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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: Libertas on December 12, 2023, 08:40:59 AM
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https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/houthi-rebels-hit-norwegian-flagged-tanker-anti-ship-cruise-missile-key-maritime (https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/houthi-rebels-hit-norwegian-flagged-tanker-anti-ship-cruise-missile-key-maritime)
Render aid to victims of Houthi terrorist attacks, yes...but how about obliterating their ability to commit terror?
Whole world sans Mahdi Death Cultist trash should be in agreement to end these murderers...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warship-responds-houthi-speedboat-terrorizes-several-commercial-vessels-red-sea (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warship-responds-houthi-speedboat-terrorizes-several-commercial-vessels-red-sea)
Need to make that land uninhabitable...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/two-more-vessels-struck-houthi-missiles-maersk-diverts-all-tankers-red-sea (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/two-more-vessels-struck-houthi-missiles-maersk-diverts-all-tankers-red-sea)
Idiots...
Only crushing them will be effective.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-navy-alerted-incident-near-djibouti-houthis-paralyze-red-sea-shipping (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-navy-alerted-incident-near-djibouti-houthis-paralyze-red-sea-shipping)
The Bataan usually lurks in this area...moving Ike in just ups the odds of a spanking.
As for this...
Given the scale of dedicated U.S. naval and air military resources in the region, direct engagement with Yemeni “terrorists” is all but certain. This will expand the overall conflict zone and pull the U.S. into ancillary combat missions.
Iran and the various proxies will likely not respond in Yemen, but U.S. military personnel deployed in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq will likely come under fire. Chairman Xi will smile from Beijing.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/18/two-strategic-war-fronts-to-watch-the-first-to-be-announced-tomorrow/ (https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/18/two-strategic-war-fronts-to-watch-the-first-to-be-announced-tomorrow/)
We no longer need to be in Afghanistan...and if we had not screwed over the Kurds so much, would not need to be in Iraq or Syria any longer either!
As for Moldova, Moldova sucks...let Euro's play with that...,y same attitude re: Ukraine...fricken Euro problem...leave us the eff out!
If CIA idiots get caught in the crossfire...
::smallestviolin::
(https://cdn.britannica.com/92/175092-050-539EE3C3/enclave-Transdniestria-Moldova.jpg)
That Eastern sliver is Russian speaking squatters Putin owns...FWIW...
Like I care who their master is... ::mooning::
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The USN exists to protect the sea lanes, correct? That is what we are told.
So do something about this Yemen mess. If US carriers are afraid to get too close to land then ?????
I saw a US govt announcement. Just as I feared. The recent Yemen Houthi attacks were said to be from Iran as they used Iranian missiles. When Israel or Ukr use American weapons the US says we are not at war. Now maybe the US govt wants to get into a war with Iran.
What if a US carrier goes to the bottom of the Persian Gulf?
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/18/two-strategic-war-fronts-to-watch-the-first-to-be-announced-tomorrow/ (https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/18/two-strategic-war-fronts-to-watch-the-first-to-be-announced-tomorrow/)
We no longer need to be in Afghanistan...and if we had not screwed over the Kurds so much, would not need to be in Iraq or Syria any longer either!
As for Moldova, Moldova sucks...let Euro's play with that...,y same attitude re: Ukraine...fricken Euro problem...leave us the eff out!
If CIA idiots get caught in the crossfire...
::smallestviolin::
(https://cdn.britannica.com/92/175092-050-539EE3C3/enclave-Transdniestria-Moldova.jpg)
That Eastern sliver is Russian speaking squatters Putin owns...FWIW...
Like I care who their master is... ::mooning::
Transdniestria
IMO different ethnic groups live on a patch of dirt. sometimes they move around over time.
Then govts come and go and draw lines on a map around them.
Sometimes outside forces like the US decide it would be cool to cause trouble by pitting one ethnic group against another. If it leaves the region a smoking cinder who cares?
US marines trained Georgian troops who then attacked Russians in South Ossetia. Russians counter attacked and left Georgia worse off then before but the president got a good think tank job in US DC.
