Posted on 01/10/2024 8:55:22 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Yemen's Houthi rebels fired their largest-ever barrage of drones and missiles targeting shipping in the Red Sea, forcing the United States and British navies to shoot down the projectiles in a major naval engagement, authorities said Wednesday. No damage was immediately reported.
The attack by the Iranian-backed Houthis came despite a planned United Nations Security Council vote later Wednesday to potentially condemn and demand an immediate halt to the attacks by the rebels, who say their assaults are aimed at stopping Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
However, their targets increasingly have little — or no — connection to Israel and imperil a crucial trade route linking Asia and the Middle East with Europe. That raises the risk of a U.S. retaliatory strike on Yemen that could upend an uneasy cease-fire that has held in the Arab world's poorest country.
The assault happened off the Yemeni port cities of Hodeida and Mokha, according to the private intelligence firm Ambrey. In the Hodeida attack, Ambrey said ships described over radio seeing missiles and drones, with U.S.-allied warships in the area urging "vessels to proceed at maximum speed."
Off Mokha, ships saw missiles fired, a drone in the air and small vessels trailing them, Ambrey said early Wednesday. The British military's United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations also acknowledged the attack off Hodeida.
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Not to worry. We f*rted in their general direction. That’ll teach ‘em.
screw with global commerce like this and they’ll get bombed right back into the Stone Age
the world’s corporations (and their governments) do NOT tolerate interference with shipping of their products, whether it be oil to Europe, European cars to Asia, food to Arabia, or anything else.
that the Hootooeys are already living in the Stone Age just means that they can be killed there, too
Can the launch points not be neutralized?
Do they come off roof racks on VW Beetles?
If they aren’t zapped, someday one will get lucky,
and a lot of sailors will die. Or worse.
The British pretend to be docile woosies. Sometimes they even believe it themselves. But you kill a bunch of British sailors on the high seas, or sink a vessel, and the mask will be off, and they will go full bloody-minded stiff-upper-lip medieval on you. They used to rule the high seas and the “bloody wogs” knew that, and just stuck to rioting in their turban-istans or English cities. This crosses a line, and the Houthis will learn the hard way that it’s a bad idea. We get to watch.
Isn’t a “Bloody Wog” the PM now?
Yeah, but he didn’t assault a ship out in the ocean. He just wipes his a@@ on the sofa at 10 Downing.
This nonsense will continue until the Houthis are hit where they live and breed.
We must be quite impotent for them to go after us this hard.
President Trump would be leveling them. Tucker would whine and complain.
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