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“Whoever does not try to stop a genocide, has lost his humanity.” Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, Houthi spokesman

Events in the Middle East are spinning out of control. In the last week, the United States has attacked Houthi positions on the Yemeni mainland 7 times while the Houthis have launched 5 attacks on commercial vessels and US warships in the Red Sea. At the same time, Iran has launched multiple attacks on sites in Syria, Iraq and Pakistan, while Israel has hit targets in both Lebanon and Damascus. Adding more fuel to the fire, the IDF has continued its relentless assault on Palestinians living in Gaza resulting in scores of new deaths and injuries. In short, there’s been a sharp uptick in military activity across the Middle East that is steadily increasing. This suggests that the low-intensity conflict we have seen for the last few weeks is about to explode into something much more violent, far-reaching and unpredictable. Many analysts believe we are on the brink of full-blown regional war which—in view of recent developments—may be unavoidable. This is from an article at the Washington Post:

The Biden administration is crafting plans for a sustained military campaign targeting the Houthis in Yemen after 10 days of strikes failed to halt the group’s attacks on maritime commerce…

Officials say they don’t expect that the operation will stretch on for years like previous U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria. At the same time they acknowledge they can identify no end date or provide an estimate for when the Yemenis’ military capability will be adequately diminished…..

While the attacks have so far taken a greater toll on Europe than the United States…the Houthi campaign is already beginning to reshape the global shipping map. Some firms have chosen to reroute ships around the Cape of Good Hope off southern Africa, while major oil companies including BP and Shell suspended shipments through the area…

“It’s impossible to forecast exactly what’s going to happen, and certainly not [to predict] future operations,” the first U.S. official said. “But the principle that it simply can’t be tolerated for a terrorist organization … with these advanced capabilities to essentially shut down or control shipping through a key international choke point is one that we feel very strongly about.”…

U.S. officials also are concerned that attacking the Houthis has thrust the United States into a conflict with little exit strategy and limited support from key allies. Notably, America’s most powerful Gulf partners have withheld their backing for the American operation. The prime minister of Qatar, a key U.S. ally in the Gulf, has warned that Western strikes would not halt the violence and could fuel regional instability. As Houthis vow to fight on, U.S. prepares for sustained campaign, Washington Post

While the Washington Post article provides little new information, it does help to clarify a few important points:

  1. That the US is now embroiled in another “sustained military campaign” (War) that has not been approved by the UN Security Council, the US Congress or the American people. It’s clear that our domestic politics have deteriorated to the point where the president alone decides whether the country goes to war or not. And, not surprisingly, those wars invariably advance the interests of the billionaire elites who guide policy behind the fig leaf of representative government. In truth, all the war-making powers rest with them.
  2. Since, airstrikes alone will not “degrade” the Houthis military capability, “the operation will stretch on for years.” (So, get ready for another 20-year stint like Afghanistan)
  3. The real reason the administration has eschewed direct dialogue with the Houthis, is because “it simply can’t be tolerated for a terrorist organization …to control shipping through a key international choke point.” This is a tacit admission that Washington refuses to negotiate with people it doesn’t consider its equal. Thus, the only option available, is to “shoot first and ask questions later.”
  4. Interestingly, the Post admits that “the Houthis have thrust the United States into a conflict with little exit strategy and limited support from key allies.” What the authors should have added is that everything about the current strategy violates the so-called Powell Doctrine. There is no clearly attainable objective, nor have the risks and costs been fully analyzed, nor have all other non-violent options been exhausted, nor is there a plausible exit strategy, nor is the action supported by the American people, nor does the US have broad international support, nor is a vital national security interest threatened. All of the main precepts of the Powell Doctrine have been shrugged off by Biden’s foreign policy team. As a result, there’s no planning, no endgame, and no strategic objective, which is why the plan to wage war on Yemen is, perhaps, the most impulsive and poorly-thought out operation in recent times.

There’s also no guarantee that the plan will work at all. In fact, there is every reason to believe it will backfire spectacularly creating an even bigger crisis. Check out this clip from an article at Responsible Statecraft:

It would seem that the real threat here is the escalation from continued U.S. airstrikes, which are killing people. As RS has reported on these pages time and again, the Houthis are battle hardened and even emboldened by the reaction of the West to their provocations. … a number of realist voices are decrying the folly of once again falling into a spiral of retaliatory violence that will likely lead to a real military crisis, even the death of U.S. service members, before it is done.

