Iraqi Army statement condemning the US strikes: “These strikes constitute a violation of Iraqi sovereignty, an undermining of the efforts of the Iraqi government, and a threat that will drag Iraq and the region into unforeseen consequences”
We cannot bomb our way out of every problem, and the Middle East is more of a powder keg at this moment that it has been in a very long time. Provoking Iran is a significantly higher level of risk than any of our other Mid East ventures. We should ask why we have forces in all of those countries to begin with….!
No one should think this is only in retaliation for three American deaths. None of it is protecting our troops; it is endangering our troops. We have so normalized war that I think many people might not realize how significant a danger this is.
I got @marwilliamson pulling up to spaces February 3rd(Saturday) at noon Pacific time 3pm eastern. She will be talking to black 🇺🇸 about reparations, the 1 trillion dollars she proposed, and the Texas boarder crisis nitter.vloup.ch/i/spaces/1MYGNoN…
Bombing targets in Syria, Iraq and Yemen while also supporting the war in Gaza doesn’t mean you’re “displaying a high level of prudence” - it means you’re going in deep. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bide…
The last thing we should be doing at a time such as this is pouring gasoline over already existing fires. If the U.S. truly doesn’t want to provoke Iran, we have a weird way of showing it. It is incomprehensible that at this particular moment we would be taunting Iran and risking so much. 3/3
Why is the US doing this? 85 raids with more on the way is way more than a proportional response to the deaths of three soldiers in a drone attack. 2/3
Repeated retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militias throughout the Middle East is extremely dangerous, a strategy completely at odds with the goal of containing the War in Gaza and keeping it from spreading. 1/3