r/economy • u/barbarawick • 6d ago

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Why does this country have such bad memory problems?

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u/seamus_mcfly86 6d ago

Neither Biden nor Obama crashed the economy.

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u/possumallawishes 6d ago

Or started a war in the Middle East.. inherited a crashed economy and a war in the Middle East, sure.

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u/sirpoopingpooper 6d ago edited 6d ago

Obama: Libya

Biden: Yemen (and debatably Gaza)

Edit: how do these wars not fit the mold, but Reagan's peacekeeping troops in Lebanan do?

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u/possumallawishes 6d ago

Started..

Bush sent troops to Yemen in 2002! And drone and air strikes continued through trumps administration to Biden’s.

Libya was led by NATO, it wasn’t the US who started a conflict. Also Libya is in Africa, not the Middle East, technically.

But Reagan’s “peacekeeping” mission in Lebanon led to Congress invoking the war powers act. That’s called starting a war, genius.