US-Iran War Has Begun! Iran launches dozens of ballistic missiles!

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yes, rogue state stuff. These cultural sites belong to all of humanity; hence our outrage over the Bamiyan Buddhas.

[The Minsky Moment]

Lets not kid ourselves here. It's not like this guy was some kind of legit military representative of Iran on some kind of actual and acknowledged mission to Iraq.

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He was a commissioned general officer in the armed forces of a sovereign state.

[Valmy]

I presumed Berkut was being sarcastic there.

[The Brain]

Full twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213593965838163968?s=20

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently....

....hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have.....

....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran &  the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!

The US has completely jumped the shark. Maybe it's for the best if it's removed from the world stage and goes full isolationist.

[The Brain]

Trump now openly threatens to bomb cultural (!) sites in Iran.

That is some IS level shit.

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It's a war crime under international law.

In fairness to Trump, when the US decided to publicly champion the systematic use of torture a few years back they kind of hinted that the US doesn't give a flying fuck about stuff like this. There is a solid US tradition.

[Hamilcar]

Why doesn't the Pentagon make a really realistic VR game where Trump can nuke hurricanes and order Seoul to be relocated.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Just go full Truman show on him.

[Threviel]

I don't really understand why they didn't just kill him and then shut the fuck up about it.

"Ohh, these nasty secret drones that abound in the middle east, we'll be sure to assist the Iranians in finding the culprits, this is unacceptable." 

I don't mind the US killing bastards that needs to be killed, I do mind that they are so amateurish at it.

[Zanza]

I don't mind the US killing bastards that needs to be killed, I do mind that they are so amateurish at it.

Why do you think there was a need to kill this particular man?

[Threviel]

I have no idea, I was speaking more in the general sense.

Although he seemed to be a nasty person OvB gave a good explanation above as to why there seems to be no point in having him killed.

[mongers]

This warfare on Iranian culture is trolling for domestic political reasons, aimed to get the liberals all riled up, so he can point the figure at them for siding with 'the enemy'; to feed his narrative that his democratic opponents are traitors and so reinvigorate his base.

[Hamilcar]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50998065?ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=news_central&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter

*golfclap*

Well done, chaps, well done.

[The Brain]

This warfare on Iranian culture is trolling for domestic political reasons, aimed to get the liberals all riled up, so he can point the figure at them for siding with 'the enemy'; to feed his narrative that his democratic opponents are traitors and so reinvigorate his base.

The special kid doesn't eat his poop as part of some grand plan. He just eats his poop.

[Sheilbh]

One site for each of the 52 embassy hostages.  That's some twisted shit.  Like Vlad the impaler or Mexican narco lord twisted.

I've often thought we've been lucky that while Trump's been President there's not been a real crisis. Unfortunately he's made one.

Also it strikes me as the type of thing he'd be saying after hearing about potential Iranian retaliations.

[Hamilcar]

https://twitter.com/janearraf/status/1213823941321592834?s=20

This is stunning - #Iraq prime minister tells parliament US troops should leave. Says
@realDonaldTrump
called him to ask him to mediate with #Iran and then ordered drone strike on Soleimani. Says Soleimani carrying response to Saudi initiative to defuse tension when he was hit.