What's black ops about a designated terrorist getting killed when he was galivanting around Iraq?

You are still not telling me how this war gets started.

it's just came out of the fucking blue

What do you mean out of the blue? QS was directing the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad. And he got killed.

ok i didn't knew that bit

Yeah. Personally directing. He was there in front of the embassy

sauce for that

i wanna see the vid

lol

There's no vid. There's a picture. Can't be assed to find it. He was killed in Iraq. How do you think he found himself in Iraq?

why would an Iranian General be in Iraq in the first place, last i check they still hate each other cause religion and that whole Iran-Iraq war thing

i mean i wasnt questioning it

i was just wondering if you had it on hand

@Trainspotting_Vagabond The political influence from Washington. Trump has the final say, and he will never declare war.

To help coordinate attacks in iraq

essentially

Sorry, don't have it

@everybodydothatdinosaur if that's the case shouldn't they had send someone else instead of a high priority target like a general?

That's how fucking bold the Iranians got

then again what am i expecting from a country who thinks 90's tech is cutting edge....

ok since it's clear i'm way behind in my Middle east pol give me a quick catch up about wtf Iran been up to for the past two years

Past forever.

The thing is, that the iranians had become increasingly aggressive

Capturing trade ships. Blowing up the oil processing facility. Wanton acts of terrorism. QS has been responsible for the death and maiming of hundreds if not thousands of US soldiers.

They tried to assassinate several politicians for example

And mined civilian areas, attacked our people and wahtnot, finally culminating in an attack on an embassy

https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/iran-assassination-plot-is-a-wake-up-call-for-the-west/

There's a reason why the Iran Deal never went through Congress. Appeasing that shithole was never tenable.

It's a country ran by a crazy person who doesn't care if all his people die in a glorious war to get to heavan

With that kind of mentality it's kind of hard to negotiate

all that's left is basically force

@everybodydothatdinosaur @Lidomite ok so basically Iran has ramped up the douchbaggery, been getting really aggressive in general, and is now apparently trying to start a fight with the USA ignoring what happen the last time a middle eastern country try to do that

mhmm

They're just lashign out, as they do

And eitheir they will back down in fear of the U.S., or continue to escalate like before, and we'll simply have taken out one of their key leaders in all this

for fuck sakes now all that's missing is them trying to start shit with Israel and Saudi Arabia.... again

That's what terrorists do. Years of economic sanctions have made them a cornered dog. It's time to make the dog submit.

So etheir we are heading towards iran getting more aggressive or it will be them pulling back now real consequences are on the table

Be it them retreating or us physically defeating them, there's basically one path now xP

so the drone strike was basically a giant statement from Trump telling Iran to back off

ideally iran just slinks away