Posted on 10/25/2024 4:41:28 AM PDT by bert
The Wall Street Journal reported that Russia supplied targeting intelligence to Yemen's Houthi forces for attacks on Western ships in the Red Sea.
Yemen’s Houthi terrorists used targeting data provided by Russia to attack Western ships in the Red Sea earlier this year, an exclusive Thursday Wall Street Journal report disclosed.
According to the report, the Houthis used Russian satellite data to destabilize the region as the Israel-Hamas war expanded throughout the past year. A person familiar with the matter and two European defense officials reportedly told the WSJ this information.
Furthermore, the data was passed through Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members embedded within the Houthis, one of the sources reportedly said.
The report added that the assistance of Russia to the Iran-backed Houthis, designated by the US as a terror group, showed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s commitment to causing instability in the Middle East and undermining the US and Western world.
“For Russia, any flare-up anywhere is good news because it takes the world’s attention further away from Ukraine, and the US needs to commit resources—Patriot systems or artillery shells—and with the Middle East in play, it’s clear where the US will choose,” Alexander Gabuev, director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, a think tank based in Berlin, reportedly said.
The report noted that neither the Russian government nor the Houthi spokesman agreed to the WSJ’s request for comment.
As Israel has steadily increased operations against Iran and its militias in the region, Putin has turned away from his long-standing relationship with Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in favor of strengthened ties with Iran, the report added.
The Houthis have disrupted global trade According to the WSJ, the Houthis’ attacks, bolstered by Iran and Russia, have caused significant disruptions to global trade, diverting shipper vessels for more expensive voyages. Additionally, the terrorists have reportedly attacked over 100 ships since November 2023, sinking two and hijacking another.
The Freeper terror supporters support directly the Houthi war on the US Navy in the Red Sea. That is treason
Russia is EVERYWHERE - I called up the Trump Campaign here in Texas and the first thing you get is a recording: “For English push 1; for Russian push 2”.
The takeover of the world by Russia HAS TO END - not even Trump can campaign in peace anymore.
Please! I am a Russophile - but would dance a jig if Putin's head showed up on the end of a pike on the evening news.
Regards,
Poor Bert. You think that only America can use terrorists. Remember when we incubated terrorism in Afghanistan? We are the fathers of the Taliban. How Obama used ISIS in Syria? Why is it that Israel in a year has been able to kill scores of terrorists that have been wanted for decades by the U.S. in Palestine?
You have committed treason by supporting Russia
The problem is that Putin is trying to say “Muscowy is still relevant” instead of focusing on improving his people’s lives.
Russia in 2000 had smart people and resources - the money from the latter could have gone to building up the technological prowess of the former. Similar to what China did, on a far lower “resource” base.
But Putin used the resource boom to line his and his oligarchs’ pockets
Those clever Ruskies also blow up their gas pipeline to disrupt EU supplies.
The Russian people are still serfs.
Putin is Czar and the Oligarchs are still the nobility.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
I think Russia’s mistake since the early 1800s has been focusing on attacking and expanding westwards rather than southwards.
If, in the 1790s, it hadn’t partitioned Poland-Lithuania but kept it as a buffer state, then there would be no competition with the Germanic states (in any case by then the Romanovs were nearly 100% German by blood).
They could have then used the Hapsburgs to have a soft take over of the Balkans, filling it with client states.
That would have taken British fears of the “great game” away and let the Russians take Crimea and Constantinople by the late 1800s.
In fact, if Putin had focused on “soft power” since 2000, he would have had Ukraine and Belarus without firing a shot
To the first - regarding the "Taliban" -- no, the USA was not involved in creating that, but it did supply the Mujahideen AND Pakistan - and the Mujahideen were the source of and Pakistan the creator of the Taliban
To the latter - Obie didn't "use ISIS" - he "tried to use" - and failed as was his wont.
Escalating Russian support for anti-American & anti-Western terrorism was a given, the minute Biden chose to intervene in Ukraine - hope nobody is actually surprised....
We U.S. citizens are also still serfs, with 34 trillion signs to prove it.
Repeating from the article:Yemen’s Houthi terrorists used targeting data provided by Russia to attack Western ships in the Red Sea earlier this year, an exclusive Thursday Wall Street Journal report disclosed.
According to the report, the Houthis used Russian satellite data to destabilize the region as the Israel-Hamas war expanded throughout the past year. A person familiar with the matter and two European defense officials reportedly told the WSJ this information.
Furthermore, the data was passed through Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members embedded within the Houthis, one of the sources reportedly said.
The report added that the assistance of Russia to the Iran-backed Houthis, designated by the US as a terror group, showed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s commitment to causing instability in the Middle East and undermining the US and Western world.
“The problem is that Putin is trying to say “Muscowy is still relevant””
The events at Kazan this week, where HUGE NUMBERS of World Leaders came to Russia for the BRICS Meeting spoke to that.
By the way, when was the last time a similar meeting took place in the US (and no, the UN is not in the US)?
You get it...
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