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Houthi attacks continue after US strikes: Vessel struck by missile off Yemen https://www.washingtonexaminer...l-struck-by-missile/ The Houthis have continued their attacks in the Red Sea despite U.S.-U.K. strikes late last week. U.K. Maritime Trade Operations said on Monday it received a report of a vessel getting hit by a missile about 109 miles from Yemen. The M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged U.S.-owned and operated container ship, was hit but did not report any injuries or significant damage, according to U.S. Central Command. CENTCOM also noted that they tracked an anti-ballistic missile fired from Yemen, but it failed and impacted on land in-country. A day earlier, U.S. fighter aircraft shot down an anti-ship cruise missile fired toward the USS Laboon in the Southern Red Sea, according to U.S. Central Command. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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We are such pussies under this president. Firing an anti ship missile at one of our warships is 100% an act of war. | |||
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I watched the 'Fat Electrician' video on page 1 finally. Very entertaining and I think an extremely valuable overview of that event. I'd recommend watching it first. People who want a little more precise, more detailed version of the story would probably appreciate Ward Carroll's video below: | |||
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Shell Becomes Latest To Suspend Red Sea Shipments After Two Fresh Houthi Attacks On Tankers https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...irect-missile-strike There have been several fresh incidents in the Red Sea, including a Greek-owned tanker coming attack off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday. It comes amid a string of similar attacks, causing Shell to be the latest to suspend all Red Sea shipments, according to breaking news in the WSJ. On Tuesday, British maritime security firm Ambrey has identified that the Zografia, a Malta-flagged Greek-owned bulk carrier, has suffered direct hit by a missile while going northbound in the Red Sea, near the Yemeni port city of Saleef. The damage to the Zografia is being described in Reuters minor with no injuries reported among24-member crew. But there's additionally already a second incident unfolding, also within 100 nautical miles of Saleef. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) says it received a report of an incident, but the details of which have not been forthcoming. Based on the pattern, the second incident may involve a missile or possibly drone strike. Clearly, the Houthis are not fearing the West's punitive strikes. Days ago The New York Times acknowledged that the US and UK-led attacks are likely to have little impact on Houthi decision-making: Strikes are therefore “extremely unlikely” to stop the group’s Red Sea attacks, [Hannah Porter, a senior research officer at ARK Group] said. “The Houthis are very comfortable operating in a wartime environment,” she said. “They are more successful as a military group than they are as a government.” More at link _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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The NY Times acknowledged this? I didn't realize they are in charge of our foreign military policy. Here's an off-the-wall idea, Brandon and NYT: why don't we make our attacks on the Houthis substantial enough to make them change their behavior? . | |||
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So the two seals were sacrificed to the ridiculous idea that we need a courtroom level of proof before we can take action Instead of just sinking the ship, with all hands on board who are enemy combatants, we had to board it and have the evidence. Now we'll likely drop the crew off somewhere so we don't need to detain them. They'll go onto another ship and start over. Then we sunk the ship. But the two seals were lost as a consequence. https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-remain-lost-mission ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Cherry-picking some expert back-bencher to naysay action without providing any solution meanwhile, countries are left to deal with the threat immediately, not from the comfort of an office contemplating scenarios and outcomes. And no-shit 'the Houthis are very comfortable operating in a wartime environment' these clowns are no different than any other criminal enterprise, that's why they do what they do, because they have no skills or, interest in building things, thus its easier to prey upon others and take. | |||
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In the final days of the Third Reich with short range artillery pounding Berlin and the Red Army a stones’ throw away from overrunning it completely, Hitler was still fantasizing about being rescued by a then-nonexistent army. His staff no doubt knew better, but they still stayed in the bunker with him. At the end of the war two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan, hundreds of thousands had been killed in conventional bombing raids, the country was completely cut off from the rest of its “empire,” the Soviets had declared war on the country and had attacked its forces, and yet there were still officers who wanted to fight on and even attempted to prevent the Emperor from ordering a surrender. Those are just two examples of similar defiance that could be cited in the history of warfare. The fact that these fanatics are defiantly claiming to be “unafraid” and therefore actions against them are somehow ineffective is utter nonsense. ► 6.4/93.6 “I regret that I am to now die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.” — Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Remarks by President Biden Before Marine One Departure https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...ne-one-departure-42/ Q Are the airstrikes in Yemen working? THE PRESIDENT: Well, when you say “working,” are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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Please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t one of the first steps in a substantial military action to take out the opponents Command and Control? Surely we must know where their command HQ is located… ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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I'm sure we do, but Bidet is likely channeling McNamara and personally approving all of the targets before giving the go-ahead | |||
