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"Lethal aid", a euphemism for U.S. arms shipments, slowly loses its quotes
Monday January 24, 2022. 05:43 PM , from BoingBoing
First, you start calling things 'non-lethal aid'. Then you start calling weapons 'lethal aid'. The phrase appears sporadically in news coverage, slowly normalizing itself as a term of art among military-watchers and foreign policy nerds. Then it suddenly bursts into widespread use because of intensive use in military and government communications about 'lethal aid' (i.e. — Read the rest
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