because it makes you feel safer. you do feel safer don't you? do we need to make you more safer?! DO WE!
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Of fucking course we're just bombing Iraq now too.
It really needs to be a punishable offense to attack a country without congressional approval, treaty mandate, or proof of immediate threat
Coz they can
Is Jordan fully a vasal state or have they not seen the map of "Greater Isreal"?
How fucking stupid can the people in charge of the US military be? They're already losing the fucking pointless war with Iran, and now they gotta go and give Iraq (heretofore a US ally) a reason to side with Iran‽‽‽
Golly...
So I'm a bit confused since I'm not familiar with many of the factions involved....
The US attacked bases, not on the Iraq-Iran border, but in central Iraq. There's been no Iranian ground troop movement in other countries yet that I'm aware of, so whom exactly was the US supposed to be attacking?
This is an Iraqi militia, the Popular Mobilization Forces, which formed during and were instrumental in the war against ISIS. Basically they stepped up where the Iraqi military failed, and helped push ISIS out of Iraq. They're formally and legally a part of the Iraqi military, but are also de facto independent and closely linked to Iran.
After looking them up, the PMF is aligned with Iraq, though not their official military, and they were allies to the US fighting the Islamic State, but since they are funded by the Iranian gov and are mainly Shia, even though they have been good allies to America in the past, they're now being attacked unless the Iraqi gov disarms them.
While being funded by, and formerly sworn loyal to Iran, it sounds like Iraq legitimized them in 2016 into a still mainly independent, but now non-politically aligned force under supervision of the Iraqi supreme military leader. This is why they have been doing things such as guarding the US embassy in Baghdad as mentioned in the article.
Despite seemingly following the rules and agreements with them, they're still "too-Iranian" for the US leadership and this was a series of "warnings" to give up their weapons to the official Iraqi military? That seems to make this whole story make sense, at least in line with how the US government seems to operate these days. Have I got the gist of it now? Thank you for your help.
Fucking hell, Iran and Iraq were working together and not even really against anyone we dislike and we got mad at that too…
Why can't we just treat the middle east better‽ Things would likely improve for their citizens if we treated them well. And they wouldn't hate us if we didn't keep fucking killing them, especially if we did shit like helping.
I don't know much at all about the Middle East, but it seems as though they've contributed a lot to the modern world for a very long time, and I don't get why anyone would treat them as lesser people. All the religions and various groups of different people living there have all seemed to be treated very poorly for one reason or another, despite them often being the allies of Europe or the Americas. Governments just can't seem to stop meddling.
Basically yes, you've got the gist of it. Might be a bit more complicated, as I think some of the PMF militias attacked US forces right from the start of the war, but they have every right to fight an occupying army.
AFAIK the PMFs made a ceasefire deal with US forces in one of the bases to allow them to withdraw from a base and the US airstriked the guy who negotiated with them as soon as they pulled out. The good news is nobody will fall for that one again, and the US only has one base left in Iraq.
Appreciate you getting me caught up. Sounds like every bridge will continue to be burned behind this administration. 😖
Well as the other poster said, it was the PMF that started attacking US bases
The shia PMF were very happy with the US military when they helped them push out sunni ISIS though ;)
No problem! Yes, in short he's opened pandora's box and anything is now possible
"Why did the Americans attack us?"
I'll refer you to the image of Peter Griffin next to a color coded piece of paper.
"They looked muslim"
It's as if the SecDef doesn't even realize Iraq has been a US ally for over a decade...
More likely "Oh my god we are going to defend our spoiled little israel and make so much money with the oil we are going to steal in the way, this is going to be awesome" and then "oh fuck, they are fighting back, we are used to bully small kids, but we did'nt know they could fight back".
"What, they have drones? Why didn't anyone tell us Iran has drones?!?"
America attacked you because America is too damn proud and stupid to hold politicians and billionaires accountable for their actions
How do I go about holding them accountable?
Join a leftist party. Buy guns. Invade the capitol with your comrads.
Think of it as a 6th of january in reverse
Step 1; find a whole lot of other people who want to do the same thing.
You as an individual can't, I'm blaming the country as a system, the legal system failed
I only say one word: Luigi
War crime moment + leopards eating faces moment + death to America.
I could have sword Iran and Iraq were the same place?
/s
Sand, brown people, oil... What's the difference between friends?
give me my noble price, finland!!!
And my axe.