Endless U.S. Military Interventions

I often complain about the United States military industrial complex always needing an enemy. It’s only winners are military contractors, personnel, and banks. The losers are taxpayers. Here’s a list of just the last eleven years. Note that none of these operations was in defense of American soil. This is not the end - we are the dictator!

2014–present: American-led intervention in Syria: American aircraft bomb Islamic State positions in Syria.

2014–present: Intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

2014: 2014 hostage rescue operations in Yemen.

2015: April 30, 2015, U.S. sends ships to the Strait of Hormuz to shield vessels after Iranian seizure of a commercial vessel.

2015–present: the U.S. military deployed 300 troops to Cameroon, with the approval of the Cameroonian government; their primary mission was to provide intelligence support to local forces.

2017: 2017 Shayrat missile strike: Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. naval vessels in the Mediterranean hit a Syrian airbase in Homs.

2018: missile strikes were launched by the U.S. and allies on military targets in Damascus and near Homs in response to the Douma chemical attack against civilians in April 2018.

2019: Operation Sentinel: U.S. Central Command was developing a multinational maritime effort to increase surveillance of and security in key waterways in the Middle East.

2020: Response to attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

2021: February 2021 United States airstrike in Syria: On February 25, 2021, the United States military carried out an airstrike on a site believed to have been occupied by Iranian-backed Iraqi militias.

2021: June 27, 2021, the U.S. military conducted airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias on both sides of the Iraq–Syria border in response to drone attacks on U.S. forces and facilities in the region.

2021: American military intervention in Somalia (2007–present): July 20, 2021, U.S. military airstrikes were conducted on al-Shabab militants in Somalia.

2021: 2021 Kabul airlift: as part of an ongoing, multi-national effort by NATO partner countries to extract citizens and Afghan partners from the country following the 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

2021: On October 22, 2021, a U.S. airstrike in northwestern Syria killed senior al-Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar as part of ongoing anti-terrorism operations in the region.[67][68]

2022: On July 31, 2022 al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Afghanistan in an American drone strike.

2024: Operation Poseiden Archer: Between 12 January 2024 and 6 May 2025 the United States and the United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes against the Houthi movement in Yemen

2025: Operation Rough Rider: In March 2025, the United States launched a large campaign of air and naval strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.

2025: Operation Midnight Hammer: On June 22, 2025,[b] the United States Air Force and Navy attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran.

2025: Operation Southern Spear: A United States military and surveillance campaign aimed at "detecting, disrupting, and degrading transnational criminal and illicit maritime networks".

2025: Operation Hawkeye Strike: A retaliatory military action by the United States against the Islamic State, following the December 2025 Palmyra attack.

2026: Operation Absolute Resolve: On 3 January 2026, the United States launched airstrikes on multiple locations across northern Venezuela.

2026: Operation Epic Fury / Operation Roaring Lion: On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale joint military operation against Iran.

Well over $9 trillion. It's time to remove ourselves from the Middle East.