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paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

sum posted:

You're insane if you think that his advisors would ever let him push the nuke button. There'd be a coup.

lol ok

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paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
:synpa:

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i cant wait to get home and slap together an irgc flag soccer avatar

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

sum posted:

You're insane if you think that his advisors would ever let him push the nuke button. There'd be a coup. The Responsible Men in the Room will finally stop Trump from doing something massively stupid. This is something I believe based on facts and reason, not because the hellword we live in has turned my brains to goulash.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
part of the fundamental belief of almost everyone who surrounds trump is that the united states will unleash a global apocalypse to bring the return of jesus christ. the rest of them just want their apocalypse bunker rape kingdoms

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
look how badass this thing is

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

sum posted:

You're insane if you think that his advisors would ever let him push the nuke button. There'd be a coup.

Lmao

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

Trump using the nukes would be a very bad election move.

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Trump using the nukes would be a very bad election move.

lol

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Trump using the nukes would be a very bad election move.

:wrong:

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

oh how soon did we forget that as recently as a few months ago that trump wanted to nuke a hurricane

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Trump using the nukes would be a very bad election move.

aaaahhhhhhhh

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

they'll let trump nuke iran and then try (and fail) to let him take the fall for it

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:


"ok we lost a carrier group in the strait of hormouz. at this point we still have a number of options. the first, obviously the last resort option would be to nuke iran the second"

:yooge: "no let's go with that one. let's do the first one."

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

“should you attack the Persians, a great empire shall be destroyed”

lmao

at least croesus consulted the oracle first

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)



it would be a very bad move, for elections

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

i think it'd increase chud turnout

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Al! posted:



"ok we lost a carrier group in the strait of hormouz. at this point we still have a number of options. the first, obviously the last resort option would be to nuke iran the second"

:yooge: "no let's go with that one. let's do the first one."

lmao only our stupid military would present the worst plan possible as an option

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it would be a very bad move, for elections

:hmmyes:

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

Nude Hoxha Cameo posted:

“should you attack the Persians, a great empire shall be destroyed”

lmao

at least croesus consulted the oracle first

somehow I don't think Rouhani will keep Trump around as an advisor afterwards

Complications
Jun 19, 2014

If Trump nuked something every news agency in the US would fall all over themselves describing how the target totally 100% deserved it. The Republicans would cheer. The Democrats would also describe the target as deserving it but say also that perhaps the strategic aspects of the annihilation of a city weren't fully considered. Six weeks later the Democrats would be voting in lockstep with the Republicans to authorize additional nuclear strikes at the president's discretion.

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
Yah it’d be a goddamn cialis commercial disclaimer in the situation room if trump authorized the use of nukes

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

paul_soccer10 posted:

i cant wait to get home and slap together an irgc flag soccer avatar
sweet do it

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
https://twitter.com/ali_kourani/status/1213271945158053888?s=21

dunno if this has been posted. this account is pretty reputable.

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010
it'd be hilarious if the US media confused Kataib Hezbollah with Hezbollah and that's what led to the mistaken report

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

Al! posted:



"ok we lost a carrier group in the strait of hormouz. at this point we still have a number of options. the first, obviously the last resort option would be to nuke iran the second"

:yooge: "no let's go with that one. let's do the first one."

lmao of course this is how it went down

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
send the person who made that PowerPoint to the Hague

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Raskolnikov38 posted:

send the person who made that PowerPoint to the Hague

its u

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

Note to future Iranian Generals. All your travel move should be secret from now on.

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Al! posted:

"ok we lost a carrier group in the strait of hormouz. at this point we still have a number of options. the first, obviously the last resort option would be to nuke iran the second"

:yooge: "no let's go with that one. let's do the first one."

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Raccooon posted:

Note to future Iranian Generals. All your travel move should be secret from now on.

imo all us general moves should be secret now

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

40 years from now we will hear about the American hero that shot a guy making a powerpoint with a nuclear attack listed as an option.

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

Raccooon posted:

40 years from now we will hear about the American hero that shot a guy making a powerpoint with a nuclear attack listed as an option.

For real, don't show him a god drat thing

He's clearly senile. Don't show him that poo poo! He'll pick it even though it's a terrible idea

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Breakfast All Day posted:

- specops and cia sickos want to make clear that civilian, auxiliary and humanitarian personnel arent off limits because it creates terror
- specops and cia sickos view giving aid to non-whites the same as doing harm to whites
- specops and cia sickos are incompetent af grunt boots, so medical personal who are mobile and communicating look like their bosses and not like grunt boots, so they look like commanders to them
- the cruelty is the point

Number 3. CIA is decent at agitprop, but poo poo at actual intel. Spec ops is dominated by meatheads.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/Jack_Burkman/status/1213268590176002048

blood! more blood!!!

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Raccooon posted:

40 years from now we will hear about the American hero that shot a guy making a powerpoint with a nuclear attack listed as an option.

RIP McKinsey consultant

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

what do you wanna bet he brings up dresden tearfully whenever its neccessary to defend nazis

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Reuters pushing the story that Soleimani was plotting to kill US forces in Iraq to distract from the anti-Iran protests. It's only attributed to Reuters staff at the top so nobody's career is hurt when it's disproved. It does have one writer at the bottom though.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...q-idUSKBN1Z301Z

quote:

The Revolutionary Guards commander instructed his top ally in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and other powerful militia leaders to step up attacks on U.S. targets in the country using sophisticated new weapons provided by Iran, two militia commanders and two security sources briefed on the gathering told Reuters.

The strategy session, which has not been previously reported, came as mass protests against Iran’s growing influence in Iraq were gaining momentum, putting the Islamic Republic in an unwelcome spotlight. Soleimani’s plans to attack U.S. forces aimed to provoke a military response that would redirect that rising anger toward the United States, according to the sources briefed on the gathering, Iraqi Shi’ite politicians and government officials close to Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.

Soleimani’s efforts ended up provoking the U.S. attack on Friday that killed him and Muhandis, marking a major escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran. The two men died in air strikes on their convoy at a Baghdad airport as they headed to the capital, dealing a major blow to the Islamic Republic and the Iraqi paramilitary groups it supports.

So I guess the US line is that it fell into an Iranian trap? This is all so dumb. All the sources are anonymous.

Funnily enough that was published 5 minutes after Reuters came out with a decent length article that does question the US rational for the assassination. It quotes legal experts and UN officials. Compared to the other article with only one reporter, this had six reporters work on it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-legal-analysis-idUSKBN1Z301R

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

sum posted:

You're insane if you think that his advisors would ever let him push the nuke button. There'd be a coup.

remember that it was only JFK's personal decision that held off the Joint Chiefs from nuking Cuba

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Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

gradenko_2000 posted:

remember that it was only JFK's personal decision that held off the Joint Chiefs from nuking Cuba

Trumps also spent the last three years firing everyone he doesn’t like

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