Bald and Bankrupt has a playlist for Moldova. Another corrupt sh*t hole that was better off under USSR.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqWdYjn21PdEO19u10zTJCrNazOKq6gf6 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqWdYjn21PdEO19u10zTJCrNazOKq6gf6)
I recently learned that there were some good aspects to USSR. They had this propaganda or ideology about the brotherhood of man. It was not acceptable to publicly trash ethnic groups. Yes I know all the bad stuff. I always did. To this day, if you desecrate a Koran in public you go to prison. I saw this in social media. Russians call Ukr brother slavs. Ukr call the Russians subhumans and a different race. IMO they each inherited the commie ideology and the NAZI ideology, respectively.
So USSR kept a lid on things and kept ethnic groups from killing each other. Dagestan has 13 different official ethnic groups and 13 official languages. Which 12 groups are the squatters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5gkQik-CYk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5gkQik-CYk)
Soviet Tajikistan and the Tajik Civil War
I recall a different doc that said that the soviets build giant hydroelectric dams and some factorizes that were destroyed in the civil war. Many Russian tech types fled post USSR.
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The Kenyan's puppet looks weak as Hell...
The Kenyan cannot sanction an attack on the scumbag terrorists, it may trigger his pals in the Mahdi Death Cult...cannot have them upset...
Which is why they are trying this coalition BS instead of stomping them out...
So laughably weak and pathetic...
I would eradicate them all...
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The USN exists to protect the sea lanes, correct? That is what we are told.
So do something about this Yemen mess. If US carriers are afraid to get too close to land then ?????
I saw a US govt announcement. Just as I feared. The recent Yemen Houthi attacks were said to be from Iran as they used Iranian missiles. When Israel or Ukr use American weapons the US says we are not at war. Now maybe the US govt wants to get into a war with Iran.
What if a US carrier goes to the bottom of the Persian Gulf?
BCE muses about this...
https://bigcountryexpat.com/index.php/2023/12/20/expenditures-logistics-and-lack-of-reloads-or-running-out-of-ammo-is-a-bad-thing/
Low ammo means cut and run...or stay and if suffer a fatal hit...see escalation to more serious ordnance take effect.
This is what happens when you are not strategic with your assets....should have eliminated the source at the get-go...
Didn't do that...and here we are...
Also, poster to BCE makes a good point here -
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@WRSA @BigCountryExpat you may recall that I am a retired navy chief. I used to load those cells. Here's the deal, there may be 360 available cells between 4 DDGs but that isn't the end of the story. They are not all SM2s. They also hold the tomahawks which take up more room than an SM2 and ASROCs, rocket propelled torpedos. By now they should be carrying SM6s as well which serve a different purpose. That said, they'll go Winchester faster than you think.
No tender can reload the VLS because the crane height needed to get those bubbas in is too prohibitive. They have to be pierside. I doubt they've figured a method to load at sea since I hung up my combo cover.
I reckon they would have to run to one of a few naval bases in the region, most likely Jebel Ali, UAE to reload. Assuming they've been restocked from stateside.
ETA - Vinson has been working it's way West...if it moves past Malaysia it may be headed for Gulf...
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Yeah I wondered about that "coalition" thing. Isn't the USN enough?
Long ago I posted my fears of US ships being overwhelmed and using up anti missile ammo. I recall Douglas Macgregor talking down the NATO abilities that varied by country. NATO They had enough air to air missiles to last one week of a war. He said many militaries "could not make it out of the barracks." I think that phrase is a term of art.
He said that NATO had skimped on buying fuel to save money and there was not enough fuel stock piled to support war in EU. Ursula von der Leyen was defense minister of Germany and ran that army into the ground I heard.
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USN should be enough...but puppetmaster (The Kenyan) is fearful of incurring Mahdi Death Cult wrath...hence hiding behind a coalition skirt...
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Yeah I wondered about that "coalition" thing. Isn't the USN enough?
Long ago I posted my fears of US ships being overwhelmed and using up anti missile ammo. I recall Douglas Macgregor talking down the NATO abilities that varied by country. NATO They had enough air to air missiles to last one week of a war. He said many militaries "could not make it out of the barracks." I think that phrase is a term of art.
He said that NATO had skimped on buying fuel to save money and there was not enough fuel stock piled to support war in EU. Ursula von der Leyen was defense minister of Germany and ran that army into the ground I heard.
Some comment somewhere from a US vet said that the anti missile missiles on the US destroyers cannot be replenished at sea due to crane height required. Now Andre the grumpy Russian at smoothiex12 said something similar.
Also million dollar missiles are fired to take down thousand dollar missiles?
