(2022-02-27). Trump says NATO & US acted 'dumb'. rt.com 
The former president suggested the US' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan prompted the Russian offensive in Ukraine | Former US President Donald Trump has argued that President Joe Biden and NATO had acted "dumb" compared to his "smart" one time Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and claimed Moscow's attack on Ukraine would not have happened under his presidency. | Trump made the comments during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday. Addressing his supporters, Trump noted that he was the only US president of the 21st century to not oversee Russia's military action abroad.
(2022-02-27). On Contact: Race And America's Long War. popularresistance.org The internal violence in the United States, militarized police, and the largest prison system in the world, along with America's endemic racism, are mirrored in the foreign wars that have been fought almost continuously by the United States since the end of the 19th century. These inner and outer wars, argues historian Nikhil Pal Singh, are intimately connected. The gunning down of unarmed black people in American cities is expressed outside our borders in the gunning down of unarmed Muslims in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, often by militarized drones. The prison-industrial-complex at home…