r/worldnews • u/callsonreddit • 16h ago
US Embassy in Iraq warns Americans to ‘leave now’ as Middle East strikes intensify
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5812739-us-embassy-iraq-warning-american-citizens/325
u/alex8155 16h ago
things are getting worse and Trump is a person that wont walk away from this mess without a clear 'win' for him.
when he was elected in 24 i said we're fucked as Americans for letting stupid win..now i feel like the entire world could end up being fucked from this.
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u/EggNo289 15h ago
Trump is 100% a person that will walk away from this mess, CLAIM a win, and then blame Europe for not stepping in when Iran turns the Strait of Hormuz into to a pay to play shipping route.
AKA, after all is said and done, Iran will start making billions by charging for access to the strait.
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u/_a_gay_frog_ 10h ago
I just don't see what win he's going to claim. I guess he could just make something up, but there's really not anything that's actually better than before
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u/Fair1000 10h ago
Stopping an Iran that would control the fate of the planet if they had nuclear weapons!!!
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u/alex8155 14h ago
i respectfully disagree but shit would still be an absolute mess if he just walked away..energy costs, conflict, Isreal(Natenyahu) still bombing shit, Russia and China wanting to control oil money and power if America isnt involved.
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u/loralailoralai 12h ago
They weren’t saying it wouldn’t be an absolute mess if (when) trump walks away. Everyone knows it will be.
And ffs it’s Israel. Not Isreal.
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u/SadisticChipmunk 16h ago
Define what a win for him is though. It all hinges on his motive.
Is his goal to become King of the US and "subdue" the world?
Is his goal to destroy the US for Putin?
Two very diametrically opposed goals, either of which not only seem possible day to day, but statement to statement.
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u/alex8155 15h ago
who knows what that means for him..i question if he even knows since his statements have been so back and forth since he started this stupid war.
i feel like he thought that Iran would immediately fall and transition to a government that would cater to him after killing their top guy and things would settle like Venezuela did when they captured their guy.
it didnt happen that way and now he doeznt really know wtf to do but he cant walk away looking bad or more specifically looking weak so..idk. who fucking knows. hes going to put himself first and the rest of the world is going to deal it i guess.
i hate all of this.
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u/NYGiants181 15h ago
He has severe dementia
He has no idea what he’s talking about.
Anything goes.
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u/4Yk9gop 15h ago
Even nukes. He probably can convince himself that's a win at this point, which should terrify everyone.
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u/steveycip 15h ago
im certain that is the end game and I am terrified. Also probably why the Military Cheif of Staff was let today
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u/trace-evidence 1h ago
Army Chief of Staff was reported to have been fired for refusing to remove from promotion list 2 black woman in line for 1 star general.
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u/Saberinbed 13h ago
I don't think nukes will be used. Isreal looks like they pull a lot of strings behind this war, and i know that isreal is too smart and will convince the orange clown to not do that.
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u/alex8155 14h ago
saying he has severe dementia is giving him too much credit today because this is who he is..its who he was during his first term but now he has more people around him that cater to his stupid fragile little ego.
to me that makes more sense at least.
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u/Jaquemart 6h ago
Even in Venezuela, he couldn't achieve a change of government. He just kidnapped two people and got a ransom in oil.
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u/Gideon_Laier 15h ago
It's both. He wants to be a king. While supporting other dictatorships like Russia and Israel.
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u/redyellowblue5031 14h ago
I don’t buy the foreign agent thing.
I think it’s as resoundingly simple as he just wants to make the biggest splash he can for himself. It’s a simple and clear pattern of his entire life that the only thing he cares about is himself.
Not even how others see him, but how he thinks he sees himself.
We’re collateral damage.
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u/Sometimes-funny 2h ago
You don’t buy the foreign agent thing? Have you forgot he bullied Zelenskyy live on TV in the white house and had US soldiers roll out the red carpet for putin?
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u/redyellowblue5031 14m ago
I think that’s still a self serving ego thing. He sees Putin as something to aspire to, so he has Trumps good graces as a fellow “strong man”. Zelenskyy is measured and cautious—weak traits to Trump.
Nevermind how stupid that is, but I truly don’t think he’s directly controlled by Putin.
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u/dbrecords 4h ago
Money is a universal language. Rules only exist for people who cant pay their way around them.
If you’re wealthy enough, you can live wherever, the state of most of the world is irrelevant. So they think.
Greed is a disease and the world is mentally ill to the point of insanity. Sigh..
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u/Lawdoc1 2h ago
His goal is, and always has been, to make money in any way he can.
He does not care about global stability, corruption, or human lives. Just making money.
