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Trump takes a calculated risk
Asia Times ^ | January 3, 2020 | Spengler

Posted on 01/03/2020 10:06:41 AM PST by billorites

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1 posted on 01/03/2020 10:06:41 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites

I hope he takes another so-called calculated risk and brings NK’s Dear Leader down if he doesn’t get in line. The people living there sure need it.


2 posted on 01/03/2020 10:11:00 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (MAGA!)
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To: billorites

Iran will close the straits


3 posted on 01/03/2020 10:14:02 AM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: New Jersey Realist

The NK fat boy noticed this make no mistake.


4 posted on 01/03/2020 10:14:31 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: billorites

I think he’s put the fear of Trump in them for now.


5 posted on 01/03/2020 10:15:15 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: DownInFlames

Yep.


6 posted on 01/03/2020 10:15:51 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: DownInFlames
"Iran will close the straits"

Will anyone notice?

7 posted on 01/03/2020 10:16:22 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites

My guess is that the Iranian people will over throw the Mullahs and return the govt to when the Shah was in power. IMHO.


8 posted on 01/03/2020 10:17:45 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: billorites

While W’s support for the democratically elected shia government in Iraq was a factor, Obama’s calculated, willful support and finance of the Mullahs in Tehran was also a huge factor - emboldening them to make them believe they are untouchable.

Funny how the opening of the piece seems to ignore the eight-year usurpation.


9 posted on 01/03/2020 10:18:04 AM PST by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: billorites

Trump takes a surgical strike is all. I love how none of our iran loving MSM asks why this POS was in Iraq and what for:-)


10 posted on 01/03/2020 10:24:06 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: billorites

I would have thought it was Soleimani who took the calculated risk.


11 posted on 01/03/2020 10:27:39 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: billorites

This is a time to queue up Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red White & Blue.”

https://youtu.be/ruNrdmjcNTc

This song will bring a tear to your eye.

Written after 9/11.


12 posted on 01/03/2020 10:31:05 AM PST by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

Good article. It’s a pity we have to look to the Asia Times to provide a succinct analysis of the situation. The Dems are, of course, very sad that Iran has lost a murdering general (or, as they’d prefer, another obscure academic). As their consolation, they have the American mainstream communist media to assure them that Trump is an insane, incompetent tyrant.


13 posted on 01/03/2020 10:32:40 AM PST by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: DownInFlames

Iran will close the straits
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Iran would love to close the straights but that would cripple their economy by the action the US would take to keep them open. Without Iran oil their economy completely collapses. With the Straights closed we would strangle them until they would relent.


14 posted on 01/03/2020 10:33:33 AM PST by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: billorites
Interesting data on the impending demographic collapse - Iran's model of exporting revolution isn't sustainable as a program of economic conquest because there's no return on investment. Possession of the Saudi oil facilities might be such a prize but that sort of plunder seems as far off as it was in '79. The rest is possession of sand.

This strike does not appear to be the result of any long-laid plans, rather the exploitation of an opportunity resulting from remarkable intelligence on the one hand and remarkable arrogance and overconfidence on the part of the targets on the other. That's an awful lot of eggs to place in a basket set out in the open for the foxes to dine, and dine they did. It isn't confirmed yet who was killed and who arrested, but if initial indications are true that was a decapitation operation of historic order, and any retaliatory jihad is likely to suffer from a sudden leadership deficit as a result.

15 posted on 01/03/2020 10:36:04 AM PST by Billthedrill
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trillions of dollars in expenditures in Iraq

A trillion here and a trillion thee, pretty soon you're taking real money. Imagine our Infrastructure, roads and bridges and airports if that money stayed here? Thankfully Trump is staying out of an invasion and is dealing with these terrorist leaders with pinpoint accuracy.

16 posted on 01/03/2020 10:38:09 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DownInFlames
Iran will close the straits

With one of their rubber dinghies?

17 posted on 01/03/2020 10:38:48 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: billorites

He needed killing.

Has for a long time.


18 posted on 01/03/2020 10:43:02 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: billorites

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19 posted on 01/03/2020 10:43:12 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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To: Steely Tom
"I would have thought it was Soleimani who took the calculated risk."

He did..... 1 + 1 = 3.

20 posted on 01/03/2020 10:46:16 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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