JSt0rm
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The optimist in me wants to believe it's more complicated than that.Gas prices have been on the decline...time to kick up unrest in the middle east...
And Putin has gotten another one of his wishes granted, with the blessing and best wishes of Trump's supporters of course.
That bridge was crossed long ago by Bush, and we were warned once the counterbalance to Iran was eliminated this was coming one way or another, the blowback was inevitable just like the blowback called Trump for hollowing out of the middle class for more profits for the rich while establishment politicians gave lip service to the middle class for votes and favorable policies like tax loopholes for their rich benefactors instead.The thing is it doesn’t really matter. By all accounts he was a bad guy, but there are lots of bad guys in the world. Kim Jong Un is a bad guy - should we assassinate him?
The problem here is that this appears to be yet another case of thoughtless lashing out by an idiot who is too lazy to learn the possible consequences of his actions.
Let them, oil companies will just accelerate the end of their monopoly on energy and global pollution this time.Gas prices have been on the decline...time to kick up unrest in the middle east...
Iran was a secular and rapidly westernizing society. The Ayatollah represented a religious backlash against it. He found allies amongst radical Marxist leftists who aligned with him along class warfare fault lines. This was against the backdrop of both America and the Soviet Union maneuvering to fill the power realignments caused in the wake of WW2 and accelerated by the Cold War. This story played out across the globe, from Vietnam to Cuba.You do know that the CIA killed their popularly elected leader the first time that the people of Iran overthrew the American puppet that was the Shah? Our contentious relationship with Iran didn't start until the Shah was overthrown the 2nd time and the Ayatollah was put into power by the people of Iran. Those same people would never have taken Americans hostage or put the Ayatollah into power if we hadn't killed the leader that they wanted.
Tulsi Gabbard is against American military intervention and took meetings with Assad, an ally of Tehran. But you guys don’t like that for reasons.join us in voting dem. Do it for the future generations
I don’t presume lemmings to agree with me.You are so funny to presume we all agree with your analysis of the situation....rofl….hahahahaaa
It is fun being a contrarian!!
Tulsi Gabbard is against American military intervention and took meetings with Assad, an ally of Tehran. But you guys don’t like that for reasons.
Donny is backed into a corner, needing to find a way to deflect from this impeachment and something that will get him re-elected!! Wallla -- a war!!!
Tehran’s been incrementally and increasingly asserting itself through assymetrical attacks from its proxies across the region, a network for which Soleimani was the mastermind and architect. You almost have to admire his consistent presence and influence over a region for which chaos and rapid power realignments is the status quo.My guess (hope?) as to what happens next is either a large attack against US interests in the Middle East or a series of moderate attacks that are almost certainly caused by Iran but where Iran can give *wink wink* plausible deniability. That would give both parties a chance to de-escalate.
If Iran attacks directly I imagine Trump will feel the need to escalate yet again and then we may reach the point of no return.
I suppose we could have payed protecton money. been done before not long ago.You think escalating conflict with Iran is a good idea while the president is a corrupt, impulsive incompetent?
I suppose we could have payed protecton money. been done before not long ago.