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Ballistic missiles hit Iraq's Kurdish capital, no casualties – officials
- eunos 5y agoThere goes the Iran Nuclear deal
- sudosysgen 5y agoThe nuclear deal was killed off a few days ago when the US seized Iranian oil tankers.
- selimthegrim 5y agoOn top of the Russians holding things up in Vienna.
- aaomidi 5y agoRussia doesn't really need to be part of any deal tbh. The thing that's fucking Iran's economy is American secondary sanctions.
- aaomidi 5y agoBiden could've revived the JCPOA the second he took office. There's literally no point in Iran joining a new deal. The only way I can see Iran would join a new deal is reperations from America for having trump just get up and leave from the agreement for no good reason. Oh and for assassinating a military personnel.
- wolverine876 5y ago> There's literally no point in Iran joining a new deal. Iran doesn't agree.
- aaomidi 5y agoIran cut the negotiations because America still doesn't want to admit they don't have the upper hand.
- eyelidlessness 5y ago> Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq > … > Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Twitter: "Erbil is under fire... as if Kurds were not Iraqis". For such a short article, it packs a lot of historical bread crumbs if one wants to follow/knows to look for them.
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- eyelidlessness 5y agoCan’t edit now but for context: at the time I wrote this comment, there were only three paragraphs in the article and those were the only substantive parts of it. It’s still a short article, but not what was published when I shared that reaction.
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- blinding-streak 5y agohttps://archive.ph/j7lPZ https://archive.ph/j7lPZ
- monkeybutton 5y ago2022 is going to be balls to the walls geopolitical drama isn't it. The impact on food, fuel prices around the world from all the ongoing conflicts is going to cause even further instability.
- newsclues 5y agoIt’s going to be more than a year.
- riggsdk 5y agoSuddenly having deja-vu’s from when Covid-19 emerged.
- Trasmatta 5y agoYeah, I'm remembering March 2020 and people saying this was going to be a multi year pandemic. I didn't want to believe it, but it sounded about right, given how pandemics go...and here we are, in 2022. You'd think COVID would have taught me some good coping strategies for disconcerting world events, and yet here I am, still anxious as ever.
- steve_adams_86 5y agoWell in your defence, nothing has really changed to make these events less disconcerting and learning skills to navigate and handle situations of this magnitude isn’t a trivial matter. It’s important to realize, I think, that this stuff really is a big deal. It would be worse if we all became totally apathetic and had no sense of the significance of what’s unfolding around us.
- Trasmatta 5y agoI don't want to become apathetic, but I need to learn how to better process what's happening and continue living my life at the same time. Right now I'm walking around in a near constant state of dread, and tossing and turning every single night (which was how most of 2020 was for me). Which doesn't help me or anyone else.
- koheripbal 5y agoWith Russia so heavily committed in Ukraine, everywhere else they are active is going to become hotter as their opponents take advantage.
- 1MachineElf 5y ago[Japan claims disputed islands annexed by Russia after WWII | Israel National News - Arutz Sheva](https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323757 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323757 )
- eunos 5y agoUnipolar is dead, long live multipolar!
- DantesKite 5y agoI always feel out of my depth whenever something happens in the Middle East or Europe. Wouldn't mind getting a few classes on all the conflicts between these groups.
- awb 5y agoIf you’re looking for a high-level, fast-paced overview of some of the major points, Crash Course has some entertaining content. European history: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMsMTfmRomkVQG8AqrAmJFX https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMsMTfmRomkVQG8... World history: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
- ars 5y agoIt's very difficult for a Westerner to understand the Middle East - they don't think like you do, their, I don't know how to put it, "value metric" is different from yours. So their action as a result of information will be different from yours (they value different things than you do). Even if you learn the information, and you can, you still won't understand why they act as they do, unless you really immerse yourself in their culture.
- steve_adams_86 5y agoFrankly I think this fact is a major barrier for people with Ukraine and Russia as well. People can’t comprehend that people there, especially in Russia, see the conflict much differently than people in Canada or the USA might. It’s almost as though instead they assume people are dysfunctional or stupid. It seems very detrimental to collectively moving forward. People really do seem well-suited to living in small and homogenous groups, not billions upon billions in a global civilization.
- wolverine876 5y ago> People really do seem well-suited to living in small and homogenous groups, not billions upon billions in a global civilization. Humanity has done and is doing far better in the multi-billion person global civilization (whatever that means) than in small homogenous groups, by any measure you can imagine, by many orders of magnitude. There is no comparison. And in fact, most of the remaining problems are due to people trying to divide others into homogenous groups.
- sudosysgen 5y agoRumours are that this is retaliation from Iran for the American seizure of Iranian vessels a few days ago, as well as for Israel killing 2 Iranian servicemen in Syria (supposedly, Israel is operating on the Erbil base). The more interesting thing however is that the US SAMs failed once again to intercept the SRBMs. If really US air defences can't intercept SRBMs reliably, the US Navy is in gigantic, perhaps even existential, trouble.
- ZanyProgrammer 5y agoYou’re making speculative leaps of logic based on jack shit as evidence.
- sudosysgen 5y agoHow so?
- ZanyProgrammer 5y agoAre you totally sure the same systems that defend US naval vessels are present in Erbil, Iraq?
- sudosysgen 5y agoThey definitely aren't. Supposedly there is Patriot and C-RAM, whereas warships use AEGIS. However, Patriot is based on largely the same technology as AEGIS (PESA engagement radar, TVM, Hit-to-kill capability, etc...), is supposed to have a high kill probability against these targets, and like the SM-3, is made by Raytheon. So if Patriot can't intercept SRBMs reliably, it's unlikely that another missile system made by the same company using the same technology could intercept MRBMs reliably.
- tyingq 5y ago>largely the same technology At a high level right? Like both "PESA" radars, but completely different implementations. Similar, but not at all the same missles, etc. And it's not clear a Patriot system was in Irbil, in the right spot anyway, right? So this all could mean something, but that's unclear.
- rectang 5y agoThis is a developing story and a lot of people are leaping to conclusions. It's not clear yet who launched the missiles, or from where.
- williamtwild 5y agoThere is a video from a truckdriver showing them leave. It is very clear where they came from.
- gameswithgo 5y agoBut I am skilled in the arts of war and militry tactics, sire
- jacquesm 5y agoThey appear to have been launched from Khasabad military base in Iran according to this thread: https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1502787804463607810 https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1502787804463607810 more: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2022-03-12/irbil-iraq-missiles-attack-5324962.html https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2022-03-12/irbi...