>>17969746
>Source
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
Academic consensus is that the GWOT killed ~4 to 5 million people since 2001 with ten percent of those being direct deaths, far more than any other major war of the millennium so far.
>>17969740
>Except I can say "Bush did bad in Iraq" and not get kidnapped by the state like in Russia
For sure, you just won't get far politically here if you try to run for office and ascend any further beyond HoR level. Both Trump and Biden supported the Iraq War back in the day btw, and both Trump and Obama for all their posturing dramatically escalated U.S involvement in the Middle East during their presidencies despite it being extremely unpopular with the American public.
>>17969566
>Norway doesn't fear an American backed coup if they wanted to learn NATO
Gladio has been posted several times ITT retard, the reason no European politician runs on leaving NATO is because of the chilling effect Five Eyes intel agencies have over national politics in NATO countries. It's the same reason why Romania never left the Warsaw Pact despite Ceaușescu routinely posturing himself as an anti-Soviet leader.