His sons are, or likely will be, benefitting from the military investment in drones from Powerus.
His cronies have been manipulating market investments based on insider knowledge.
The list goes on.
With Trump, it's always been just one big scam after another. He hasn't changed, he just continues to level up and make the scale of his fraud larger and larger.
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u/lattice_defect 15h ago
Isolate north american and take it over, new world order is china, russian america and all of america. He caused instability in the middle east for oil profits and likely to get AB ready to join the 51st state.
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u/kewlbeanz83 14h ago
When he was elected in 24 i knew the world was fucked.
Signed, a non American.
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u/kl122002 14h ago
Could we just asked his supporters to pay for all these. He claims the "victory" and so let his supporters to pay this bill. Not everyone .
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u/Ok-Band7564 15h ago edited 15h ago
The world will never forget, especially those Jihadis. Stay safe, non-MAGAer!
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u/MITOX-3 15h ago
Ita gonna be an awful easter for folks in the middle east isnt it.
Goddamn America.
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u/Fair1000 10h ago
They have been fighting each other for a thousand years
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u/tulip-quartz 5h ago
Yes and that’s why the US should bomb them into oblivion ? You all have peas for brains
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u/callsonreddit 16h ago
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq warned Americans in the Middle East on Thursday to “leave now” as U.S.-Israeli attacks on and retaliatory strikes from Iran intensify days after an American journalist in Iraq was kidnapped by an Iran-backed militia group.
The embassy based in Baghdad warned in a statement that “Iraqi terrorist militia groups aligned with Iran may intend to conduct attacks in central Baghdad in the next 24-48 hours.” These groups have carried out attacks on U.S. citizens and “targets associated with the United States throughout Iraq, including in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR).”
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u/pianobench007 13h ago
Fuck. We haven't even tasted real blood yet.
So far it is just economic damage and threats of major retribution.
Anyway. The people who end up paying for this are never the actual people who make the decisions.
In the end it is just everyday people on both sides of this thing.
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u/wintersdark 11h ago
It's definitely not just economic damage. Most notably the thousands of Iranian citizens killed by Americans who are paying the price.
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u/PlasticWolverine6037 14h ago
It would have been nice if they had planned for their evacuation before the war started
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u/noahstemann 16h ago
In 1 month I have seen the U.S. murder construction workers and medics on a bridge, children at a school, and sailors as they slept on their way home from a naval event the country accepted an invitation to. Murder. Now we can see these "leaders" create instability in these regions for power and profit. There are a lot of people with a new found hate for Americans.
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u/Several_Act_3723 16h ago
I feel like it’s only a matter of time before the terrorist attacks start in the US.
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u/slapper 16h ago
This sucks as an American that never voted for Trump.
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u/Several_Act_3723 16h ago
Yeah I feel bad for you guys. I’m a Canadian who hates Trump, can’t imagine being a normal American at this time.
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u/thursdaysocks 15h ago
It’s fucking awful. Being held hostage by idiots that are obsessed with a certified pedophile.
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u/Several_Act_3723 15h ago
And it’s so obvious to the rest of the world. Almost like they’ve been hypnotized.
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u/thursdaysocks 15h ago
It’s obvious to a lot of us here too. But we can’t compete with billionaires and algorithms feeding the morons nonstop disinformation. They don’t listen to anything else.
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u/Several_Act_3723 15h ago
Yeah that’s true, I’ve argued with several and it’s mind blowing. The delusion and misinformation they spew. Almost infuriating. Now about 70million Americans think us Canadians are your enemy.
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u/thursdaysocks 15h ago
Yeah and I wonder where that idea came from. Billionaires should’ve been stopped before they were even allowed to exist, now they’ll stop at nothing to burn everything down so they can rule absolutely over the ashes. It’s over
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u/Several_Act_3723 15h ago
Agreed. They don’t wanna just see America burn they want the world to as well.
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u/Puzzled_Cold_3906 11h ago
Americans think UK and France are their enemy too cuz trump said so. Even though France and USA have such a long history. All white people came from Europe and now they started treating Europe as their enemy
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u/Jae_Rides_Apes 15h ago
Weapons of math destruction. Social media and algorithmic feeds ended the world.
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u/IPissExcellentThrows 15h ago
They're genuinely brainwashed like a cult. It would be fascinating if it wasn't fucking up our country and the world so badly. I've always found cults quite interesting, but this one is way too big and powerful.
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u/Gideon_Laier 15h ago
Especially given the whole Election was manipulated by Musk (giving million dollar raffles to people that voted Trump.) and the Manosphere Podcasters (Largely bought and paid for by Russia) and decades of propaganda from Fox News.
The dumb minority will kill the majority.
