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scomo cringe. this fucking guy.

https://i.imgur.com/1K62kBU.gifv

Nobody can heckle like Australians:

"Yah not welcome yah fuckwit!"

Visit to porn-video shop ends with man and goat taken on terrifying three-state drive

Disappointed with the headline writers for omitting that crucial information point.

Seems like a fair punishment for going to an irl porn shop instead of just using the internet like a normal person

Nobody on this site has a more appropriate username and avatar for this story than you.

Iranian general killed by the US bombing his car at an Iraqui airport. Of course he was a terrorist, so all is good really. Definitely nothing bad will come of this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/03/baghdad-airport-iraq-attack-deaths-iran-us-tensions

This is big news.

A third world war is overdue.

I can sort of see the way the US is thinking and it is a demonstration that if someone is out of their own country (or inside their country in some cases) and engaged in activities targeting Americans, there will be some sort of retaliation. After the embassy storming the other day, it was only a matter of when not if they did something targeting Iran's interests. The fact Suleimani was in Iraq doesn't make the pretence that the embassy was a locally arranged (but pro-Iran) thing any more believable.

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Suleimani quote from the Guardian this morning:

“Mr. Trump the gambler, I’m telling you, know that we are close to you in that place you don’t think we are,” he said, wagging his finger and dressed in olive fatigues. “You will start the war but we will end it.”

Has Trump just finished watching Jack Ryan and got confused?

Ex-members of the National Security Council are basically mumbling "ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck" to themselves on Twitter.

Sounds like something they always wanted to do but the blow-back would be so terrible they couldn't come up with a plan to make it worthwhile.

Haven't the Russians and Chinese been wargaming using the scenario of a US attack on Iran recently?

Its not so much who they killed that is the problem. Its the timing and rapidity of the attack that is most problematic.

I admittedly know very little about Iran's role in Middle East politics, but my understanding is that Soleimani projected his power by building up little armed groups here and there that would act with the confidence that big brother Iran had their back. And if they see that Iran can't stand up for itself, then they'll understandably worry that Iran won't stand up for them either.
Which is my way of speculating that Iran are now compelled to do something to retaliate, even if it would be practically suicidal to do so.

The bad guy in the new Call of Duty game is called Suleimani and looks exactly the same.

Oil prices are up.

Just in time for bonus season

I think who they killed is a huge problem. Suleimani was leader of the Quds force and was pretty much responsible for Iran's military success in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon etc. He was considered a national hero in Iran and highly respected/feared by all Iran's proxies. There is going to be huge blowback across the world from this.

Genuinely scared for civilian lives because of this.

'The head of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has called for the death of Gen Soleimani to be avenged.

"Meting out the appropriate punishment to these criminal assassins... will be the responsibility and task of all resistance fighters worldwide," Hassan Nasrallah said in a statement.

"We will carry a flag on all battlefields and all fronts and we will step up the victories of the axis of resistance with the blessing of his pure blood," the leader of the Shia group added.'

All it takes is one person with a knife

if someone is out of their own country (or inside their country in some cases) and engaged in activities targeting Americans, there will be some sort of retaliation

by this logic, the assassination of US generals by a range of middle east / african / south american states is totally kosher. seems like a dangerous road to go down.

Yeh he was widely known and liked in Iran, this is like killing a hugely popular top US general, head of CIA, SOCOM and Vice President all in one.

The BBC did a reasonable documentary on him a few months ago.

I can't see any way there won't be repurcussions but who know's what form they will take, could be an escallation in militia attacks in the middle east on US companies and military targets, could be an increase in back of anti-US fractions in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, could be a cyber attack, who knows, every chance we won't even hear about it for years but it won't gi unanswered. The whole reason the US annouced the Qud's were to be listed as a terrorist organisation was so that they could kill Suleimani at some point, so you would assume Iran had planned for this eventuality as well.

It seems pretty commonplace now to kill 'terrorists' with these assassinations by drone, but is there another recent example of the West (ie the US) extrajudicially killing someone not considered a terrorist, leading an army they are not at war with?

It seems to be completely against the rule of law. Definitely scary times ahead.

Edit: ^ explains it, technically I guess.

The whole reason the US annouced the Qud's were to be listed as a terrorist organisation was so that they could kill Suleimani at some point