Middle East US Airstrike decapitates Iraqi Hezbollah

The Original Sixth said:
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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Everything you've said is correct, which does not contradict my opinion that Trump has managed to successfully deter the Iranians, and they won't be willing to take matters farther than they already have.
 
Using bulldozer doesn't always mean they are destroying evidence, it has been used before in some air crash investigations, either as makeshift cranes for larger parts or for collecting smaller parts, which were put in the shovel by hand. However, combined with their unwillingness to share the black box data it makes it spurious as hell.
 
Realm said:
Any country that shoots down a passenger flight needs to be bombed back into the stone age

America first lmao
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Iran doesn't need to be bombed into the stone age. At most into a regime change (though that's likely to backfire by uniting Iran behind Khamenei and Rouhani, and will turn into a protracted war literally nobody wants).

I know you like to be snarky without any actual arguments or intelligent analysis to back that attitude, but very few people here are likely to advocate bombing Iran over an accidental shooting down of a plane (and nobody with half a brain will suggest they shot it down on purpose).

In the end Iran is an extremely belligerent nation that absolutely must be contained for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of people it will roll over and subjugate on its quest to dominate the Middle East, and the way to do that is by being pragmatic and not doing stupid shit by starting a needless open war or trying to appease it and sign one-sided useless agreements with it.
 
Realm said:
Any country that shoots down a passenger flight needs to be bombed back into the stone age

America first lmao
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Don’t be ridiculous. Nobody should be bombed back into the Stone Age. Iran should, though, just say sorry they shot it down by accident because they thought it was Americans trying to attack them, and then pay financial compensation to the families of the dead. That is typically what happens when the military accidentally kills civilians.
 
ShieldWife said:
Don’t be ridiculous. Nobody should be bombed back into the Stone Age. Iran should, though, just say sorry they shot it down by accident because they thought it was Americans trying to attack them, and then pay financial compensation to the families of the dead. That is typically what happens when the military accidentally kills civilians.
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Well no; what actually happens typically is that everything is quickly covered up and forgotten, because nobody in any government or military (particularly at higher levels) wants to actually admit that a mistake was made. Obama for example killed hundreds of innocent civilians by mistake over the eight years he spent in office with drone strikes; and as far as I'm aware, not once was anyone offered compensation. What you said is what should happen far more often though.
 
Random Username said:
Me too the Russians still haven't done the same have they?
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Between Ukraine, Russia, and several more and less related separatist groups with looted Ukrainian and probably supplied Russian stuff, all using similar equipment in the same area, there was some degree of plausible deniability.

Iran, on the other hand, got caught with none.
 
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Realm said:
Any country that shoots down a passenger flight needs to be bombed back into the stone age

America first lmao
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3/10 trolling, try harder next time.
Husky_Khan said:
www.aljazeera.com

‘Disastrous mistake’: Iran admits it shot down Ukrainian plane

Government statement blames ‘human error’ for the incident that left 176 people killed, including many Iranian citizens.
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com

SHOCKING NEW DEVELOPMENTS!

Who could've seen this coming?!
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I'm surprised that they admitted it this fast.

But then again at least they have admitted fault, unlike Russia and thier little mishap with the Ukrainian separatists.
 
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