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Houthis Launch Fresh Attack On US Maersk Vessel, Ignoring Navy Escort https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...clear-red-sea-crisis As we previously noted, earlier in the morning Sky News reported that Houthi forces fired at least two missiles from Al-Bayda towards the Gulf of Aden. Well, it seems they were targeting a US vessel, even despite it having a US Naval escort. Per the breaking details in Bloomberg: Two Maersk vessels were targeted in attacks near the Red Sea on Wednesday, ShippingWatch reports, citing the Danish shipping company. The vessels, which belong to Maersk’s US subsidiary Maersk Line Ltd., were headed for the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, escorted by the US Navy, news website says. ShippingWatch indicated that as a result of the attack, wherein all the crew and ships were unscathed, the ships have turned around. Maersk starting in early January suspended transit for all its ships, but the directive did not apply to its US subsidiary. This fresh incident is hugely significant given that after some eight or more rounds of US missile attacks and airstrikes on Houthi positions, the Iran-linked group remains undeterred, even with a US Navy escort seeking to protect an American container vessel. Bloomberg reported early Wednesday that one of the world's largest shippers, Maersk, told clients in a notice to prepare for supply line disruptions as containerized vessels are rerouted to the Cape of Good Hope, which takes an extra 1-2 weeks for Asia to Europe shipping lanes. "While we continue to hope for a sustainable resolution in the near-future and do all we can to contribute towards it, the situation currently remains untenable," Maersk said. According to Flexport data, more than 500 container ships that would have sailed through the Red Sea have been rerouted to the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa. This is about a quarter of all the container shipping capacity in the world. The cost of shipping containers from China to the Mediterranean Sea has quadrupled since late November. More at link _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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Houthi Rebels Fire Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile "Toward" US Arleigh-Burke Class Destroyer https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...urke-class-destroyer More at link _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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At the very least, the Navy is gaining a LOT of data on how its Aegis system is performing against the ballistic threat, regardless of how weak the targeting is. | |||
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British Oil Tanker Carrying Russian Naphta On Fire In The Red Sea After Houthi Missile Strike https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...outhi-missile-strike The British fuel tanker operated on behalf of trading giant Trafigura, was on fire after it was struck by a missile as it transited the Red Sea, in the most significant attack yet by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on an oil-carrying vessel. Yemen's Houthis said on Friday their naval forces carried out an operation targeting "the British oil tanker Marlin Luanda" in the Gulf of Aden causing a fire to break out. They used "a number of appropriate naval missiles, the strike was direct," the Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement. “Firefighting equipment on board is being deployed to suppress and control the fire caused in one cargo tank on the starboard side,” a Trafigura spokesperson said in a statement. “We remain in contact with the vessel and are monitoring the situation carefully. Military ships in the region are underway to provide assistance.” The area in question and the southern Red Sea have been the center of multiple attacks on ships by Houthi militants in recent weeks. Since mid-November, the Houthis have launched near daily attacks on vessels transiting the waterway, in an act of solidarity with Palestinians amid the war between Israel and the militant group Hamas. The conflict has rerouted trade flows as some shippers avoid the key waterway. The tanker, headed toward Singapore, was carrying naphtha, which is used to produce gasoline and plastics. Ironically, the naphtha was of Russian origin, Trafigura said. “The vessel is carrying Russian-origin naphtha purchased below price cap in line with G7 sanctions,” a spokesperson said, however some have voiced questions about how a venerated Swiss merchant procured the Russian commodity. The attack, the most serious yet since Houthi militants effectively took control of transit in the Red Sea, will raise fresh questions about whether oil tankers will continue to transit the Red Sea. Since joint US and UK airstrikes on the Houthis earlier this month, tanker traffic in the region has declined, but some vessels have continued to pass through, including those hauling oil from Russia and toward China. Other key oil exporters like Saudi Arabia said this week that they were planning to continue using the route. As Bloomberg correctly, if unironically, points out, the latest attack suggests that the US and its allies haven’t sufficiently degraded the Houthis’ military capabilities two weeks after launching the first of several airstrikes on the group’s missiles, radars and other assets across Yemen. Of course, it also means that the Biden-spearheaded operation "Prosperity Guardian" which was meant to secure passage of ships in the Red Sea is now literally up in flames. Last weekend, US Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer said military actions to deter the Houthis and other groups backed by Iran would take time. “Deterrence is not a light switch,” Finer told ABC, trying to explain why nobody takes the US seriously any more. “We are taking out these stockpiles so they will not be able to conduct so many attacks over time. That will take time to play out.” In its update on the incident, the UK Navy advised ships to transit with caution and said authorities are responding. Earlier Friday, missiles exploded near a Panama-flagged, India-affiliated ship carrying barrels from Russia, according to Ambrey. Although a Houthi spokesman told the Russian newspaper Izvestia last week that Russian and Chinese ships sailing through the Red Sea would be safe, Friday’s attack was the third in the vicinity of a vessel that had previously called on a Russian port. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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It's going to be fun and games until a China or India flagged ship goes down. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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SMH...pin-pricks aren't going to deter anyone, have you not learned over the last 20-years of warfare....hell 30-years of warfare should've give you and your dumb boss some insight that this part of the world only understands force. Overwhelming, sustained force, punitive action is what these cultures understand not nuance; if you're going to do it then you turn-on the switch and leave it on until they're begging you to stop or, you've run out of targets. You had two carriers in the area at one time for over a month, where you could've done 24-hr operations for several days, instead lots of navel gazing and excuse making as the surface fleet swatted drones and missiles with weapons that cost 10-20x what the Houthis were throwing up in the sky. | |||
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Seems it’s just a matter of days, or less, and Brandon will have his minions orchestrate an election year rebuttal to the tragic deaths of 3 service members. Whether his heart is in it or not, I think the administration will feel compelled to react. I don’t really have a problem with that, the issue is his overall position he has had with Iran going back years. I think it will be a diminutive effort for appeasement. One really has to go after what the Iranian instigators hold near & dear, $$, possessions, oil, targets, whatever. Probably best to not start WWIII along the way. You just know it’s coming, in some fashion. | |||
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Too close for comfort, one ALMOST got through....that's at least 3-layers of defenses, several more layers of decoys, distractions and electronic warfare energy thrown at it. I can only imagine the pucker-factor of the sailors onboard US warship had close call with Houthi missile in Red Sea
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