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[BlackTron]

I even told BlackTron on a post several pages back I didn't actually wish anything bad for him and hope he had a good day, but of course it's the ONLY message bro didn't quote or respond too.

The post you refer to said that my post wasn't worth your time reading or responding to, so I ignored it, including the window dressing at the end.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Except Russian blogger was an accurate portrayal of your behavior. If I laughed at them over SMO, why should you be any different?

Generally I have a hard dislike when people try to ruffle feathers on serious topics and then retreat to "it's not that serious lighten up", not cool just because it's a game forum.

OK bro, super metered take.

You know me well

EverybodyIDontLikeIsHitlerRussia.meme

Just let me know what permissions I have and how I am allowed to speak on this forum you apparently own, comrade. I await your instruction.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

The post you refer to said that my post wasn't worth your time reading or responding to, so I ignored it, including the window dressing at the end.

Imagine being so triggered by words on a message board you can't even be nice when the other reaches out with an olive branch.

That true emotionally weak shit. I like that! Own that shit, champ!

 

[ZehDon]

Why is the word "war" suddenly a controversial one? Why are we playing semantics with something that is abundantly clear? Is it because partisan politics demands we not call it a war right now? Why?...

Because American President's don't have the power to declare War. War isn't a meaningless word from a legal or statecraft point of view. If Trump's military actions are short/fast enough - less than 60 days, from memory - they can be declared as simple military operations, and that's totally fine. Venezuela is a perfect example of this (though, that raid is likely in violation of international law and treaties). Any longer than that time frame, and the President needs a new designation for their actions or they must ask Congress to declare a state of War. Other American Presidents have worked around this to keep military actions moving, calling them everything from "policing operations" to "counter-terrorism raids" to get around needing a state of War. But, if Trump wants War powers - to, say, call up a draft or postpone elections - he needs a state of War.

 

[BlackTron]

OK bro, super metered take.

You know me well

EverybodyIDontLikeIdHitlerRussia.meme

Just let me know what permissions I have and how I am allowed to speak on this forum you apparently own, comrade. I await your instruction.

Would you go to a restaurant, start a food fight, and say "what, do you own the place and make the rules here?" when someone gets pissed off?

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Would you go to a restaurant, start a food fight, and say "what, do you own the place and make the rules here?" when someone gets pissed off?

That's a super great analogy bro. Thanks dude for enlightening me.

Was this response OK enough for your feelings, comrade?

 

[BlackTron]

Imagine being so triggered by words on a message board you can't even be nice when the other reaches out with an olive branch.

That true emotionally weak shit. I like that! Own that shit, champ!

You call your last post nice? Are you thinking the colored text is hidden or something?

Oh wait...I get it now, it was just a joke! Because this is a game forum, and not that serious. Silly me.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

You call your last post nice? Are you thinking the colored text is hidden or something?

Oh wait...I get it now, it was just a joke! Because this is a game forum, and not that serious. Silly me.

Bro, I gotchu. I will consider your feelings from now on every time I post on GAF. Only serious post from here on out. Only BlackTron approved.

 

[Slayer-33]

Destroying desalination plants? Wow, that's low.
This comes to prove that one of the reasons for this war is false (freeing the people of Iran).

I'm getting really worried about the dangerous path this war is taking.

Oil prices are going to the roof very soon like we have never seen before.

I just hope china doesn't get involved in this shit show.

0.30 Cent jump in two days on the 87 gas here in NYC.. Insane.

 

[EviLore]

 

[0neAnd0nly]

People forget this happened and then say that he has no reason to go after them.

It's a serious thing on a long list of other serious things.

 

[Tams]

These plants are not just infrastructure. They are life support.

Hi ChatGPT.

If you're going to post, don't AI slop it.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Western media attempting to romanticize him.
LMFAO!

 

[EviLore]

-Supreme leader and top ~50 leaders all immediately assassinated
-Air force obliterated
-Navy at the bottom of the ocean
-Ballistic missiles exhausted
-Oil reserves in flames
-Every neighboring Arab country united against you

All according to keikaku

 

[DeepEnigma]

Who fucking cares? I could look it up, but why? To create some sort of equivalence on the partisan landscape?

Ironic, really. It all matters on the geopolitical stage, truthfully.

 

[rorepmE]

Why is the word "war" suddenly a controversial one? Why are we playing semantics with something that is abundantly clear? Is it because partisan politics demands we not call it a war right now? Why?

I can understand what happened in Venezuela being defined as a military operation, we got in and got out quickly. Makes perfect sense. But Iran? We have a multi-phase, likely multi-week direct armed conflict between nations with missiles flying all over, military assets blowing up, and demands of unconditional surrender being sent. It's a fucking war.