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Larger missiles need to be loaded pier-side...like at Jebel Ali...
And as I said earlier too...the strategy of the REMFs is thoughtless and reactionary...hitting the source of the missiles is what should be done...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-spy-ship-assisting-houthi-attacks-red-sea-shipping (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-spy-ship-assisting-houthi-attacks-red-sea-shipping)
...like sinking this Death Cult tub with a torpedo (no more than 2) would be most cost-effective and strategically sound...
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Larger missiles need to be loaded pier-side...like at Jebel Ali...
And as I said earlier too...the strategy of the REMFs is thoughtless and reactionary...hitting the source of the missiles is what should be done...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-spy-ship-assisting-houthi-attacks-red-sea-shipping (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-spy-ship-assisting-houthi-attacks-red-sea-shipping)
...like sinking this Death Cult tub with a torpedo (no more than 2) would be most cost-effective and strategically sound...
Hitting that target would create a real crowd pleaser fireworks.
What if the smaller missiles re dispered?
What if the US big ones are not dispersed?
The US has been playing fast and lose using proxies in Ukr. Now lots of proxies in red sea.
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Larger missiles need to be loaded pier-side...like at Jebel Ali...
And as I said earlier too...the strategy of the REMFs is thoughtless and reactionary...hitting the source of the missiles is what should be done...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-spy-ship-assisting-houthi-attacks-red-sea-shipping (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-spy-ship-assisting-houthi-attacks-red-sea-shipping)
...like sinking this Death Cult tub with a torpedo (no more than 2) would be most cost-effective and strategically sound...
Hitting that target would create a real crowd pleaser fireworks.
What if the smaller missiles re dispered?
What if the US big ones are not dispersed?
The US has been playing fast and lose using proxies in Ukr. Now lots of proxies in red sea.
So?
No proxies...hit 'em. Wouldn't be doing this sh*t under Trump.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-warn-repercussions-after-us-forces-kill-rebels-during-maersk-ship-attack-red (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-warn-repercussions-after-us-forces-kill-rebels-during-maersk-ship-attack-red)
More target practice? :D
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Frigate looks easy enough to send to the bottom...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-warns-against-us-adventurism-after-parking-cruise-missile-armed-warship-red-sea (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-warns-against-us-adventurism-after-parking-cruise-missile-armed-warship-red-sea)
...and nice denial Mahdi Death Cultists...if you are not involved at all why get between everybody and the Houthi scum?
::effu::
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File under humor
So tunnels found under a Brooklyn synagogue.
Here is a video of the tunnels just FYI.The humor?
https://youtu.be/HzOczewkkdI
Someone reported as news that the USAF would drop JDAMs and level 4 city blocks in order to collapse the tunnels.
A joking reference to Gaza.
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File under humor
So tunnels found under a Brooklyn synagogue.
Here is a video of the tunnels just FYI.The humor?
https://youtu.be/HzOczewkkdI (https://youtu.be/HzOczewkkdI)
(http://Someone reported as news that the USAF would drop JDAMs and level 4 city blocks in order to collapse the tunnels.)
A joking reference to Gaza.
Oh ha ha...uhh...what?...
Who "joked" about that? The trash in The (Treason) Squad? The MFM? Harvard administrators/faculty?
::saywhat::
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File under humor
So tunnels found under a Brooklyn synagogue.
Here is a video of the tunnels just FYI.The humor?
https://youtu.be/HzOczewkkdI (https://youtu.be/HzOczewkkdI)
(http://Someone reported as news that the USAF would drop JDAMs and level 4 city blocks in order to collapse the tunnels.)
A joking reference to Gaza.
Oh ha ha...uhh...what?...
Who "joked" about that? The trash in The (Treason) Squad? The MFM? Harvard administrators/faculty?
::saywhat::
I spit out my coffee when I read the line about the USAF JDAMs for the Brooklyn tunnels. That is because it was in a straight news organization story, not The Onion. Someone slipped in that line.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-tanker-hijacked-gulf-oman (https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-tanker-hijacked-gulf-oman)
Pussified FJB regime is incapable of understanding that anything less than killing either of these fools will deter them from further acts of war...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-vow-expanded-attacks-us-navy-bigger-tuesdays-barrage (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-vow-expanded-attacks-us-navy-bigger-tuesdays-barrage)
It's usually when a weak regime feels forced to act that said attack can be loaded with unnecessary restrictions that create more problems than are solved...
