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bigtree

(93,974 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 10:22 AM Yesterday

No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.

Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren 37m
Donald Trump ran on a platform of no more wars.

But here’s the reality: no president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.


Peter Baker @peterbakernyt
No president in the modern era has launched more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump, including more individual strikes in 2025 than Biden ordered in all four years. @zacharybasu
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/trump-iran-war-military-strikes-maga


Dave Brown @dave_brown24
U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information, along with experts who have spent their careers poring over public data and government reports, say the administration’s assertions about why they needed to go to war with Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-s-case-for-war-with-iran-faces-growing-scrutiny/ar-AA1Xo3ot

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No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. (Original Post) bigtree Yesterday OP
Where are the Killer Kamala voters now? yardwork Yesterday #1
I think President Obama did 7 countries, gab13by13 Yesterday #2
Give that man a peace prize! unblock Yesterday #3
no need bigtree Yesterday #4

gab13by13

(31,912 posts)
2. I think President Obama did 7 countries,
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 10:33 AM
Yesterday

Most contemporary tallies and investigative reports list seven countries where Obama-era bombing and drone campaigns took place: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
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