Mil News Current Iran/Iraq/US Tensions and Actions Unfolding
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Its not the spies you catch, that you need to worry about......
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I always say you judge people by the company they keep
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The unclassified drone footage of the 08Jan2020 iranian missile strike on the US al Asad base in Iraq. Intel gave them a heads up to evac most aircraft & personnel prior to the strike [iran had just finished downloading commercial sat images of base....rookie move]. Extreme damage to facility, traumatic brain injuries & US President Biden's proportional response was to target 7 shitty huts on the border with iran.........
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What are you taking about? Biden wasn't even President at the time.
The ballistic missile attack on an American base was unprecedented though. Not in the least because it demonstrated the accurateness of Iranian missiles.
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Israel says 'Iranian commandos' used limpet mines to attack ship in Gulf of Oman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran for a blast aboard an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week but sidestepped a question about whether Israel would retaliate.
Israeli Security Cabinet Minister Yoav Gallant, who was a commander in the Israeli Defence Forces, told Israeli news outlet Ynet that "Iranian commandos" carried out the attack using limpet mines.
That was also the assessment of Israeli inspectors who examined the ship in Dubai.
Israel says 'Iranian commandos' used limpet mines to attack ship in Gulf of Oman | The National
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has not said whether his country will retaliate, but Israeli air strikes have hit Iranian positions in Syria
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The initial response targeting al Asad was in response to the killing of Gen. Solemani, the 08Jan attack by iran was supposed to end it with their response. Since US President Biden's election to the US Presidency the iranians apparently decided to launch more missiles at American soldiers & bases in Iraq. So Biden's proportional response was to target a few huts on the border. I was hopeing for a larger response, like a nuke in downtown tehran.
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Yeah...nukes.
You are absolutely delusional if you think that Iran was going to leave it at that. The campaign is going to continue until the last American soldier leaves the region.
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If that is so, how come Walmart doesn't post armed guards infront of their competitors' branches to discourage the customers from entering?
No offence, mate, but you're greatly overestimating the importance of Russia in this context. This conflict isn't really about gas, except for the merry few individuals inside Congress who get to dine with the gas industry's lobbyists in fancy restaurants. But they're not a majority. How come they're able to win majority votes then?
See, the competitors here aren't Russia and America … but America and Europe. For twenty years, the growing division between the US and Western Europe has been souring our relationship. The continent is drifting away from the American sphere of influence and tries to get its own thing going. The political and economical dimensions of this development dwarf the gas business by many orders of magnitude.
I'm delighted to hear my perception of the KGB was all wrong. I'm sure they were just plucking daisy flowers all day.
Besides, I suspect you got the point.
You'll find my reply below.
… and yet the new administration has just thrown the Saudi Crown Prince under the bus, accusing him of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and ending all weapons exports to Saudi Arabia. Do you care to elaborate how that's possible?
The thing is, you believe to be observing realpolitik and think it refutes my point, but you've fallen into the trap of only perceiving America's policies through the foreign lense completely disregarding the sensitivities colliding inside that country. Americas strong historical ties with Israel would be such a sensitivity. Not siding with Israel against Iran would be tantamount to political suicide for any US president.
The historical dimension of the relationship between Iran and the US is another. Most American citizens genuinely believe Iran is the greatest threat to their national security and it'd be immensely shortsighted to attribute those feelings to media manipulation or some such nonsense. The thing is, both countries are interlocked in what could be called a "hereditary emnity" like the one that used to divide France and Germany.
You're eager to rationalise a conflict driven by emotions, an effort doomed from the start. Telling you the truth, I'm beginning to think the source of Russian-Western tensions is our inability to understand each other's mentality. The myriad of things Westerners get wrong about Russia is a topic for another day, what you guys don't get is the importance of emotions in Western politics and the lack of long-run agendas.
There is no "great plan" to piss on Mother Russia's lawn everywhere she sets up shop. America's leaders are only interested in producing headlines that get them re-elected, and some of them have to stand for re-election every two years (!). And the simple truth is that taking military actions against Iran's interests is quite popular.
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Is it(shhh) the illuminati????
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Yes, thats definitely the only option!!
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Can you read English? I wrote - its all (meaning US policy in the Middle East) about controlling global energy flows and markets.
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I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation and the commitment of some of the players.
There is a huge war going on right now in the Middle East between all kinds of players that are sensing American weakness and departure.
It's war of attrition and the yanks are simply too short of breath to stay in it for the long-game.
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I'll have what he's smoking!
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War of attrition might be a bit overdone, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the Middle East is at war currently.
Saudi's capital is being bombed weekly by pro-Iranian forces. Heck, even one of its royal palaces got damaged in an attack the past few weeks. In addition to all the tensions and clashes in places like Syria, Iraq, Yemen, etc.
BAGHDAD -- Explosive-laden drones that targeted Saudi Arabia's royal palace in the kingdom's capital last month were launched from inside Iraq, a senior Iran-backed militia official in Baghdad and a U.S. official said.
Speaking to The Associated Press this week, the militia official said three drones were launched from Iraqi-Saudi border areas by a relatively unknown Iran-backed faction in Iraq and crashed into the royal complex in Riyadh on Jan. 23, exacerbating regional tensions.
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War of attrition might be a bit overdone, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the Middle East is at war currently.
Saudi's capital is being bombed weekly by pro-Iranian forces. Heck, even one of its royal palaces got damaged in an attack the past few weeks. In addition to all the tensions and clashes in places like Syria, Iraq, Yemen, etc.
Recent drone attack on Saudi royal palace launched from Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Explosive-laden drones that targeted Saudi Arabia's royal palace in the kingdom's capital last month were launched from inside Iraq, a senior Iran-backed militia official in Baghdad and a U.S. official said.
Speaking to The Associated Press this week, the militia official said three drones were launched from Iraqi-Saudi border areas by a relatively unknown Iran-backed faction in Iraq and crashed into the royal complex in Riyadh on Jan. 23, exacerbating regional tensions.
Recent drone attack on Saudi royal palace launched from Iraq
A senior Iran-backed militia official in Baghdad and a U.S. official say explosive-laden drones that targeted Saudi Arabia’s royal palace last month were launched from inside Iraq
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Another rocket attack on US base of al-Asad this morning:
Ten rockets were fired at an Iraqi military base hosting U.S.-led coalition troops Wednesday, the latest in a series of rocket attacks in Iraq with this one just days before the Pope is due to visit the country.
The rockets targeted Ain Al-Asad airbase, northwest of Baghdad, at 7:20 a.m. local time Wednesday (11:20 p.m. Tuesday ET). The attack was confirmed in a tweet from Col. Wayne Marotto, the military spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the 83-member coalition to defeat ISIS.
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Rockets fired at Iraqi airbase hosting U.S.-led coalition troops
Ten rockets were fired at an Iraqi military base hosting U.S.-led coalition troops Wednesday, the latest in a series of rocket attacks in Iraq with this one just days before the Pope is due to visit the country.
The rockets targeted Ain Al-Asad airbase, northwest of Baghdad, at 7:20 a.m. local time Wednesday (11:20 p.m. Tuesday ET). The attack was confirmed in a tweet from Col. Wayne Marotto, the military spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the 83-member coalition to defeat ISIS.
Rocket attack hits Iraqi air base hosting U.S.-led coalition troops
Pope Francis is due to visit Iraq on Friday in the first-ever papal trip to the country.
www.nbcnews.com
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