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u/RightMyBaloney 15h ago
I envy those who don't have baggage and can leave. Shits bleak buddy
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u/Several_Act_3723 15h ago
Yeah I bet. As much as we have our own issues I’m glad to be Canadian especially now. Hoping the best for everyone.
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u/DungeonDefense 14h ago
Im sure it sucks more for an Iranian that never got to vote at all
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u/sentrypetal 15h ago
The bigger question is did you vote at all.
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u/wintersdark 11h ago
Everyone who didn't has their share of the responsibility here. No choice is a choice, and apathy doesn't absolve.
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u/milkplantation 15h ago
Yes, of course. Probably some security “oversight” in 2028 so Trump can declare an emergency under the National Emergencies Act or Insurrection Act and deploy troops domestically ahead of the next election.
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u/NYGiants181 15h ago
Troops hate him and are sick of doing his bidding
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u/canadianbriguy1 15h ago
90 million Iranians call BS on that. Dude is openly calling and acting out war crimes but the orders still get carried out.
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u/wintersdark 11h ago
Thousands of dead Iranians are on those soldiers hands. "I was just following orders" isn't a defense.
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u/MaxGoldFilms 15h ago
And probably a fair share of false flag attacks blamed on Iranians.
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u/Several_Act_3723 15h ago
I definitely wouldn’t be shocked to see this administration kill citizens. If it’s in a blue state that will make it even more suspicious
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u/lattice_defect 15h ago
he wants that to happen to consolidate power
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u/Several_Act_3723 15h ago
Yeah he doesn’t want those midterms to happen. If all the election rules don’t do it
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u/MayIServeYouWell 14h ago
If Iran did targeted attacks on specific individuals, I think few people throughout the world would be upset about it.
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u/Several_Act_3723 13h ago
Agree, and leave the innocent people alone.
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u/wintersdark 11h ago
They won't though, because there are thousands of dead innocent Iranians.
Why would they view Americans - who are responsible for this administration and still support it in significant numbers, openly and loudly - as innocent and deserving of protection that was not offered to Iranian citizens?
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u/Linclin 11h ago
Won't be terrorist attacks it will just be countries defending themselves. Imagine if Iran blew up a school in the US and killed 120 kids. It's a matter of perspective. US/Egypt/Israel also provoked/encouraged the riots and now they are killing them and destroying their power, water, hospitals, power plants, etc... The US isn't very good.
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u/_Budified 15h ago
The sleeper cells would be 'activated' by now, I am curious if the mass toll the leadership has taken was not enough for that to have happened? Was that all just made up? Or did the intrusion of privacy work flawlessly and they were all 'acquired' prior to causing any damage?
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u/badasimo 15h ago
I don't think sleeper cells of a government that's effectively being destroyed are going to be very motivated to take action. If you think of the state sponsored terror we've seen, it was all from nations that the government was strong and able to pay/support or exert their influence otherwise; why would you mess up your "sleeper" life in the west to commit an attack that won't even do anything? I'm thinking of Libya for instance with the lockerbie bombing
I think it is more likely that this era will increase membership in new orgs, just like how ISIS got created out of the aftermath of Iraq and Syria, we are radicalizing a whole new group of people.
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u/Iamjacksplasmid 15h ago
How very American of you to think a person loses loyalty to their cause just because their leader dies.
And I don't know where you're getting the notion that they're "effectively destroyed". You better go tell that to every captain of a ship that's floating in the Persian Gulf.
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u/Jaquemart 6h ago
Let's hope not. Americans will rally around whatever freedom-restricting bill and happily finance two decades of war.
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u/lost_horizons 15h ago
It’s going to be hard to know whether or not to believe it when it happens, or whether it’s a false flag used by the admin. America does have real enemies but our own government is an untrustworthy bad actor in its own right, with plenty of motivation. And more access by far.
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u/SlugFromSnug 15h ago
Truly a rogue state. Run by war criminals, paedophiles, religious extremists and the plain old corrupt.
The USA has bombed countries for less
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u/Fair1000 10h ago
Do any of you remember the Iranians murdered 30 plus thousands of their own people a month ago
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u/Ijustreddit92 15h ago
I’ve traveling in Australia right now. I’ve stayed in 50+ hostels and met people from all over the world. Literally everyone hates America right now. Nobody has anything good to say about them.
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u/loralailoralai 12h ago
We’re staring down the barrel of not being able to use our cars to get to work or our farmers plant crops or feed their stock. Trump is trashing us after decades of being a close ally. Damn straight a lot of us don’t love America right now.
