#43 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

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candidate merchant for the presidential elections ... pic.twitter.com/SBsjDskbX9

— Y.N.M.S (@ynms79797979) 8. Januar 2020

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The word “missed” here is a bit misleading; it seems to imply error when there is no evidence of one. Would have reframed this as “Iran may have prioritized the targeting of aircraft storage areas over US forces in Iraq strikes” https://t.co/Aq1jZtqmc5

— Margaret Croy (@MargaretCroy) January 8, 2020

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Vladimir Putin visited Syria today with Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the commander of Russian forces in Syria, Lieutenant General Alexander Chayko. 137/https://t.co/MSOf4Nf0OU pic.twitter.com/JveykQW1dg

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) January 7, 2020

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#Syria#US evacuated a base in #Hasakahhttps://t.co/kFl21NAACJ

— IWN (@A7_Mirza) January 8, 2020

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Head of the Venezuelan military @vladimirpadrino signs the book of condolences at Iran's embassy, in honour of General Qasem Soleimani.

He valued the Commander's fight against terrorism and imperialism which unite Iran & Venezuela. @LeonelTeleSUR pic.twitter.com/A1cHKi8lI8

— Camila (@camilateleSUR) January 8, 2020

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https://t.co/SqFSeYFjsA

— Y.N.M.S (@ynms79797979) January 8, 2020

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Trump said he wanted the US and Iran to work together to fight ISIS! Great, then can you tell please why the hell did you murder the Iranian General responsible for fighting and defeating ISIS?!

— Fares Shehabi (@ShehabiFares) January 8, 2020

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Libya:

The grad missile launchers in almuz project after being targeted by #LNA AirForce.
The same Launchers that targeted Souq alJumma to frame the #LNA. #Libya pic.twitter.com/Q5nfO9bUcK

— M.LNA (@LNA2019M) January 8, 2020

The airstrike on AlMuz project was housing more than grad missile launchers but also contained a large ammunitions deposit. #Tripoli #Libya pic.twitter.com/pYjBcHmrUt

— M.LNA (@LNA2019M) January 8, 2020

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Steve Herman
@W7VOA
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Receiving intelligence #Iran is telling militias not to move against US targets, @VP Mike Pence says on set of the @CBSEveningNews

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Only a fool would assume that the Iraqi and Iranian responses were one and the same. Sadr doesn't speak for everyone but it's not their turn yet. https://t.co/zWCIl6brze

— TØM CΛT (@TomtheBasedCat) January 8, 2020

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Soleimani assassination was a huge stupid blunder or a bold attempt to start a war.
This is not a decision that could have been taken by Trump himself out of the blue, especially since he was pushing to pull out of Syria and generally from ME. He obviously did not know who Soleimani was and the weak rhetoric after the event is only a poor attempt to minimize the PR damage. Someone must have pushed hard for it and advisers definitely misled Trump on consequences as this was a huge hit on his supporter base which is against war and for return of US troops home.

Something major must have been done since then behind scenes as Iran response was extremely weak and obviously meant to cause no real damage. Russia was suspiciously quiet as well. Quite surprising to see Russia and China less vocal than some NATO members.
I expect important changes at the top of Pentagon, CIA, DoD.
US cannot win a full conventional war against Iran by itself especially if Iran receives AA assistance from Russia and there is nobody in the region to go against them on the ground.
Trump statement today and Khamenei announcements confirm nobody has any intention to further escalate the conflict.
Some further local militia attacks are still to be expected but the response will be limited as well.

Militarily the US could wreck the Iranians but when that conflict turns into a guerilla conflict thats when the Conventional army will always lose...

The idea if any strike at all would be to cripple Irans ability to wage war take out command and control comm's etc then push the hired crows in to do the dirty business destabilizing Iran with a Syria type blueprint then the assets that are there would be used more so to secure nuclear sites & so forth, realistically that would be a very difficult thing to do more so politically given that it would require more than what's in theatre currently and would take years to accomplish a dismantlement and destruction of said sites and materials.

Its not something that highly appealing to anyone with a sense of reality and everyone would have to be on board for it to stand a chance of working.

I couldn't see the Russians providing Air defence themselves but maybe more of what they've done with Syria that being said Iran does have a better air defence system than most in the ME and Russia AFAIK would be willing to sell the Iranians S400 upon request

"Militarily the US could wreck Iran" is a type of simplification used by chickenhawks and warmongering media in order to sell disastrous war to the public. Iran has population over 80 million, 1/3 is under 25 years old. Has numerous fortified sites hiden deep inside mountains, whit thousands of ballistic missiles. Iran has 2n largest navy force iin the world and hundreds of thousand dedicated troops and paramilitary organizations. Even prior turning the conflit from regular to irregular wrfare it would be military nightmare for the US costing trillions of $. And count in any military action against Iran would trigger resistance all over the region.

