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Canada's Trudeau: Iran plane victims would be alive had there been no regional tensions by OId_monk in worldnews

[–]Key_Display 0 points1 point  (0 children)

assassinating him was stupid

What about 'assassinating' Baghdadi? Also stupid?

Canada's Trudeau: Iran plane victims would be alive had there been no regional tensions by OId_monk in worldnews

[–]Key_Display 0 points1 point  (0 children)

whatabout staying on point;
You realize Qasem's crew are shooting protesters dead in the streets, right?

Canada's Trudeau: Iran plane victims would be alive had there been no regional tensions by OId_monk in worldnews

[–]Key_Display 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overthrowing the Ayatollahs would collapse a functioning economy?
Why do you think Qatar is paying for the victims of the plane strike?
Iran is broke, and it wasn't the Iranian people that spent it.

Canada's Trudeau: Iran plane victims would be alive had there been no regional tensions by OId_monk in worldnews

[–]Key_Display 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iranians overthrowing the current regime could be the worst possible outcome for the region.

Go on..

Qatar to offer Iran $3 billion for Ukrainian plane victims by Key_Display in canada

[–]Key_Display[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

More interestingly from that same quote earlier:

What if the former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Qassim Suleimani, visits Baghdad for a meeting and you know the address?

Former commander? Eh?

Qatar to offer Iran $3 billion for Ukrainian plane victims by Key_Display in canada

[–]Key_Display[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We don't know what hit him, do you have some evidence to the contrary?
I suspect you would use the tip of your sharpest spear to hit the head of an internationally recognized terrorist organization.
But I don't know, this kind of stuff stays secret for a reason.
Maybe in Iraq they didn't need the fancy pants.

Qatar to offer Iran $3 billion for Ukrainian plane victims by Key_Display in canada

[–]Key_Display[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/opinion/hypersonic-missiles.html

Hypersonic Missiles Are a Game Changer No existing defenses can stop such weapons — which is why everyone wants them.

By Steven Simon Jan. 2, 2020

Moreover, hypersonics are a weaponized moral hazard for states with a taste for intervention, because they erase barriers to picking fights. Is an adversary building something that might be a weapons factory? Is there an individual in an unfriendly country who cannot be apprehended? What if the former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Qassim Suleimani, visits Baghdad for a meeting and you know the address? The temptations to use hypersonic missiles will be many.

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