Saudi Arabia is about 20% Shia. They just executed a bunch of people including Shia clerics and teenagers who were involved in the protests in Qatif (Qatif - Wikipedia) .
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Iâm not sure how to articulate this, so surely it will come off poorly and Iâm about to sound like some anti-American terrorist, but:
I hope that there is a significant response by Iran to this killing, and something that the American public is able to actually witness (so if itâs cyber attacks, it needs to be cyber attacks that cause something visible/physical, like power grid shutdowns). The American publicâs response to this event (and the potential future outcomes of it) are absolutely abhorrent, and I do not want there to be a precedent that we can just go around the world killing foreign officials and committing war crimes indiscriminately*. Just imagine if America sees no consequence from this and then Trump wins reelectionâwhat wonât he do?? I obviously donât want harm to come to anyone, but shit I at least want people to fear harm in some real way that can be brought up next time this happens.
*Some will say that there is already a precedent for this and theyâd be right, so Iâm probably being stupid and naive here.
Thatâs another convenient benefit in all this: weâre not talking about Bibiâs corruption anymore are we?
The good news is that other than Russia Trump has no friends. I 1000% believe that the Chinese messaging around âat least we can manipulate Trumpâ is pure bullshit, and they desperately want Washington to return to sanity so they can get things back to normal.
This is the best opportunity to damage him any foreign country has seen yet, and I doubt very much all those powerful people are going to just pass on it.
Serious Q: Is killing a high level military official during war* a war crime?
*loosely defined, but S was killing and targeting US soldiers
Why would they want things functioning normally in DC? The turmoil Trump is causing is allowing China to step in and fill the foreign policy vacuum and increase their influence around the world. If DC starts functioning normally again, that all stops.
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Also by âsignificant responseâ I assume you donât mean US civilian casualties?
They explicitly said in their post:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RudawEnglish/status/1214170432603086853?s=20
Cross Post from the Florida man thread
The economic wreckage in China is real⌠and nobody in Washington was really stopping them from what they wanted before.
Super powers (and make no mistake thatâs what China is) do not want an unstable world. They like the world stable. Chaos is a ladder and the people standing on the platform that ladder leads to have zero interest in it existing.
Russia wants to be a superpower and they are happy to destabilize the planet to get that status back. Thatâs why they are generally speaking on the anti stability side of every event from the last 5-10 years.
Iranians killed 700 American soldiers in Iraq, that makes them terrorists.
200,000 civilians died in the Iraq war, what does that make us?
Liberators?
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Yeah I think itâs pretty safe to say that we stopped being the good guys in Vietnam, and that we lost any semblance of being the good guys in Iraq 2.
And that read requires you to ignore all of our history from 1600-1900.
My use of âwar crimeâ is far less loose than your use of âduring warâ
We assassinated a foreign leader and there was no formal state of war. Call it a crime, call it a war crime, I donât care.
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bombing cultural sites thing is totally disgusting and there should be more criticism of it in the media beyond it being illegal.
it is completely fucking ignorant and shows a complete lack of class/culture/intelligence.
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Soleimani would certainty be a legitimate target if a state of war existed between the US and Iran. A state of war doesnât exist between the US and Iran though.
Yeah⌠I used to think a lot more of the media before the Trump presidency. Theyâve really been exposed badly. It turns out that the right wing criticisms of âleft wing media biasâ were completely wrong. Itâs centrist media bias, and itâs an insanely strong force that covers things entirely on the basis of the effect itâll have on the power and bottom line of the ownership class/political establishment (really two sides of the same coin).
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In case anyone doubted who was actually winning the Trump presidencyâŚ
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We arenât at war with Iraq or Iran.
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