As per "destabilizing Iran". Well, thanks to Soleimani, Russia and other allies, globalists haven't many jihadists to destabilize Iran now.



That's why they are forced to play more openly and they have to use regular, national armies to occupy and steal. And that's good thing because masks fell off...

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New video of Syrian fighters, saying they are with the Sultan Murad Division, a Turkish-backed faction, traveling to Libya. "Haftar, we are coming" he says. pic.twitter.com/vYGZX8jAEB

— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) January 8, 2020

Well, who wants to now deny that the internationally recognized Muslim Brotherhood Turkish-backed government in #Tripoli are now Salafis?

Turkish-backed Salafis have beheaded a scout belonging to the Libyan National Army - same behaviour as ISIS.pic.twitter.com/YskAAg76SK

— Paul Antonopoulos (@oulosP) January 8, 2020

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Iranian strike on the US bases:

According to @DaveSchmerler, Iran made a lot of direct hits at Ain Assad. Interesting details:
-Dimensions of a medium-sized hangar are about 21 x 47m. You'd need a CEP <10m and some luck.
-Symbolism in aimpoints? Apaches, U-2s, and Reapers parked outside.

PC: HERE pic.twitter.com/oJoKG3Z9Jp

— Missile Tidbits (@divert_thruster) January 8, 2020

Missile Tidbits
@divert_thruster
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@DaveSchmerler
By converting the hangar's area into a circular target (radius = 17.7m), we can calculate the single-shot probability of a direct hit:
100m CEP = 2.15%
10m CEP = 88.5%

Formula: from Washburn's 'Notes on Firing Theory':
https://faculty.nps.edu/awashburn/Files/Notes/FiringTheory.pdf

[FoShizzle]

New video of Syrian fighters, saying they are with the Sultan Murad Division, a Turkish-backed faction, traveling to Libya. "Haftar, we are coming" he says. pic.twitter.com/vYGZX8jAEB

— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) January 8, 2020

Well, who wants to now deny that the internationally recognized Muslim Brotherhood Turkish-backed government in #Tripoli are now Salafis?

Turkish-backed Salafis have beheaded a scout belonging to the Libyan National Army - same behaviour as ISIS.pic.twitter.com/YskAAg76SK

— Paul Antonopoulos (@oulosP) January 8, 2020

I know this is childish, but that is one lovely, sculpted unibrow on that guy on the left.....I wonder how long it takes him to manscape that.

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[callmecrazy]

"Militarily the US could wreck Iran" is a type of simplification used by chickenhawks and warmongering media in order to sell disastrous war to the public. Iran has population over 80 million, 1/3 is under 25 years old. Has numerous fortified sites hiden deep inside mountains, whit thousands of ballistic missiles. Iran has 2n largest navy force iin the world and hundreds of thousand dedicated troops and paramilitary organizations. Even prior turning the conflict from regular to irregular wrfare it would be military nightmare for the US costing trillions of $. And count in any military action against Iran would trigger resistance all over the region.

As per "destabilizing Iran". Well, thanks to Soleimani, Russia and other allies, globalists haven't many jihadists to destabilize Iran now.



That's why they are forced to play more openly and they have to use regular, national armies to occupy and steal. And that's good thing because masks fell off...

That is absolutely correct.
Bombing Iran would only make it worse and US has absolutely zero chances to repeat Iraq scenario unless it flies in half a million soldiers, 5000+ tanks and armored vehicles and 1-2000 helicopters besides total aerial supremacy. It would be much worse that Vietnam since there are no other troops to fight on the ground and we all see the limits of technology in Syria, Afghanistan, etc.

And the question is... cui bono? Definitely not the Americans. Defeated Shia doesn't even benefit Israel as it will suddenly stand out as a single enemy to all muslims. Russia doesn't like Iran either and won't like them getting any stronger but it tolerates them given present policy and interests to keep conflicts outside Russian borders. On the long run, only Russia may benefit from a destroyed Iran as an increased opportunity to gain direct access to Indian Ocean but that is a very long stretch.

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Angelo John Gage
@AngeloJohnGage
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ICYMI: Very important and informative show with
@Ian56789
. Learned new things I didn't even know about and I'm sure you will too in regards to the recent events: #Soleimani #IranVSAmerica #iraqembassyattack #NoWarWithlran #TrumpSpeach

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the fucker hasn't tweeted all day. he must be in bad shape

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) January 8, 2020

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An interesting survey.
Among the 2,000 Americans questioned, only 28 percent correctly pointed to Iran's location on the map. pic.twitter.com/Uc1rID3kpo

— Eastern Lion 东方军事爱好者 (@Sunkway_China) January 9, 2020

Eastern Lion 东方军事爱好者
@Sunkway_China
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Some pointed to the United States, some pointed to the ocean.

