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US airstrikes on Yemeni oil port kills 74 people, wounds 171
The Pioneer ^ | Saturday, April 19, 2025 | Press Trust of India

Posted on 04/19/2025 5:46:59 PM PDT by Jyotishi

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To: Jyotishi

In a few months the statement will read “These strikes were not intended to harm the people of Iran, who rightly want to throw off the yoke of IRGC subjugation and live peacefully without the threat of nuclear war”


21 posted on 04/19/2025 9:09:00 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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The Yemenites are living more or less in the 7th century.

The Saudis bombed the Houthi rebels.
The Israelis bombed the Houthi rebels and now the Americans are bombing them.

You can destroy what little infrastructure they have but you can’t bomb them back to the Stone Age because they already live there.

The only way to stop the Houthis is to blast Iran, their patrons. Once Iran is crippled the entire terror bloc in the Middle East will go down.

Hit Iran before they go nuclear, there is no other choice.


22 posted on 04/19/2025 9:09:03 PM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Zhang Fei; jjotto

We are now about a month into this Air Campaign against the Houthis.

They attacked multiple ships at sea from various countries, attacked Israel directly multiple times, and directly attacked US Navy ships in International waters.

By this point, it is clearly not just a US airstrike to “save face”, or “send a message”. Houthi capabilities are being seriously degraded.


23 posted on 04/20/2025 1:08:20 AM PDT by BeauBo (Dp)
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[We are now about a month into this Air Campaign against the Houthis.

They attacked multiple ships at sea from various countries, attacked Israel directly multiple times, and directly attacked US Navy ships in International waters.

By this point, it is clearly not just a US airstrike to “save face”, or “send a message”. Houthi capabilities are being seriously degraded.]


If this is a few dozen sorties a day, as you mentioned earlier, that’s maybe 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the 3000+ daily during Desert Storm. This could take a while.

The Houthis are presumably not as well-equipped as Saddam, whose armory was fed by Iraq’s copious oil revenues. But Saddam’s hardware was out in plain view, facing Saudi Arabia, to thwart a US ground attack, so maybe the Houthis have had an easier time hiding their gear. Can’t help thinking the Houthis were set up by Iran as essentially sacrificial lambs, a minefield the US has to clear before any air attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.


24 posted on 04/20/2025 2:47:32 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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KILLS 74 PEOPLE! what no houthi’s? more crap media


25 posted on 04/20/2025 3:03:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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