… is Israel about to move on Iran very soon?
Employees evacuated from Baghdad embassy with its majority Shiite population and prominent Iran backed militias and crude oil ripping 5%. What else could it be?
Hope this is okay to talk about. Not being partisan here.
Going to have to deep dive for that. Didn’t know the embassy had even been evacuated. For all, let’s please only post factual info. I would love to have a news to read not get sideways and thus locked.
Edit: catching up now. Oh shit.
Hoping is coordinated pressure for the ongoing negotiations…not optimistic
Limiting optimism is probably a good take. We seldom uproot non-essentials/families as a negotiating tactic…at least I’ve never seen it. Generally based on threat assessments from a wide variety of sources combined with political reading of the tea leaves. Also believe Baghdad is a partial evac with essential staff remaining in place. That said, it’s not just Baghdad; Bahrain and Kuwait are now authorized voluntary departures of non essentials. USEUCOM and AFRICOM have raised alert levels at US mil locations across both theatres.
When someone keeps kicking your ass no matter what street you are on, it will eventually gets to the “enough is enough” situation.
I think most don’t want it to happen, but you can only push someone so far before that dog in one comes out.
It has to be an Iran strike. And it’s in the window that Israel has to move based on prior reporting on when Iran might have enriched enough uranium.
Uggh. Straight of Hormuz gets cut off and the world economic outlook gets pretty bleak. Not to mention all the suffering and death of course. Though I do understand the imperative of such an operation as well.
Like, Weas said 
I have a large portion of my family that is Jewish and chooses to keep up with a lot of Israeli media and Israeli products… they seem to think the same thing.
Not that their opinion is really any more informed in the modern age of social and digital media.
Serious brinkmanship. Let’s see if Iran backs down.
Iran is a problem… I think the US has been holding Israel back from moving on Iran for a while, hoping to get some sort of deal worked out regarding their nuclear program. How far are they willing to squeeze Iran if they don’t make a deal? A terror country in a state of desperation is unsafe for the world… Would the US green light an Israeli attack? Hard to say, I personally don’t think this administration wants any part of it, but will obviously back their ally if it comes to that… Moreso than they have with Ukraine. It’s a mess
It’s only a matter of time before someone takes the number one sponsor of terrorism out of the game.
Frankly, when you ■■■■ with the US, Europe, Russia, China, India, and Israel, constantly, your luck will run out. I’m surprised Iran wasn’t a sea of glass, long ago.
The problem has always been what they can do to global Dr transport relative to oil and the resulting effects on the global economy and inflation. Iran is not without a counter punch here.
Depends on who’s in power afterwards… The most ideal outcome would be a civilian uprising within Iran. A military attack on them could unify the country under its current leadership… Much like the Hamas attack on Israel. The US could employ another coup, much like the one in 2014 in Ukraine, and bring a more western friendly government to power… Though I’m not sure Israel would be on board with a “softer” touch
I think that you are overstating the CIA’s involvement in the Maidan. Not to say that they didn’t have some involvement but it was more of a nudging of an organic movement than some United Fruit Company Guatemala style plot. The real accelerant in the later stage Maidan was Yanukovych’a authorizing of deadly force to repress.
Coups are an inexact tool. Unintended consequences are more the norm than the exception. As you stated I doubt Bibi would find that to be an acceptable solution.
Fill up your tank now.
Just got off the phone with Edwin Starr. Asked him what war was good for. He was rather insistent that the answer was absolutely nothing.
Did he say it again?
You must be new here…Rather surprised grannies didn’t make the thread. @bols must be sleeping