During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump pledged to stop "endless wars".
Mr Trump portrayed himself, as a counterbalance to a bloodthirsty and out-of-control U.S. foreign policy establishment.
However, as our report shows, the reality of Trump's time in office does not fit with that rosy picture. Trump the 'anti-war president' was just a myth.
Under President Trump, civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Somalia skyrocketed.
Afghanistan:
After Trump administration relaxed the rules of engagement for airstrikes in 2017, the U.S dramatically increased the number of weapons released from the air.
It dropped its largest yield bomb, the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) –i.e., the 'Mother of All Bombs' that killed many Afghan civilians. These airstrikes were uthorized by President Trump.
Immediately after the strike, Trump said:
"We have the greatest military in the world, and they've done a great job as usual. So we've given them total authorization, and that's what they're doing. And frankly, that's why they've been so successful lately."
Afghanis civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes rose drastically about 330 percent from 2016 to 2019.
In 2019 alone, airstrikes authorized by President Trump killed at least 717 civilians, more than any other year since the early days of the war in 2002.
In 2018 and 2019, there were more weapons dropped from the air than at the height of US presence in Afghanistan in 2011.
On average, the US killed 582 civilians per year from 2007 to 2016. Sadly, the annual average of civilians killed rose by nearly 95% from 2017 through 2019 to 1,134 each year.
Well, Trump somehow reduced the number of US troops in Afghanistan before leaving office in January 2021. But the death of civilians skyrocketed under his watch.
Yemen:
Just weeks after Donald Trump took office in 2017, U.S. troops raided the southwestern Yemeni village of al-Ghayil, at least 20 Yemeni civilians among them 10 children under the age of 13, were killed in the attack. During the press brief, President Trump said the raid was “highly successful.”
According to estimates provided by the Human Rights Watch, at least 86 civilians were killed in airstrikes carried out in Yemen on Trump’s green-light. Most of these killings occurred during the years 2017 and 2018.
In 2019, Trump failed to take an off-ramp in Yemen: He issued his second presidential veto in order to block a move by Congress to end U.S. involvement in the war.
In 2019, Trump issued an executive order rolling back an Obama-administration measure mandating public disclosure of estimated civilian death tolls from U.S. operations in areas like Yemen that are deemed active war zones.
The move came two years after Trump relaxed rules around airstrikes and commando raids, thus giving the U.S. military the ability to carry out operations with reduced oversight.
Somalia:
U.S. airstrikes in Somalia hit record levels under Trump.
In just four months of 2020, the U.S. conducted more airstrikes in Somalia than it did during all of Barack Obama’s eight years in office.
The unofficial death till is estimated to be at least 50 Somalis civilians including children.
According to the Amnesty International, in just five of the more than 100 U.S. airstrikes carried out in Somalia since 2017, at least 14 civilians were killed.
Iraq and Syria:
As of the end of January 2019, the Pentagon says U.S. airstrikes killed at least 1,257 civilians in Iraq and Syria.
Other international monitoring groups, estimate that those U.S. strikes killed at least 7,500 civilians in those countries.
2017 was the deadliest year for civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria, with as many as 6,000 people killed in U.S. airstrikes. This is according to the watchdog group Airwars.
By the end of President Trump’s term in office in 2021, local communities had alleged more than 29,000 non combatants killed by U.S military.
Iran:
In January 2020, President Trump murdered a high-ranking military official of Iranian government.
President Trump ordered a drone strike to murder the Iranian Maj. General Qassim Suleimani, who served as Iran’s viceroy in Iraq.
General Suleimani was the head of the Quds Force, the elite external operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which operated throughout Iraq under his leadership.
Suleimani 'successfully' ran Iran’s ground campaign against the ISIS in Iraq.
Americans know there’s stuff going on in the name of fighting terror, but there’s not much interest in the details. It’s considered unpatriotic to question what’s going on with the military.
Well, Shadow News is here to debrief you of all the human cost of airstrikes during President Trump-era.
President Trump made it harder to know how many civilians the U.S. gov't kills by remote control.
Unfortunately, the mainstream media was so distracted by the chaos of the Trump administration and allegations of the president’s collusion with Russia that it neglected to look closely at the war crimes president Trump was committing.
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