“They (strikes) won’t work. They won’t sufficiently degrade Houthi capability or will stop their attacks on shipping,” says Ben Friedman, senior fellow of Defense Priorities. “Why do something that is so evidently reckless? Restraint reminds us that no such law says we must conduct airstrikes that won’t work. We always have the option not to employ pointless violence.” US strikes Yemen again, but Houthi attacks keep coming, Responsible Statecraft

The fact that 8 years of relentless airstrikes by the Saudis only served to strengthen the Houthis, has not dampened the administration’s enthusiasm for more of the same. Biden is convinced that the identical policy will produce a different result. But isn’t that the definition of “insanity”? And where do we see evidence that the prescribed method actually works: Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Libya? Ukraine? Are these the shining examples of ‘military triumph’ that have convinced Biden that he’s on the right track?

But even if the Biden team had a coherent military strategy, there would still be a fundamental problem with the current approach, mainly because it’s morally wrong. The United States should work alongside those who are trying to enforce the Genocide Convention, not treat them as enemies. The Houthis have taken a constructive and (so far) non-lethal approach to Israel’s depredations in Gaza, an approach that is consistent with Article 1 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which clearly states:

The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

The Houthis blockade of Israel-linked commercial ships passing through the Red Sea also hews to the tenets of The Responsibility to Protect – known as R2P which “was unanimously adopted in 2005 at the UN World Summit, the largest gathering of Heads of State and Government in history”, a document which—by the way—was signed by representatives of the United States. Here’s a short excerpt from the text:

Each individual State has the responsibility to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity…. The international community, through the United Nations, also has the responsibility to use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian and other peaceful means, in accordance with Chapters VI and VIII of the Charter, to help to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity….

Pillar 1

Every state has the Responsibility to Protect its populations from four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.

Pillar 2

The wider international community has the responsibility to encourage and assist individual states in meeting that responsibility.

Pillar 3

If a state is manifestly failing to protect its populations, the international community must be prepared to take appropriate collective action, in a timely and decisive manner and in accordance with the UN Charter. WhatIsR2P? , Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect

While it’s true that the Houthis have not garnered UNSC approval for their unilateral blockade of Israeli-bound ships, that is because the US blocks all such measures just as it blocked the previous Ceasefire resolutions. But the fact that the international community is unable to enforce basic humanitarian precepts—due to the obstructionism of the US— does not absolve people or states from doing their duty. It would be vastly preferable to have the UN’s authorization, but it is not absolutely necessary. The higher priority is saving the lives of innocent people. Here’s how Houthi spokesman, Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti summed it up in a recent statement on Twitter:

Taking action to support the oppressed… is a true test of morality… and whoever does not take action to stop the crime of genocide… has lost his humanity.

Moral… values.. do not change with the race and religion of the person… If another group of humans were subjected to the injustice that the Palestinians are subjected to, we would take action to support them, regardless of their religion and race.

… the Yemeni people (are committed) ​​… to achieve a just peace that guarantees the dignity, safety and security of all countries and peoples Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti @M_N_Albukhaiti

Is it naive of us to think that the Houthis are acting in accordance with universally-accepted principles of justice and humanity? Are we wrong in assuming that the Houthis sound like men who can be reasoned with and with who one could negotiate an agreement that would end the blockade and the onslaught in Gaza at the same time? If that is so, then they why doesn’t Biden engage the group diplomatically instead of bombarding their ports and cities?

And, just for the record: The administration and their allies in the media continue to imply that the traffic in the Red Sea is at historic lows due to the “indiscriminate” attacks on commercial ships by the Houthis. But that is not the case. On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (in a visit to the United Nations) produced documentary evidence that traffic in the Red Sea remains relatively normal excluding the fact that Israel-linked ships are prevented from sailing the waterway. In other words, the western media is deliberately misleading the American people to accelerate the rush to war. Here’s the story from Press TV (Iranian state media):

The Iranian foreign minister noted that satellite images show that approximately 230 merchant vessels and oil tankers were cruising in the Red Sea at the time that the US and UK carried out their strikes against Yemen.