They use to call it a police action

Definition of POLICE ACTION

a localized military action undertaken without formal declaration of war by regular armed forces against persons held to be violators of international peace and order… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

police action

noun

Synonyms of police action
: a localized military action undertaken without formal declaration of war by regular armed forces against persons held to be violators of international peace and order​

opposed to what war use to be which was total war between nation-states where the entire damn country's economic output was toward the war effort.

The US is always and never at war. It's nothing new.

The world accept US interventionism to keep the peace and had no problem with it for 50 years. What changed? The bulk demographics of people who accepted the "police action" fought in or experienced WW2 lost political power in the late 80s and 90s. Then died off in the 2000, 2010s.

Then those damn Boomers took over. Them and their damn weiner kids

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Ironic, really. It all matters on the geopolitical stage, truthfully.

You get permission from him to post that response bro?! You gotta check with him dude.

 

[calico]

This is not entirely accurate, last year when shit was popping off and Iran's facilities were reportedly obliterated, they gave advance warning to the US before retaliating on some bases.

A bit different in that Beige is talking about warning for humanitarian reasons, whereas in this instance Iran gave warning specifically because they wanted to avoid President Trump being forced to respond to their face-saving retaliation, ie. giving warning was in their own interests.

President Trump's 'I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice...' remark is intended to communicate to everyone that Iran's 'retaliation' was effectively just for show and that therefore it's ok for him to choose not to respond to it.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

-Supreme leader and top ~50 leaders all immediately assassinated
-Air force obliterated
-Navy at the bottom of the ocean
-Ballistic missiles exhausted
-Oil reserves in flames
-Every neighboring Arab country united against you

All according to keikaku

So many should-of-been generals have come out of the wood work, with elite knowledge of the military and exclusive Intel of the enemy. It's incredible how wise we have become with social media.

OR, people who center their life around hating one political side let their ignorance flow by making up fanfic to support the terrorist.

One of the 2!

 

[Gp1]

This is text book job for special forces.
Not the HVT/counter insurgency kind of raid the we saw on the last 20 years. But the kind from the cold war with covert ops, direct action, unconventional warfare, clandestine ops, etc.

 

[calico]

Did Obama do the same with Libya?

The Obama administration argued the military action in Libya did not even count as 'hostilities'.

 

[Ozriel]

Breaking news!

They're probably having a laugh over there at the request

 

[Unknown Soldier]

The Economist referring to America unironically as the Great Satan is probably their nadir, or so I would have thought in the past. These days, I bet they can go even lower

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Because American President's don't have the power to declare War. War isn't a meaningless word from a legal or statecraft point of view. If Trump's military actions are short/fast enough - less than 60 days, from memory - they can be declared as simple military operations, and that's totally fine. Venezuela is a perfect example of this (though, that raid is likely in violation of international law and treaties). Any longer than that time frame, and the President needs a new designation for their actions or they must ask Congress to declare a state of War. Other American Presidents have worked around this to keep military actions moving, calling them everything from "policing operations" to "counter-terrorism raids" to get around needing a state of War. But, if Trump wants War powers - to, say, call up a draft or postpone elections - he needs a state of War.

The US hasn't formally been at a declared war since World War II. Yes, even Vietnam wasn't technically a declared war and was never authorized by Congress as a declared war. There was a Congressional resolution that allowed for limited (at the time) military activity but that's it

President Trump doesn't need any formal war powers even to send troops, and multiple previous Presidents have sent troops without a state of formally declared war, although it's unlikely he would be able to get the US into a conflict the scale of Vietnam (2.7 million American troops at the peak) without Congress formally authorizing some sort of military action

 

[Rentahamster]

Option 1 is when Iran kills all these "undermining" people by the TENS OF THOUSANDS", like thry did what, a month ago? How soon some forget.

Forget what? I wrote that precisely because I didn't forget. They kill tens of thousands of their own people, and we stop them by doing what? Killing ten of thousands more of their own people? What a solution. How many more Iranians do we kill until the medicine is worse than the disease? Hundreds of thousands? Iraq War numbers?

Now the ability of Iran's military to actually FIGHT has been severely reduced, many leaders are dead, so your "moderate semi-secular non zealots" have an actual chance now. If they exist.

Keyword "IF". And what if we bombed them to hell and they no longer exist? What if we blew up the infrastructure they needed to use their chance? What if we bombed them severely enough that they decide their insane religious theocracy is actually not that bad compared to getting shot at by the USA? So we eliminated their leadership in one day. Great. Good riddance. What happens if we also destroyed the only good replacement for them too?