Elephant 1. Soleimani was reportedly invited by the Iraqi PM.
Elephant 2. Iraqi's were killed in this action and the Government of Iraq has been dishonoured by Trump.
Elephant 3. Iraq may be split asunder by the recklessness you support. Iraq was somehow holding together with the help of the Coalition forces but that is now over and the country could well split apart.
Elephant. 4 In an attempt to hold their country together, Iraq is asking US forces to leave.
Elephant 5. By threatening Iraq, Trump is pushing that country further into the camp of Russia and Iran.
Elephant 6. Khamenei is madder than Trump and without Soleimani in the room his nutters are even worse. Unlike many analysts I wouldn't assume any response and escalation cycle by either Khamenei or Trump will be measured. None of this is logical. It's all about cornered egos.
Elephant 7. Trump is probably insolvent now because his financial backdoors to Russia are probably closing and nobody will visit his resorts or towers out of fear fear that an RPG will somehow go through the window.
Elephant 8. Don't assume that the materiel advantage of the US will necessarily lead to a battlefield advantage against a large, well trained adversary in mountainous home country. Iran has been planning asymmetric warfare scenarios for decades.
Elephant 9. Why is Trump lying to you about Soleimani and 9/11? Why does he need to lie about this? You tell me.
Elephant 10. None of us need to be in this nightmare space. This has all been done to distract attention from Trump's Senate trial.
Elephant 11. Allegations of money laundering for Iran are floating around Trump's corporations.
Also, as a wet boys job this is far worse than the alleged Russian nerve agent job in Britain. Why was it necessary to take out Iraqi citizens in Iraq? And at an international airport of all places. NK carries out assassinations more cleanly.