“This means that they (Americans and Britons) have well understood Yemenis’ point that only ships heading towards ports operated by the occupying Israeli regime will be blocked,” Amir-Abdollahian said. Iran has sternly warned Washington against attacks on Yemen, says Iranian foreign minister, Press TV

The Iranian FM’s remarks are underscored by an official Houthi statement that was published on X and which says the following:

The Yemeni Navy is steadfast to its commitment to ongoing operations in the Red Sea until the cessation of the blockade and the aggression against Gaza. Consequently, maritime activities and navigation in the Red Sea are securely facilitated for all vessels excluding those affiliated with Israel or bound for Israeli ports. For ships unaffiliated with Israel, it is crucial to maintain uninterrupted communication with Yemeni authorities throughout their entire journey through the following channels (radio and email) The Yemeni Armed Forces reiterates its dedication to conducting operations in strict adherence to international legal principles aimed at preventing genocide and punishing those responsible for it. Additionally, it underscores its commitment to facilitating unimpeded traffic flow and upholding maritime security in the Red Sea and the broader region. Yemeni Navy: “Here’s exactly what you have to do to identify your vessels so they’re not targetedHouthi Spokesman

The idea that the Houthis are attacking commercial vessels willy-nilly just doesn’t pass the ‘smell test’. What’s more likely is that the narrative has been tweaked in order to demonize a rival of Israel.

Finally, I have taken the liberty of transcribing a short video by Tim Anderson who argues that the Houthis have not only seized the moral high-ground, but that the United States and Israel are acting in a way that is reckless, hypocritical and damaging to their own best interests. I think you’ll find it’s worth your time:

The United States has designated the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization for what amounts to trying to stop Israel’s genocide…. Now the stated purpose of Ansar Allah’s (AKA—The Houthis) blockade, is to uphold Article 1 of the UN Genocide Convention. And given that Yemen is a member to the UN Genocide Convention, the Houthis say they have an obligation to stop the shipment of weapons and other supplies to Israel while it commits a genocide. …The US is saying that the “terrorists” aren’t the ones perpetrating a genocide, …but the ones who are trying to stop a genocide.

Designating Ansar Allah as terrorists is also deeply ironic because the US is currently enforcing two unilateral economic blockades of Cuba and Venezuela. …and, unlike Ansar Allah’s blockade of Israel, which has yet to kill anyone, US blockades have killed thousands of people….Ansar Allah is using their blockade to stop a genocide whereas the US blockades are intended to starve and collectively punish the countries they target and can be considered a form of genocide. …

Ansar Allah is not being punished because of terrorism. They are being punished because their blockade is working. Israel imports 99% of its goods by sea. …The Israeli port of Eilat has been blocked by the Houthis and seen an 85% decrease in activity…. The shipping companies are going to pass the costs onto consumers which is going to cause prices to rise and imported goods to become scarcer. …The war resembles an economic recession for Israel. A survey taken in November found that one in three businesses in Israel is operating at 20% capacity or less, and more than half of Israeli businesses lost 50% of their revenue. According to the labor ministry, 18% of the Israeli workforce have been called up to fight the war which has left a huge hole in the Israeli workforce…. Over a million Israelis have left the country, tourism has collapsed, business investment has collapsed, and all in all the Israeli Treasury predicts that Israels GDP will have fallen 15% in the forth quarter, and that the war will cost Israel a total of $58 billion. …

State Department records show that for decades US elites were concerned they would lose control of the Red Sea. And, in 2015, the US would go on to arm, fund and support a genocidal war waged by Saudi Arabia against Ansar Allah. The war pushed two-thirds of the population to the brink of starvation and caused the worst cholera outbreak in human history. But it still failed to defeat Ansar Allah. And, now the same Yemeni people who faced a US-backed genocide only a few years ago, are now mounting the most disruptive actions against the US-backed genocide in Gaza. This is, of course, is humiliating to the United States.

It wasn’t so long ago, the US considered Nelson Mandela and his supporters “terrorists”. Then they defeated South African apartheid. In that sense, this latest terrorist designation of the Houthi movement, is just a continuation of this very long trend. Terrorism is a highly politicized term. Of course, apartheid states and their supporters are going to consider attempts to end their apartheid states as terrorism. But in Palestine and the Middle East, the real terrorists are the ones that are carpet-bombing hospitals, schools and entire neighborhoods; Israel and the United States.

 
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  1. anon[292] • Disclaimer says:

    Yes, the Houthis are doing the right thing.

