US Business-as-Usual as Trump Bombs the Poorest Country on Earth (Somalia)

From [HERE] Hardly reported in the Western media is the blitzkrieg being conducted by the Trump administration on Somalia, the easternmost country on the African continent, and one of the world’s poorest.

Donald Trump began his presidency in January 2025, declaring himself a peacemaker to end all U.S. overseas wars. He even thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize despite ordering a massive aerial bombardment of Iran earlier this year and launching the ongoing aggression against Venezuela, including blowing up dozens of civilian boats off the Latin American coast.

But perhaps the biggest anomaly in Trump’s peace posturing is the U.S. airstrikes in Somalia. Last week, the country was bombed for the 90th time this year, according to reporting in antiwar.com. Trump’s secret war in Somalia is not being reported by the mainstream media. No surprise there, given the Western media’s longtime shameful role of covering up for U.S. illegal aggression. Nor is the Pentagon providing any data on casualties.

To put the scale of this military involvement into perspective, 90 bombing raids on Somalia during 10 months of Trump’s second presidency compare with a total of 51 airstrikes on Somalia under Biden in four years and 48 under Obama in eight years. (Of course, a separate question is: what gives any U.S. president the right to bomb the impoverished African country in the first place?)

The only other country bombed as intensively is Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula nation located north of Somalia, across the Gulf of Aden. In two months during Trump’s second presidency, the number of Yemenis killed by U.S. airstrikes – over 200 – was almost as many as had been recorded in the previous 20 years of American bombardment, according to an airwars.org study. Trump’s bombing of Yemen stopped after a ceasefire was called in June 2025. (Separately, a U.S.-backed Saudi war on Yemen from 2015 killed tens of thousands.)

Somalia and Yemen – 19 and 42 million population, respectively – are ranked among the poorest 10 countries on Earth. [MORE]