Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power were the three principal advocates of war against Libya in 2011, setting the North African nation on a free fall ever since. Demonstrations broke out in some Libyan cities against the government of late Muammar Gaddafi in February 2011, in what became known as the “Arab Spring” that engulfed the region. However, Libya’s promised spring turned into a destructive autumn during which Gaddafi was murdered on 20 October, 2011, and Libya was left anguishing in lawlessness, courtesy of the three women.

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Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the mastermind behind the Feb. 22, 2014 regime change in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible US mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.”

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders.

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Cheney and [Condoleezza] Rice were cherry-picking—choosing bad intelligence over good—and not sharing with the public the better information that undermined their ultimate objective.

Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation to the UN in February 2003 that laid out the Bush administration’s rationale for war was full of false and misleading information.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’d call this extremely poor word choice, tbh (or at least, I’m going to go with that interpretation at this point).

Effectiveness is the only metric that really matters in the context of how good a given country’s military is. And generally, being able to conduct missions with an absolute minimum amount of collateral damage and unnecessary casualties of any sort is considered to be a fairly direct way to gauge that effectiveness.