re: Houthis just hit the Marlin Luanda tanker carrying 110,000 dwt of Naphtha Jet Fuel

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There's a big difference between "can't" and "won't".

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Agreed. And for those laughing, please give us an honest assessment of how this is going. We just tried to escort a couple of ships into the Red Sea and our naval vessels got run off by the Houthis. When is the last time we suffered a defeat at sea?

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Russian jet fuel en route from Greece to Singapore.

Why exactly should we care? Aren't we at war with Putin?

Sounds like the Houthis did us a solid.

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It's kind of a mixed bag. Any attack on anything in the Straits threatens shipping in general, so that's an issue. Further, it's a British controlled vessel, so that's another complication.

Beyond that, yeah, we don't really care. I imagine this is them feeling out what they can get away with. Last time they hit a US flagged vessel, we launched a tactical strike that ruined several someone's day.

Biden says you can't go up against the US without F-14's and nukes. So...????

MOAR war.

MOAR laundering.

Yemen = the latest thing no one cared about until the pretty people in makeup on our screens told us to do so.

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Russian jet fuel en route from Greece to Singapore. Why exactly should we care? Aren't we at war with Putin? Sounds like the Houthis did us a solid.

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There’s short sightedness and then there’s this post

Your viewpoint is essentially how Al Qaeda came to gain a foothold in Afghanistan via the Taliban

There's no money in cures. Only in treatments.

Too bad that capt didn’t set course to Yemen port, put the ship at full speed and then abandon it.

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I assume this an oddly oblique reference to Second Amendment arguments revolving around domestic overthrow of the United States government. Because I've neither the interest nor the energy to engage in that kind of silliness right now, I'll just point out that's quite different than some desert guerillas lobbing ordinance at ships halfway across the globe.

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To to micro-penis possessors silently downvoting me: yes, they are fundamentally different, you tits. That doesn't change the fact that I'm a libertarian who thinks you should have the right to own an RPG if you fricking want one, nevermind a pansy assed "assault weapon". Don't @ me, you fricking cowards

Whenever somebody says naphtha at work I think nother afternoon fukkin that arse. Thanks family guy.

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bullshite. There wouldn't be so much as a peep raised if we incinerated the entire county.

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Hard disagree. I'm not saying that the backest of political backchannels wouldn't be fricking thrilled, but the grassroots/astroturphed backlash would be deafening the world over.