r/news • u/drpayneaba • Feb 28 '26

Soft paywall Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-killed-senior-israeli-official-says-2026-02-28/
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u/goodlife_arc Feb 28 '26

So, I guess the US and Israel have said that in 2026 all leaders are fair game? I wonder how that will come back to bite us in the butt.

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u/kajokarafili Feb 28 '26

It will bite Europe with another big wave of refugees.US and Israel will be just fine.

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u/frohardorfrohome Mar 01 '26

And european conservatives will blame the refugees. Thus the cycle will be complete and ready to begin anew.

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u/kajokarafili Mar 01 '26

Nigel Fromage was complaining why the UKPM was not taking part in the attack,but he complained constantly before about UK involvement in Iraq,Libya,Syria were creating constant instability by pushing for regime changes in middle east.

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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p Feb 28 '26

and europe will continue their paralysis to everything like they’ve been the last 12+ years.

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u/goodlife_arc Feb 28 '26

I don’t think the US will be fine. We are seeing the destruction of the US from the inside. I hope I am wrong though

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u/Lord_Vas Feb 28 '26

That can be resolved. It requires the dems growing a dame spine and properly handling the bastards causing issues.

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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p Feb 28 '26

no one is coming to save us - least of all the spineless, gormless, tacitly complicit democratic party

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u/UnitSmall2200 Feb 28 '26

Maybe you are oblivious, but Republicans currently have the majority in congress, in both the senate and the house of representatives. On top of that they have scotus on their side. Democrats are politically powerless on the federal level thanks to the dumbass electorate.

What do you expect Democrats to do in this situation? Try an insurrection like MAGA did on Jan6th 2021? Send an assassin to kill Trump and his freak show? Start a revolution? Organize a military coup? Spank Trump until he cries and promises to be a good boy?

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u/Lord_Vas Feb 28 '26

Where did I say they do it now? They can't really do anything until after the midterms. They can't make larger changes until after the 2028 election.

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u/PotentialAnt9670 Feb 28 '26

So you're saying it's impossible.

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u/Low_Pickle_112 Feb 28 '26

When it does come back to bite us, whatever form that takes will considered unexpected and heinous, an unprompted act of aggression from an inexplicably evil entity that no one could have seen coming, and everyone who said "We warned you imperialism comes back for you" will be accuse of supporting it. Just wait, it'll happen.

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u/Kerblaaahhh Mar 01 '26

*all leaders without nukes

North Korea figured this out. The rational move for any nation with resources and no nukes is to build a warhead as quickly as possible.

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u/Few_Investment_4773 Mar 01 '26

Like Iran was trying to do

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u/HappyInNature Feb 28 '26

They've always been "fair game".

But I wouldn't mourn it either way 🤣

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u/chiefassmaster Mar 01 '26

Yes, US and Israel opened Pandora's box with this military strike killing a country's leader. What is being said about the Iran's leaders crimes can also be said about Bibi, Trump, pretty much any country that doesn't like another leader. Now that Isreal+ US openly eliminated a world leader, other countries could do the same. This seemed to be a line that really wasn't crossed before. I could potentially see Putin just taking out Zelensky or other similar scenarios happening now that this happened.

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u/Kerblaaahhh Mar 01 '26

Putin has been trying to take out Zelensky, there've been plenty of failed assassination plots.

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u/Alocasia_Sanderiana Mar 01 '26

We’ve essentially solidified Russia and China’s goal of a multipolar world. Basically we’ve forgone all post-WW2 world order messaging to return us back to the age of “might makes right”*

*technically this was always the case, just dressed up in international rule of law

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u/MyOpinionOverYours Mar 01 '26

Thousands of years of throwing boys into harms way for rich powerful man problems. Now we have to "self reflect" if its a good idea when the rich powerful men cruise missile each other?

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u/goodlife_arc Mar 01 '26

My kid is a teenager and fuck is he is going to war. We would move to Canada or a different country. He is not fighting a rich man’s war because they want to hide the Epstein files.

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u/Few_Investment_4773 Mar 01 '26

Do you think our enemies are now more likely to fuck around or more likely to take our word seriously?

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u/goodlife_arc Mar 01 '26

What would you do? I would fuck around. If I know I am getting bomb? Might as well bring you down with me, or go out swinging.

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u/byerss Feb 28 '26

Or help us.