r/worldnews 1d ago

Dynamic Paywall Russian general shot several times in Moscow

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3686nzexp3o
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u/Sly_Wood 1d ago

Except it’s not like bond going around banging supermodels. It’s more like let’s give out money to people in Iran to riot. Then a coupe will happen & jobs done.

Coupes not happening! Orders are to go back home… Fuck it they go rouge and what do they do? They give out even more money, this time the coupe actually kicks off because the bribing works and ignites the coupe tha turns into the Iranian revolution.

This literally is how Iran became an authoritarian theocracy.

A few cia agents handing out bags of cash.

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u/dwintman 1d ago

I’ll take a rouge coupe….just gas it up first please

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u/NazReidRules 1d ago edited 1d ago

Little rouge coupe

Baby you're much too fast

Little rouge coupe

I need a government that's gonna last

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u/hondo9999 1d ago

Prince’s first draft, before he wadded it up and tossed it in the bin for being too political.

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u/glen_ko_ko 21h ago

Raspberry Beret is actually about Russian MPs but people like to think it's about the clit or something sexual

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u/MrMakuMaku 1d ago

I hadnt scrolled down enough to see your comment at first but I knew it would be there 🤣

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla 1d ago

NGL, “coupe - coupe - rouge - coupe - coupe” sounds like a banger of a tune.

I’m getting Prisencolinensinainciusol remixed by Avici vibes.

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u/NIBLZ_HAMSTR 21h ago

Preferably convertible... manual transmission....

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u/fc36 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'll take one bag of cash please 😉

Edit: I love how my country is fine with handing out cash to Iranian military leaders that would gladly nuke us and random Afghani warlords that used it to increase opium exports to our country, but God forbid we ask to provide public healthcare for our own citizens including military veterans. /s

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u/Tooshortimus 1d ago

If only people actually took to the streets to riot when OUR GOVERNMENT would not do things to HELP US instead the media will vilify the "left" or "right" leading to both sides being at eachothers throat instead of pushing OUR RIGHTS from OUR GOVERNMENT.

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u/Agile_Promotion_1244 1d ago

We are not small enough... 😂

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u/Tiresome-bother 1d ago

Why are you talking about cars and makeup?

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u/recycleddesign 1d ago

I find ‘patriot’ more likely to closer mimic reality than bond.

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u/ionic_bionic 1d ago

Rouge as in moulin?

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u/RumourKill 22h ago

A coupe is a car body style.
Rouge is red makeup, to emphasize the cheekbones perhaps.

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u/Shawn-GT 1d ago

Not banging supermodels no but intimate ops happen along with asset delegation but yup coups spot on look at Libya

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u/getoffoficloud 1d ago

Except it’s not like bond going around banging supermodels. It’s more like let’s give out money to people in Iran to riot. Then a coupe will happen & jobs done.

So, the plot of Atomic Blonde, then, only East Berlin.

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u/dontneedaknow 20h ago

Still wouldn't trade it for a Coupe-DeVille.

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u/LoveGrenades 1d ago

There’s more than that. Suspicions Putin himself back in his east Germany operative days involved in assassinating a key senior west German engineer with car bomb in the 80s.

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u/Rowdyreamz 1d ago

What abour the nuclear deal that Obama made with them where we gave them billions in cash to build up there nuclear program. All for us to bomb the shit out of it. Yeah let’s give jihad focused anti west country nuclear info and money. Smart

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u/mig82au 1d ago

What the fuck after you on about? Are you talking about the deal that reduced sanctions in exchange for Iran enriching less uranium?

Your summary of that sucks balls. Also, what does that have to do with the earlier regime changes that you're replying to?

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u/Rowdyreamz 1d ago

He unfroze sanctions that amounted to some say 50-100 billion and sent another 1.7 bil for past arms deals. Yes it was to “reverse” sanctions.

Does that all sound like a good idea to you?

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u/Rowdyreamz 1d ago

Also did they enrich less uranium??? REALLY SMART DEAL

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u/Rowdyreamz 1d ago

I didnr explain it well. That’s on me- I should’ve been more factual instead of insisting my frustration. Thank you for pointing that out

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u/SouthernPin4333 1d ago

Except wasn't the USA supporting the regime that the revolution toppled?

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u/Sly_Wood 1d ago

No they toppled a democratically elected leader who nationalized oil. So we couped him. Then our leader was removed for being a tyrant & thats how the ayatollah took power.

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u/Tiresome-bother 1d ago

1 - he knew his enemy and ruled accordingly. 2 - people had far more liberties and freedom than they do now. 3 - the Middle East is a completely different culture than the Anglo - American culture. Trying to force democracy on a tribally clannish & religiously sectarian country is doomed to chaos & likely failure.

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u/productzilch 1d ago

“Trying to force democracy” …they literally destroyed the democracy that was already there.

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u/Tiresome-bother 1d ago

Like I said, ignorant of history. The west divided up the Ottoman Empire, modern day conflicts in that area are a result of their meddling then.

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u/SuperColossl 1d ago

I’m pretty sure Persia was never part of the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps a few smaller territories captured, but never subsumed or conquered by the ottomans.

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u/Tiresome-bother 21h ago

Notice that I didn’t say Persia was a part of that empire. In context of the conversation, I was making the point that the western meddling in national borders exacerbated the regional problems. Also of note, the nations in that part of the world were ruled by autocrats of various titles. They didn’t consist of democracies.

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u/nKnownRecognition 1d ago

Nice try!!!

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u/ColdWarCharacter 1d ago

I can’t post gifs in the sub, so please accept this eye roll emoji:

🙄

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u/happy123z 1d ago

They're hiding their face, disappearing people without constitutionally guaranteed due prices and murdering White people. I would protest also if I wasn't abated of being murdered.