one option might have been to call iran up and talk about the situation

But you said it had to be done.

That would have been stone walled

Not at all, iran has always answered our calls

we rarely reach out to them because of weak ego shit like this

Why would it have been stone-walled?

did you not live through Trump tearing up the Iran deal?

Yeah, but it causes more problems depending on how you deal with what you did after

What causes more problems is blustering around violently and not pursuing the civilized approaches to conflict resolution

True

Or undoing the progress that others made before you for no particular reason.

Yeah

so by the earlier logic, Iran has been sent a message. What message should they send back?

We are so fucked if impeachment isn't going trump's way since some have suggested that he may be more war hunger

Well, they are the ones starting it but it doesn't prevent another strike

Did they really start it?

Eh, who knows really. It is alleged

Militia back by iran

GG @HeadlessCowboy, you just advanced to level 13!

I would say people who follow the issue know a decent amount

let's keep in mind who was killed, a leading figure in the fight AGAINST isis

Yeah, but some information is false

similar to our abandonment of the Kurds, we seem to be helping ISIS out

Yeah, it doesn't make too much sense

let's not play the false information game right now, that bcomes an endless rabit hole

True

let's assume the general reporting that agrees is accurate enough.

IT does not make much sense, If what?

what assumption fails if it is to make sense

Failing back on the people that supported us taking most or all of ISIS down - who knows there may be some gimmicks here or there

what do you think Iran might do in retaliation for this?

Hopefully, nothing to harmful but i wouldn't blame them if they did.

We did something worse than them

If Trump was running Iran, what would they do?

Probably do something worse if patterns align

Never ending cycle, until one is wiped out

They aren't lead by Trump, but let's say they do something similar. Does Iran have allies that can assist them in this budding conflict?

Possibly Russia

But I am not sure on Putin's current stance on them

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/12/31/the-us-military-ran-the-largest-stress-test-of-its-sealift-fleet-in-years-its-in-big-trouble/

https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1213103642988793858