Quote from: Libertas on April 15, 2024, 01:53:22 PM

Quote from: patentlymn on April 15, 2024, 12:55:30 PM

Maybe the drones and inaccurate missiles were to soak up the Israeli AA?
Iran said it was done for now unless there was retaliation for their attack.

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1779805583979216950
Cameron tries to justify Israel’s attack on Iran’s consulate, while condemning Iran’s response

Journalist: “What would Britain do if one of our consulates was attacked?”
Cameron: “We would respond strongly”

The west lost all its credibility.

Well, gosh...are terrorists meeting in the consulate to discuss support and strikes against a people they want exterminated?

How about the credibility of Iranian consulates used to plan terror?

I give the death cultists fully negative credibility...

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Attacking a consulate under any terms is a big deal. The US got real upset when Iranians took over the US embassy. Chinese still whine about bombing theirs in Serbia.

Whence, then, the rabid Russophobia that characterised British public discourse after WWII? He debunks the notion that the British Russophobia originates in the inter-imperial rivalry (there was no severe clash of imperial interests, the “Great Game” legend notwithstanding). According to Professor Gleason, a good part of it was due to internal ideological and political polemics, fueled both by journalistic demagogues and representatives of some limitrophe states such as Poland. It is fascinating to compare the anti-Russian political and media campaign of that time with what goes on right now in the US, for example.

    France’s Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Alsace has turned tail from the Red Sea after running out of missiles and munitions repelling attacks from the Yemeni armed forces, according to its commander, Jerome Henry.

    “We didn’t necessarily expect this level of threat. There was an uninhibited violence that was quite surprising and very significant. [The Yemenis] do not hesitate to use drones that fly at water level, to explode them on commercial ships, and to fire ballistic missiles,” Henry told French news outlet Le Figaro in an exclusive interview published on 11 April.

    “We had to carry out at least half a dozen assistances following [Yemeni] strikes,” he added.

    The commander of the Alsace also revealed that, after a 71-day deployment, all combat equipment was depleted.
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