Mastodawn

If a drone ever kills a U.S. government official on American soil, the news will call it unprecedented. But it will not be unprecedented. We have been precedenting it in other countries for 20 years now

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/18/hegseth-rubio-drone-targeting-iran/

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Jason Lefkowitz 6d ago

Here's me on the drone wars, ten years ago. (When Barack Obama was still the president.)

https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/09/the-real-price-of-our-secret-wars/

The real price of our secret wars - Just Well Mixed

It's moral debt. And someday, some generation of Americans will be called upon to pay it off

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Glyph

@jalefkowit it's fucking wild that "maybe endless, undeclared, secret war is bad, actually" was a bold and unpopular take back then. you nailed it, of course, but it continues to be depressing that this wasn't generally obvious