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Foreign Affairs / Re: US Imposes Sanctions On Iranian Steel And Other Metals by CTPlayer: 1:06pm On Jan 11, 2020 |
Fash20: Iran declared war against the USA in 1979 LOL. And that government has punished their own civilians for decades. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: IRGC Commander Accepts Responsibility As Ukraine Seeks Punishment, Compensation by CTPlayer: 1:01pm On Jan 11, 2020 |
Privatepart00: The plane departed a reasonably busy international airport. It isn't a military war zone. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Is The Terrorist , The US Or Iran ? by CTPlayer: 8:58pm On Jan 08, 2020 |
panafrican: So what? It isn't like Uncle Sam started the war. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: The Six Day War by CTPlayer: 11:56am On Jan 08, 2020 |
BuhariAdvocate: Britain created or recreated Israel after WWl. Britain and France created all of these counties, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria etc. Prior to that they were part of the Ottoman Empire. USA had nothing to do with it LOL. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: USA Female Soldiers Go Viral - Twerking On The Way To IRAN WAR!! by CTPlayer: 11:32am On Jan 08, 2020 |
Shake that ass sis. 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: USA Vs IRAN Military Power Comparison 2020 by CTPlayer: 11:21am On Jan 08, 2020 |
GreetMe: This week marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, a national holiday in Vietnam better known as Liberation Day. The event signified the end of the Vietnam War, culminating with a North Vietnamese army tank bulldozing through the gates of the Reunification Palace – the residence of the president of South Vietnam – and major helicopter evacuations of American military personnel and Vietnamese citizens. Vietnamese Embrace U.S. and Capitalism Yet four decades after the controversial war, the Vietnamese public sees the United States as a helpful ally and even embraces some of the core tenets of capitalism. Today, the Vietnamese view the U.S. in a positive light. About three-quarters of Vietnamese (76%) expressed a favorable opinion of the U.S. in a 2014 Pew Research Center survey. More highly educated people (89%) gave the U.S. especially high marks. Young people ages 18-29 were particularly affirmative (89%), but the U.S. is seen positively even by those who are old enough to have lived through the Vietnam War. Among those ages 50 and older, more than six-in-ten rated the U.S. favorably. The U.S. and Vietnam have built strong economic ties since war’s end, reflecting the Vietnamese public’s desire for increased participation in international trade and their views that the U.S. is the top player in the world economy. Despite the Vietnamese government’s single-party socialist framework, an overwhelming majority of Vietnamese (95%) agreed that people are better off in a free market economy, even if some people are rich and some are poor. An equal percentage voiced the opinion that growing trade and business ties between Vietnam and other countries is a good thing. Specifically, most view international trade as having positive effects on job creation (78%) and raising workers’ wages (72%). https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/30/vietnamese-see-u-s-as-key-ally/ |
Foreign Affairs / Re: USA Vs IRAN Military Power Comparison 2020 by CTPlayer: 11:18am On Jan 08, 2020 |
GreetMe: Virtually every major American corporation has operations in Vietnam. Afghanistan is fighting terrorists, never an invasion force. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Is The Terrorist , The US Or Iran ? by CTPlayer: 10:59am On Jan 08, 2020 |
panafrican: There by invitation from the government. Largely operations to destroy ISIS. The US is still in Germany, Korea, Japan etc., and the primary reason there has not been a WWlll. The USA got dragged into WWl and WWll, then totally rebuilt Europe via the Marshall Plan. Europe would have been taken over by the Soviet Union if not for the USA. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Is The Terrorist , The US Or Iran ? by CTPlayer: 10:53am On Jan 08, 2020 |
Iranian government is well known to be the largest sponsor of Terrorism. That is why they are so pissed that the US took out their Terror master in Baghdad. Even last Summer a couple of Euro countries arrested Iranian terrorists there planning bomb attacks against Iranians who moved to Europe. |
Travel / Re: Ukrainian Airliner Crashes Near Tehran, 180 People Suspected Dead by CTPlayer: 10:03am On Jan 08, 2020 |
Foreign Affairs / Re: This Is How Body Of General Quassem Soleimani Was Flown To Iran(Photos) by CTPlayer: 6:40pm On Jan 07, 2020 |
He forgot to buckle his seatbelt LOL |
Foreign Affairs / Re: U. S. A.F Shows Strength, Launches 52 Fully Armed F-35 II Fighters(Pics) by CTPlayer: 6:36pm On Jan 07, 2020 |
52 F-35s for the 52 Embassy hostages Iran took in 1979. Trump is the master Troll 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Threatens To Attack The White House by CTPlayer: 1:16pm On Jan 07, 2020 |
