https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1212934206986293248
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212924762827046918
It’s cool it’s cool, we designated them a Foreign TeRrOrIsT oRgAnIzAtIoN we can do whatever we want.
https://twitter.com/RanjAlaaldin/status/1212903067005394944
head of Iran’s Quds, which is a huge deal
Trump gotta get that war going to secure reelection
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1212907536833220608
this is really really bad
Why is a high ranking Iranian military guy at the Iraq airport?
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He’s like the head of their CIA.
Suleimani took command of the Quds Force fifteen years ago, and in that time he has sought to reshape the Middle East in Iran’s favor, working as a power broker and as a military force: assassinating rivals, arming allies, and, for most of a decade, directing a network of militant groups that killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned Suleimani for his role in supporting the Assad regime, and for abetting terrorism. And yet he has remained mostly invisible to the outside world, even as he runs agents and directs operations. “Suleimani is the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today,” John Maguire, a former C.I.A. officer in Iraq, told me, “and no one’s ever heard of him.”
I mean it goes without saying this is a bad dude, but obviously this is going to escalate things significantly.
After reading that New Yorker profile, it is hard to get too worked up about this. I’m sure there are implications I can’t currently grasp, though.
Well it’s arguably an act of war, so there’s that. Who knows what the fallout will be.
The far reaching effects of what is happening right now are hard to even imagine. Strategically in terms of natsec, militarily, economically and politically.
This is very very very very bad.
The United States is unlikely to be able to invade Iran in any meaningful way (Google Millennium Challenge 2002). Any military conflict in the middle east that plays as a proxy war will be a stalemate and a long lasting war of attrition. The cost will be massive, both in lives and money.
This makes the United States less safe right now than it was a few hours ago.
Oil prices are already going up. It’s hard to say what could happen to the stock market tomorrow.
Politically, it throws a ton of volatility into an election year, which favors Trump. Starting a war favors Trump, as long as it’s not wildly unpopular… and killing middle easterners won’t be wildly unpopular for at least a few years.
This is a very very very very bad night.
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Oil spiking
And he was heavily pro-impeachment of Bush because he started a war illegally under a false pretense. Yay WAAF.
Goddamn this is depressing
Pentagon just confirmed it was us
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Truly repulsive tweet given the context.
But hey, I filled up my tank this morning!
Watch the entire GOP fall in line within 12 hours.
Then watch the entire media fall for it all again.
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12 hours? lolz. The Dems will probably be in line within 12 hours.
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