BREAKING: Iran launches missile strike at US bases in Iraq

[GreenGhxst]

Not saying this isn't serious and Trump will have to respond but I've been on that base and rockets hit it and it wasn't that big of a deal. The thing in Kenya was a way bigger deal and Trump has said and did nothing

The rocket didnt do any damage or something?

Why isnt it a big deal?

I'm not being facetious, I just dont understand

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Anddddd why hasn’t there been a attack on the scale of 9/11 in nearly 20 years ?

Because there's been no one who would meaningfully benefit from such an attack.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

• wars and rumors of wars
• nation rising against nation, and kingdom against kingdom
• famines and earthquakes
• false prophets coming in Jesus' name
• many people being deceived by false prophets
• false prophets performing signs and wonders
• persecution of true believers
• people's love of God decreasing
• the gospel preached in the whole world
• the "abomination of desolation" (a world leader who makes himself out to be God) - Trump
• great tribulation
• alterations in the sun, moon, stars
• Jesus' true followers gathered to Him
• Jesus' return
• Jesus' judgment of people on earth

A lot of the signs are checked off

Breh, all the ones that are direct (and not metaphorical) were checked off 1950 years ago when Jerusalem was destroyed and the temple was brought down. The entire passage is clearly a prophecy of the judgement of THIS generation, the ones who were rejecting the message and egging for war with Rome instead, and he specifically said that those things would happen before THIS generation had died. You really think he was out there trying to confuse people for 2000 years?

Jesus

2. Jesus’ message consisted in the announcement that the time of fulfilment had now dawned. The kingdom of God, long awaited, was now at hand. He saw himself, and was seen by his contemporaries, as a prophet, bringing God’s word to his people. But a good part of his ministry was devoted to explaining, in word, symbol and deed, that, although the nation’s aspirations were now at last being met, the fulfilment was not at all as had been expected. Many of the parables are designed to answer the objection (prevalent in modern, as in ancient, Judaism): if the kingdom of God is really here, why is the world still going on as it is? Jesus’ answer is that the kingdom is present like leaven in dough; like a seed growing secretly; like a wedding invitation which ends up with the wrong people coming to the party. His ministry puts into effect the warning of John the Baptist (Mt. 3:9): ‘Do not think you can say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.” I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.’

Thus Jesus called Israel to repent of her nationalist ambition and follow him in a new vision of God’s purpose for Israel. Resistance to Rome was to be replaced by love and prayer for the enemy. Israel’s plight was radically redefined: sin, not Rome, was the real enemy. Jesus’ exorcisms point to God’s healing of his sick Israel, and they consequently belong with the controversy stories (e.g. Mk. 2:1-3:6) as part of his lifelong battle with the forces of evil which came to a climax on the cross (cf. Mt. 4:1-11; 8:28-34; 12:22-32; 27:39-44). His healings of the blind, lame, deaf and dumb, and his calling of the outcasts and poor to enjoy fellowship with himself, all of which hinge on faith as the appropriate response to Jesus, indicate his reconstitution of the people of God (Lk. 13:16; 19:9-10). For those with eyes to see, the ‘resurrection’, i.e. the remaking of Israel, has already begun (Lk. 15:1-2, 24, 32; 16:19-31).

3. Alongside Jesus’ announcement of the (paradoxical) inauguration of God’s kingdom we find a constant warning: If the nation refuses to turn from its collision course with God’s purposes, the inevitable result will be terrible national devastation. Jesus couches these warnings in the standard language of apocalyptic prophecy. Just as Jeremiah had prophesied that the ‘Day of the Lord’ would consist not in the salvation of Jerusalem from Babylon but in her destruction at Babylon’s hands, so Jesus warns that the coming of the kingdom will mean, within a generation, destruction for the nation, the city and the temple that have turned their back on the true purposes for which they had been called and chosen (e.g. Lk. 13:1-9, 22-30, 34-35). These warnings come to a head in the great discourse (Mt. 24; Mk. 13; Lk. 21) in which the imminent destruction of Jerusalem and the temple is predicted.

Signs of the Times?: A Study of Mark 13 - The Pangea Blog

 

[itsyoung!!]

