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The Bob Cesca Podcast: Silent Night, Holy Crap

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ckkatz1/07/2020 9:15:31 pm PST

The Iranian statement is kind of interesting.

Assuming that what they say is true. (Something that is not neccesarily the case.)

They are implying that they have achieved their strategic goal of bum-rushing us out of Iraq.

I suspect that they did a cost-benefit analysis and concluded that going further than this is probably not worth the cost of a war.

I also suspect that their proxies are going to be encouraging us to keep on ‘moving along’.

And most of their messaging seems to have been more directed at the Iraqis than at us.

Since we have been propping up a lot of the Iraqi independents, our leaving is going to encourage those folks to either make a deal with the Iranians and their proxies or leave. That will likely screw Iraq over for another generation.

And of course, I suspect that the IRGC are currently concocting some clandestine actions aimed at us.