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Perpetual Middle East Geopolitical Quagmire Megathread

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  • ousuxndallas
    ousuxndallas

    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

  • Brian Fantana
    Brian Fantana

    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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8 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Camp Simba? Really?

simba: my uncle murdered my dad

pumbaa: sheesh lol

simba: then he blamed me for it 

timon: yikes. have u tried just not fucken worrying about it lmao

4 hours ago, Shady Ray said:

Helicopter footage of the turnout at Soleimani's funeral in his hometown of Ahvaz.

 

 

Trump: "More people at my inauguration!"

4 hours ago, HenryJames said:

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3 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

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The Oils; can't be beat on many levels.

 

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So Iraqi Parliment voted US troops out of country. If ratified US has a year to vacate.

Welp that is one way to get troops out of Iraq.

I actually don't disagree with this cunt but he obviously has ulterior motives and this would royally piss off Turkey just to add some extra spice to this  powder keg.

 

9 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

So Iraqi Parliment voted US troops out of country. If ratified US has a year to vacate.

Welp that is one way to get troops out of Iraq.

Two birds one stone is how it will be justified. Take out one last bad guy while also bringing the troops home although we just shipped out about 5,000 more over the weekend.

Now Iran gets to exercise more influence over Iraq going forward and we’ll be back over there in the 2020’s at some point. Good thing we have a beginner level checkers player while everyone else is playing on the chess board.

1 minute ago, BrazilHorn said:

So Iraqi Parliment voted US troops out of country. If ratified US has a year to vacate.

Welp that is one way to get troops out of Iraq.

PM said in his initial address to parliament prior to the vote that the resolution voting US troops out passed, he would sign.

 

One of the Iraqi analysts on German TV tonight is saying that there will be contention over the one-year issue, as there were provisions in the agreement between the US and Iraq explicitly prohibiting: attacks not relating to ISIS, attacks against Iran launched by the US from Iraqi soil and attacks against Iraqi military (into which the PMUs were absorbed officially last year). He is saying that attacks against non-ISIS actors were to be carried out with the approval of/in coordination with the Iraqi military.

 

Of course, Soleimani via his direction of the PMUs, was one of the reasons ISIS has had its ass kicked in Syria and Iraq, so gonna be pretty tough to pin this strike on that provision.

 

Not that it will make a difference in the long run. The US will leave when it decides to leave, of course.

8 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breaks.

Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers boycotted the Iraqi Parliament vote. Iraq remains a fractured nation-state under the thumb of Iran, for this moment in history. It is always on the brink of a Sunni-Shia civil war with innocents all around. What a mess - for so many decades. 

I think it is safe to say the effort to build up Iran as a counterweight to Saudi and Israeli power in the ME has not brought any solutions  - just more rubble and trouble. 

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Iran saw what happened to Saddam in Iraq and Qdafi in Libya - "nuclear capable" ensures regime longevity. Give up that capability and the US will take out the regime and laugh about it. 

Just now, washparkhorn said:

Iran saw what happened to Saddam in Iraq and Qdafi in Libya - "nuclear capable" ensures regime longevity. Give up that capability and the US will take out the regime and laugh about it. 

They were following the fucking deal that Obama negotiated. When trump blew it up, they stopped cooperating. No fucking shit Sherlock. 

Also, you really need another hobby lol. You're posting at hugo-rates with anastasia-levels of intellectual dishonesty.

3 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Not everyone can be a macho business donkey wrestler, either. 

Factoid:  I have a book jacket from that Jimmy James best seller that was a prop from that very episode.  Not every one gets it when they see it.

27 minutes ago, maninblack said:

 

The best negotiator, using the best words.

Click through for thread

 

1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breaks.

"We'll distribute the potassium iodide to folks with private insurance, then to fly-over states and the south....definitely NOT Medicaid eligible..."

Unified Iran and Iraq. 

Troops out of the region. 

#PromisesKept #BetterThanObama

29 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Factoid:  I have a book jacket from that Jimmy James best seller that was a prop from that very episode.  Not every one gets it when they see it.

You should definitely post a pic. 

That episode was freaking hysterical. 

30 minutes ago, Lurch said:

Click through for thread

 

 

And yet after ten, twenty, fifty years from now, when Jesus still hasn't returned, it won't occur to them that they've been duped. They'll support some other nonsense with the certainty that the apocalypse is just around the corner. 

You should definitely post a pic. 

That episode was freaking hysterical. 

 

That’s probably my favorite comedy scene (split in two, actually) on TV ever.

 

Cliff on Jeopardy and Mulva are up there too.

10 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

You should definitely post a pic. 

That episode was freaking hysterical. 

Will have to watch it now. I had always assumed JJ was a Beastie Boys tribute.

40 minutes ago, NWBuck said:

Unified Iran and Iraq

Tom Clancy called it many years ago

strategic germ warfare incoming. Double check those cans of shaving cream  

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3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Camp Simba? Really?

Very racist.   But Trump is the White Lion.

3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Camp Simba? Really?

"Simba" is Swahili(?) for "lion."

O/U when IDF gets upgraded bombs / weapons from the US and takes out Iran’s uranium facilities ?

if so, the US needs to Coordinate at the same time and take out the current regime. It’ll provide cover for the IDF. If that mission is a go, it needs to be 100% successful. Might also make for a much quicker war with Iran.

Iran needs to offer N Korea all they have to nudge them into starting a Korean Peninsula conflict, ASAP. Oil, money, what ever it takes.

same for rebel forces in Afghanistan. Get them stirred up and much more active 
 

US citizens need to observe what happens when a religious minority takes control of your govt. 

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6 minutes ago, maninblack said:

Because why not

 

Have to spread that political Islam !

prefect timing, the US is tied up and this move will be unopposed 

I'm starting to think Trump didn't think this through

2 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

I'm starting to think Trump didn't think this through

No time for thinking. Too much golf to play. 

4 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

No time for thinking. Too much golf to play. 

No worries, Jared has this.

5 minutes ago, maninblack said:

 

Fake news, I was told ISIS was defeated

52 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Tom Clancy called it many years ago

strategic germ warfare incoming. Double check those cans of shaving cream  

The United Islamic Republic.

Damn, Clancy wrote that book 25 years ago. Yet we still took out Saddam in the 2000's and can't seem to understand why Iran continues to interfere in Iraq today.

It's like shit that was common knowledge in the 90's was forgotten with the new Millenniam.

7 minutes ago, maninblack said:

 

It’s almost like electing a fascist leads to fascism 

29 minutes ago, maninblack said:

 

Dafuq?

5 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

It’s almost like electing a fascist leads to fascism 

I wonder how Icono feels about this. 

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