From the expansion of official US war zones in Yemen and Somalia to a spike in drone strikes,conflicts are heating up on several frontsDonald Trump’s missile strikes on Syria have attracted worldwide attention (and disgraceful plaudits) in recent days. But much less airtime is being given to his administration’s risky and increasingly barbaric military escalations on several other fronts across the world.
Let’s effect aside, for the time being, or that the Trump administration openly admits it has no clue what it is going to do in Syria next. Or that key members of Congress and in the administration are clearly fervent for “regime change” in Syria with no map for the aftermath. And the fact that hardly anyone seems to care that Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev said over the weekend that Syrian strikes effect the US “on the verge of a military clash with Russia” – a nuclear power with thousands of warheads.
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Source: theguardian.com