    And the Iraqi Resistance also… who will be hitting more targets in “Israel” shortly.

    It’s East vs WEF… uhh… West.

    Although there is a way to solve the WEF problem also… using TikTok of all things:

    https://anonamos.substack.com/p/a-grand-tiktok-challenge

    • Replies: @anonymous
  2. Wokechoke says:

    If I were a hotelier in the Middle East I’d refuse custom to large groups of military age Europeans and Americans right about now.

    The missile strike in Kharkov can be replicated by Houthis and Iran.

    60 plus FFL men killed in Kharkov.

  3. The illustration included a note of the case of Gambia vs Myanmar, which I was unaware of. I know the latter country is doing ethnic cleansing of the Rohinggya, this Muslim tribe that straddles the border zone with Bangladesh. Makes me wonder what they’ll say about the USA when we finally acquire the guts to expel all our illegals. Will the ICJ style that a “genocide?” Probably.

    • Replies: @Passing by
    , @RadicalCenter
  4. witless Whitney strikes again.

    The Houthis are a figleaf to cover the complete failure of Hezbollah-Iran to do anything of substance against Izrahell and for Gaza.

    • Agree: meamjojo
    • LOL: L.K
    • Troll: Justrambling
    • Replies: @anon
    , @Verymuchalive
  5. The Brophet speaks.

    FORECAST FOR 2024



    Video Link

    • Thanks: Buck Ransom
  6. @Fidelios Automata

    The Rohingya are yet another problem created by the British.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
  7. maskazer says:

    US international brinkmanship and deep moral decay are the sure signs of its coming collapse. US-Israel are committing a genocide on Palestinians and that alone will ensure their demise.

    • Agree: Notsofast
  8. IronForge says:

    If the Houthi were truly just targeting Israeli Shipping, we could have said, “So Sad, Too Bad”; and kept reading the News.

    Unfortunately, what the Star-Struck Hamas+Houthi_Worshipping Author doesn’t report is that:

    *A) The Houthi are indiscriminately attacking MVs which are NOT affiliated with Israel;

    *B) Attacked a French Navy Frigate Escorting French Flagged MVs;

    *C) Attacked sufficient Indian and Danish Shipping thus far where Armed Responses should be expected.

    **C1) India have sent a Task Force of Navy Destroyers and Naval Aircraft to Monitor, Escort, and tend to Distressed MVs. With Indian Shipping and Citizens(who man many MVs regardless of Flag) afflicted by the Houthi Attacks, India may start retaliating against the Houthi;

    **C2) Denmark probably have the means to Call for an NATO Article 5 Assembly to formally request a NATO Flotilla to Escort MVs.

    **C3) Egypt have lost much Suez Transit Revenue, where Egypt may formally Call for Military Aid or actively participate in the Anglo-Murican Task Force by Hosting Task Force Units.

    Granted, with NATO the Hegemony Vassal already committed to supporting Israel’s Responses to the Hamas Incursions, NATO Members have mostly shied away from joining the Anglo-Murican led Combined Task Force Escort/Convoy Operation Prosperity Guardian – with Members who’ve sent their Navies to the Region preferring to Escort their own MVs in a loosely coordinated way in order to distance themselves from Israel’s Current Conflicts.

    Understandable – I would too; but Murica are the Hegemony “Lead Bull” State dedicated to support Israel (all Key Hegemony and Vassal-States usually do or are coerced to in one form or another); and currently has a Jewish-Diaspora Soros Stooge as the Secretary of State.

    *****

    That being said,

    Outside of a captured MV allegedly owned by an Israeli (Casual Observers need to also consider the Commercial Exporting+Importing Parties as well):

    *MVs aren’t being sunk;

    *MV Crews aren’t being maimed or slain by the Dozen. The AngloMurica are curtailing their Strikes against the Houthi in calculated amounts – because (Anglo-Murican/Jewish-Diaspora)Lives aren’t being lost on a Major Scale and to avoid a Scenario similar to “Hamas Hammerings” being conducted by Israel.

    I now expect AngloMurica to go into a 24/7 Attacking Mode “if” the Houthi manage to sink AngloMurican Flagged MVs, kill Crews of said MVs, and/or damage AngloMurican Navy+AirForce Platforms.

