Posted on 12/24/2023 9:30:32 AM PST by McGruff
A drone fired by Yemen‘s Houthi rebels hit a commercial oil tanker in the Red Sea on Saturday, Pentagon officials said, while the Iran-backed group launched another four attack drones toward a U.S. warship in the region.
The attacks represent a direct challenge by the Iran-affiliated Houthis to the U.S., which recently launched an international task force to protect merchant ships in the increasingly dangerous waterways. The weekend brought fresh reminders of how serious the situation in the Red Sea has become.
In one incident, the Houthis fired four attack drones toward an American warship, the USS Laboon. The ship shot down the drones before they reached their target.
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Biden isn’t doing diddly because they want to give the Iranians more billions. Leftists get people killed.
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More sinister than that - he’s doing nothing because he wants Iran to get the bomb, and then they can use it, as promised, on Rome, Tel Aviv and NYC.
Before the Marines - the on station A-10s and AC-130Js will soften their outboard navy up a bit.
Houthis are client of Iran who makes the drones in question. The CIA has nothing to do with this.
Eventually our systems are going to miss one. Wonder what Joe will tell the families of the sailors that die then? Be check’n his watch at their funeral.
One of these days the Houthis will get lucky and sink one of the Warships in the Red Sea. Then the fun will start. What will we do then? Bomb Yemen? Blow them back to the stone age? What good will that do? Better idea—get Israel to stop bombing Gaza and pull back. Have they killed enough? They have 20,000 now (8,000 Hamas fighters). That is 20 for every Israelis murdered. So they want 50 for every death? or 100 for each citizen killed? What is the desired number. How many Arabs equals one Jew? When will the scales be balanced?
Make the Houthis feel pain and it will stop. One B52 will carry 70,000 lbs of pain. That is a lot of pain.
The head of the snake is Iran. Take out Kharg Island where 85% of Irans oil exports flow out of. Oil is the food for the snake.
For sure. Have you seen the tens of billions in naval assets they have arrayed in the theater? If we can’t get the return of at least being able to keep the Suez shipping lanes open, what’s the point?
https://youtu.be/3c2E2qIgqN4?si=ejYp6dthBcHulUYE
Time for an, “Arc Light” on Yemen.
Problem solved Joe, or are you getting kickbacks from Sanaa too?
5.56mm
Bring home all U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. They serve no purpose in this stupid game of bluff by the lying scoundrels in Washington D.C.
The people in charge are incompetent cowards who are afraid of their own shadows.
what’s the point?
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Ask Joe Bidden about his policy to destroy the USA.
That’s what I was thinking. You needn’t take them all out,just a couple. That would definitely send a massage
The b-52’s normal load was 54 750lb bombs = 40,500lbs.
Those Houthis are poking the wrong Lion. Flatten ‘em!
Nuke yield so much higher but dirty, so, “ no on that thought.”
It is Egypt and Europe that are hurt the most by these IslamoNazis attacking shipping. Egypt loses its revenue source (Suez canal fees) and European shipping, including fuel tankers, have to go around Africa (much more expensive and slower), though a land bridge is being set up now between UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.
There is zero chance IDF will fail to complete the eradication of the Gaza terrorists (and they will never quit trying to get the kidnap victims out). Houtoos have zero actual interest in Jerusalem or for that matter, gaza district. They are Iranian front line proxies and Iran has an extremely dangerous dictatorship which has repeatedly announced its plan to destroy USA (starting with the 7 or 8 large cities it listed...). That’s what the mullah’s ICBM’s are for (they don’t need ICBM’s to destroy Arabia, UAE, or Israel).
While I’d make sure the Hootoos in Yemen understand that they have made themselves fair targets.... I’d definitely take out the Iranian mullahs’ nuclear bomb factories and their one big oil shipping port. These can be achieved in just a few hours by USAF. Oh yes, make sure that no more money is sent to them, either.
These (pretty quick) steps would probably bring most of the Islamic attacks to a pretty quick halt as the Hezballah and Hamas and PLO would see, recognize that their Iranian sponsors are no longer capable of propping them up anymore.
And freedom of the seas will be restored, upheld.
Ask any US Marine.
What’s keeping the good guys from counter-firing and taking out the launch sites? Are they just going to stay out there as targets????
I wonder if a few cruise missiles would change the Houthis behavior, at the same time tell them there would be more to come unless they change their behavior. Well just a thought.
Have you ever pondered why the MSM posts that 20,000 Gazans have died, with the addition "according to Hamas authorities"? Because it is a lie. Just like when a hospital parking lot was hit by a rocket and Hamas claimed over 500 lives were lost, when the truth was that under 50 died (and because of an errant Hamas rocket). Of those accounts of 20,000 perhaps half died because of Hamas killing their own people, and most if not all the dead were Hamas fighters and terrorist participants. The actual count was probably well under 10,000.
Israel needs to continue cleansing Gaza of the terrorists. Until they are all dead.
“Houthis are client of Iran who makes the drones in question. The CIA has nothing to do with this.”
I was making a joke.
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