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no_hypocrisy

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2. You know that Iran will retaliate for the assassination.

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Sat Jan 4, 2020, 09:21 AM

Jan 2020

For one thing, they feel pressure to respond on several levels. For another thing, if Iran DOESN'T retaliate, either Trump will do something ELSE to provoke them, won't shut up about how he "took out" their top general/leader, or both.

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