Oddly silent

[rooty]

Hey James how ya doin -

+1 MAGA

regards baby rooty

-------- Original Message --------
On Jan 9, 2020, 3:34 PM, wrote:

> On 2020-01-04 13:27, Razer wrote:
>> I think it speaks volumes about how many of this list's posters work for
>> US intel agencies and contractors by the lack of any commenting on your
>> new war with Iran.
>
> This comment has not aged well.
>
> I have confidence in Trump, and waited to see. Lots of people have
> underestimated Trump, and it has seldom worked out well for them.
>
> He responded to Iran's response as I expected and hoped.
>
> And Iran's response (symbolic escalation covering actual de-escalation,
> revealing that the killing of Solemieni was successful in deterring them
> from the war effort that they have been escalating ever since Obama's
> nuke deal) was what I had hoped it would be and doubtless what Trump
> expected it to be.
>
> It takes two to make peace, only one to make war. Iranians are not
> chanting "America should get off the bloodstained sands so that we can
> make them even bloodier". They are chanting "Death to America".
> Similarly, read the comment section of internet articles that appeared
> about Khamenei's response to Trump's threat, shortly before Trump nailed
> Solemeini.
>
> Lots of Iranians in the comment sections promising to kill us,
> confidently telling us we are weak and will be destroyed.
>
> The comment sections have fallen silent about our weakness and their
> prospects for destroying us.
>
> The timeline of events was Twitter diplomacy:
>
> Trump on New Year's day:
>> Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage
> incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This
> is not a Warning, it is a Threat.
>
> To which Khamenei responded on Twitter:
>> You can’t do anything.
>
> Comment sections fill with Shiites gloating "Death to America", telling
> us America is weak, that they will destroy us.
>
> Whereupon Trump kills Khamenei's buddy and top general.
>
> Comment sections fill with rage, but optimism that we are weak and that
> they will destroy us evaporates.
>
> That is a mighty good outcome. We have no alternative but to make those
> that hate us, fear us. Where the comment sections were full of gloating
> at our weakness, now fear at our strength.
>
> Obama's nuke deal was seen as weakness, and escalated their messianic
> expectation that they would conquer us, however absurd that expectation
> seems to some of us.
>
> Shiite Messianism has suddenly gone out of fashion.
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