US threaten Iran with pre-emptive strike

skacritics both professional and amateur have worked it out: third wave to have might mighty bossmissles

Can we lower the predicting the future with certainty by 30-50% please

xxxp no that doesn't go w/o saying, these points are appreciated

*bossmissiles portmanteau-proof autocorrect needed now more than ever

Tombot OTM

El Tomboto: I don't care. Iran has been preparing for this day for at least 20 years. Trump chose to stick his dick in a wasp's nest. A lot of people who don't deserve it are going to suffer.

i get you guys but if sanpaku's gonna sanpaku, why not now, this isn't long-term speculation

Saeed Jalili, Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, posts a picture of the Iranian flag after the attack on Al Asad Airbase, just as Trump did with the American flag after Soleimani's assassination.https://t.co/QHgJAFt7vZ

— Séamus Malekafzali (@Seamus_Malek) January 7, 2020

My flag's bigger than your flag.

Reports say Iran is firing dozens of missiles into Iraq, hitting U.S. forces at Al Asad Airbase. Early reports say 20 U.S. troops have died, amid 60+ missile strikes so far. If true, then we are at the precipice of another horrible war in the Middle East.
— Mark Hughes (@markhughesfilms) January 7, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 3:38 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

imagine being this much of a dickhead that you make up a body count for twitter clout. arsehole

Omg Kennedy on fox right now speaking absolute fucking nonsense Jesus Christ

One American official said six rockets had landed at Al Asad air base, but could not confirm that they were missiles.

Iraq’s Joint Military Command said seven rockets had hit the base. Iranian officials said the attack began at 1:20 a.m., the time that General Suleimani was killed by an American drone at the Baghdad airport on Friday.

Recommend the War Nerd podcast. Jon Dolan now puts most of his work behind a paywall, but his 2018 speculation on how a US-Iran conflict would play out is public. I don't disagree with him, though I think he didn't give enough attention to how Iran can shut down Hormuz for the better part of a year with sea mines. Fill your tanks. Buy fossil co options. And rice and beans.

%#%*^$^%$^

should probably go ahead and buy rice and bean options, too

Feels like a pretty sane retaliation by the Iranians. Now we’ll see if Trump lets it end here.

Not so important in N. America. It's East Asia that really gets screwed by Hormuz closing.

If there's any reason for hope in this situation, its in talk from the Iranian foreign ministry, like this from foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif:

This is an act of aggression against Iran, and it amounts to an armed attack against Iran, and we will respond. But we will respond proportionately - not disproportionately ... We are not lawless like President Trump

I gather from this that Iran plans to escalate, step by step. If we had sane people in the Oval Office or NSC, that would be an opportunity to pause and reassess. Sucks to be a sane person hoping for sanity from long term national adversaries.

Erin Burnett just now to Eliot Engel: “doesn’t the President have to do something?”

Reports that aides are making preparations for trump to give a televised address to the nation.

not good

It’s 4 am or so in Tehran right now but I don’t think anyone is sleeping

Iran just launched some missiles? Shits officialy Popin Off… Wow! Smh

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) January 8, 2020

Just a reminder, the actual Secretary of State, back in March

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said it is "possible" that President Donald Trump was sent by God to save Israel from Iran.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47670717

God remember when State was the Enron Exxon guy

Steve Schmidt on MSNBC delivering doom-laden pronouncements using polysyllabic words.

xp Enron Exxon Gazprom

And saying Trump has to escalate , even while castigating him

Don't wanna know about any doom-laden pronouncements. It's hard enough engaging with what's real without trying to engage with whatever might be possible.

god can this shit just fuckin stop

Pompous white dudes getting lots of air time tonight

Can we fire them at Iran?

Fuck everything about this.

Ok finally a decent commentator: Cal Perry reporting from Doha (on Chris Hayes a few minutes ago)

But yeah fuck everything about this

This sucks.

It’s not the law that you have to watch tv

Iran is saying that if there is no retaliation from America for these latest attacks then they will stop attacking. But if America attacks then their response will be crushing and wide spread. #iran #soleimani #war

— Ali Arouzi (@aliarouzi) January 8, 2020

On the plus side, Trump is a coward, so maybe he will back down. On the other hand, Trump is an ignorant asshole, so probably he won't.

Not everyone on TV sucks. Some better, more meaningfully critical voices on Hayes now

Trump has an opportunity to walk away and claim to have killed "America's greatest enemy" or whatever with no loss of American lives. It could be a huge PR coup for him, most likely, and we would all hate to see that, but it's the "best" outcome we can hope for at this point.

"Iran is saying"

who is saying?

Hayes is often the only atoll of sanity on MSNBC.

Reminder that as this crisis escalates, we have no Director of National Intelligence, no Dep Dir, no Homeland Security Secretary, no Dep Sec, no head of CBP or ICE, no State Dept Under Sec of Arms Control, no Asst Sec for Europe, and no Navy Sec.

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) January 8, 2020

“atoll “... nice. I will borrow that

Venmo me the residuals.

btw I’d like to start learning Farsi. Anyone here know some good resources for this?

twitter

everyone is an expert on everything there, it's amazing

Trump has an opportunity to walk away and claim to have killed "America's greatest enemy" or whatever with no loss of American lives. It could be a huge PR coup for him, most likely, and we would all hate to see that, but it's the "best" outcome we can hope for at this point.

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:04 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i hope that he, as a coward who loves praise, lives up to this

I've rarely seen Rachel Maddow this PISSED.

Is that a songbird from courtly Persian poetry?