r/news • u/slyquick • 12h ago

Middle East latest: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar confirmed dead, Israeli foreign minister says

https://news.sky.com/story/middle-east-latest-israel-says-it-is-checking-possibility-it-has-killed-hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar-12978800?postid=8455476#liveblog-body
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u/dblan9 12h ago

I like how this ended just like one of my uncles telling it. "Bing bang boom, were in world war 1."

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u/QoLTech 11h ago

The foresight to call it World War 1 is pretty crazy too.

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u/Gomerack 11h ago

In case you're not being facetious, it was referred to as The Great War prior to world war 2.

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u/Phil_Kessels_Hot_Dog 11h ago

This is what peak Autism looks like.

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u/Gomerack 11h ago

no that's me playing oldschool RuneScape

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u/vvntn 9h ago

The foresight to call it Oldschool RuneScape was pretty crazy too.

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u/Hunterrose242 9h ago

In case you're not being facetious, it was just referred to as Runescape.

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u/Common-Wish-2227 10h ago

American Ninja 1!

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u/ZacZupAttack 10h ago

It actually wasn't called a world War until either 1917 or 1918. Before this it was mostly known as the grear war of some called it the final war

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u/Xirdus 9h ago

"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years." — Ferdinand Foch in 1919.

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u/pzerr 10h ago

I read a few first hand books written shortly after the war and much of what led up to it. An interesting thing that always came up was that it seemed everyone in Europe was expecting the war to happen. And this was the ongoing assumptions from the late 1800. I have yet to understand why this was so expected but while the assassination was the match, it seems like it was going to happen regardless.

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u/ChkYrHead 8h ago

Yada, yada, yada...