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Last night in Israel another Boeing 737-800’s engine caught fire. pic.twitter.com/U5PSzKOMQA

— Cyan Lana (@BabeReflex_ January 9, 2020

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Babak Taghvaee
@BabakTaghvaee
Satellite images taken by Palent Lab prove 4 of #IRGC|ASF Fateh-313 Ballistic Missiles which had been launched at the Ain Al-Asad AB during Operation #Soleimani last night have precisely hit their targets which were aircraft hangars in use by #US Army MQ-1Cs & #CIA's MQ-1B drones


Babak Taghvaee
@BabakTaghvaee
This afternoon, #IRGC Aerospace Force released video of its Qiam-1 launch & pictures of Fateh-313 ballistic missile launch at Ain Al-Asad AB in #Iraq during Operation #Soleimani. 4 of these missiles hit several aircraft hangars & destroyed multiple #USArmy & #CIA's MQ-1B/C drones

Interesting that the Iranian Zionist is saying Iran destroyed multiple drones in the attack has any US official admitted this yet?

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An interesting survey.
Among the 2,000 Americans questioned, only 28 percent correctly pointed to Iran's location on the map. pic.twitter.com/Uc1rID3kpo

— Eastern Lion 东方军事爱好者 (@Sunkway_China) January 9, 2020

Eastern Lion 东方军事爱好者
@Sunkway_China
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Some pointed to the United States, some pointed to the ocean.

i am shocked! 28% of american actually knew where Iran is! I would have not thought it would have been that many!

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Interesting:

انتقام سخت #SevereRevenge surprises coming from directions they cannot understand! pic.twitter.com/AHLw7cjqQr

— (@WeAreSolemeani) January 9, 2020

It looks like Iraqi US trained anti-terrorist units.

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Babak Taghvaee
@BabakTaghvaee
Satellite images taken by Palent Lab prove 4 of #IRGC|ASF Fateh-313 Ballistic Missiles which had been launched at the Ain Al-Asad AB during Operation #Soleimani last night have precisely hit their targets which were aircraft hangars in use by #US Army MQ-1Cs & #CIA's MQ-1B drones


Babak Taghvaee
@BabakTaghvaee
This afternoon, #IRGC Aerospace Force released video of its Qiam-1 launch & pictures of Fateh-313 ballistic missile launch at Ain Al-Asad AB in #Iraq during Operation #Soleimani. 4 of these missiles hit several aircraft hangars & destroyed multiple #USArmy & #CIA's MQ-1B/C drones

Interesting that the Iranian Zionist is saying Iran destroyed multiple drones in the attack has any US official admitted this yet?

No. And they won't. Similar denial as when the spy drone was downed. They are embarrassed. Trump said "minimal damage".

It proves that Iranian and local sources are more reliable and correct than anything the corporate media and government loudmouths say.

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LLY
@princertitude
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Pretty sure if you ask Trump what is hypersonic weapon he will answer that is a weapon doing a lot of noise, hyper noise,the biggest noise ever.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Following pictures are oftenly used as a proof that some Iranian missiles crashed or were intercepted:









Here is more on this, explaining it's uninformed conclusion:

For everyone talking about Iranian missiles missing targets and falling in the desert - a simple illustration https://t.co/Qp7IIr7Y2a

— Ibn Riad - ابن رياض (@IbnRiad) January 9, 2020

Ibn Riad - ابن رياض
@IbnRiad
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The warhead is one thing and the detachable delivery system quite another

Ibn Riad - ابن رياض
@IbnRiad
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Painfully obvious that images show only delivery system, tho that doesn’t stop cries of “failed Iranian missiles”

[The Original Mind]

the fucker hasn't tweeted all day. he must be in bad shape

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) January 8, 2020

Yeah he was in a bad way at that event this morning. Rough times behind the scenes. Maybe the US military actually saved the day here and restrained him.

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By clicking following tweet you will reach interesting thread explaining what was most likely targeted on US al-Asad base in Iraq. Really impressive accuracy.

The hit point at the very bottom is in the Iraqi section of Al-Assad near the Su-25 tarmac. https://t.co/W5BBvWJ9sR

— TØM CΛT (@TomtheBasedCat) January 8, 2020

The whole thread you can read also here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1214989223025086465.html?refreshed=yes

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The Empire Files
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Abby Martin speaking tonight at the LA rally against war & sanctions on Iran. US troops out of Iraq now!