Re: Iraq
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:33 am
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Momentum is building among deputies in the Iraqi parliament to oust U.S. troops entirely from the country—an outcome that would leave Iraq’s political future in the hands of neighbouring Iran and leave its citizens more vulnerable to the Islamic State.
SO Iran learned a long time agoHeracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:22 pm
Yes
But for that you need intelligent, smart leaders to see the evolution of Warfare and strategy .. Gunship Power (and diplomacy) died long ago.
That Time US Forces Pulverized Iran’s Navy
The US did not have to flee Afghanistan. It had to elect Donald Trump in 2020David H. Petraeus, US Army general, Director of CIA, General George C. Marshall Award winner, top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 1983, assistant professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy
Petraeus waisted Trillions of DOLLARS in Afghanistan and Iraq with Rubbish called "Surge", and, at the end America had to flee Afghanistan the way it did.
Soleimani was one of the masterminds, alongside Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyeh, of the creation and maintenance of Hamas' extensive tunnel warfare network in the Gaza Strip.
SO he sought revenge through terrorism BFD.Ghassem Soleimani, left school at the age of 13, worked as "brick layer" to help repay his father's agricultural debts..The thing that saved Iraq was Obama finally agreed to send in US special forces.Soleimani and his Quds Force played a key role in helping the government of Iraq defeat the Islamic State in 2014–17
Personally led a commando operation that saved a Russian pilot after his jet was downed in enemy territory.
Again Iran learned its lessons year ago..
These actions were instrumental in the creation, by the end of the decade, of the "Axis of Resistance", a territorially-contiguous network of Iranian-backed militias and organizations in the Middle East stretching from Iraq (Popular Mobilization Forces) through Syria to Lebanon (Hezbollah), and also including the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Yemeni Houthi groups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27L05qHM_8
That Time US Forces Pulverized Iran’s Navy
Good News from Iran: A Million New Christian Believers
Once the crisis in Gaza settles, America should withdraw from the region, not least to remain able to keep order in Europe and Asia.