Several explosions were reported near the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Iraq, an Iraqi security source told ABC News.
  • JessicaEnglish
    39·
    2 years ago

    Reuters has an article that doesn’t infer that this was somehow an attack that targeted the US consulate in some way.

  • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
    14·
    2 years ago

    All these stupid idiots can’t think of anything better than ‘make big boom’. The world has too many dumb shits with too much access to explosives.

    • KuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      2 years ago

      It is, Reuters debunked that they targeted the consulate. I swear why the fuck do the fucking Americans want to drag NATO back into the middle east…again…? There’s a war on the EU’s border rn as we speak

      • r00ty@kbin.life
        1·
        2 years ago

        The headline says “near”. I’m not sure there’s anything suggesting they targetted them. At the same time targetted doesn’t matter much. If people were killed in the consulate, the result would probably have been the same as if they were targetted.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 years ago

    I imagine that one of the next US presidents would end up invading Iran. Not Trump, nor Biden, but a new face, that’d be remembered for exactly that. It’s pushed in the media as a root of all evil, the end boss, so this can even get some support, especially after some 9\11 moment, but would further polarize an already torn apart world.

    • DoctorNope@lemmy.one
      5·
      2 years ago

      The United States government has been pissing and moaning about Iran my entire life. They’ve been “two years away from the bomb” for literally forty years now.

      I’m not saying that the United States wouldn’t invade Iran—they are certainly stupid enough—but this saber rattling is nothing new. Iran happens to be a particularly convenient bogeyman for the powers that be to propagandize their citizenry.