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Chaos in the Red Sea: Houthis hit oil tanker, launch attack drones toward U.S. warship
The Washington Times ^ | December 24, 2023 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 12/24/2023 9:30:32 AM PST by McGruff

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To: davidb56

Could be a combination of all except perhaps the CIA, only because the CIA does everything in its power to protect Joe Biden.


21 posted on 12/24/2023 10:00:14 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: McGruff

Way to go, Joe! Way to go!


22 posted on 12/24/2023 10:00:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff

> The ship shot down the drones before they reached their target. <

Each Houthi drone costs around $2000. Each US Navy anti-missile missile costs around $2,000,000. So even when we win, we lose.

Time to either get out of there or (better yet) hit the Houthis directly. As the old saying goes, the best defense is a good offense.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/19/missile-drone-pentagon-houthi-attacks-iran-00132480


23 posted on 12/24/2023 10:01:49 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: McGruff

WTF arw we waiting for? Some rogue regime fires weapons on our ships and we do nothing. Time to take action against Yemen’s military machine.....level them.


24 posted on 12/24/2023 10:03:03 AM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Don’t sell the idiots in DC short. I think they are waiting for more attacks to justify their overreaction. The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group is just sitting there off the Yemen coast with 2400 marines ready to go after the Houthis. I think they’ll be committed.


25 posted on 12/24/2023 10:03:31 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: V_TWIN; null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; Red Badger

(NONE of this would be happening if (PRESIDENT) Trump was still POTUS)

Maybe that’s the plan.... /shiny side out


26 posted on 12/24/2023 10:04:15 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Leaning Right

The thought of going on the offensive never occurs to these scumbag morons. Milkdud Austin would rather attack Americans.


27 posted on 12/24/2023 10:05:36 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: McGruff

As long as they get the US Military pronouns correct all is cool.


28 posted on 12/24/2023 10:07:03 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

“Fire up the Big Bombers (B52s)!”

Yeppers! They could widen the strait very nicely aligned with the houti neighborhood..


29 posted on 12/24/2023 10:07:44 AM PST by ryderann
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To: davidb56

if you recall

obama left a downed drone for iran to reverse engineer

he deliberately put iran in the drone business

yay terrorism!


30 posted on 12/24/2023 10:08:25 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think they’ll probably order some some ineffectual but well filmed bombings in order to make Weekend at Bernie’s look good. Trump would have ordered the whole coast, every boat and missile/drone launch point, brought to a nice days long glow weeks ago.


31 posted on 12/24/2023 10:11:03 AM PST by katana
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To: McGruff

China.
Getting ready to annex Taiwan and using a proxy crisis elsewhere to distract the US and the Imposter in Chief, hoping that America and the West will devote its military resources in another part of the world.


32 posted on 12/24/2023 10:13:03 AM PST by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: joshua c

The half black Joker.


33 posted on 12/24/2023 10:14:46 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: davidb56

“I wonder who supplied the drones? “

The CIA.


34 posted on 12/24/2023 10:15:26 AM PST by dljordan
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To: hardspunned

> The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group is just sitting there off the Yemen coast with 2400 marines ready to go after the Houthis. <

If so, it would be good optics if a solid, multi-national force were involved. So maybe throw in some British commandos. And the French Foreign Legion too.

We shouldn’t have to do all the heavy lifting. Plus a show of Western unity would be nice.


35 posted on 12/24/2023 10:18:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: McGruff

I really hate to break it to the feckless cowardly POSes that run our government, but these acts of war will not stop until we create some smoldering holes in the desert where their launches used to be


36 posted on 12/24/2023 10:20:00 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: McGruff

If someone would blow up these inbreds as their boat approaches, these attacks would stop immediately.


37 posted on 12/24/2023 10:22:57 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: davidb56

I wonder who supplied the drones?

Iran makes their own drones, many underground factories. Sells them to clients like Houthis, Hezbollah, etc. Also sells them to Russia.


38 posted on 12/24/2023 10:31:34 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The Houthis Iran knows that Joe won’t strike back in Yemen.
39 posted on 12/24/2023 10:32:30 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ping jockey

How many hits we gonna take from these morons before we conduct a come too Jesus moment with them?

Not striking a decisive blow is Biden admin policy.


40 posted on 12/24/2023 10:33:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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