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US forces in Iraq under attack from Iranian cruise missiles. [IMPORTANT STAFF POST]
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Actions have consequences. I don't care one iota about the US military coming under fire, but I hope this doesn't result in innocent Iraqis and Iranians dying. Did they think Iran wouldn't respond to them committing an unprovoked assassination of its top general? Fuck this country and anyone who supports our actions in that region.
Not sure why anyone would criticise iran. Flip it around and ask what would the USA do if Iran took out a US general?
I hope Trump's base- including the few on this forum- are proud of themselves for essentially tossing these soldiers and inevitably innocent Iranians and Iraqis to the wolves just to vote for a idiot that would go on to randomly assassinate a foreign country's vice president just because said idiot openly spited minorities during the last national campaign cycle. Can't wait for y'all to vote for him again too. Really, good job.
I guess it was last year when Russians tried to attack a US base and hundreds of them died before they could get even close to the base.
No casualties reported, the only tweet said there were was from a contributer to Forbes
And who is going to stop Trump? All the sane people resigned, the Pentagon isn't even properly staffed today. WHO?
Exactly what im saying, we assassinated their general then they have all the rights to retaliate.
Dude, Iran has a modern military with high-end weapons from Russia and China. The US probably has never fought against an enemy like that since WWII. If the US starts a full-scale war against Iran, things will get very ugly.
That's not how it works. Even in 2019 these things don't work overnight. Short of several nukes there is nothing in the american arsenal to put Iran out of commission without a sustained engagement.
An attack has to be launched from somewhere. The Gulf states are well within missle range and some of the softest targets in the world in terms of how dependent they are on expensive and fragile oil and water infrastructure.
Because the US has 1000x the military capabilities of Iran. The US can easily flatten the entire country if they wanted, Iraq was the disaster it was because occupation of a country is a lot harder.
It doesn't matter if Iran is "in the right", they don't have resources to even come close to competing with the US in a legitimate war.
Yeah my hope is that it was weak rockets, no casualties, and a trying to save face and "get the last word" scenario. Worst case scenario is it was ballistic missiles and people are dead.
Being proud of that is so fucking idiotic. Don't be idiot, please.
that would be ideal, I would worry that Trump would want to respond in some way regardless
No, but there will a a response and people will be blown up. This is fucked.
Remember that time we had a peaceful deal with Iran that also kept nuclear weapons out of their country
and then Trump ripped it up because he hates Obama and he hates foreigners and muslims
and then Trump ripped it up because he hates Obama and he hates foreigners and muslims
Posts about how Iran is done and we're about to steamroll over Iran are a little over the top considering we don't even have word of casualties.
zero chance trump holds back on this, expect wherever those missile came from will be bombed...and bombed hugely.
Hopefully Iran targeted them at the desert. That would be an understandable proportional response that the military would advise not to escalate.
Four times the size of Iraq, covered in mountains, functional air defense network.
As nostalgic as it is to see projections that the US will cakewalk to victory like it's fucking 2003 all over again, a hot war with Iran will bring the worst US casualties since Vietnam. At least.
As nostalgic as it is to see projections that the US will cakewalk to victory like it's fucking 2003 all over again, a hot war with Iran will bring the worst US casualties since Vietnam. At least.
Iran isn't the Taliban. They're a reasonably wealthy and developed nation. They have an Air Force. Serious firepower.
Looks like the USA really gave up on regime change in Venezuela huh. Oil prices gonna go up, Maduro gonna enjoy that extra money. Guaido...
I wonder what kind of support Iran is gonna get from China and Russia. And I cant wait to see the UN to chicken out and make a resolution saying Iran is the only one in the wrong. Plus Trump complaining on Twitter that his "allies" are not helping him protect the world bla bla bla.
I wonder what kind of support Iran is gonna get from China and Russia. And I cant wait to see the UN to chicken out and make a resolution saying Iran is the only one in the wrong. Plus Trump complaining on Twitter that his "allies" are not helping him protect the world bla bla bla.
Fuck, Iran played right into Trump's hands and now it is certain that there'll be many more casualties on both sides. A small minority of people are about to get the war they've wanted for years while everyone else suffers.
Fuck all the people talking about 'glassing Iran', fucking jingoistic idiots.
Fuck all the people talking about 'glassing Iran', fucking jingoistic idiots.
Ah yes, the team that consists entirely of yes men to his ego.
I don't think USA has sole say in who to nuke. US allies Israel and SA won't agree to that. US will never wanna anger them for obvious reasons. And no matter how dumb Trump is, you don't flatten a country during war, you engage. This will be a war, like the Iran-Iraq war which went on for years.
Idk if you're confusing the two countries but America is gonna get washed lmao what the fuck are you getting your info from Soldier of Fortune magazine or something
Probably targeted an empty or near empty facility.
I don't think Trump is going to care what advisors say, he will want a tenfold response.
The US Navy has enough firepower to basically flatten the country, and they can be launched from anywhere. Straight up attacking US forces will provoke a massive retaliation even more so than Iraq. Iraq was about trying to occupy a country, if the US doesn't care about that, they could destroy Iran without even launching any nukes.
It's stupid because you clearly don't understand how this functions and the implications of escalation in terms of nuclear development and the end result of a war against Iran being occupation to prevent nuclear weapons development. That's not even talking about the damage Iran can do to the region and global economy, as well as activating their sleeper cells all around the world.