    Probably a matter of time – because it’s a convenient place to conduct or enable “False Flag” Scenarios. How+Why? – There should be more AngloMurican Navy Surface Ships deployed there similar to Operation Earnest Will(of which I’m a Veteran of), and GBRits have p#ßß!€ð out their Carrier “Queen Elizabeth Strike Group” from joining Prosperity Guardian – ensuring Gaps in Coverage and Targets for the Houthi for awhile. Brandon/Blinken or Boneshards Trump can spin this to distract from Domestic/Zelenskyy/Gaza Problems…

    *Most MVs which would transit the Suez are being redirected around the Horn of Africa or through other Routes; and the inconvenience of delays and increased Costs will be passed onto the Consumer.

    *There are other Alternatives, such as:

    **The International North-South Transport Corridor;
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_North%E2%80%93South_Transport_Corridor

    **The Eurasian Land Bridge;
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Land_Bridge

    Featuring

    ***The Trans-Siberian Railway(8 days);
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway

    ***The Yiwu, CHN to Madrid, ESP Railway;
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiwu%E2%80%93Madrid_railway_line

    ***The New/Proposed/Under_Construction Eurasian Land Bridge;
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Eurasian_Land_Bridge

    And,

    ***The Northeast Passage;
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Passage

    So! €URoGarten Hydrocarbon Importers and Egypt will probably suffer the most – “Cost Wise”.

    Many things can happen; but unlike the Star Struck Author’s hopes (how about a 3Month Trip to Hardened Houthi-Land to write about the Natives?), neither the Houthi-held Yemen nor the Hamas-tunneled Gaza will become the “Dune-Arrakis” of the Western Hegemony.

    The Spices, Goods, Hydrocarbons and more – will simply continue to flow…

    Just Say “No” to the DoomPr0n glow…

    • Agree: Mactoul
  9. Bummer. If Israel wants to blow up universities, how come some in the West?

    U.S. Spokesman WON’T Condemn Israeli Explosion Of Gaza University


    Video Link

  10. Is it naive of us to think that the Houthis are acting in accordance with universally-accepted principles of justice and humanity?

    It is worse than just naïve, it is simply extremely stupid! Neither of the two UN constructs mentioned by the author (Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and Responsibility to Protect Doctrine) provide legitimate pretexts for the Houthis to have engaged in acts of piracy and terrorism against international shipping. Houthis pretending to be acting for the sake of “justice and humanity” is merely a cynical publicity stunt that shamelessly deploys Orwellian rhetoric, though inevitably a few gullible people will be duped by such inane boasting.

    Attacking ships heading to Europe, some of which are even too big to dock at Israeli ports, does not in any conceivable way prevent the intended genocide being committed against Gaza, nor does it protect its population from these murderous operations. Even though many maritime vessels have been attacked in the past few weeks, the author has not even cited a single instance in which a ship scheduled to transport cargo to an Israeli port had actually been interdicted through Houthi acts of harassment, which only began, in frustration, after the rebel missiles were unable to reach Eilat.

    The likelihood that cargo containers containing medical supplies and food are being prevented by the Houthi threats from reaching Gaza in a timely manner, through Port Said, is surely greater than that of military supplies not immediately reaching Israel via the Suez Canal. Also, it is not merely the United States, whose military is striking back at the Houthi terrorists, it is also the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and Bahrain that have taken part in these operations. Belgium is sending a ship to join them, so the entire narrative presented above is misleading.

    A couple of days ago, France, Germany, and Italy have proposed to send an EU military force to the region, with the intent of guaranteeing the safety of maritime traffic. Contrast this with the actions of China, which actually has a naval base there in Djibouti, intended to safeguard ship traffic at the straits in the context of its belt and road initiative. It has done virtually nothing to counter the threats and thereby exposed itself as a paper tiger, so this international affair must be a huge setback to the overly ambitious BRICS community project. China has thus damaged its credibility.

    In summary, the author is engaging in yet another attempt to glorify acts of terrorism and threats of violence by Islamic rebels against international commerce that are being perpetrated by invoking fase pretexts.

  11. American ‘Conservatism’ honors the memory of this man. Sheldon Adelson.

    1. He raked in gazillions through gambling, which is really mass theft.

    2. He expressed regret for having served in the US military. He wished he’s served in the IDF death squad instead.

    3. He called for nuking of Iran to ‘send a message’.

    The utter debasement of American Conservatism.

