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Trump ramps up another forever war that nobody ever talks about

U.S. bombs Somalia for 74th time this year in one of America's longest running 'silent' wars. This article provides the answer as to why the bombs keep falling on Somalia.

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Leo Hohmann
Jul 15, 2026
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The Trump administration is making lots of money for the military-industrial complex.

President Trump has kept the war in Ukraine-Russia going by continuing to fund, supply and provide intelligence to one side in that conflict, Ukraine, while encouraging it to expand the war by using U.S. missiles and targeting systems to strike deep inside Russian territory.

Not only has Trump continued funding Ukraine’s war with Russia, but he is now on round four of bombing Iran “into the stone ages,” as he likes to say.

But the self-proclaimed “peace president” is waging other silent wars against countries far off the radar of most Americans.

Case in point: Somalia.

Remember the 2001 Hollywood movie Blackhawk Down, which retold what we were supposed to believe was a true story of American heroism that supposedly took place in that country back in 1993? Some of it might have been true, but I digress.

My point today is that America is still fighting that war, albeit in different ways and with much more …

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