That sounds like something a Terrorist regime would say LOL. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 11:47pm On Jan 06, 2020 |
mysticwarrior: LOL 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: The 230Mph Hellfire Missile That Killed Soleimani (Photos) by CTPlayer: 8:36pm On Jan 06, 2020 |
Humphrizy: US built a drone base in Ghana or Nigeria for that purpose!!!!! |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 8:21pm On Jan 06, 2020 |
mysticwarrior: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-soleimani-insight/inside-the-plot-by-irans-soleimani-to-attack-u-s-forces-in-iraq-idUSKBN1Z301Z (Reuters) - In mid-October, Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani met with his Iraqi Shi’ite militia allies at a villa on the banks of the Tigris River, looking across at the U.S. embassy complex in Baghdad. The Revolutionary Guards commander instructed his top ally in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and other powerful militia leaders to step up attacks on U.S. targets in the country using sophisticated new weapons provided by Iran, two militia commanders and two security sources briefed on the gathering told Reuters. The strategy session, which has not been previously reported, came as mass protests against Iran’s growing influence in Iraq were gaining momentum, putting the Islamic Republic in an unwelcome spotlight. Soleimani’s plans to attack U.S. forces aimed to provoke a military response that would redirect that rising anger toward the United States, according to the sources briefed on the gathering, Iraqi Shi’ite politicians and government officials close to Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. Soleimani’s efforts ended up provoking the U.S. attack on Friday that killed him and Muhandis, marking a major escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran. The two men died in air strikes on their convoy at a Baghdad airport as they headed to the capital, dealing a major blow to the Islamic Republic and the Iraqi paramilitary groups it supports. Interviews with the Iraqi security sources and Shi’ite militia commanders offer a rare glimpse of how Soleimani operated in Iraq, which he once told a Reuters reporter he knew like the back of his hand. Two weeks before the October meeting, Soleimani ordered Iranian Revolutionary Guards to move more sophisticated weapons - such as Katyusha rockets and shoulder-fired missiles that could bring down helicopters - to Iraq through two border crossings, the militia commanders and Iraqi security sources told Reuters. At the Baghdad villa, Soleimani told the assembled commanders to form a new militia group of low-profile paramilitaries - unknown to the United States - who could carry out rocket attacks on Americans housed at Iraqi military bases. He ordered Kataib Hezbollah - a force founded by Muhandis and trained in Iran - to direct the new plan, said the militia sources briefed on the meetings. Soleimani told them such a group “would be difficult to detect by the Americans,” one of the militia sources told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Iranian demonstrators chant slogans during a protest against the killing of the Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in front of United Nations office in Tehran, Iran January 3, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS Before the attacks, the U.S. intelligence community had reason to believe that Soleimani was involved in “late stage” planning to strike Americans in multiple countries, including Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, U.S. officials told Reuters Friday on condition of anonymity. One senior U.S. official said Soleimani had supplied advanced weaponry to Kataib Hezbollah. White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien told reporters on Friday that Soleimani had just come from Damascus, “where he was planning attacks on American soldiers, airmen, Marines, sailors and against our diplomats.” An official at the headquarters of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry was not available for comment. PICKING U.S. TARGETS WITH DRONES The United States has grown increasingly concerned about Iran’s influence over the ruling elite in Iraq, which has been beset for months by protesters who accuse the government of enriching itself and serving the interests of foreign powers, especially Iran, as Iraqis languish in poverty without jobs or basic services. Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, was instrumental in expanding Iran’s military influence in the Middle East as the operative who handles clandestine operations outside Iran. The 62-year-old general was regarded as the second-most powerful figure in Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Muhandis, a former Iraqi lawmaker, oversaw Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an umbrella grouping of paramilitary forces mostly consisting of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias that was formally integrated into Iraq’s armed forces. Muhandis, like Soleimani, had long been on the radar of the United States, which had declared Muhandis a terrorist. In 2007, a Kuwaiti court sentenced him to death in absentia for his involvement in the 1983 U.S. and French embassy bombings in Kuwait. Soleimani picked Kataib Hezbollah to lead the attacks on U.S. forces in the region because it had the capability to use drones to scout targets for Katyusha rocket attacks, one of the militia commanders told Reuters. Among the weapons that Soleimani’s forces supplied to its Iraqi militia allies last fall was a drone Iran had developed that could elude radar systems, the militia commanders said. Kataib Hezbollah used the drones to gather aerial footage of locations where U.S. troops were deployed, according to two Iraqi security officials who monitor the movements of militias. Slideshow (2 Images) On December 11, a senior U.S. military official said attacks by Iranian-backed groups on bases hosting U.S. forces in Iraq were increasing and becoming more sophisticated, pushing all sides closer to an uncontrollable escalation. His warning came two days after four Katyusha rockets struck a base near Baghdad international airport, wounding five members of Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but a U.S. military official said intelligence and forensic analyses of the rockets and launchers pointed to Iranian-backed Shi’ite Muslim militia groups, notably Kataib Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl al-Haq. On Dec. 27 more than 30 rockets were fired at an Iraqi military base near the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk. The attack killed a U.S. civilian contractor and wounded four American and two Iraq servicemen. Washington accused Kataib Hezbollah of carrying out the attack, an allegation it denied. The United States then launched air strikes two days later against the militia, killing at least 25 militia fighters and wounding 55. The attacks sparked two days of violent protests by supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the U.S. Embassy’s perimeter and hurled rocks, prompting Washington to dispatch extra troops to the region and threaten reprisals against Tehran. On Thursday – the day before the attack that killed Soleimani - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper warned that the United States might have to take preemptive action to protect American lives from expected attacks by Iran-backed militias. “The game has changed,” he said. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 7:53pm On Jan 06, 2020 |
Guess who else Trump blew up? Another really bad Terrorist Inside the plot by Iran’s Soleimani to attack U.S. forces in Iraq (Reuters) - In mid-October, Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani met with his Iraqi Shi’ite militia allies at a villa on the banks of the Tigris River, looking across at the U.S. embassy complex in Baghdad. The Revolutionary Guards commander instructed his top ally in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and other powerful militia leaders to step up attacks on U.S. targets in the country using sophisticated new weapons provided by Iran, two militia commanders and two security sources briefed on the gathering told Reuters. The strategy session, which has not been previously reported, came as mass protests against Iran’s growing influence in Iraq were gaining momentum, putting the Islamic Republic in an unwelcome spotlight. Soleimani’s plans to attack U.S. forces aimed to provoke a military response that would redirect that rising anger toward the United States, according to the sources briefed on the gathering, Iraqi Shi’ite politicians and government officials close to Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. ....................... Muhandis, like Soleimani, had long been on the radar of the United States, which had declared Muhandis a terrorist. In 2007, a Kuwaiti court sentenced him to death in absentia for his involvement in the 1983 U.S. and French embassy bombings in Kuwait. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-...SKBN1Z301Z |
Foreign Affairs / Re: General's Daughter Warns US Of "Dark Days" by CTPlayer: 7:45pm On Jan 06, 2020 |
[img]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdailyentertainmentnews.com%2Fwpgo%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F01%2Fzeinab-soleimani-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1[/img] Lovely attire, does it come is blur and orange also? |
Foreign Affairs / John Kerry: Some Sanctions Relief Money For Iran Will Go To Terrorism by CTPlayer: 12:28am On Jan 06, 2020 |
