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The anniversary is also frequently used as a jumping-off point for adversarial entities to make critical remarks towards the U.S. On Sunday, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev marked the occasion with a social media post predicting that the U.S. will eventually face a 9/11-level attack with nuclear weapons.
Also on Sunday, the conservative Chinese tabloid paper Global Times shared a political cartoon marking the occasion with mockery directed at violence in the U.S.
On Sunday, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev marked the occasion with a social media post predicting that the U.S. will eventually face a 9/11-level attack with nuclear weapons.
The Costs of War Project also estimates that 243,000 people have died as a direct result of this war. These figures do not include deaths caused by disease, loss of access to food, water, infrastructure, and/or other indirect consequences of the war.
Maybe I rambeled a bit much.
originally posted by: Turquosie
a reply to: Degradation33
We gave Saudi Arabia massive amounts of weapons during the Trump administration right after they killed a jouranlist and countless civilians in Yemen.
America doesn't stand for anything anymore. It's all about money.
The only time we have morality or ideological stances is when we need to make up an excuse to kill a bunch of people in a foreign land. "Freedom".. More like Freedumb.
The 120km train ride between the cities of Luoyang and Zhengzhou is a showcase of economic malaise and broken dreams. From the window, endless half-built residential towers pass one after another for the duration of the hour-long journey. Many of the buildings are near completion; some are finished and have become homes. But many more are skeletons where construction ceased long ago. Developers have run out of cash and can no longer pay workers. Projects have stalled. Families will never get their homes.
chinas-ponzi-like -property-market-is-eroding-faith-in-the-government
Around 46,319 civilians are estimated to have died from the war in Afghanistan.