In other words, the US is acting the same way it acted in 2003 - as a hegemon who doesn't feel the need to respect international norms or care about the lives of the natives, even as it picks high stakes fights with terrible human beings. It was Saddam then, Suleimani now.

— İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي (@iyad_elbaghdadi) January 3, 2020