Posted on 03/17/2025 10:40:46 AM PDT by RandFan
Over the weekend President Trump ordered a massive military operation against the small country of Yemen. Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States? No. Did the President in that case go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country? No. The fact is, Yemen hadn’t even threatened the United States before the bombs started falling.
Last year, candidate Trump strongly criticized the Biden Administration’s obsession with foreign interventionism to the detriment of our problems at home. In an interview at the Libertarian National Convention, he criticized Biden’s warmongering to podcaster Tim Pool, saying, “You can solve problems over a telephone. Instead they start dropping bombs. Recently, they’re dropping bombs all over Yemen. You don’t have to do that.”
Yet once in office, Trump turned to military force as his first option. Since the Israel/Hamas ceasefire plan negotiated by President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, Yemen has left Red Sea shipping alone. However, after Israel implemented a total blockade of humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza last week, Houthi leaders threatened to again begin blocking Israel’s Red Sea shipping activities.
That was enough for President Trump to drop bombs and launch missiles for hours, killing several dozen Yemeni civilians – including women and children – in the process.
After the attack, Trump not only threatened much more force to be used against Yemen, but he also threatened Iran. His National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added that the US may start bombing Iranian ships in the area, a move that would certainly lead to a major Middle East war.
Like recent Presidents Bush and Obama, candidate Trump promised peace after four years of Joe Biden’s warmongering and World War III brinkmanship. There is little doubt that with our war-weary population this proved the margin of his victory. Unfortunately, as with Bush and Obama, now that he is President, he appears to be heading down a different path.
The Republican Party is gradually becoming a pro-peace, America first party, but the warmongers and neocons of the old line in the Party are not going to let go so easily. Unfortunately many of these dead-enders have found their way to senior positions in Trump’s Administration, with voices of restraint and non-intervention nearly nowhere in sight among his top tier of advisors.
To solve the Yemen problem we must understand it: Russian and Chinese ships, for example, are not being threatened because they are not enabling the Israeli demolition of Gaza. The slaughter there has been facilitated with US money and US weapons. It is the US doing Israel’s bidding both in Gaza and in the Red Sea that is painting a target on us and unnecessarily putting our troops at risk of retaliation.
The US government, starting with Biden and continuing now with Trump, seems eager to make this our war even though, as Rep. Thomas Massie pointed out over the weekend, Red Sea shipping is of minor importance to the US economy.
In a real “America first” foreign policy we would be following the Russian and Chinese lead and staying out of the conflict. It’s not our war. End US military involvement in the Middle East and our troubles disappear. It really is that simple.
I will try again to post link about very recent attack.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4304698/posts
If Ron were around two centuries ago, he would have opposed fighting the Barbary Pirates.
I guess Thomas Jefferson was wrong to attack the Barbary Coast Pirates, according to Ron Paul.
You are not Maga, Trump took a bullet for America, while you and the Paul’s twittled your thumbs. No President has done more damage to the globalists, the REAL enemy.
Ugh, no. I am “MAGA” and hugely appreciative of all that Trump is working toward. But he ain’t perfect, and there’s nothing wrong with noting that.
Trump has and always will stand with Israel. Israel. It is globalists and thiet radical Islamic shock troops who are the enemy.
Trump has and always will stand with Israel. Israel. It is globalists and thiet radical Islamic shock troops who are the enemy.
You’ve got a bad case of “simplism” over there, cowboy.
No, just truth. The US has 2 big foriegn enemies, China and the globalist EU..
But somehow you haven’t figured out the globalist/Israeli connection...
Yes, Israel has a globalist deep state also. They set up Netenyahu on October.7th. Globalists HATE Conservative Zionism. When Israel was a 3rd world socalist Nation, globalists and the left loved it. But Conservative Zionism rules Israel now.
I’m sorry. You’re clueless.
No, I know that you think that Trump is controlled by Israel. Sorry, Israel and the US are GO’s two special Nations
YESHUA is the King Of America and the LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. The US and Israel are divinely connected.
This man must imagine the world would live in peace without US intervention (though not always wise), or that attacks on the trade routes and countries etc. would not adversely affect the US economy.
Is Yeman harboring and abiding terrorist organizations that are attacking free and fair trade? Yes Ron, sorry but I say blow them to smithereens. Europe will thank us ,when they stop .
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