Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

ceejayoz

I am tired of winning.

cdrnsf

Funny, everyone outside of the US should exercise increased caution when dealing with or visiting the US.

cogman10

Is this an orange, purple, or magenta threat level?

refulgentis

lol. The current situation has been giving me so many flashbacks. Here, my GWB-era teens had the terror threat level, and now we're lazily reimagining State Department traveling warnings as a dark slapstick version (be afraid everywhere, American!)

cmdrmac

My first thought: You don't say?

readitalready

When do we expect Iranians to actually attack US military bases outside the middle east? I heard there were already drones flying over bases in the US: https://wjla.com/news/local/unidentified-drones-fly-over-for...

mrbombastic

Crazy how effective at making everything worse this admin has been.

jazzpush2

Has there been any official WH note on the need for this war, yet? Or objectives?

bdangubic

I got jumped in Italy couple of weeks ago. I was wearing a "volleyball dad" hoodie my kid bought for me but did not realize that the "volleyball dad" is etched in the middle of a large American flag covering my entire back. Luckily (for him, not me :) ) three police officers were 10 meters away walking the area dealing with apre ski drunks and restrained him. fun times

beloch

The U.S. government shutdown has halted pay to the TSA, but not ICE, so ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports[1]. If you fly to the U.S., starting Monday apparently, the first think you're likely to see is masked gunmen giving you the eye. No thankyou. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cede0qyvqz3o

dzonga

why are common people paying for the incompetence of a gvt. to not be political this lies at the heart of principles, morals, meritocracy values that the current gvt lacks & things that drove america forward.

UltraSane

Trump wrecks everything he touches.

softwaredoug

This is so non-specific to be meaningless. Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety.

drgo

A small price for demonstrating that our El-Douche is always right and a stable genius.

tombert

What the fuck was even the intended purpose of starting this war in Iran? Like in their mind, what was the best case scenario?

ggm

Would the current state of affairs qualify for cancelling the mid-terms? Is that overly cynical? Not in the US, not a US citizen or voter. My suspicion is the answer is "no, but it is not a given that a competent supreme court which looks likely to overturn the WH exists, if they say they want to do this"

marysminefnuf

So the presidents personal law enforcement that is tasked with racially profiling people who overwhelmingly do not pose a threat are going to now be conducting security directly from the source where millions of foreign travelers come through…hmmm…ridiculous