Middle East US Airstrike decapitates Iraqi Hezbollah

Isem said:
You know, it took a post on 4chan for me to think about it but when you look at the results this has been an embarrassing shitshow from the Iranian side. Their general gets blown up, as they're swearing revenge some 40 odd people get stampeded to death at his funeral with more injured, their rocket attack succeeds in killing no Americans and instead they shoot down a Ukrainian civilian plane carrying unrelated foreigners and some of their own civilians.
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Like Wild E coyote.
 
Cherico said:
only way it could go worse for them is if they hit a Russian embasy with their missle attacks.
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With just one hellfire missile turning general suleimani into general salami, the Iranians just keep walking into garden rakes that proceed to hit them multiple times and they still persist.
 
"So Britain and Canada are now saying Iran bought down the plane!? Clearly they are unreliable colonialist nations that have been bullied by the orange man and are no longer trustworthy, because the peaceful heroic nation of Iran couldn't have possibly done that!" - A possible leftist response.
 
Sailor.X said:
You know what is interesting now. Seeing the backpedaling of people who were praising Iran a few days ago. But the internet is forever and you know the rest.
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How did they backpedal?

From oh shit fuck fuck fuck we're going to have world war 3 because of the orange man to ok so we're not going to have a war?
 
GoldRanger said:
@Emperor Tippy What do you think about the Iranian response? Still waiting for the sinking of a carrier or "the end of pax Americana"?

This launch is just about what I expected of them. Iran is unstable and terrified of the possibility of entering a war it isn't ready for.

Some people just play too much Modern Warfare and have unrealistic expectations, I guess.
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No, that may be how it looks, but the reality is much more complicated.

The missile strike on the US base was was for a two-fold reason. The first was to remind the US that Iran may only be a regional power, but it is a regional power with a lot of ballistic missiles and they can bomb the shit out of several US bases nearby. The second was a show of force to its people, but without having inflicted any serious damage on the US. This may be in fact, a way for Iran to avoid escalation while avoiding an internal political back home.

Iran is not really unstable, not anymore than many other functional countries. And Iran is functional, that's why we're so hard on it. If we were to step aside, there is a very real possibility of Iran taking control of most, if not the entire region. Iran is a very real threat.

My guess is that Iran is going to have two phases for returning the favor for the death of their general.

The first is the very public response, which allows both sides to save face and de-escalate.

The second is where I expect Iran to unleash a wave of bloodshed through the middle east through their backed milita and terrorist groups.

There is the third possibility that they try for assassinating a US official, but that would bring back the escalation.
 
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