We shall see...
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Bombings...and very little info released by US or UK...heck, don't even know if FJB was even awake...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-vow-expanded-attacks-us-navy-bigger-tuesdays-barrage (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-vow-expanded-attacks-us-navy-bigger-tuesdays-barrage)
https://rumble.com/v46jyaf-the-us-and-uk-opening-bombings-of-houthis-in-yemen.html (https://rumble.com/v46jyaf-the-us-and-uk-opening-bombings-of-houthis-in-yemen.html)
And thanks to the corrupt treacherous FJB regime and the wide open border and millions of undocumented God-knows what kind of filth running around...
https://rumble.com/v46k279-will-hezbollah-terror-cells-in-the-us-strike-following-bombings-on-houthis.html (https://rumble.com/v46k279-will-hezbollah-terror-cells-in-the-us-strike-following-bombings-on-houthis.html)
...the concern over numerous sleeper cells throughout America cannot be dismissed!
As for this...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/11/too-predictable-joe-biden-begins-strikes-in-yemen/ (https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/11/too-predictable-joe-biden-begins-strikes-in-yemen/)
...we will have to see if Sundance's Moldova prediction is correct. I think it a total distraction we do not need and should not want...again...like Ukraine, it is a Euro-Russia problem...we have zero need to be there and it will only deplete more resources and make us weaker which if I am yielding to my skepticism properly is probably what they want...
But, anybody who has been paying attention to the buildups from Romania to Poland since Ukraine began then it appears a reasonable speculation to see sh*t start in Moldova...
And as for the Houthi mess...we had peace under Trump...FJB fvcked everything up...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1745609608603881627 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1745609608603881627)
Always remember that!
And check out the 1/12 Morning Report by Ace...
https://ace.mu.nu/ (https://ace.mu.nu/)
...the sheer hypocrisy of the left bemoaning the action in Yemen in light of their Children of the Corn devotion to endless war in Ukraine is so rank the stank is unavoidable.
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Reports of fresh attacks in Syria...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fresh-attack-us-base-syrian-oilfield-after-coalition-bombs-yemen-reports (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fresh-attack-us-base-syrian-oilfield-after-coalition-bombs-yemen-reports)
...which are going to happen anyway until all concerned are in Hell.
And the terrorist filth in Yemen still talking tough...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-remain-undeterred-after-us-coalition-pummels-over-60-targets-tomahawk-missiles (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-remain-undeterred-after-us-coalition-pummels-over-60-targets-tomahawk-missiles)
...yet to be seen if the chickencrap Saudis get sucked back in and if Iran looks to up their involvement...
And the FBJ sanctioned invasion of America has resulted in "anonymous intelligence officials" to sound warning bells over terrorist attacks in America...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/u-s-intelligence-agencies-issue-warning-about-potential/ (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/u-s-intelligence-agencies-issue-warning-about-potential/)
...which is what the corrupt treasonous FJB regime wants to happen... ::outrage::
And, stupidly...Blinken told others of the impending attack...
But what does this accomplish? From a military standpoint, it is unlikely that these bombings destroyed or damaged any Houthi rocket/drone/missile warehouses. Why? Because Antony Blinken briefed the leaders of Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on the U.S. plan to hit Yemen. What are the odds that at least one senior person in the know passed that info along to folks in Yemen? I put it at 100%.
So what? That gave Yemen time to disperse its assets or hide them in a secure location. I wonder if Shakespeare had Joe Biden in mind when he penned this observation in Macbeth:
Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/did-secretary-state-blinken-tip-yemen-us-bombings/ (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/did-secretary-state-blinken-tip-yemen-us-bombings/)
And I agree that FJB likely undermined his own authority for doing these attacks when he de-listed the Houthis from the terror list Trump had them on!
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https://ace.mu.nu/
CBD gummies? wow. nice if true.
Sundance on Moldova? The US state dept and admin is full of sociopaths. They want to do to Moldova what they did to Ukr while blaming Russia in most of the MSM. Moldova is really poor. Transnistria is part of Moldova that has ethnic Russians and is protected by some Russian troops although I recall 80% are local ethic Russians. Everything is OK until one group decides to attack the other.
I recall Robert D. Kaplan in Balkan Ghosts saying every hectare in the Balkans was once ruled by 4 different groups and each thinks they should again. Once the US arms some out of control group things get stirred up again.
