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BREAKING: Reported Ballistic Missile Attack Near U.S. Base in Erbil, Iraq Reports suggest the missiles may have been launched from Iranian territory. https://www.thedrive.com/the-w...s-base-in-erbil-iraq Weakness in the 'Resident' POTATUS is perceived to be quite strong throughout the sphere of our enemies worldwide!  ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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related ^^^^^ https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ate-in-iraq-n2604487 The United States may find itself involved in another foreign policy crisis. Reports, as well as video footage, have indicated that several long-range ballistic missiles have been fired at the U.S. consulate in Erbil, Iraq. Writing for the Associated Press, Qassim Abdul-Zahra reported that at least six missiles have hit the consulate. Though reports are still coming in, with security officials from Iraq and the United States cited as saying there are no casualties at this time. Early reports suggested there were no U.S. military casualties, a senior U.S. defense official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because information was still coming in, said it was still not certain exactly how many were fired and exactly where they landed. It also wasn’t clear if there were other casualties. The Iraqi security officials said there were no immediate report of casualties from the attack, which occurred shortly after midnight and caused material damage in the area. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. One of the officials said the ballistic missiles were fired from Iran, without elaborating. The attack comes several days after an Israeli strike near Damascus, Syria killed two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Iran's foreign ministry strongly condemned the attack Wednesday and vowed revenge. On Sunday, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted Iraqi media acknowledging the attacks in Irbil, without saying where they originated. The attack comes as negotiations in Vienna over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal hit a “pause” over Russian demands about sanctions targeting Moscow over its war on Ukraine. videos at link | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Same here. As an old armor mechanic I keep asking myself "Tell me again why we were worried about those junk Russian tanks?" But mostly  | |||
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The Potatus is convalescing he’ll get to it next week. | |||
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Hmmm... I thought an attack on one of our embassies by a foreign power was an act of war. Maybe not. We need the oil.  End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
From https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-701103
So while it's possible that they may have been aiming at the consulate, it doesn't sound like they hit it or any other US government buildings. | |||
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'This' is the exact escalation I've feared from the beginning of this. China and Taiwan, Russian and Ukraine, and Iran attacking neighbors. There is no way the west is even remotely prepared/capable of dealing with this level of aggression. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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The Iranians claim the attack was retaliation for an Israeli air strike in Syria- I guess they thought firing missiles at Israel might be a bad idea so they chose the weaker leader. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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And that matters, how? You pull out a firearm and fire in my direction without hitting me and you'll likely receive return fire none the less. These towelhead scumbags know this is the time to start stirring the pot given the state of the international economy, the amount of volatility with Russian and China currently, and the rampant weakness in the incontinent retard in the White House. This is not something any of us needed, but its certainly not something to be surprised about. Wonder if anyone's mentioned it to our presidential disgrace as he convalesces in Delaware, as usual. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Actually, there is no way this incompetent administration can deal with any aggression, Potatus will take a page out of the Krimson Kenyan play book and apologize. | |||
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https://abcnews.go.com/Interna...id=83390885#83419231 | |||
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Russian losses are all over the map, but considering the the apparent advantage they hold over the Ukrainians, they seem significant. Air assets lost alone and verified by video footage are substantial and seem only to increase as more manpad units arrive in country. Then there’s the armor. I wonder if we will ever get a true accounting of how much this little war has cost the Russian people over one man’s ego. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Russia has been exposed, they can't effectively invade a direct neighbor. How are they supposed to wage a war against someone geographically further away? As I heard someone say, Shapiro maybe. They are a gas station that owns nuclear bombs and nothing more. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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I knew it. It all started when gas stations started selling scratch off tickets. Great. Now they all will start doing that, and longer lines at the counter.... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
^^ So that's why you can get Big Red at the gas station but not the grocery store! I knew there was a conspiracy in there somewhere!
