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Welcome back to Potsay of the World. I'm Tommy Vittor.

Hi, I'm Ben Rhodes.

And Ben, we are, unfortunately, recording a bonus Potsay of the World

on Friday, January 3rd that we did not think we were doing, but we are both legitimately afraid

that we might be starting a war with the Ron Orn fact.

We have started a war with the Ron and I guess we're afraid of the consequences.

So here we are.

Yeah, happy New Year, everybody.

Yeah, happy fucking New Year.

All right, let's just start with what actually happened,

where, of course, talking about the assassination of Cosmos Soleimani.

On January 2nd, President Trump ordered a drone strike

on a top-ronding official named Cosmos Soleimani.

And we're going to get into much more detail about who he is and how important he is

in the Iranian system in a minute.

But for the sake of this first portion, just imagine if Iran had killed the head of Senkama,

a job David Petrius once had.

So the Department of Defense put out a statement late last night justifying

this attack saying that Soleimani was, quote,

actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq

and throughout the region.

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