Years ago US marines trained Georgian troops very, very well. then they attacked South Ossetia filled with ethnic Russians. Russia counter attacked and occupied for a while. The citizens of Georgia threw out their president who got a US think tank job as a reward. IMO US state dept would like to repeat with Georgia and Moldova. I now wonder what rewards current leaders there and in baltics have been promised.
IMO Wolfowitz, Soros, Rand, and Brzezinski describe US foreign affairs doctrine pretty well. If any world power gets too big use existing dissident groups to degrade them. see Chechens in the previous wars with Russia. See how the US and others funneled money, arms, and crazies to tear apart Syria.
As I recall, Bald and Bankrupt visiting Moldova kicked off my current post USSR reading list. USSR oppressed people which I knew very well. They also protected people. Once weaker the US and others caused lots of harm. US would love to turn Georgia and Moldova into cinders to harm Russia.
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I do not keep track of Houthis et al. I heard they were true believers and want to avenge or protect the Gaza residents. not like the more cynical arabs in other countries. Alex says US fired 100 cruise missiles into Yemen.
https://youtu.be/v_e7eNNgO0E
US, UK strike Yemen. Biden pushes $300B asset seize. Poland, Tusk vs Duda. Elensky No. 5
Alex Christoforou
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here is a playlist on Moldova.l recall this place got looted worse than most after ussr fell.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqWdYjn21PdEO19u10zTJCrNazOKq6gf6 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqWdYjn21PdEO19u10zTJCrNazOKq6gf6)
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Sundance is reading this right...this is total bullsh*t...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/14/sketchy-stuff-again-this-announcement-and-story-just-doesnt-pass-sniff-test/
...as I stated earlier, this weak stupid compromised regime is prone to hasty decisions when they get forced to act because their weak stupid compromised regimes prior incompetence...and here we are, some forced response led to 2 SEALs being killed and we may never ever get the full unvarnished story...they are burying it to avoid any more scrutiny into their incompetence...
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The ZeroHedge post is a dagger into the vampiric heart of the corrupt compromised incompetent FJB regime!
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/houthi-militants-attack-us-container-ship-ballistic-missiles-days-after-biden-attack-yemen (https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/houthi-militants-attack-us-container-ship-ballistic-missiles-days-after-biden-attack-yemen)
"Is the white house still terrified to retaliate because it could send oil prices higher?"-Zoerhedge on X today.
A double-slap in their face...for being incompetent and for pretending high oil prices aren't a central goal of Bidetnomics!!!
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This really torks me off...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/22/naval-special-warfare-operators-lost-near-yemeni-coast-identified-search-status-changed-to-deceased/
I find it hard to believe that two such highly-trained operators perished boarding a dhow, we are NOT being told the whole story, not by a longshot!!!
Was it one of the tankers and not the dhow? Was whatever it was compromised by loose-lips Blinken? ::outrage::
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I heard they got hit with an 8 foot wave when boarding. One went in and the other jumped in to save him.
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I seriously doubt a wave and the sea caused two highly-trained SEALs to perish...we are not being told the whole truth...these are not run-of-the-mill folks playing outside their skill set...
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https://www.brookings.edu/books/which-path-to-persia/ (https://www.brookings.edu/books/which-path-to-persia/)
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Which Path to Persia?
Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran
Kenneth M. Pollack, Daniel L. Byman, Martin S. Indyk, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Riedel
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Crafting a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous challenge. Since it is an extremely complex society, with an opaque political system, it is no wonder that...
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Crafting a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous challenge. Since it is an extremely complex society, with an opaque political system, it is no wonder that the United States has not yet figured out the puzzle that is Iran. With the clock ticking on Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capabilities, solving this puzzle is more urgent than ever.
In Which Path to Persia? a group of experts with the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings lays out the courses of action available to the United States. What are the benefits and drawbacks of airstrikes? Can engagement be successful? Is regime change possible? In answering such questions, the authors do not argue for one approach over another. Instead, they present the details of the policies so that readers can understand the complexity of the challenge and decide for themselves which course the United States should take.
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Brookings? I have better things to do...like wipe with a koran...
