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2020-01-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Soleimani’s death leaves Iran’s strategy in tatters

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-06 01:28|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 There was no 'strategy' to begin with, just a bunch of distributed efforts to thwart the US and Israel, actuating revolts and terrorist attacks on competitors. Soleimani was literally winging it as he went and the leadership assumed he had a plan. The mistake was conflating national interest with religious, communal dogma.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-06 02:59|| 2020-01-06 02:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Disagree, the strategy is to take Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and due to Western Left repugnant views they will take it.

Posted by Spanky Whuter1088 2020-01-06 08:17|| 2020-01-06 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3
Language is important, and letting bad folds get away with defining language is a terrible idea.
The creeps in Iran constantly refer to us as the Big Satan and ISrael as the Small Satan, Trump should retaliate by calling Khameni the 'Pathetic Satan' or something like that, over and over again. Why should we accept the notion that we are Satans/ Two can play at that game.

Posted by daniel 2020-01-06 10:42|| 2020-01-06 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Soleimani acquired the nickname Wazir al-Mustawtanat (minister of colonies)

A pity that America's semiliterate, badly-educated fifth columnists (like Colin Shroomhead) don't read the Arab press, or know f-all about Arab and Islamic imperial history.

If they did, they'd see that we're the anti-imperialist power in the region. Islamic Iran = the neo-imperialist wannabe power.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-06 13:16|| 2020-01-06 13:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Dron

(a) There was no 'strategy' to begin with
Sometimes tactics are strategy - see "Fabian strategy".

(b) And Iran's grand strategy is in shambles because USA just delivered a message "We can do Israeli style precision strikes - only with 100 times their resources and 1/1000 their vulnerability to 'World Opinion'.".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-06 16:44|| 2020-01-06 16:44|| Front Page Top

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