Trump Prepares to Attack Eighth Country of His Second Term
Weeks after a preliminary peace deal with Iran fell apart, Donald Trump has turned his attention toward his next military conquest.
The Trump administration is reportedly considering taking military action against an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in Mali known as JNIM, according to several current and former U.S. officials that spoke with The Washington Post Wednesday.
Doing so would add to the president’s warmongering tally, marking the eighth nation he has ordered strikes on since he began his second term as president.
The other affected countries are Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, and Venezuela. Trump has also ordered 66 strikes against small watercraft in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific in an admittedly futile attempt to interrupt drug smuggling into the U.S., killing at least 221 people in the process.
One of the administration’s top proponents for using brute force in Mali is Sebastian Gorka, the National Security Council’s senior director for counterterrorism. The London-born Hungarian has been a fixture in Trump’s inner circle since 2017, though his appointment to Trump’s first administration came as a surprise to many in his field. Gorka had previously been known for his extremist, Islamophobic views, which relegated him to the fringes of Washington and his position as an editor at Breitbart. (Read more from “Trump Prepares to Attack Eighth Country of His Second Term” HERE)
