The world is aswirl with theories, takes, and chest-thumping chauvinism. America is back! The great power behind such flawless executions as Desert Storm, Libya, and many other legendary operations has returned to the world stage.
Let’s first note that on the surface the operation had echoes of the USSR’s famous Operation Storm-333, wherein Soviet special forces conducted a large-scale military raid to oust Afghan president Hafizullah Amin in his Kabul compound.
The reasoning was similar: the Soviets felt that Amin was ‘illegitimate’ and backed by the West, and imposed a much more ‘blunt hammer’ approach compared to the “flawless precision” of Trump’s much smaller-scale raid. Of course, the Soviet attack was a real one, with real fire fights and casualties, and the Trump one again has all the hallmarks of the ‘theatrical production’ of the late-stage American empire.1
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