    No wonder we have Nikki Haley. And Trump sucking Zionist dong after being rammed in the arse by it.


    Video Link

    • Agree: El_Kabong
  12. That the US is now embroiled in another “sustained military campaign” (War) that has not been approved by the UN Security Council, the US Congress or the American people. It’s clear that our domestic politics have deteriorated to the point where the president alone decides whether the country goes to war or not. And, not surprisingly, those wars invariably advance the interests of the billionaire elites who guide policy behind the fig leaf of representative government. In truth, all the war-making powers rest with them.

    Indeed.

    the Post admits that “the Houthis have thrust the United States into a conflict with little exit strategy and limited support from key allies.” What the authors should have added is that everything about the current strategy violates the so-called Powell Doctrine. There is no clearly attainable objective, nor have the risks and costs been fully analyzed, nor have all other non-violent options been exhausted, nor is there a plausible exit strategy, nor is the action supported by the American people, nor does the US have broad international support, nor is a vital national security interest threatened. All of the main precepts of the Powell Doctrine have been shrugged off by Biden’s foreign policy team. As a result, there’s no planning, no endgame, and no strategic objective, which is why the plan to wage war on Yemen is, perhaps, the most impulsive and poorly-thought out operation in recent times.

    Indeed.

    There’s also no guarantee that the plan will work at all.

    Perhaps the plan to bury the Houthis won’t work. But the “billionaire elites” have a bigger plan: they want to entangle the US into war with the Houthis’ sponsor, Iran. The Houthis are just an on-ramp to this, the actual objective.

    So far that bigger plan is working well.

    • Agree: HammerJack
    • Replies: @muh muh
    , @Miro23
  13. anonymous[226] • Disclaimer says:

    Military-type posters are talking about how expansion of the mid-east war is fuelling a decision to abandon and allow the collapse of Ukraine so Israel can get more resources, with Ukrainian officials to evacuate Kiev to fall-back capital Lviv in the west nearer to Poland

    – Western stockpiles of missiles and bombs are quite low, after so much has been exploded in two years of Ukraine war

    – Everything is needed for the Israeli war theatre, which may greatly expand soon

    – Ukraine allowed to collapse so that Western resources can serve Israel

    – NATO contingency plans call for fall-back removal of Ukraine government from Kiev, to more easily defended Lviv in western Ukraine, as noted by former USA Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy Stephen Bryen:

    Europe is now in a panic and Washington is searching for a new policy. New Ukraine policy has been emerging … designed to deal with the new reality that Ukraine will lose the war and Ukraine’s government may need to evacuate Kiev … the relocation of Ukraine’s capital, probably to Lviv

    https://asiatimes.com/2024/01/ukraine-zelensky-may-soon-oust-military-chief-zaluzhny/

  14. GMC says:

    Asking the DOD or the Pentagon about their length of stay in the Red Sea is a waste of time – they should be asking Israel how long they will keep the US Military in the Med and the Red Sea.

    Yo Israel – You can keep the entire US Military – lock stock and barrel – they do nothing to protect America’s borders , nor the population from foreign take overs, and have become nothing more than a Zionist/Globalist Yes Man.
    For 1 trillion dollars , we could hire the Russians, the Chechens, the Mongols and North Korea – and have a safer country than what it looks like Now. And we could have them clean out our foreigner problem in the White House on down to the Borders. And all the US Embassies go back to being Diplomats – not Weapons, Arms and Bio Weapons Dealers.

    • Agree: cousin lucky
  15. Shooting off a huge part of the stockpile of their munitions to little effect while essentially doing nothing to increase the tempo of replacement munitions production, while at the same time provoking two major powers with threats of armed agression in “response” to proscribed policy choices in their own spheres of influence does not seem like the course of action of rational actors.

    It’s almost like the Anglo-American Empire actually desires civilisational suicide. That would explain why they’re allowing … no, they’re actually assisting masses of male, military-aged “migrants” to illegally enter their territory.

    The Houthis are little more than a side-show to distract from the scenery being set for the Götterdämmerung of the “Rules-based” West.

  16. meamjojo says:

    The Houthis would be wise to go back to minding their own business, As they can see, if they keep pulling on the tail of the tiger, it’s going to turn around and bite them, maybe eat them totally.

    We’ll bomb their silly asses back into the stone age!

