Did world war 3 just start?

[ArcadiaGP]

I was awoken by a 3am phone call for my job that lasted through the morning.

The doomsday clock did tick ever-slightly closer to midnight, but it's gone back now.

 

[T.Lex]

I was awoken by a 3am phone call for my job that lasted through the morning.

The doomsday clock did tick ever-slightly closer to midnight, but it's gone back now.

Hmmm... now my curiosity is piqued.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Hmmm... now my curiosity is piqued.

Database group: "This export is taking too long. Please check your disks."
Me: Checks disks. Shows them I/O is normal.
Database group: "Oops, the problem is on our end. Disregard."

That about sums it all up. That also sums up most problems they tend to bring up.

 

[T.Lex]

Because sometimes you have to send more troops abroad in order to fulfill the promise to bring them home, more USian troops en route to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50021138

"Taken together with other deployments, this constitutes an additional 3,000 forces that have been extended or authorised within the last month," Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said.

The US has increased the deployment of forces in the region by 14,000 since May, according to CNN. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had requested additional support, Mr Esper said.

 

[Dead Duck]

Because sometimes you have to send more troops abroad in order to fulfill the promise to bring them home, more USian troops en route to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50021138

Yep... Whatever they want the world to believe.
Wait.... What country is close to Saudi Arabia again?



Don't we have Iran pretty much surrounded by now?

 

[Kutnupe14]

Yep... Whatever they want the world to believe.
Wait.... What country is close to Saudi Arabia again?



Don't we have Iran pretty much surrounded by now?

And how does that affect the safety of the United States?

 

[Birds Away]

Maybe Iran just wants another plane load of cash.

 

[NKBJ]

And speaking of WWIII, imagine having to mark found remains for specialized contractors to go clean up.
Yeah, that's coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfOm9xvEIvg

 

[NKBJ]

The Turkish government has now stated that it's intent is to remove the Syrian government.

 

[BugI02]

I was awoken by a 3am phone call for my job that lasted through the morning.

The doomsday clock did tick ever-slightly closer to midnight, but it's gone back now.

Congratulations. By actually having taken a "3 a.m. phone call" you have demonstrated that your worthiness to be POTUS now exceeds that of Clinton's in 2016

 

[NKBJ]

At least Erdogan didn't get his mits on the NATO nukes stored there. Well, I hope not any how.

 

[NKBJ]

Aw cheese and crackers The New York Times is saying fifty tactical nukes are still there.
Thought they'd been removed, hoped they'd been removed.

 

[T.Lex]

Yeah, that's some serious awkwardness.

 

[NKBJ]

Aw shuckies, the perpetual war sleaze corruption pedophile party is upset that the president wouldn't want to continue our overthrow of the legal government of Syria.
https://www.trunews.com/stream/house-of-representatives-votes-to-condemn-presidents-syria-withdrawal

 

[Kutnupe14]

Aw shuckies, the perpetual war sleaze corruption pedophile party is upset that the president wouldn't want to continue our overthrow of the legal government of Syria.
https://www.trunews.com/stream/house-of-representatives-votes-to-condemn-presidents-syria-withdrawal

354-60... now, I gotta ask, which party are you taking about?

 

[Hkindiana]

354-60... now, I gotta ask, which party are you taking about?

Ask yourself, was that 354-60 vote for DECLARING WAR, or saying they had there feelings hurt? If they really want WAR, they should declare it.

 

[Kdf101]

354-60... now, I gotta ask, which party are you taking about?

inthink he was referring to the Democrats. I dont like a Trump, but voted for him, but I think the abandoning of the Kurds to an Islamist regime in turkey could very well be his undoing. Up until now, he hasn’t lost any of his base. I think he will lose some with this. I am not in favor of never ending wars, but we have to pick a side and see it through. This will hurt him more than the impeachment thing.

 

[Tombs]

inthink he was referring to the Democrats. I dont like a Trump, but voted for him, but I think the abandoning of the Kurds to an Islamist regime in turkey could very well be his undoing. Up until now, he hasn’t lost any of his base. I think he will lose some with this. I am not in favor of never ending wars, but we have to pick a side and see it through. This will hurt him more than the impeachment thing.

So are you sending your son to go die in the middle east for the kurds?

If not, I respectfully request you don't tell your fellow American to do something you wouldn't.

 

[ghuns]

So are you sending your son to go die in the middle east for the kurds?

If not, I respectfully request you don't tell your fellow American to do something you wouldn't.

I sent a son in law. Does that count?

He spent the end of last year/beginning of this one over there. When this crap started last week, I was really interested in his opinion. He said he'd rather go back and fight the Turks than leave the SDF/Kurds hangin. He's been as pro-Trump as anyone you'll meet, but this hurt him.

Don't get me wrong, he's not crazy. He won't be voting for Elizabeth Warren or anything kooky like that. But he went from being 100% behind Trump to joining the, WTF is this guy doing, camp.

As close as the last election was, Trump can't afford to lose even a small percentage of his base. The ones he loses don't have to vote Democrat, even if the just stay home he's screwed.

It's be said often that the Democrats could easily beat Trump if they could just hide their crazy. Pretend to be centrists, drop the endless investigations, stop trying to out-leftist each other. But they can't do it.

The same is true for Trump. The upcoming election could be a cakewalk for him if he could pretend to have a coherent foreign policy that doesn't involve selling out people who helped us defeat a serious threat. Stopped tweeting about his "great and unmatched wisdom" and listened to his advisers who actually have some basic understanding of the issues involved. Be the world's greatest dealmaker he claims to be and get us out of the middle east in the best possible way. But he can't do it.

 

[Leadeye]

I have to wonder if he chose the lesser of two evils. Leaving American troops in position to possibly die in a certain turk invasion or moving them to keep your options open in what is going to get messy. We like to think that that handful of Americans and the possibility of their deaths was deterring the turks but I'm not sure that was going to do the job.

Big media crucifies him either way, leaving Americans to die in a lost cause or withdrawing them and abandoning the kurds.