Posted on 05/06/2025 10:14:47 AM PDT by McGruff
President Trump announced Tuesday that Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen had agreed to stop attacking American vessels in the Red Sea and that his administration will cease strikes on them in response.
“The Houthis have announced that … they don’t want to fight anymore,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office while meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“They just don’t want to fight. And we will honor that, and we will stop the bombings, and they have capitulated, but more importantly, we will take their word [when] they say they will not be blowing up ships anymore, and that’s what the purpose of what we were doing.”
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They’re too much like the Japanese. They won’t quit after buying time to rethink their next step. 2 bombs brought the Japanese to their senses and it’s not an option here-not yet.
Already being denied by Houthis.
Houthis don’t wanna fight? Nah, I can’t believe that. Houthis live to fight.
Israel hit them hard last night, disabling their port and their international airport among other targets. They also hit the cement factory and power stations. We may have also been involved in those strikes. So maybe the Houthis did send a message that they quit, maybe they’ve lost too many assets, maybe they need to focus on internal security since the people are probably near an uprising after all this damage. But who knows, maybe they are just buying time.
I did not think American vessels were ever an explicit target. They were hitting generic Red Sea merchant vessels, of which none were American. Most or all European, who should be doing their own defending.
The British, the Egyptians, the Saudis the list goes on have come and gone from Yemen but the Houthis remain.
Trump just declared victory and backed away smart move IMHO.
Fly a few of the leaders to the Gaza Strip to show them what their cities will look like if they break the agreement.
Agreed. They don’t get to start violence, call “time-out”, and then we have to do this again after more violence. Don’t just remove their will to fight; remove the light from their eyes.
DIRTYSECRET: They’re too much like the Japanese. They won’t quit after buying time to rethink their next step. 2 bombs brought the Japanese to their senses and it’s not an option here-not yet.
"Two minds without a single thought" and all that...
If I were the Commander-in-Chief, I wouldn't have been satisfied with less than THIS
and THIS
as proof of their contrition and sincerity.
Regards,
Don’t believe them.
They need the Yemini’s and Saudi’s to go in and remove their bases.
“All your base are belong to us”
Either this is a fake quote, or Trump is an idiot.
“They won’t quit after buying time to rethink their next step. 2 bombs brought the Japanese to their senses and it’s not an option here-not yet”
Well...... this may have given them some serious thought on the matter.
President Trump just chewed PM Carney up, and spit him out. It was glorious
Probably Witkof has been hoodwinked again and Trump hasn’t discovered that yet.
Finally, someone who gets it. There was no way an air campaign was going to “annihilate” and “completely destroy” the Houthis as first claimed.
People talk about the Russians’ great capacity for suffering, and it’s true — they do.. But the Russians got nothing on the Houthis in that department.
As Rush said, “Bomb them forward to the Stone Age.”
Educate yourself.
The 2003 invasion and conquest of Iraq was one of the most successful invasions in history since Francisco Pizarro’s conquest of the Incas in 1532.
The last thing that went through their minds was the concrete wall in front of them.
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