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Zeno-25
Dec 5, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
E: whoops

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

guidoanselmi posted:

for anyone whose concerned, israel has been hitting militia and IRGC targets in syria for the past few years. iran absorbs typically absorbs the blows because there's no straight leverage on israeli interests, unlike US assets as in this case.

It'll be interesting to see how the US responds, but given last summer's follies Trump's boxed himself in and GCC states don't want direct confrontation. As always, the Democrats could have a field day with all of this if they weren't being paid off of foreign interests.

Democrats would never do anything to damage America's image abroad, even when you can draw a direct line of responsibility from this disaster to the choices made by a president they're impeaching.

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

Taintrunner posted:



gently caress yeah dudes

Is this picture anywhere at a higher resolution? I want it for a desktop wallpaper.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1212098619274231808

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008


wonder why the locals keep accusing america of this

they must hate freedom

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

LastInLine posted:

Is this picture anywhere at a higher resolution? I want it for a desktop wallpaper.

it's not listed on the news agency's page as far as i can tell, and it's the preview pic for this video but it doesn't show up in it

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/world/middleeast/baghdad-protesters-us-embassy.html

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

i say swears online posted:

it's not listed on the news agency's page as far as i can tell, and it's the preview pic for this video but it doesn't show up in it

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/world/middleeast/baghdad-protesters-us-embassy.html

Anadolu Images owns it and found the image there but they don't have a way to buy it if you aren't a journalist. I made an account but it needs to be approved before I can see how much it costs.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

quote:

Roughly 750 additional American troops will deploy to the region immediately, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said late Tuesday. “This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action taken in response to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities,” he said. The troops are likely to deploy to Kuwait.

lmao

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
at this point i just want the war with iran to start

Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY
I used one of them upsizers on it.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Ora Tzo posted:

I used one of them upsizers on it.



taking this blessed energy into 2020

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

Ora Tzo posted:

I used one of them upsizers on it.



Many thanks to you on this blessed day

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

i assume npr et al are going to use anti-benghazi to call trump a pussy again and that this happened b/c he didnt bomb iran

wisconsingreg
Jan 13, 2019
iran war will be America's Russo-japanese war

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Taintrunner posted:



gently caress yeah dudes

I hope this happens to the embassy in jerusalem at some point

Or hell, every american embassy ever

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Kurtofan posted:

I hope this happens to the embassy in jerusalem at some point

Or hell, every american embassy ever

put an American embassy in Washington DC and we might actually see some real change round those parts!

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

gradenko_2000 posted:

put an American embassy in Washington DC and we might actually see some real change round those parts!

The Chad Hezbollah embassy world tour

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

Kurtofan posted:

I hope this happens to the embassy in jerusalem at some point


it will, but it will be a bunch of ultra-religious israelis who get mad when president sanders refuses to classify arabs as livestock or whatever

cool dance moves
Aug 27, 2018


Vasukhani posted:

iran war will be America's Russo-japanese war

Imo iraq/afghanistan was our Russo-Japanese War in that it fed a movement for change that ended up as a big wet fart: in our case, the election of Barack Obama.

If we are going to war with iran, its gonna end up having more serious consequences than that. Maybe not on the level of 1917, but certainly more than 1905.

cool dance moves
Aug 27, 2018


Taintrunner posted:



gently caress yeah dudes

That's one heckuva challenge coin!!!

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

cool dance moves posted:

That's one heckuva challenge coin!!!

Don't worry the US will be sending in the marines to retrieve their lost challenge coin.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
to clarify, are the American personnel still in the embassy? have they been ejected? are they hostages? it’s not clear what happened

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

Lightning Knight posted:

to clarify, are the American personnel still in the embassy? have they been ejected? are they hostages? it’s not clear what happened

the mob got into the courtyard but didn't try to breach the main compound, so all the security staff is still there but the diplomatic staff was evacuated.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

the mob got into the courtyard but didn't try to breach the main compound, so all the security staff is still there but the diplomatic staff was evacuated.

Ha Ha yes!

They torched some auxiliary buildings during their embassy invasion


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQdaEFa_60

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
The security forces appear to only still be on-site because they're joining in.

https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1212095086013636610?s=21

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

gently caress the cowardly imperialist western media for burying the lede with their racist rear end headlines

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

gently caress the cowardly imperialist western media for burying the lede with their racist rear end headlines
https://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/1212178672079319040

death to america

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
the us embassy in baghdad is the biggest in the world. it covers 104 acres, about the size of the vatican city.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Darkman Fanpage posted:

the us embassy in baghdad is the biggest in the world. it covers 104 acres, about the size of the vatican city.

It's also the most expensive embassy in the whole world and cost around 750 million to construct and at it's peak had 16000 people onsite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Baghdad

Also most of the workforce who built this monument to colonialism were in the classic gulf state slave trap with tricks like taking the workers passports.

etalian has issued a correction as of 18:27 on Jan 1, 2020

cool dance moves
Aug 27, 2018


etalian posted:

It's also the most expensive embassy in the whole world and cost around 750 million to construct and at it's peak had 16000 people onsite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Baghdad

Also most of the workforce who built this monument to colonialism were in the classic gulf state slave trap with tricks like taking the workers passports.

Art of the deal, baby!!

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1212301034871279616?s=20

the US is falling behind in the twitter theater

etalian
Mar 20, 2006


lol

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1212331397857382400

sum
Nov 15, 2010

Vasukhani posted:

iran war will be America's Russo-japanese war

If only we had a more recent analogy for what would happen if a heavily sanctioned middle eastern country fought a conventional war against the United States

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Ora Tzo posted:

I used one of them upsizers on it.



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freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/1212528830218407936

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

Jesus Christ

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

What the gently caress

god gently caress the new york times seriously lol

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

Lightning Knight posted:

What the gently caress

god gently caress the new york times seriously lol

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


Compare how it originally was too

https://twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/1212365286491480065

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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



lmao

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