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Y'all know me...nothing would make me happier than to wipe out the Mahdi Death Cultists...but these cucks...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/three-us-troops-killed-25-injured-after-drone-slams-base-jordan-syria-border (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/three-us-troops-killed-25-injured-after-drone-slams-base-jordan-syria-border)
...better be careful what they ask this horsesh*t regime to do! They can and will eff it up big-time! It is almost a certainty that this corrupt bunch will only make things worse or do something so weak and stupid that it encourages more action by these punks.
(https://media.bnn.network/content/uploads/2023/12/us-restraint-in-yemen-20231205210024.jpg)H/T-CTH
And, I know I am asking for a miracle...but how about GTFO areas we don't need to be in? And, if only all that equipment and money they abandoned to the Taliban was diverted to benefit the Kurds we wouldn't need to be there at all, eh?
And about the map above...why with them embracing BRICS are we anywhere near the damned Saudis? The others have support roles but Jordan, Syria, Iraq & SA we can GTFO!
And, IMO since this is foreign policy related, only DJT has a right to opine...everybody else ought to cool it. And make note, Nimrata is all for FJB to do something pointless and stupid.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-says-significant-military-response-coming-iran-denies-involvement-us-troop (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-says-significant-military-response-coming-iran-denies-involvement-us-troop)
And note that the corrupt regime is stating the significant whatever is coming for the pro-Iranian militias...not the IRGC or anybody in Iran...
Whatever, watch them eff this up.
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Update(1908ET): Public outrage and massive pushback has ensued after in a Monday interview White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asserted that the three US troops killed by the drone strike in Jordan had died "fighting on behalf of this administration"...that is Biden, rather than America.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-says-significant-military-response-coming-iran-denies-involvement-us-troop (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-says-significant-military-response-coming-iran-denies-involvement-us-troop)
A Freudian slip...
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Last I heard Jordan admitted the strike inside Jordan. Earlier they denied it. "Tower 22" was some post overlooking a Syrian refugee camp.
I know little about military stuff. What would happen if Iran hit? IMO many people think US military is like 1991 and Iran is like 1991 Iraq. Neither is true.
Israel would love to drag US into a war with Iran. False flag anyone? USS Liberty.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moment-no-return-imminent-biden-has-decided-response-says-iran-supplied-weapons-used (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moment-no-return-imminent-biden-has-decided-response-says-iran-supplied-weapons-used)
As I said, their hands-off Iran bias means they'll spend millions of taxpayer dollars to blow up some camels and a milk plant and pat themselves on the back for a successful strike and within hours the Houthis will launch more low-cost missiles again...
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I heard that the trip around the cape is 40% longer than previous route. That means 40% fewer ships in use and containers.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/after-fresh-israeli-strikes-damascus-whole-region-braces-us-attack-possibly-hours-away (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/after-fresh-israeli-strikes-damascus-whole-region-braces-us-attack-possibly-hours-away)
Confucius say "Only the IDF can spank IRGC clowns, FJB can only spank himself".
ETA - See, I told you so! Thank you, Sundance!
Obama and Biden like Iran. Obama and Biden are facilitating a pro-Iran policy. Obama and Biden don’t want to do anything against the interests of their pro-Iran position. That’s the simple baseline.
As a direct consequence, the same U.S. intelligence community that proclaimed the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, now modify their prior intelligence to proclaim that Iran likely doesn’t have any control over the various terrorist networks they support. As a result, Biden cannot conduct a retaliatory strike against Iran because Biden cannot prove a direct link to Iran.
Our intel agencies are essentially falling on the sword of ‘some people did something, but we can’t be sure.’ See how this works?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/02/02/providing-cover-u-s-intel-officials-proclaim-iran-didnt-have-control-over-terror-group-that-killed-u-s-military-with-drone/ (https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/02/02/providing-cover-u-s-intel-officials-proclaim-iran-didnt-have-control-over-terror-group-that-killed-u-s-military-with-drone/)
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FJB's Operation Ground Hog (so original)...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/report-biden-signs-operation-ground-hog-bombing-meaningless/ (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/report-biden-signs-operation-ground-hog-bombing-meaningless/)
...59 Tomahawks at not much and no IRGC targets or anything near Iran proper as expected...
BFD
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Judge Nap had some former state dept guy tony shaefer on. He thinks Iran was behind it because different groups acted as one.
He said something about the US using drones on established flight paths and the incoming drone used one of those paths.
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I know little about military stuff but it is OK that I suck because that is not my day job. I wonder if the pros know what they are doing.
