January 24, 2022 04:43 pm GMT
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"Lethal aid", a euphemism for U.S. arms shipments, slowly loses its quotes
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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