hours ago

              “Ignoring Russia” is when you (the most prolific invader in the world) declare your intent to antagonise Russia, do a coup against a neighbouring neutral state, and attempt to get your military to its border.

        • Salamence@mander.xyzOP
          161·
          18 hours ago

          Biden supported Israel on day one of the war with everything he could even bypassing congress so yes, also its the Israeli–Palestinian war btw you dont call the other the Donbass war now do you?

            • Salamence@mander.xyzOP
              111·
              13 hours ago

              if wikipedia said trump won the 2020 election would you believe it?

              also

              This article is about the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip and Israel. For the broader conflicts, see Gaza–Israel conflict and Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

              or do you refer to WW2 as the Polish German war?

              • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
                38·
                14 hours ago

                You realize I was responding to someone who posted a Wikipedia article, right? If you want to call them the Russo-Ukrainian War and the Israeli-Palestinian War when you’re arguing on Internet forums, you do you.

        • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
          141·
          18 hours ago

          I’m trying to understand what starting a war means such that you can say it was only the republicans.

          There are other conflicts in there that are listed with dem presidents.

    • agentant (He/Him)@lemmy.ml
      121·
      18 hours ago

      -Libya

      -Niger

      -Syria

      -Yemen

      All places intervened in by a democrat in recent memory, both parties are extremely militaristic.