cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52763750

🇺🇸 Today I learned of the "War on Violence". Paradoxical as it sounds, I felt it perfectly captured much of US domestic & foreign policy.

From the "War on Drugs" to current conflicts, the US continues to invoke the prevention of violence as a pretext for unleashing far more of it on the world 🪖🚀💔