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US sinks 3 Houthi attack boats as gunmen try to board container ship in Red Sea
TOI ^ | 12/31/2023 | Agencies

Posted on 12/31/2023 5:35:36 AM PST by Pox

US helicopters sank three boats carrying Houthi gunmen who attacked a container ship that was transiting the Red Sea, the US military said Sunday.

A US warship also shot down two ballistic missiles fired from Yemen, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.

It said that at 6:30 a.m. local time, the Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned and -operated container ship issued a second distress call after earlier reporting that it was hit by a missile.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Yemen
KEYWORDS: freight; houthi; iran; israel; piracy; pirates; redsea; shipping; yemen
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To: Pox

My baby is an AEGIS tech on that ship! Good shooting (and thanks for more gray hairs).


81 posted on 12/31/2023 9:21:22 AM PST by lkco
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To: KC_Conspirator
In fact, most ships coming and going from the US are foreign owned.

1. That wasn't always the case.

2. How about we focus only on protecting U.S.-flagged vessels?

82 posted on 12/31/2023 9:26:53 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Is the bottom graphic the current preferred, safer, longer, maritime shipping lanes?


83 posted on 12/31/2023 9:27:56 AM PST by fhillary2 (Abort Rep. Wexton.)
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To: MeganC
I see.

So American taxpayers should foot the bill to protect foreign shipping because our own unions have killed our merchant fleet.

WTF? This is about the height of stupidity. This is also a symptom of an empire teetering on the brink of collapse.

84 posted on 12/31/2023 9:29:07 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Pox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hEtI9AI0U


85 posted on 12/31/2023 9:51:27 AM PST by Krosan
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To: Alberta's Child

I explained it to you but you’re stuck on stupid so I can see I wasted my time.


86 posted on 12/31/2023 9:54:47 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
Reminds me of all the ads I hear on the radio for taxpayer-funded drug recovery programs ... which come on the air right after the news report about the state decriminalizing most narcotics.

You haven't explained anything. You've given us a good reason to: (1) close down every U.S. military facility outside the country and its territories, and (2) decommission most U.S. Navy ships.

87 posted on 12/31/2023 10:10:35 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Pox

Iran’s attacks on America continue unresponded.


88 posted on 12/31/2023 10:14:59 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: MeganC

The US Navy was FOUNDED in order to make war on mohammedan pirates.


89 posted on 12/31/2023 10:25:42 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: bobbo666

“Alberta’s Child” is flying the flag of Zambia on its profile page.

Bloody foreigner should shut the hell up about American policy.


90 posted on 12/31/2023 10:28:50 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Pox; Liz; Alberta's Child; Dahoser; canuck_conservative
What? I thought our mission was to protect Chinese shipping and to use up our million dollar weapons knocking out thousand dollar drones...Then have our ships sunk to stop world shipping commerce ...

Has the plan changed?

91 posted on 12/31/2023 10:35:14 AM PST by GOPJ (Surgery/makeup doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing gorilla costumes turns a man into ape)
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To: silent majority rising; Vigilanteman; Shady; Worldtraveler once upon a time; Sirius Lee; kabar
What? I thought our mission was to protect Chinese shipping and to use up our million dollar weapons knocking out thousand dollar drones...Then have our ships sunk to stop world shipping commerce ...

Has the plan changed?

92 posted on 12/31/2023 10:38:33 AM PST by GOPJ (Surgery/makeup doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing gorilla costumes turns a man into ape)
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To: Pox

Doesn’t take much to send a jet over and blow up all the other boats they have.


93 posted on 12/31/2023 10:42:11 AM PST by struggle
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To: Alberta's Child

For reason that have to do with fees and costs most ships - even ours - don’t sail under a US flag. Years ago I think it was Libertarian flags that were favored.


94 posted on 12/31/2023 10:46:51 AM PST by GOPJ (Surgery/makeup doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing gorilla costumes turns a man into ape)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

....a fully loaded Maersk type container ship, including all cargo and crew (lawsuits/family) would, I imagine, be worth a lot more than 1 billion dollars.

Divide that invoice up between Maersk, the Finnish Government and scores of insurers and it would be a lot less painful than losing the ship, cargo and crew.

To replace even one of these US destroyers would be several billion dollars.

Trump will do something like this. Biden and his marxists would not even think about it.


95 posted on 12/31/2023 11:17:12 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: MeganC

I don’t always totally agree with Alberta’s Child but this I know
“why defend a nation that’s half bitchy Karens, anxiety-ridden soyboys, screeching feminists, LGBTQ child molesters, pedocrats, RINOs, globalist deep stateM ilitary-industrial megalomanics ALL united in enslaving us for THEIR United States of America?”
I spent more than 5 years in the military(USAF), part of it during the Vietnam war, so I can bitch.
Todays Democrat run governments aren’t worth the sacrifice.
The Navy is the only Constitutionally authorized standing military. So they have to exist, but all the rest should be held as a reserve force only.
I have a grandson, and I forbade him to join what the Democrats have turned our military into.
Full disclosure, most my family and friends are former or retired military, Navy, Marines, Army, or Air Force.
None of us wants to fight for the crud running the country today.


96 posted on 12/31/2023 11:35:02 AM PST by rellic
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To: Alberta's Child

Free flow of trade is to the US advantage.


97 posted on 12/31/2023 1:35:17 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

No such thing as “Free Flow of Trade”, other countries restrict US products.


98 posted on 12/31/2023 1:37:31 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kabar
Thank you shipmate.

The benefits of trade makes for better partners between countries, especially our own. Lowers the rate of conflicts and allows us to create better relations and even establish bases.

99 posted on 12/31/2023 1:46:02 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Alberta's Child

First, let’s kick Canada out of NATO and NORAD and give you the opportunity to join up with the Russians and Chinese you love.


100 posted on 12/31/2023 2:20:16 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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