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It's David Blaine type stuff too. "Watch me make my impeachment disappear with a trick of the hand and a diversion."
The man is an absolute menace to this world.
Yep, you really have to question his judgement.
“One day, from his sniper nest, Gallagher shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking w/ other girls on the riverbank. She dropped, clutching her stomach, & the other girls dragged her away.†This is who he pardoned & honored. https://t.co/n2Wl1UeEwC
Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 10:27 - Jan 3 by Steve_M
It doesn't necessarily need to be major flash point to be a problem. In the last year Iranian-backed forces have taken out a large part of Aramco's crude processing facilities and attacked tankers in the Gulf. We're far more likely to see continued escalation than a real war.
That seems to be Trump'#s approach to foreign policy, fire off a few missiles or sanctions and wait for enemy to agree with him. A strategy familiar to anyone who has ever spent much time with a small child.
"Iranian-backed forces have taken out a large part of Aramco's crude processing facilities and attacked tankers in the Gulf."
“At this time, it is unable to independently corroborate that the cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles used in these attacks are of Iranian origin,” he wrote in the report, seen by Reuters."
“At this time, the U.S. Intelligence Community has not identified any information from the recovered weapon systems used in the 14 September attacks on Saudi Arabia that definitively reveals an attack origin,” it said. "
Quote Soleimani was widely seen as the second most powerful figure in Iran, behind the Ayatollah Khamenei. His Quds Force, an elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, reported directly to the ayatollah and he was hailed as a heroic national figure.
Someone from within Iran wanted him out of the way, just an opinion, no inside knowledge. I see that Gloucester Cheltenham Housing Quadrant's Guthrum has commented... definitely ITK...
Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 09:58 - Jan 3 by StokieBlue
Qassem Suleimani is obviously a nasty piece of work but this really isn't the way to go about things and to tweet an Amercian flag just before the announcement is something a 10 year old would do.
Nothing to do now but wait and see how the Iranians react. It's an election year don't forget so standard presidential playbook seems to have been enacted and a war never hurt any sitting presidents chances.
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The Iranians will be terrified that the USA had the intelligence to do this and it'll make them think about winding their neck in.
Please note: prior to hitting the post button, I've double checked for anything that could be construed as "Anti Semitic" and to the best of my knowledge it isn't. Anything deemed to be of a Xenophobic nature is therefore purely accidental or down to your own misconstruing.
I do wonder whether this has anything to do with what is going on?
I wonder whether I will get a discount on booking my holiday to Dubai in the next couple of weeks?
Doubt it. This is more about damaging Iran's power projection capabilities and retaliation for recent attacks on US personnel and on the embassy than anything to do with economics. Sanctions would be the appropriate format for going after that.
Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 15:33 - Jan 3 by Parky
I'm not going to pretend I know the exact ins and outs, because I don't.
This article got sent as part of my job (insurance) and I kind of put 2 and 2 together.
But with Iran struggling to sell oil due to the US sanctions already, surely this assassination is just going to hinder that even further?
There's far more explanation in what has been happening in Iraq recently, and Syria for that matter, rather than anything so conspiricist. Not everything the US has ever done has been motivated by oil - even when they weren't a net exporter.
Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 11:39 - Jan 3 by Guthrum
On Tweet 5, it may spark a witch hunt for spies, which could, in itself, prove damaging to Iranian operations and morale.
The intel came from within Iran that's for sure - I refer back to my post titled "Conspiracy". Given that he was considered THE 2nd most important and powerful Iranian after the 80 year old Ayatollah means that he was in the way of someone who has eyes on the big prize.
Hopefully this will work like a "fire break" and maybe the moderate elements in Iran can help bring some sanity back into the world... maybe
Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 15:58 - Jan 3 by Pendejo
The intel came from within Iran that's for sure - I refer back to my post titled "Conspiracy". Given that he was considered THE 2nd most important and powerful Iranian after the 80 year old Ayatollah means that he was in the way of someone who has eyes on the big prize.
Hopefully this will work like a "fire break" and maybe the moderate elements in Iran can help bring some sanity back into the world... maybe
Could be used by hardliners to attack the "moderates", too - you made deals with the Americans and look what's happened, kind of thing.
Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 15:57 - Jan 3 by Steve_M
There's far more explanation in what has been happening in Iraq recently, and Syria for that matter, rather than anything so conspiricist. Not everything the US has ever done has been motivated by oil - even when they weren't a net exporter.
Oh really? Well, the witches saw it coming...
I’m case you were wondering, all of the witches you know are texting each other about what’s happening with Iran right now because we felt something approaching for many days now and this is (in fact) very, very bad.
Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 15:57 - Jan 3 by Steve_M
There's far more explanation in what has been happening in Iraq recently, and Syria for that matter, rather than anything so conspiricist. Not everything the US has ever done has been motivated by oil - even when they weren't a net exporter.
In Syria?
Well let's not forget that Syria is under an oil embargo and the Syrian people are experiencing massive oil shortages and cannot access their own oil in their own country. US and British troops illegally on Syrian soil among others are "protecting" Syrian oil and thus blocking the Syrian peoples rightful access to their own oil.
This action is actually a war crime under the Geneva convention.
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Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 17:16 - Jan 3 with 873 views
Trump doing his bit for world peace again on 11:39 - Jan 3 by sparks
Why are people with influence and power when they have no understanding whatsoever of human reactions and psyche?
Hard to think this would result in regime change. more likely to result in people coming together and supporting their regime on principle: same as most humans do when they feel their own are under attack.
Well according to Admiral Lord West, ex Chief of Naval Staff, there are powerful groups in Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States that want war and think that a strike on Iran would lead to regime change.
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