“Although various rationales were given for these wars, each was undertaken primarily to expand worldwide US military hegemony by gaining permanent American military bases in these countries. The delusionary impetus of these costly and destructive enterprises is captured by the definition of the philosophical phrase reductio AB absurdum: "a method of proving the falsity of a premise by showing that its logical consequences is absurd or contradictory."”
https://original.antiwar.com/ronald_enzweiler/2023/03/28/iraq-afghanistan-and-now-ukraine-reductio-ab-absurdum/
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