We're nowhere near a solution if one party is still working its way to an objective mindset. IOW, the point of the fighting in the short term is still to define the positions from which the parties negotiate. | |||
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| Lead slingin' Parrot Head  |
Well, if U.S. Leftist biased journalists needed another reason to hate Russia, they now have it. Russia is really working overtime to turn world public opinion against them. [Note: Twitter Tweets, multiple photos, and hyperlinks found at linked website article.] ===================== American filmmaker and journalist Brent Renaud killed by Russian soldiers at a checkpoint near Ukraine's capital Kyiv A "renowned" journalist is dead and a second is injured after they were attacked at a checkpoint as they prepared to report on refugees fleeing a town near Ukraine's capital that is under siege. WARNING: Graphic images. David Wu Digital Reporter 3 min read March 14, 2022 - 7:35AM An American journalist and filmmaker has been killed by Russian soldiers while reporting in Ukraine on the millions of refugees fleeing major cities. Brent Renaud, 50, and his colleague Juan Arredondo, were crossing a checkpoint when the troops opened fire on the car they were in near Romanivsky Bridge in Irpin, 10 kilometres northwest from Kyiv. The former New York Times contributor was shot in the neck on Sunday and is believed to have died at the scene. His friend Mr Arredondo was taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance for treatment for gun shot wounds to his lower back. In a video, he recalled the horrifying moments of the attack after they were offered a lift by "somebody" to cross the checkpoint. "We had crossed the first bridge in Irpin. We were going to film other refugees leaving," he told an Italian journalist. "We got into a car. Somebody offered to take us to the other bridge. "We crossed a checkpoint, and they started shooting at us. The driver turned around, there were two of us. My friend is Brent Renaud." Mr Arredondo said he was split up with Mr Renaud, and did not know what condition he was in after he witnessed his friend being shot in the neck. Reporter Jane Ferguson, who is in Ukraine to report on the war for PBS, shared an image of an unidentifiable person underneath a cheeta-print blanket, who she claims is Mr Renaud. "#BrentRenaud was killed while filming civilians escaping a Russian military onslaught on their small town near #Kiev," she wrote on Twitter alongside the confronting image. "The Russian military has not spare civilians or journalists throughout this war, something Renaud himself came here to make the world all the more aware of." Andrey Nebitov, head of the Kyiv region police, confirmed the news by sharing the passport and media pass, with New York Times written on it, found by officers in Mr Renaud's belongings. "The occupants cynical even kill journalists of the international media who try to show the truth about the inaction of Russian troops in Ukraine," he wrote to Facebook. "Of course, the profession of a journalist is a risk, but US citizen Brent Renaud paid his life for trying to highlight the aggressor's ingenuity, cruelty and ruthlessness". Mr Nebitov later shared a 48-second clip by one of his officers at the scene, that reportedly shows Mr Renaud's body in the background. A second image appeared to show he suffered a second gun shot wound to the right side of his had. In a statement, the New York Times said it was "deeply saddened" to hear the new of Mr Renaud's passing but confirmed he was not working for the publication in Ukraine. "Brent was a talented photographer and filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Times", Deputy Managing Editor Cliff Levy said. "Though he had contributed to The Times in the past (most recently in 2015), he was not on assignment for any desk at The Times in Ukraine." Mr Levy added there was initial confusion of who he was working for as he was using a pass from a previous job with the publication. There has been no response from the Kremlin since the report of the attack on the Western journalist. Russian President Vladimir Putin has increased his aggression over recent days, attacking more cities, and innocent civilians as they tried to flee an onslaught of attacks. A Russian missile strike targeted a western Ukrainian military base on Sunday, which served as a crucial hub between Ukraine and NATO countries supporting its defence. Thirty five people were killed from a reported 35 strikes as concerns grow over the Kremlin's war easing precariously close to Poland. | |||
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Basing casualty reports or news on the war from media sources who are adamantly supporting Ukraine is an unreliable and one sided effort. We started with "Russia attacked for no reason" when the last 15 years has been one complaint after another rejected and ignored. Then it was "this is an upprovoked attack on NATO" when NATO is the one who expanded, contrary to their own charter, from 12 to 30 nations - and the biggest increase has been in eastern Europe. Then the initial terms of surrender were ridiculed, "there are no biolabs or Nazis, Russia is crazy" and how has that turned out? Over 30, the funding started by Senator Obama, gain of function revealed in news articles from years ago, and pathogens named being worked on in the labs. Along with the sudden rediscovery of the Asov Battalion using the same insignia that Nazi Germany used in WWII. Do you see the trend? OUR media is supporting all the anti Russian effort yet it's our media who has been investigated and found to have perpetrated an entirely fabricated lie - that Russia was behind the 2016 election. Not at all - but somebody else was. They just failed to win it like they have in the past, and 2020 was obviously their comeback to make sure they didn't lose again. There are three states poised to Decert now - it only takes two to revoke the election results. Ukraine seems to dominate the news and that isn't getting discussed at all, is it? Russia has limited aims in the Ukraine and the footdragging in the EU to accept them is all they got. It's a dance of saving face in the reality that Russia's complaints were valid and founded, with evidence now turned over to the UN. And other nations are now signing on asking why America is illegally funding gain of function research in 326 facilities around the world and 30 of those in Ukraine. Yet Americans still don't get it - the media drumbeat goes on demanding war when the reality is there is only a very limited war and Russia isn't moving their goal posts, they already made the goal. They are now in the negotiation phase, it's America who is trying to escalate this into a major incursion in a NON NATO country who isn't signatory to anything prior to this. Crimea was worse - and ignored much more. Did the White House promise jets, did American ammo makers promise a million rounds (you won't get to buy them, they are carved out of the current production) are NY legislators promising to send donated guns to Ukraine? Has any of that passed muster under ITAR - you know, that law that is abused and which anti gunners tweaked to make computer programs that control a cheap 3D milling machine to cut a few notches in a 80% AR lower? Federal jail time is threatened. But now its suddenly OK to send ammo and guns and fighter jets to protect Ukraine? Obama's corrupt payback scheme, Hunters crack pipe supply, the arms trafficking into the Middle East, the human trafficking all the way to America, and the pay for play oil pipeline board positions that Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Romney sons all have hauling down hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. BTW, Hunter invested in a company called Rosemont, do you know Rosemont invested in the bio labs Obama has been financing since 2005? It's open source stuff folks. Right there in the archives, newsprint magazines, but not reported now or even hinted at on the 6:00 lies. We are being scammed again with fake news over a known problem that has existed in Ukraine for over 8 years now and it was started by our 44th President, now his VP is protecting it. As best as can be expected. | |||
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Yeah, we didn't know that  No, it started as "Russia has executed an un-provoked attack on a sovereign nation." I suppose if you define "limited" as "controlling the fate of" or "making a satellite of," you're right. No matter how hard Putin's apologists try to spin it. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Step away from the vodka Comrade Tirod. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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