Oops By Elise Labott, CNN Updated 2:39 PM ET, Thu January 21, 2016 Davos, Switzerland (CNN)Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged to CNBC Thursday that some of the money Iran received in sanctions relief would go to groups considered terrorists. When asked about whether some the $150 billion in sanctions relief to Iran would go to terrorist groups, Kerry reiterated that, after settling debts, Iran would receive closer to $55 billion. He conceded some of that could go to groups considered terrorists, saying there was nothing the U.S. could do to prevent that. "I think that some of it will end up in the hands of the IRGC or other entities, some of which are labeled terrorists," he said in the interview in Davos, referring to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. "You know, to some degree, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that every component of that can be prevented." https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/politics/john-kerry-money-iran-sanctions-terrorism/index.html |
Foreign Affairs / Re: 3000 U.S. Soldiers Deployed To The Middle East After Soleimani's Death by CTPlayer: 2:23pm On Jan 05, 2020 |
engrchykae: Most of the planet would be controlled, dominated by Russia and China if not for USA post WWll. 4 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 5:52pm On Dec 30, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs / Re: Money Becomes Worthless In Venezuela -- Thrown On The Streets by CTPlayer: 11:42pm On Dec 29, 2019 |
Bernie Sanders currency! |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 11:37pm On Dec 29, 2019 |
garetz: Send them to the Gulags! 7 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 9:21pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Happy TDay, good game with the Lions and Bears today. 4 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 12:02am On Nov 28, 2019 |
obixcel:The Dems probably don't have the balls to vote on impeachment in the house. They will just make excuses and call everyone else racist, bigot, homophobe, nazi, and then blame the GOP. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 5:48pm On Nov 26, 2019 |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 5:13am On Nov 23, 2019 |
Nobdy refutes Soros corrupting USA foreign affairs I see. LOL 3 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 10:27pm On Nov 22, 2019 |
wirinet:The Anti Corruption Action Center is CORRUPT. That is Soros trying to run USA foreign policy. While the impeachment deals with Trump’s alleged interference in the Ukraine, the case of Trump enemies’ interference in the Ukraine is open and shut. They interfered so rudely in the dealings of the ostensibly sovereign state, that they had a joke among themselves: “The Vienna Convention is optional for our Kiev staff”. The Vienna Convention is the international agreement forbidding the diplomats to meddle in the internal affairs of the state they are posted at. Some of this meddling had been done by and for Joe Biden, who robbed the Ukrainian state of ample funds; George Soros had been another beneficiary of the State Department activity. He has a few NGOs there, and the US Embassy under the Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch (another accuser of Trump) actively shilled for them. John Solomon discovered that one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the impeachment hearings, then-embassy Charge d’ Affaires George Kent (now he has risen to the lofty position of the Assistant Secretary of State) demanded from the Ukrainian authorities to drop investigation of Soros’ own NGO, the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). Moreover, on March 5, 2019, Ambassador Yovanovitch had delivered a speech asking for “Ukraine’s special anticorruption prosecutor to be removed.” And this woman dares to speak of Trump’s interference! George Soros had a regular access to the Ukrainian desk of the State Department, to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria (“F*ck EU”) Nuland. It is difficult to separate between the twain, for the AntAC had been jointly funded by the State Department and George Soros. But George Soros is untouchable, for the ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt already determined that “Invoking Soros … is trafficking in some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes.” http://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-impeach-trump-trump-woos-jews/ 5 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 10:16pm On Nov 22, 2019 |
Lucasbalo:Are you having a bad hair day sweetie? 3 Likes 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 6:20pm On Nov 22, 2019 |
Lucasbalo: Surrender noted! 3 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 4:24pm On Nov 22, 2019 |
Lucasbalo: And you can't refute any of it. LOL. 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 4:06pm On Nov 22, 2019 |
Justice Department prosecutor U.S. Attorney John Durham is questioning personnel connected to the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, which awarded multiple contracts to FBI informant Stephan Halper. Halper, who was informing the bureau on Trump campaign advisors, is a central figure in the FBI’s original investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, SaraACarter.com has learned. https://saraacarter.com/durham-probe-expands-to-pentagon-office-that-contracted-fbi-spy-stephan-halper/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug 2 Likes |
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