Nebs Sez: Re War and Iran

[nebris]

~World War Three, aka The Cold War, started with the Berlin Blockade on June 24th, 1948 and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26th, 1991.

World War Four, aka The War on Terror, started on September 11th, 2001 and is still ongoing...

The assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the various attacks that led to that and Iran's missile attacks in response are merely skirmishes in that latter war.

All this hysteria about nuclear war is just that: hysteria. So cut that shit out. It is exactly what Trump wants, a distraction from Impeachment.

Note the pattern; Trump creates a crisis, ramps it up, and then seemingly 'solves' it.

If you're carrying on about 'WWIII' and 'the end of the world' blah blah blah, you are doing Trump's work for him...so fucking calm down.

We're not getting into a big ground war with Iran because we have nowhere from which to launch such an operation. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan are going to let the US pour a half million military personnel into their land just like that. Hell, Iraq says we need to get out all together. And Afghanistan is still a serious clusterfuck.

That said, I suspect the highly ineffective Iranian missile strike was meant to lull us and appease the folks back home. Good chance they got some other nastiness cooking. Time will tell..but there is not going to be Armageddon. /rolls eyes

Comments

[dancesofthelight]

I suspect you may be correct about the other nastiness and that the strike was a dual-barreled 'watch the birdie' moment. There's also the real propaganda angle that they got to shoot at Americans with relatively little danger, which could be a big propaganda point for them.

[nebris]

What I find truly interesting about the Iranian missile attacks as that A: they warned that they were coming, so at Ayn al-Asad airbase everyone got into the shelters well ahead of impact and B: only three missiles were launched at the airbase in Erbil [in Iraqi Kurdistan] of which two were shot down [previous targeting info?] and one missed and did not detonate [no warheads?].

I suspect Esmail Ghaani, Soleimani's long time Number Two is just as subtle and cunning as was Soleimani himself. Stay tuned...

[dancesofthelight]

We shall see, at any rate.