Pre-emptive use of force perfectly fine to thwart threats to US and its allies, John Bolton tells RT
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US arch-hawk explains why Russia’s attack of Ukraine was unlike America’s invasion in Iraq

John Bolton, the former National Security Advisor to US President Donald Trump, spoke to RT’s Oksana Boyko about why he believed Russia’s behavior in Ukraine was unjustified, unlike the many military campaigns the White House has waged over the years.

Bolton, the recurring joke goes, has never seen a US war that he didn’t like. At various points of time he advocated military actions against Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, to name a few. As part of t...

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19 years since the US invasion of Iraq, has the West learned any lessons?
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Almost two decades and an estimated million deaths later, the media is beating the drums of war again

The US-led invasion of Iraq in March, 2003 was a war now accepted to have been built on lies and is said to have killed as many as one million Iraqis. However, despite the horrific bloodshed inflicted on the Iraqi people, the Western public seem to have forgotten so many of the lessons that should have been taken away from the disaster that was the Iraq War.

In the build-up to the war on Iraq, Americans were told that eliminating Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was necessary for world peace. This was due...

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