This article is one sided. Doesn't discuss any of the economic benefits of these actions. Only communist things like megadeaths and habitat destruction.
Also you just know they used some covid style math where everyone who pulled a muscle farting the wrong way is counted as a Iraq war related death. Also doesn't account for all the deaths prevented by showing the rest of the planet what happens if Raytheon wants to test a new weapon system with near peer, red team targets in realistic testing condition while the CIA decides the collapse of your state would shift the balance of power in your region in a way beneficial to Murica.