President Trump: 'We sent guns to the Iranian protesters'

This man refuses to pay his workers, no way he's paying attention

Unlike the orange embarassment, the Kurds can remember 6 years ago when Trump sold them out and violated their trust in Syria after they lost thousands of soldiers fighting ISIS. Loyalty is a one-way street with Trump, which is why his brain is completely broken on why Europe isn't clamoring to get into the Hormuz and fix what he broke.

And they didn't, the Kurds reportedly told the US to f*** off when they were approached about entering Iran.

No, but some Kurdish militia groups would absolutely accept a big shipment of American munitions and *then* tell the CIA to f*** off.

I'd believe they'd take the weapons, free guns are free guns. Would they expect any support beyond that? Absolutely not.

When did McDonald’s start selling cheese curds?

So there’s a pretty good chance our low flying rescue planes and helicopters were being fired at by American guns and bullets fresh off cargo planes

> I feel like we're getting propaganda from all sides Is this your first war?

I know it’s pretty trite to even mention it nowadays, but just imagine if Obama had given praise to Allah, on Easter Sunday. There would be folks on the right self-immolating in rage (both real and fake)

God works in mysterious ways™

It's technically the same Abrahamic god v3

Has no one stated the obvious? Being the outside agitator that tried to turn protestors into a rebellion gave the IRGC the reason to treat protestors as an enemy force.

big beautiful lies, they’re big, really really big, i know they are big, and they are beautiful.

It's definitely new to this degree, though. We have never had a POTUS that lies as much as Trump does. It's like he's literally incapable of telling the truth.

He said "shit's fucked"

Aside from the colossal security failures that have doubtless gotten many assets and operatives killed and jailed, he's likely simply fired a lot of people for whatever despotic reasons he and his lickspittles have chosen.

Not really. The people in question were spies, who aren't actually CIA officers. Spies are foreign assets who give the CIA information, and every employee of the CIA is considered an "officer".  HOW and WHY those people were killed or arrested is also up for debate. Articles around the time when this came up (due to a leaked CIA cable about how many spies and informants they were losing) blamed poor tradecraft, underestimating foreign adversaries, and not considering the risk to the asset.  And this kind of makes sense. Think about it: for 20+ years, the CIA has been focused on fighting terrorists and insurgents in the war on terror. And that means you're in an asymmetrical war with a non-governmental entity that doesn't have similar training, budgets, or capabilities.  Now they're back to tangling with Russia and are really dealing with China for the first time. And that means they're back to facing off against an actual peer. So, they're sloppy. 

Look, the Kurds have been there for a f****** while. It's not their first rodeo. They have survived the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Mongols... They know how that game begins, is played and how it ends. So. When a turd flies across the room in direction of the fan, they go up the mountains and bunker down. So when it finally hits the fan, they don't get too much spray.

Who's gonna tell the room full of recently armed angry kurds they can't stay? Any volunteers?

They saw how it went for the turkish kurds, and the iraqi kurds, and the syrian kurds, and said no thanks.

Can't wait for them to be used against the US in the future. As is tradition.

The last time would have been enough even if it was the only time, since the president at the time was some guy named Donald J. Trump. They gave 11,000 young lives in the fight against ISIS, and we rewarded them by letting Erdogan come after them with tanks.

Oh absolutely. They also can read about the Vietnam and Afghan wars and what happened to the Montagnards, the Chams, the Hazaras and Tajiks of Afghanistan. The Kurds also lived right at the border between the Romans and the Persians, the Turks and... Well the Persians again..

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