One guy said that the military is not likely to go to war with Iran despite what politicians want because they have a realistic view of what would happen.
IMO the US military is not that of 1991 and neither is the Iran military. US bases in the ME might be hit by Iran rockets. Perhaps the US carrier also.
I read that US KC 135 tankers are headed to ME in case airfields in ME are hit.
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I cannot find the map i wanted
https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker
USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Jan. 22, 2024
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What map you want?
More on the strikes...
(https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/strikesmap.jpg)
Whining by Iraq & Syria...but whatever, Syria always been a tool of Russia and both happy to allow Iran's crazies to arm & train Syria's crazies...I give no damn for them...Iraqis are stupid, at least Saddam kept the Shiites at bay, liberating these infidels in the end did nothing but make Iran's playground larger...
Like to good old cold war days...Russia rises to defend their Syrian & Iranian pals...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-calls-urgent-un-security-council-meeting-condemn-illegal-us-strikes (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-calls-urgent-un-security-council-meeting-condemn-illegal-us-strikes)
Yeah, well whatever...you dipsh*ts made zero agreements with Trump and welcomed His Fraudulency and now whine about it? Suck it, morons.
More Houthi targets hit...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-coalition-has-attacked-nearly-40-houthi-sites-yemen-weekend (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-coalition-has-attacked-nearly-40-houthi-sites-yemen-weekend)
...no idea how many value targets vs not...
As for this...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-national-security-adviser-refuses-rule-out-attacks-iran (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-national-security-adviser-refuses-rule-out-attacks-iran)
...more BS. The Obamians infest the puppet Biden regime...this is words and words only.
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I expect that Iran sent sleeper agents into the US long ago, with many more recently across the southern so called US border. I do not mean amateur crazies. I mean pros. Every time US war mongers thump their chest I expect they send more. Maybe a couple extra in Lindsey Graham's home state. I hope they leave MN alone.
How would US war ships fare against Iran rockets? Last I checked there was only one US carrier anywhere near Iran. The US has 11 but only 3 or 4 operational?
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No, see my post on 2/2 about carriers.
Also, everybody is coming across the open Biden borders...not just radical space-rock cultists...Chi-Coms, narco-terrorists, murderers rapists and slime from everywhere...heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Russia, North Korea etc sent some operatives over...
And, if the Houthi missiles have a hard time with unarmed maritime traffic...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthi-rebels-fire-missiles-two-ships-red-sea-crisis-rages (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthi-rebels-fire-missiles-two-ships-red-sea-crisis-rages)
...they'll find something more serious with something armed...and if something armed gets hit the impulse to increase the severity of the spankings will increase...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/crew-abandons-cargo-ship-after-houthi-attack-us-mq-9-reaper-downed-rebels (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/crew-abandons-cargo-ship-after-houthi-attack-us-mq-9-reaper-downed-rebels)
I think the Houthis are going to be the avenue by which may happen...
At present this corrupt incompetent compromised regime in America is experiencing some discomfort over being so transparently appeasing of the Mahdi Death Cult and even a gutless regime has to act in some way and the obvious target is the Houthis.
And in the spirit of sh*t happens, well, we shall see...
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These morons are begging to be stomped, and they should be...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-boast-fresh-attack-several-american-warships (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-boast-fresh-attack-several-american-warships)
Unfortunately, with this corrupt regime the response won't be driven by the right reasons no matter what they say...it will be because they are desperate for favorable press and because their war powers clock is ticking to zero...
Oh, and the leadership in DoD is garbage...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/russias-lng-cargoes-bound-china-avoid-red-sea (https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/russias-lng-cargoes-bound-china-avoid-red-sea)
I guess they're afraid but OK with the Houthi action...
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New statements from the Pentagon issued Monday have said the Houthis fired over 90 ballistic missiles and drones - most of which were intercepted by US and allied forces over the past 48 hours, once the Iranian attack kicked off in the overnight hours of Saturday.
US Central Command described that at one point during the attack the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile directly against US Navy and commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden. "There were no injuries or damage reported by US, coalition, or commercial ships," CENTCOM said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-says-over-90-missiles-drones-were-launched-yemen-past-48-hours (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-says-over-90-missiles-drones-were-launched-yemen-past-48-hours)
And jello-headed corrupt to the core puppet FJB does his master's bidding and just grabs his ankles as says hit me again...
::unknowncomic::