The oil embargo in 1973 and the oil shock in 1979 caused oil prices to double and for the latter, only 4-10% of the global supply was affected. Also, Europe is our ALLY and they get 30-40% of their oil imports from the Middle East. Iran could light the global economy on fire and that’s not hyperbole.

Iran isnt the largest supplier of oil in the middle east. Saudi Arabia is. With over twice the oil of Iran.

Also Russia is Europes biggest oil supplier, by a lot. Iran doesnt supply Europe almost anything.

“In 2017, almost two thirds of the extra-EU's crude oil imports came from Russia (30 %), Norway (11 %), Iraq (8 %), Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia (both 7 %). A similar analysis shows that more than three quarters of the EU's imports of natural gas came from Russia (40 %), Norway (26 %) and Algeria (11 %), while almost three quarters of solid fuel (mostly coal) imports originated from Russia (39 %), Colombia and United States (17 % each).”

Yall stereotyping and not even understanding you are stereotyping. This would be like saying the USA supplies China with basketballs just because the NBA is more popular in America.

Neither US or Europe fukk with Iran regarding almost anything.

 

[FromStLouis]

This is why Earth hasn't been invited to join the intergalactic community.

 

[itsyoung!!]

When that shyt goes from $2 a gallon to $5, come back ask us how that shyt didn't affect us.

Gas been $4-5 a gallon in California for past 2 years, where do you live that gas is $2 a gallon? Or you just making up numbers to argue for the sake of arguing?

iran supplies America with less than 1% of our oil

 

[itsyoung!!]

It doesn't matter where we get the oil, a disruption in the supply of oil leading to further escalation would result in much higher oil prices leading to economic and political issues in the country.

How can it disrupt supply of Oil if they dont currently supply oil already...


If you grow weed in your back yard in Los Angeles and a wild fire burns acres of weed in San Francisco area, would you be effected?
No. Because your weed is home grown.

just like Americas oil is home grown. We get this shyt in our back yard (Canada and Venezuela).

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Gas been $4-5 a gallon in California for past 2 years, where do you live that gas is $2 a gallon? Or you just making up numbers to argue for the sake of arguing?

iran supplies America with less than 1% of our oil

In MS/TN regular gas has usually been no more than $2.50 the past couple of years.

 

[itsyoung!!]

China will win when this is all over. It could be 5 years from now or 50 years from now. China will be the new world superpower. They've been waiting for this.

China is already a world super power... has been for decades

its America, China and Russia.... and then everyone else...

 

[itsyoung!!]

Do they not realize USA can wipe their whole country out in a matter of hours even minutes maybe? Sometimes you need to take the L and live with it fukkin arabs

Iranians are mostly Persian, not Arab.. they dont even speak the same language..

the American education system on display in these threads

 

[Formerly known as...]

I mean US should just let Iran have that and leave it there. Iran had to respond in some way and it was expected. Seems to be a small response so far.

 

[Lord Beasley]

This is why Earth hasn't been invited to join the intergalactic community.

you think this type of shyt doesnt happen to other civilizations?

 

[Lord Beasley]

yall must not pay attention to world news until its at the forefront. iran been poking for a min now. shyt like this aint nothing new

 

[FromStLouis]

you think this type of shyt doesnt happen to other civilizations?

It doesn't man. other civilizations are moving up the Kardashev scale while we're steady boosting Kardashian sales.

I wouldn't lie to thecoli, we looking bad out here. The intergalactic community ain't checking for us.

 

[ChatGPT-5]

Biggest base in Iraq...no troops died? my arse. It's damage control by the pentagon because they know people will ask for war if they did, and they know they fukked up for causing all this.

I told you Iran would respond. Now a downed plane also in their country? They are sending a message, they can make it rain all over the middle east and UAE. And america has nothing to respond with shy of nukes and we know that would kick off WW3 because you can't just set off nuclear weapons next door to Russia like that.

congrats for electing a fool as president, he probably didn't even know who Qasem was a month ago. He probably ordered the attack while eating mcdonalds thinking it was the equivalent of hitting a heroin addict taliban leader in some caves.

Well....he's going to learn today.