There you go mate
Not everything is black and white, as you say yourself
But sure call him evil all you want
It gets worse
It seems Soleimani was there for diplomatic talks
Trump hasnāt the cop on to undertand heās changed the rules of the game
Any US official is now fair game for assassination
So he drank it knowing it wouldnāt have much of an effect on an adult to show the kids that it was safe? Thatās even worse than I thought
Youāre making a fool of yourself
Iād say if the US knew killing this fella would get them expelled from Iraq they would have done it years ago 
Probably wondering who they have to assassinate to get thrown of Afghanistan now
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Is that an Irish bar?
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A bunch of lads were who were doing a conga line with one shoe off were the target.
The more I think about this, the more certain Iāve become that the responsibility for this catastrophic fuck-up lays at the door of the democratic party in the U.S . Pursuing a psychopath like Trump, knowing that they wouldnāt remove him from office but satisfied to score some political points was criminal. He has been humiliated and will become even more unstable as a consequence. These woke, virtue signalling liberal pinko wankers have just unleashed WW3 on us all, just so they can look cool on Facebook & Twitter.
Yeah m8 and it was the people who fought the Nazis wot was to blame for the Holocaust innit
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I see Trump wants to destroy Iranian cultural sites
The US president has literally the same ideology as ISIS
Shtrange oulā times weāre livinā in alright
I suppose bombing Persepolis to dust and replacing it with a Trump casino (which goes bankrupt in a month) and McDonalds and Krispy Kreme drive throughs would be true āfreedomā and would prove the superiority of unregulated capitalism once and for all
Cultural sites like the soccer stadium where they hang people off the goal posts ??
The Iranians should assassinate a US general, possibly after inviting him to peace talks in Iraq.
Itās almost like all this is working out exactly how Putin wanted
Russiaās number one foreign policy goal has been to get the US to completely discredit itself as a rational foreign policy actor.
Plenty of that job had already been accomplished by George W. Bush with no outside help, but since Trump came to power, itās obvious the Russians have had an inside line as regards US foreign policy self-destruction.
People who deny that Trump is acting in Russian interests point to Iran being an ally of Russia. So the thinking goes, if Trump was acting in Russiaās interests, how or why would he attack Iran?
But Russia doesnāt really give a toss about somebody like Soleimani, it doesnāt really care that much about Iran bar maintaining common interests in Syria. Soleimani is an individual and the Russians had likely already wrung out any value he had for them, and anyway, heās easily replaceable. His assassination is no skin off the Russiansā nose whatsoever.
This whole episode has completely discredited the US as a foreign policy actor.
You have a US president who ripped up the Iran nuclear deal signed by Obama, purely because Obamaās name was on it.
You have a US president who apparently lures Soleimani to talks in Iraq and then bombs him to death when he arrives. Thatās pariah state stuff.
You have a president who it is perceived has made a dreadful miscalculation which has resulted in i) Iraq demanding US troops get out, ii) the US fight against ISIS stops, iii) Iran going full steam ahead for nuclear weapons, and now iv) the constant threat of Iranian retaliation against the US, in what way we do not know.
Now v) that same US president is threatening publicly to destroy priceless Iranian cultural and world heritage sites. This is literally ISIS ideology.
So in all this, the US is perceived as a completely unstable regime run by crackpots. It is playing up to and embracing its regional nickname of āThe Great Satanā. Russia by comparison appears sane, stable and pragmatic.
Russia publicly backs Iran. China publicly backs Iran. Western public opinion and much public opinion within the US itself will effectively side with Iran.
So, in all aspects, this episode has been a total victory for Russian foreign policy goals and a total defeat for the US - as was the case when Trump betrayed the Kurds.
The USās reputation as a rational foreign policy actor is completely in tatters.
Itās almost like Russia has somebody in the White House doing their bidding for them. 
Now I canāt say Putin ordered the assassination of Soleimani. But what is absolutely true is that Putin will be laughing through his hole at all this, and when he got Trump installed, he knew that this sort of situation was very likely to materialise, and would completely benefit Russia.
So, howās that going under Trump?
Has Trumpās latest little intervention made a Russian/Iranian controlled Middle East more likely or less likely?
What do you think?
Bearing in mind that your posts here over the last few days strongly imply you think this was a clever strategic move on the part of Trump and a make a Russian/Iranian dominated Middle East less likely 
But itās fine to hand over US military bases in Syria to Russia for freeā¦ 
Pentagon Chief of Staff has resigned, a guy called Eric Chewning
You could say heās turning on, Chewning in and dropping out
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This has been in the pipeline for a while. The decision isnāt linked to Iran. Not that you ever needed the truth or facts to get your point across.
Lolz
We now have a poster with inside track in the Pentagon
To add to our experts on Australian bush fires and Finnish speaking climatologists who say climate change is a hoax