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Posted on 12/31/23 at 3:53 pm to Tandemjay
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We need to bill the ship owners for the cost. Those ships should have been armed a decade ago. We should use the worn out "sanctions card" on whoever funding the Houthis, it's not just Iran.
Actually a good point. Back in the piracy days of the Caribbean merchant ships were armed. Give them privateer status and let them mount .50 cal guns and grenade/torpedo launchers on them. Hire ex military guys to operate them
Posted on 12/31/23 at 3:57 pm to Tandemjay
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A coalition was started but France, Germany and I think Italy pulled their navy ships out, they did not want to be under US leadership. All other members sent staff officers. Once again the US is the sucker.
The problem is the lack of confidence in the current US leadership.
Do you blame them?
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:01 pm to deltaland
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Actually a good point. Back in the piracy days of the Caribbean merchant ships were armed. Give them privateer status and let them mount .50 cal guns and grenade/torpedo launchers on them. Hire ex military guys to operate them
They hired private security to protect ships from piracy. However, I think the missle attacks require a different kind of protection that merchant ships aren’t set up to handle.
IMO Egypt needs to step up as a large portion of their economy relies on the Suez. The other Gulf states also need to step up to protect their O&G exports. I have already seen a number of ships going from the US East coast to Asia around S. Africa adding another 11 days to their voyages. Couple that with the low water in the Panama Canal and shipping routes are screwed up throughout the world.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:06 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Yemen is a nightmare place. North Yemen was in a civil war for years while South Yemen was a Marxist state. Then they unified and there's been a multi-pronged civil war there basically since the 1990's. Not really believing much of what I'm told by Western legacy media, I wonder how many of those ships being attacked were actually carrying weapons to Saudi Arabia, who've been bombing the entire country relentlessly for years now.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:14 pm to LuckyTiger
Give Iran billions so they can fund Hamas and Yemen. Then send billions to Israel to fight Hamas and also begin to bomb Yemen.
And the usual suspects profit.
And the usual suspects profit.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:16 pm to SCLibertarian
This has more to do with ensuring the Saudi-Israel alliance than anything.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:19 pm to LuckyTiger
Government is organized crime, and it transcends personal politics. I'm thankful I'm old at 40+ and financially maneuverable. To disagree that all these things (immigration, wars, etc..) isn't organized at a higher level is silliness.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:20 pm to JimEverett
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Give Iran billions so they can fund Hamas and Yemen. Then send billions to Israel to fight Hamas and also begin to bomb Yemen.
And the usual suspects profit.
This. Like Syria, we had one of our agencies arming one side and another agency arming the other. All with our tax dollars!
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:21 pm to faka_ofo_ofa
King of Oil about Marc Rich is an enlightening Book about the global energy market and how it works. Will both shock and enlighten.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:26 pm to SCLibertarian
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Not really believing much of what I'm told by Western legacy media, I wonder how many of those ships being attacked were actually carrying weapons to Saudi Arabia, who've been bombing the entire country relentlessly for years now.
Getting involved in this is basically helping the Saudis in their campaign of extermination against the Shiites in Yemen. It’s a stupid idea, pulling us into a war that will have rotten consequences for decades to come. But it’ll increase Lockheed’s stock value, so, in we go.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:27 pm to Figgy
Send em to the virgins
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:27 pm to SCLibertarian
Never really thought about that.
Just your suspicion or do more people think this?
Just your suspicion or do more people think this?
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:30 pm to LuckyTiger
Halleleujah let the Holy War begin.
If they want one let God , the true God and His Son and Our Savior, be on other side and give us the strength to win for Christianity.
We tried Peace but they want to kill all of Christianity and we can have that.
If they want one let God , the true God and His Son and Our Savior, be on other side and give us the strength to win for Christianity.
We tried Peace but they want to kill all of Christianity and we can have that.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:33 pm to Eurocat
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Bombs away.
That's gold coming from you lefties that were crying about Trump starting WW3. Since potato was installed we have nothing but war around the world.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:36 pm to Lsupimp
North Yemen is really a state.
This is going to be hard and it’s unlikely to go well for us. But we’re boxed in. We have to do it.
This is going to be hard and it’s unlikely to go well for us. But we’re boxed in. We have to do it.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 5:08 pm to Lsupimp
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We either protect the free flow of goods in our shipping lanes or we don’t. It’s a 19th century issue- simple piracy by a non-state actor. This one is simple. Introduce them to naval power and send them to Allah.
Except that's not what will happen. Once "dead mothers and children" show up on the CBS Evening News, Biden will have the military change from defensive action to "winning hearts and minds". Yemen will likely be getting billions in US aid to rebuild areas we sent missiles into, areas that cost only millions to build.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 5:09 pm to LuckyTiger
Bretton Woods. This is what we agreed to do.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 5:15 pm to LuckyTiger
Dems love them some war.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 5:36 pm to LuckyTiger
Can the collective modern world just accept a few tactical nukes being dropped on these assholes over there, so we can end this nonsense once and for all?
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