Tom Stevenson
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Tom Stevenson | Why is Trump bombing Somalia? (opens the original)
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Over the past twenty months, the US has launched airstrikes in Somalia using MQ-9 Reaper drones and sometimes manned aircraft at an average rate of more than twice a week. Donald Trump may have described it as ‘not even a country’ but objectively Somalia has been one of the US military’s higher priorities since his return to the White House. Even while engaged in large military operations in Venezuela and Iran, the US found the resources to conduct waves of airstrikes in Somalia. The US has been
Tom Stevenson | Trump’s Golden Dome (opens the original)
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A week into his second presidential term, Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14186: The Iron Dome for America, calling for ‘a next-generation missile defence shield’. By the time the US National Security Strategy was published last November, the name had changed, irresistibly, to ‘a Golden Dome for the American homeland’. Until quite recently, ballistic missile defence was largely an American peculiarity that other states – Israel a notable exception – treated with suspicion. It’s fiendishly di
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