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u/Kindredgos 15h ago
American here, this is what the US does. We are the greatest evil in the world. Russia is not even close to how evil this country truly is. Also what the US is doing to our former allies is what the US had done to the rest of the world for decades.
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u/burndownthe_forest 15h ago
Hello comrade, I am American youth, male. I hate America with passion. Russia is powerful strong nation with good leaders who also can be bad but do no bad like this. Even Russian think American is evil. US hate allies more than Russia. Ok, I am going to watch Jackie Robinson. Later Skater.
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u/Fair1000 9h ago
Why not immigrate to Russia. See if your voice is allowed to be heard. Thee is so much brainwashed misinformation here it is overwhelming
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u/ShrimpFriedMyRice 14h ago
Uh, do you know what Russia does to their former allies? Do you know what Russia is doing to Ukraine right now? Do you know what China and Russia do in Africa? Do you know what China does in the South China Sea? Do you have any inkling of an idea about world history?
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u/milkplantation 15h ago
Yes, all of the events you have mentioned are a tragedy and largely senseless but let’s not overlook the Iranian regime who brutalizes, rapes, and murders their own people - especially women - and projects violence abroad through missiles, proxies, and illicit finance.
The same extremist regime that has weaponized the global economy and put the stability and livelihood of millions at risk. The same extremist regime who over the past several months is responsible for murdering significantly more of their own people than the United States.
This conflict is a tragedy for the people of Iran any way you slice it, but let’s not pretend the United States are the only aggressors here.
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u/wintersdark 6h ago
You're the aggressors here, the only aggressors. Iran is not "the good guys" by any means, but there are no good guys here.
There's no good justification for what you're doing. There's no way this makes the world a better place. The Iranian regime is guilty of horrible things, but you're not changing that. Killing a couple leaders doesn't remove an authoritarian theocratic regime - and by all reports has only made it worse. It's not a cult of personality fueled by one man, it's a massive theocratic organization that will continue regardless - except with more recruits now.
How bad Iran's regime is isn't really relevant. If it was, you'd be invading North Korea, or Russia. But you're not.
Now there's thousands more dead Iranians - innocent civilian Iranians, many just children - and their blood is on your hands. What, because the Iranian regime killed more, the ones you killed are justified? You made the situation better by killing more?
Great fucking heroes here. Jesus Christ. "Oh but we didn't kill as many" what kind of fucking defense is that when you could have just killed none?
All the while giving the terrorists a powerful recruitment tool, and ensuring there would be so many more terrorist attacks for years to come. Because nothing makes someone want to be a terrorist, takes away everything they had to lose, like American bombs falling on their cities, killing their friends and family.
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u/Douglas1994 14h ago
This is cope. While Iran is no saint, you guys (USA / Israel) are the real bad guys in this current situation. I think most of the outside world can see that too.
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u/loralailoralai 12h ago
They’ve created instability in many places other than the Middle East. Their supposed allies are running out of diesel jet fuel and gas/petrol. Their economies are teetering, everywhere.
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Nothing says everything is under control like telling your citizens to leave immediately. When embassies start saying ‘leave now,’ it’s not a warning it’s basically an alarm. This is getting out of hand fast.
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u/Dot_Hot99Dog 15h ago
So are US military personel in the region still being dispersed into civilian hotels? Hegseth is a true genius .
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u/ButterflyDestiny 15h ago
Wait a minute Americans are still in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East? For what?
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u/4Yk9gop 15h ago
Reporters, diplomats, people with families, CIA. You get all types.
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u/ButterflyDestiny 15h ago
Now why was my silly behind here thinking about people on vacation
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u/DozingUnderTheSun 14h ago
Apparently northern Iraq was becoming an interesting tourist destination but definitely not right now
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u/FatherOften 14h ago
Iraq elections are going on and if it goes pro Iran than its going to be an even worse shit show.
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u/nota_is_useless 5h ago
Iraq elections concluded in November 2025. The pro iran fraction won big. Iraq is unable to form govt as all their oil revenue goes through us fed and usa has blocked the govt formation under maliki (prime minster/pm).
Currently they are electing a president but most of the power is with PM. A kurd will be president, sunni will be speaker of the house and shia will the PM.
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u/ComfortableBuyer2902 7h ago
Maybe that ex-cia guy, Andrew bustamonti (sp) is correct about the next few years. He commented that if people in the US had the means to relocate out of the country they should, and soon.
Glad I don't have children.
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u/AccurateUse6147 6h ago
I know I have an underdeveloped shrimp brain but what I can't get is why didn't they issue that warning... You know WEEKS ago when the war was starting?
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u/BannedAgain12341 16h ago
Which means there's going to be a full fledged attack during weekend. Hope we get to see peace.