I know this is complicated, but what is Iran’s end game here? Don’t they know if they keep poking the bear, they’re going to get demolished? They’re not stupid, whatever anyone may think of them in other regards. (I am against war, at all costs, and I wish everyone would just calm down and let people live their lives the way the see fit without fucking around with that same privilege for others, but that does not seem likely at this point.)
Iran's goal is to damage or sink an American warship without being directly culpable and without risking their own people.
To what end?
The theocracy is losing its grip on the people. But like typical authoritarian assholes, they're trying to rally the people behind external enemies. Poking at the great Satan is one of their favorite call backs.
It also helps as a distraction for Pootin.
Hamas also attacked Israel because of negotiations with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis and Israel are tired of Iran backing terrorist proxies causing conflicts in and around their countries. Are so tired they'd rather make peace even though they don't like each other to team up on Iran. The timing of Hamas attacking was no mistake. It was in the lead up to those peace negotiations to derail the talks.
You make good points, friend.
What were those personnel doing in Iraq? Is the US never going to fully withdraw from Iraq?
Support base for fighting ISIS. And for supporting Syrian Democratic Forces and Kurdish factions in Syria.
And why are they doing that? Shouldn't regional problems be left to the region? Something tells me the US wouldn't take kindly to a foreign country setting up base in Mexico to take care of some problem in the region.
Do you not remember when ISIS almost took over all of Iraq? How everyone in the region was desperately pleading for the U.S to do something about ISIS?
Despite what Donald Trump said, ISIS is far from defeated. We also aren't abandoning the Kurds. Without the United States in the region Turkey would be bombing them indiscriminately. The US is pretty much in the position of damned if you do damned if you don't.
The better position is to stay in a limited support role. There aren't US forces openly clashing with combatants. They're providing air support, local signals, intelligence and fire support.
I saw a article past day that Iraq wanted US folks out
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.