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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

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

Herstory Begins Now posted:

Immediately before you get yourself into a war with someone, it's important that you cruise missile strike all of their treasured millennia old sites to make sure you completely crystalize their resolve to fight you. You don't want to leave any of their citizens undecided or even anti-war, or god forbid, possibly even sympathetic to you.

also if anyone does collaborate with you, just drone strike them and their families anyway. they're brown it doesn't matter!

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

wondering which heritage site being destroyed would make JonTron join a martyrs' brigade

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

wondering which heritage site being destroyed would make JonTron join a martyrs' brigade

iran got any mario statues?

J. P. Beagley
Apr 11, 2008

Ignorant question: if Trump did blow up a lot of religious sites, etc., might that unite the Muslim world against the US? Or are the divisions too deep?

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007


IMHO the next tweet after that is just as wild

https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1213473846499643393?s=20

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004


Trump's literally a terrorist.

Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




American presidents being literal terrorists is a proud tradition tbf

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

Rated PG-34 posted:

American presidents being literal terrorists is a proud tradition tbf

He embraces the role like none other at least.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
idk how credible that guy is (though he certainly seems decently well connected), but that style of tit-for-tat offer is kind of common for military fuckups where you accidentally kill someone way bigger (or just numberically more) than you were meant to in your warning 'we mean business' strike. It sucks to be the people involved, obviously, but it sucks a lot less than a war which is why it happens.

Burn Zone
May 22, 2004




lifting sanctions ain’t gonna fix this one buddy

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

I'm sure trump will feel bad turning over McMaster or mattis lol

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>

J. P. Beagley posted:

Ignorant question: if Trump did blow up a lot of religious sites, etc., might that unite the Muslim world against the US? Or are the divisions too deep?

It wouldn't unite the muslim world because KSA would be cheering it on, but it would definitely unite pretty much the entire rest of the world (excluding probably Israel here) against the US. It's like the Taliban blowing up the Aghan Buddhas or ISIS bulldozing palmyra, it's a loss of global heritage and history

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

Jose posted:

I'm sure trump will feel bad turning over McMaster or mattis lol

"Any chance you guys would be happy taking Hillary?"

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

Sinteres posted:

Trump's literally a terrorist.

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009


Wait lol. The US is offering to end all economic sanctions if they don't do anything?

What does nuclear deal mean? Going back to the Obama nuke deal? LMAO

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

The US intelligence community must just be saying gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress constantly right now.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


magnier basically works for the syrian government so worth taking that stuff with a grain of salt but still probably more reliable than every american news network

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
lifting the sanctions would be huge but there is literally no reason to trust the US here

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Raccooon posted:

The US intelligence community must just be saying gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress constantly right now.

imagine being the state department dudes in charge of iraqi relations lol

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
lol, some neocon chickenhawk convinced Trump to kill Soleimani, and you just know Trump didn't even know who the gently caress Soleimani even was when he agreed to it. and they did it without warning anybody they were going to do it. now everyone has to scramble to find any way to placate the Iranians so they don't blow up every oil facility on the Arabian peninsula. this is one for the history books. dying empire shenanigans.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

there is at least some possibility that israel nukes iran, even if small

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china
trump is going to give them jared to get him out of the way

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

imagine being the state department dudes in charge of iraqi relations lol

What state department dudes?
They've all quit or retired

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

Listening to the latest RWN.

We killed the guy that organized the defense against ISIS in Iraq. Lol we are complete morons

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Sinteres posted:

"Any chance you guys would be happy taking Hillary?"

TomaHAWK HER UP

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Sinteres posted:

"Any chance you guys would be happy taking Hillary?"

Benghazi's valor restored :patriot:

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1213614576245362688

Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




https://twitter.com/timjdillon/status/1213614286632652800?s=21

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://mobile.twitter.com/inquirerdotnet/status/1213418156259196929

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009


They laying on the praise thick to hope Iran doesn't do anything now?

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Raccooon posted:

They laying on the praise thick to hope Iran doesn't do anything now?

There are about 1.2 million Filipinos in the Middle East as overseas workers.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

imagine being the state department dudes in charge of iraqi relations lol

pretty chill job I imagine, just retyping DNI memos onto state dept letterhead

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

From the reading and listening I've done in order to figure out who the gently caress the guy we assassinated was, he's right. Chuds won't like it, but he was an exemplary general, one of the ones that leads the field and shows how things can be done.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
Congress is pissed they weren't notified because they didnt get a chance to buy up defense industry stock

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011
At least they're not okay with it

Like, that's an improvement from the iraq days

cda
Jan 2, 2010

by Hand Knit
Oh my loving God. How is America still a world power with these idiots in charge. From the Times:

quote:

In the chaotic days leading to the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful commander, top American military officials put the option of killing him — which they viewed as the most extreme response to recent Iranian-led violence in Iraq — on the menu they presented to President Trump.

They didn’t think he would take it. In the wars waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Pentagon officials have often offered improbable options to presidents to make other possibilities appear more palatable....

The options included strikes on Iranian ships or missile facilities or against Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq. The Pentagon also tacked on the choice of targeting General Suleimani, mainly to make other options seem reasonable.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


cda posted:

Oh my loving God. How is America still a world power with these idiots in charge. From the Times:

man. everything is so dumb.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

gradenko_2000 posted:

There are about 1.2 million Filipinos in the Middle East as overseas workers.

You mean slaves not workers

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

cda posted:

Oh my loving God. How is America still a world power with these idiots in charge. From the Times:

Hmm yes let's offer a president who is suffering from dementia and is retarded an extreme option to make the rest seem moderate

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uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

cda posted:

Oh my loving God. How is America still a world power with these idiots in charge. From the Times:

I knew it. :hmbol:

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