Posted on 01/15/2024 7:05:23 AM PST by Red Badger
The British military says a missile struck a ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea
JERUSALEM -- A missile struck a ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after Yemen's Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea, officials said.
Details remained scarce on the missile strike, though it marked the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Suspicion immediately fell on the Houthis — a Shiite rebel group allied with Iran that seized Yemen’s capital in 2014.
They have targeted that crucial corridor linking Asian and Mideast energy and cargo shipments to the Suez Canal onward to Europe over the war, attacks that threaten to widen that conflict into a regional conflagration.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which oversees Mideast waters, said the attack on the ship Monday happened some 110 miles (177 kilometers) miles southeast of Aden.
It offered few details, other than to say the ship’s captain reported that the “port side of vessel hit from above by a missile.” It did not identify the ship or elaborate.
The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Yemen’s Houthi rebels did not acknowledge any attack, though they have fired missiles previously in that area.
Sunday's attack toward the American warship also marked the first U.S.-acknowledged fire by the Houthis since America and allied nations began strikes Friday on the rebels following weeks of assaults on shipping in the Red Sea.
The Houthis did not immediately acknowledge the attack.
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Wikipedia: Marshall Islands
Politically, the Marshall Islands is a parliamentary republic with an executive presidency in free association with the United States, with the U.S. providing defense, subsidies, and access to U.S.-based agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission and the United States Postal Service.
Send your men to die for shipping profits.
US owned…Marshall Islands flagged…
The Hooties could be eliminated in one hour, but nobody in WH or DC has the cojones to exercise that power................
So what do we do? Close the Red Sea?
Destroy Israel like the Paleys and Iranians want?
What’s a way out that doesn’t lead to another round of inflation?
Because closing the Red Sea and therefore the Suez canal and tanker traffic thru the Mediterranean will greatly raise prices on goods worldwide.
It is like throwing a rock in a pond. Ripples go out everywhere.
33 million people in Yemen, 90 in Iran.
You know we don’t fight wars to win.
> Looks like the Marshall Island navy is the US Navy... <
Interesting, thanks. Then the question becomes, do the minimal fees paid by a Marshall Islands flagged ship go to the Marshall Islands or to the United States?
I bet it’s the former. Get US Navy protection without helping to pay for the US Navy. Sort of like the guy who refuses to contribute a dime to his local volunteer fire department, but is quick to call them in an emergency.
Bah!
They know exactly from where the missile was launched and who launched it. They should have smeared them into paste by now with a counterstrike. They did not.
Our "rules of engagement" are defined to ensure that we lose this conflict.
Which means Iran (and Russia) will control all of the shipping through the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. That will not be good for the globalist elites. And oddly enough, that will not be good for the United States or Europe or China or Japan.
The horrible truth is that we may not be able to win this conflict. Our navy is in poor shape and does not have effective technology to deal with modern drone attackers and other antiship missiles. If the Houthis are allowed to setup enough Iranian drone inventories and Russian air defenses, our naval forces will simply be targets for swarm attacks to which we cannot respond.
In any case, commercial shipping is defenseless against missile attacks. It can resume only by permission of Iran. That is a bad thing.
Defensive strategies are losing strategies when underlying technologies change. We must learn from our enemies.
In the military, we used to call Uncle Sam Uncle Sugar, or Uncle Sucka, depending on how much the USA seemed to spend on everyone (except us).
The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
– George Orwell
1984. Part 2, Chapter 9. Winston reading from Emmanuel Goldstein’s book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism.
> Defensive strategies are losing strategies when underlying technologies change. <
Frederick the Great would agree with you.
“He who defends everything, defends nothing.”
Frederick the Great
It is not so much taxes is that any US flagged vessel has to abide by the Jones Act. That typically means much higher operating costs. Including union crews.
This is also the reason why shipping from one US port to the other is more expensive than shipping from Houston to anywhere else in the world. If you ship from Houston to Boston it has to be on a US flagged vessel in compliance to the Jones Act.
This is also the case with river cruises in the US or small cruise ships that go up the New England coast in the summer.
Which is why they are so much more expensive than a cruise ship that departs Boston and goes to Bermuda.
That reminds me of what a boss told me once.
I had numerous projects to design. I asked which were priority, and she said they all were.
I just shook my head and walked away.
It was supposed to be a warning…
Just like Idiocracy.
The FAA wants to hire mentally ill and low IQ people on purpose.
Spain just elected a female with Downs Syndrome to their “parliament”.
I want to wake up…
> It is not so much taxes is that any US flagged vessel has to abide by the Jones Act. <
Thanks for the info. I was aware of the Jones Act, but not all the details. I guess this is just another example of unintended consequences. Sadly, the government never course-corrects. Bad laws live on forever.
Joe won’t cut off Iranian oil…..it’s that simple.
Looks like some causalties from this. What will the potato in the White House do?
I wonder if the owner called the Marshall Islands navy first.🤔
Might as well have. The (presumably non-existent) Marshall Islands navy would have been able to provide just as much protection/deterrence as the U.S. Navy appears to have been able to do.
But I catch your broader point and agree with it.
We’re sitting targets in that sea, without an offensive strategy. We shouldn’t be there.
I think there have been times they tried to correct it, but was always stopped by the unions supporting the right Senators/Speaker, etc.
This is a loosing engagement for us.
Think of all of the maritime choke points in the world. What if Morocco started firing missiles at ships entering the Mediterranean Sea or if Indonesia or Malaysia effectively closed the Strait of Malacca?
Historically this kind of behavior has been dealt with either by bribes or war.
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