Posted on 06/17/2024 9:51:42 AM PDT by RandFan
But was the US really fighting the Houthis to win, or we just had to prove to Saudi Arabia we were behind them?
P And let’s not forget they’re funded by the same people that are funding Hamas.
I feel confident that a lot of the $1billion found its way in the “connected” pockets. For the connected it’s not so much about outcomes as it is about the revenue stream and their access to it.
We probably couldn’t even win in Grenada these days.
Hmmmm... And they didn’t even have an F-15.
As long as Biden got his 10%... /s
A billion to lose to the ragtag Houthis.
A quarter billion on a failed pier.
Seven billion to build SEVEN EV chargers.
Government is absolutely incompetent at everything...except destroying the Republic.
The Clinton Crime Family really ramped-up the money stealing from war during the Bosnian War.
It’s just grown from there.
The Democrat Crime Families are stealing billions off the Ukrainian War.
The rest of the world is really going to love Americans when they realize our Democrat Crime Families and Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate foment war around the globe, killing millions of people so that they can steal money.
Actual mission accomplished.
Politicians worry about the optics of war. Wake up, Bozo...war is messy and the more you play into the hands of public opinion, the more you drag out the war and cost lives on BOTH sides. Where would we be if Truman hadn't had the balls to drop those two bombs on Japan? We still be fighting door-to-door in Tokyo.
I say give the ROE back to the people who know how to WIN wars and screw the optics. We have the capability to put the Houthies back in the Stone Age if we really wanted to win the war, but then a lot of companies to contribute to politicians' reelection fund would be harmed. If I were in charge of the IDF, Gaza wouldn't be a suitable parking lot by now, BUT...the war would be over.
Drawing out wars by letting politicians set the ROE is simply causing more people to die in the long run, not to mention draining the resources of the combatants.
why ?
cuz they have gone Rogue , and backstopped the Coup.
next question.
War is like fighting a fire, if you "win" one, you must be prepared to prevent or stop flare-ups.
I welcome and applaud the former. I deplore the second but recognize that that always comes with the territory.
As long as it fed the War Machine, it’s all good.
Even the US Mulberry did not survive the sea conditions at Normandy and it was well protected by a breakwater of sunken ships and concrete caissons.
Government is absolutely incompetent at everything...except destroying the Republic.
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Looking on the brighter side, maybe the Government’s ongoing destruction of our Republic will save the U.S., Russia, China, and Iran from an unnecessary nuclear holocaust!
Winning means you can’t spend anymore.
Half-measures ensures you can come back and ask for more funding.
Maybe for some but not for me. Winning means destruction of the enemies ability or will to wage war, at least for the present time. They always seem to come back.
Houthis would shoot cheap ass s**t stick missiles that were barely able to hit a target at our ships with impunity and we would shoot them down with our most sophisticated multi million buck interceptors.
This allowed our enemies to get a very detailed performance data and emission profiles on our anti missile systems that the Chines, Russians and Iranians are finding very useful.
At the same time draining our inventories of super expensive multi million dollar a interceptor missiles that we are increasingly having finding the money to replace. This crap could have been ended pretty much overnight with a handful of JADAMs targeted at the Yemeni politicians and Houthi leaders who were the ones actually orchestrating the show
Instead we "retaliate" (in the rare instance we even try) by destroying the even more worthless launcher that fired the worthless s**t stick of a missile that took out at least one and probably multiple missiles of our front line interceptors. Heck we, had to send at least tow missile ships back to the States because they ran out of missiles and they can only be re supplied at port in the US. An the Biden morons call this a great victory for our side.
Our enemies are laughing their asses off at us for our stupidity and Biden Admin officials are probably getting big balances sent to their Swiss bank accounts by their Iranian buddies for enabling this travesty.
Kind of makes you wonder how many in the Biden admin are working for the other side.
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