WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Also the possibility of a mass mining of the hormuz or mass missiling tankers. Tanker War 2.0. gently caress it's the 80s all over again.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:41 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 20:05 |
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Welp, we made it TWO loving DAYS into 2020 before Trump hosed it all up.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:43 |
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Squalid posted:I'm not sure what Trump is thinking. lol
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:43 |
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pro starcraft loser posted:Wouldn't this run the risk of pulling US allies that would normally sit on the sideline into the conflict? Which ones ? The besendwehr?
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:43 |
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This is loving insane. e: BBC is saying its not clear who's responsible, while Al Jazeera is straight up saying it was a US airstrike. Is the US just going to deny responsibility? Count Roland fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jan 3, 2020 |
# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:45 |
WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Which ones ? The besendwehr? I doubt we'd get any help in a conflict like this the way it's starting, but I was thinking France, Germany and maybe Italy. Will be interesting to see how Turkey reacts to this news.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:46 |
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We basically just declared war on Iran. poo poo.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:48 |
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https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1212911957004578816
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:48 |
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lmao it's happening
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:49 |
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who are these dudes?
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:50 |
They're moving fast.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:50 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:who are these dudes? https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1212912578470518785?s=20
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:51 |
cochise posted:They're moving fast. What legal footing do US Marines have for this? Are they wanted?
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:51 |
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Its twitter but ya really looking like a decapitation of Irans efforts in Iraq.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:52 |
pro starcraft loser posted:What legal footing do US Marines have for this? Are they wanted? Since when is legality an issue? But seriously there isn't any.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:52 |
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pro starcraft loser posted:What legal footing do US Marines have for this? Are they wanted? https://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/1212907519363964930?s=21 Looking around for a bit of content from that. But ya its a sort out legality issues later thing.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:53 |
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I guess we're about to find out if Iran's a paper tiger that's been bluffing their way through the intensifying skirmishing up until now. We absolutely started this fight when Trump tore up the Iran deal, and now we're escalating, so if Iran has any cards to play, we should be seeing them soon. They're still obviously by far the weaker country though, so taking the L could be the more rational course of action, even if war would also be bad for us.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 02:59 |
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https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1212913366492016640 read the whole drat thread. its good poo poo.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:01 |
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Tied to Iran I guess, or are we going to coup the current Iraqi government? Again?
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:02 |
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/141604554855825408
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:03 |
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RaffyTaffy posted:https://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/1212907519363964930?s=21 If Trump nukes Iran or full bore invades to regime change it there is nobody on earth that can stop him. Those "Rules of Force" are doing nothing but wasting space on a hard drive somewhere.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:03 |
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حلال زاده The first night I sleep on an earth where Soleimani is dead
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:04 |
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Feldegast42 posted:Tied to Iran I guess, or are we going to coup the current Iraqi government? Yes.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:05 |
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Yeah this is going to end well.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:08 |
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I think we're also missing here that the US just killed or arrested a whole bunch of senior members of the PMU. You know, the main paramilitary forces they were working alongside in the fight against ISIS in Iraq, who have three times the personnel of the Iraqi Army. Americans in Iraq just had their lives get far, far less safe.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:09 |
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Darth Walrus posted:I think we're also missing here that the US just killed or arrested a whole bunch of senior members of the PMU. You know, the main paramilitary forces they were working alongside in the fight against ISIS, who have three times the personnel of the Iraqi Army. Americans in Iraq just had their lives get far, far less safe. Don't worry, surely the Kurds will come to our aid!
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:09 |
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Darth Walrus posted:I think we're also missing here that the US just killed or arrested a whole bunch of senior members of the PMU. You know, the main paramilitary forces they were working alongside in the fight against ISIS in Iraq, who have three times the personnel of the Iraqi Army. Americans in Iraq just had their lives get far, far less safe. yep. basicaly the new republican guard. good times ahead.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:11 |
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Feldegast42 posted:Tied to Iran I guess, or are we going to coup the current Iraqi government? quote:Hadi Al-Amiri (Arabic: هادي العامري) is the former Iraqi Minister of Transportation and the head of the Badr Organization, which was the military wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC). He is a member of the Iraqi parliament[1] under the United Iraqi Alliance list, which mainly represents religious Shi'a parties. That answer your question?
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:11 |
Darth Walrus posted:I think we're also missing here that the US just killed or arrested a whole bunch of senior members of the PMU. You know, the main paramilitary forces they were working alongside in the fight against ISIS in Iraq, who have three times the personnel of the Iraqi Army. Americans in Iraq just had their lives get far, far less safe. Blowback is what we specialize in.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:13 |
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Trump did all of this in an attempt to distract PR away from impeachment. Do you folks think this will subtract from (distracting proxy war) or add to impeachment proceedings? (wanton aggression)
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:14 |
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Grouchio posted:Trump did all of this in an attempt to distract PR away from impeachment. Do you folks think this will subtract from (distracting proxy war) or add to impeachment proceedings? (wanton aggression) Rudy Giuliani has assured me this is all Hunter Biden's doing. I'm sure he'll get to the bottom of it.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:16 |
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Grouchio posted:Trump did all of this in an attempt to distract PR away from impeachment. Do you folks think this will subtract from (distracting proxy war) or add to impeachment proceedings? (wanton aggression) not really and if he makes this worse(he will) than he is hosed in the election.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:16 |
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historically the democrats have never seen a war they didn't like
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:17 |
Dapper_Swindler posted:not really and if he makes this worse(he will) than he is hosed in the election. Yeah, starting a war to distract people works a lot better when the country hasn't been constantly at a pointless war for almost 20 years.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:17 |
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Grouchio posted:Trump did all of this in an attempt to distract PR away from impeachment. Do you folks think this will subtract from (distracting proxy war) or add to impeachment proceedings? (wanton aggression) I'm sure the various republicans will be very concerned about this attack but are going to wait until they have all the facts and it's not as if Soleimani was some angel.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:18 |
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Good chance the Iraqi government falls over this.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:18 |
FizFashizzle posted:and it's not as if Soleimani was some angel. Hearing that on this thread is unusual. What did he do?
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:19 |
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FizFashizzle posted:I'm sure the various republicans will be very concerned about this attack but are going to wait until they have all the facts and it's not as if Soleimani was some angel. https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1212918736015024128?s=20
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:19 |
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Let's all wait to hear from McConnell first.
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:21 |
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if you listened really closely you could have heard marco's tongue enter trump's sphincter while he typed this
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 03:22 |