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Perpetual Middle East Geopolitical Quagmire Megathread

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Yay more war!! Just what everyone had on their New Year's resolutions.

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    Trump is the antithesis of that pussy Obama. The reasons why you guys hate Trump are the reasons we love him. He told Iran not to start shit, and when they did, he laid the wood. #MAGA

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    You've seriously got to be kidding me. In literally any other country in the world, Sanders and Warren would be considered centrists. The Overton window has shifted so far to the right in this fucked

  • You love him because he's a career criminal and conman and has no idea what he's doing and is historically corrupt and is incapable of telling the truth and is a truly terrible human being? That's wei

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can we please send the boomers

9 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

The fact that these asswipes were eliminated in Baghdad instead of Tehran evidences Iran's role in projecting terror all over the Middle East. 

I wouldn’t be casting stones. At least it’s their own neighborhood and they are closely tied to Iraq now, which is a Shiite majority neighbor. 

4 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I wouldn’t be casting stones. At least it’s their own neighborhood and they are closely tied to Iraq now, which is a Shiite majority neighbor. 

Sorry, I should have said: "Iran's role in projecting terror all over the world" as was mentioned in the Yashar Ali tweet that you cited.

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Don’t worry—I’m sure there is a well thought-out plan for how this is going to go.


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No doubt this piece of shit of needed to die but should be a little more discrete ?

Like on west wing, they assassinated that one guy after tricking his jet to land in the Bahamas 

Can someone who has been paying attention please post a summary of what's going on and why?

5 minutes ago, used2b said:

Can someone who has been paying attention please post a summary of what's going on and why?

This twitter thread was cited above (Scroll down as it now includes arounnd 15 entries) -- it has a lot of detail on the deceased brethren and their role in Iran's terror regime:

 

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I for one would feel a bit better if @staboner would regale us with a no nuke/no dirty bomb Friday right about now. 

Do we have enough prisons for everyone refusing the draft

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Trump just assassinating high profile Iranian enemies without consulting Congress like no big deal.

Reward to Bolton for not testifying?

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never forget 

This happened in Iraq? WTF is a high ranking Iranian military official doing in fuckin Baghdad?

2 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

This happened in Iraq? WTF is a high ranking Iranian military official doing in fuckin Baghdad?

Weekly poker night. 

Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Jared has this 

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Nice of the Pentagon to state publicly that this was done at the direction of the President.  

$10/gallon gas to own the libs.

Iraq 2.0?

 They’ll love us! Mission accomplished! 

And they will 

9 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

This happened in Iraq? WTF is a high ranking Iranian military official doing in fuckin Baghdad?

I can't say for certain, but there have been Iranian forces in Iraq for a while, as well as Iranian backed militias comprised of Shiite Iraqis. They fought alongside regular Iraqi soldiers against ISIS the last couple of years. Moreover, their units actually coordinated the fight with Americans and Kurds during that effort.

A report I heard yesterday or the day before, some of those militias were in the process of being integrated with Iraqi regulars, while some were not. One of the latter was responsible for killing the American contractor and we responded by killing 24, which resulted in the attack on the embassy.

So...like...it's complicated I would imagine.

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Cleaned up my fat fingered shitshow

On the bright side, Jason Garrett has been fired. 

I changed my oil today so this may be on me sorry guys

6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

On the bright side, Jason Garrett has been fired. 

Fucking finally. 

1 hour ago, Fozzz said:

Is Trump even aware his admin is declaring war on Iran? 

Yep.

 

Not a fan of this move. I don’t like that this probably moves us closer to Neocon wet dream of direct Iran confrontation. 
 

That said, this tweet is fucking hilarious. 
 

 

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18 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Biden and Corn Pop, at the swimming pool

Darmok and Jalad, at Tanagra.

22 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

This happened in Iraq? WTF is a high ranking Iranian military official doing in fuckin Baghdad?

I had friends in Iraq when the insurgency activity ramped up, and they caught a shit-ton of Iranians and Saudis coming into Iraq with money/weapons or who were there train various factions to fight a Shiite/Sunni proxy war in Iraq.  Quds were known to be coming in and out of Iraq, and both groups were known to have killed Americans, or rather funded/trained those who did.

Can't find it now, but one of the websites for the leadership back in the later 2000s used to mention when coalition troops caught Iranians or Saudis coming over, and it was a pretty surprising number.

It's an open secret.

 
 

That’s...not real...right?

Oh...and this is like, really, really bad. Fuck.
14 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

$10/gallon gas to own the libs.

Yeah well I get 5% cash back on gas purchases on my Chase card through March.  Score!

The buffoon weighs in:
 

San Dimas High School football rules!!
Just now, tx 3 putt said:

thank god i filled up today

Company gas card, Holla!

10 hours ago, Lagunamadre said:

This event just illustrates you don't just go to war with Iran, you go to war with all Shia fighters across the region. The more we provoke them (i.e. tearing up an agreement they were compliant with) the more we risk a full on war in Iran, Iraq and an escalation in the ongoing wars in Yemen and Syria. All because Trump wanted to troll Obama by tearing up one of his biggest accomplishments. 

It also illustrates how utterly predictable it was that knocking off Saddam Hussein and putting the majority Shi'ites in power would result in a huge boost to Iranian influence in the region. It couldn't have had any other result. 

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