“The US trusted Zelensky on bad intel, so it’s all no one’s fault really”
“The US trusted Zelensky on bad intel, so it’s all no one’s fault really”
Same as it ever was…
There are about 80 million unexploded bombs in Laos that were dropped there illegally (and immorally, ofc) by the United States during their war of imperial aggression. Those bombs have killed about 20,000 people since the end of the war and continue to kill about 50 Laotians each year, and ~40% of those are children.
Obama committed a whopping $90 million to help clean up those bombs; but IIRC the Trump admin cancelled even that frankly pathetic effort. The bombing of Laos was a horrifically evil act that no one of good conscience can say anything other than it’s the US’ fault and the US’ responsibility to clean up. We can’t even muster the pocket change to prevent the social murder of Laotians but we can fund orders of magnitude more to give Nazis money to fight a losing cause.
Yes, though nearly all this backlash seems to becoming from the far right as the “left” in Europe is 110% on board with supporting Ukraine. So we could see anti-US sentiment take off (good) but from the right (bad).