    Oh, wait a minute. They are already there. OK, we’ll drop some neutron bombs then that will kill all living things in the blast radius.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb

  17. muh muh says:
    @Almost Missouri

    So far that bigger plan is working well.

    You know the saying:

    “Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.”

  18. We are headed toward world wide nuclear war because of our Israeli masters demand it.

    Dying for dumb shit is really asinine!

    • Agree: Curmudgeon
  19. Mactoul says:

    Houthis have been shouting Death to America forever and it is just about time America has begun to pay attention.
    Why should Americans feel kindly about people who wish death to them?

  20. anon[148] • Disclaimer says:
    @Haxo Angmark

    Is that it? you crawled out of a New York sewer to post, and all you could barf up was some talmudic crap.
    Try harder shlomo.

  21. anon[148] • Disclaimer says:
    @meamjojo

    Occupied Palestine will be free one day. Just one nuke on tel aviv and its another shoah, with six million gone for real this time.

  22. JR Foley says:
    @meamjojo

    Tel Aviv–must meet Satan.

  23. @Passing by

    For a nation unable to control the English Channel, we seem to have a lot of influence in far-flung corners of the world.

    Perhaps it’s the male equivalent of the middle-class women who take three months off to work in Tanzanian schools or Nepalese clinics, when the UK has plenty of uneducated kids and you can’t get a doctor’s appointment.

    Still the Houthis are affecting the UK consumer, who buys pretty much everything from China. In next week’s Aldi supermarket booklet, five different advertised items are overstamped with “DELAYED”.

  24. How far we have fallen to have liars like this Matthews guy representing our once-great nation to the press and the world. Plastic is such a vulgar medium for a human being.

  25. Now Senile Jo tells us war is peace. He’s already shown us how slavery is freedom, men can become women, and diversity is our strength.

  26. Bibi’s shit show!

    Israeli military’s blunders, brazen lies, failures sum up 110 days of war on Gaza By Shabbir Rizvi

    https://alethonews.com/2024/01/23/israeli-militarys-blunders-brazen-lies-failures-sum-up-110-days-of-war-on-gaza/

    Since the beginning of the Israeli regime’s ground operation against Gaza in late October, the regime forces have been met with fierce resistance by Palestinian fighters, prompting military experts to predict that Israeli troops would not find it easy to meet any of their objectives.

    Nearly three months into the ground assault, these military analysts have been proven correct.

    In the latest, at least 24 Israeli troops were declared killed in less than 24 hours on Tuesday, laying bare the fragility of what many have described as the “TikTok occupation army.”

    The Israeli regime has not met a single objective. Instead, it has attempted to cover up its losses, committed egregious war crimes resulting in a genocide case against it at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and spent nearly $246 million per day on sustaining its genocidal war on Gaza.

    The Tel Aviv regime, which has launched a Western-focused campaign to have the hundred-some Israeli captives held by Hamas released, has not been able to secure the release of any of them so far.

    In fact, the one opportunity Israeli forces had to secure their release, they instead shot them. Coupled with this embarrassment was the retreat of Israeli troops, including the infamous Golani brigade.

    Facing pressure from the inevitability of military, political, and economic disaster, Zionist officials have been contradicting each other at every corner, smacking of frustration from their losses.

  27. Wokechoke says:
    @Been_there_done_that

    obviously ships don’t call into Israeli ports ever.

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  28. Anon[334] • Disclaimer says:

    Officials say they don’t expect that the operation will stretch on for years like previous U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria. At the same time they acknowledge they can identify no end date or provide an estimate for when the Yemenis’ military capability will be adequately diminished…..

    LMAO-there is a bit of morning double idiocy for you !
    -it wont last long BUT we dont know how long it will last and
    -we can provide no assessment of the limits of Houthi military capability

    What exactly do they teach at the Point ?

    LOL-its no wonder with these military geniuses at the controls we get fucked up in every war !

    Are the Houthis Being Punished for ‘Doing the Right Thing’?

    Define punishment ! Are the blows landing ? Do the recipients fell pain ? Are they being deterred ? OR are the castigators flailing wildly and thrashing themselves instead.

    Hide your 18 year olds people. They will soon enough be the meat thrown to the dogs ,,,,,,,again !

  29. @Wokechoke

    …obviously ships don’t call into Israeli ports ever.

    More than a month ago it was announced that the Red Sea port of Eilat had lost 85% of its prior activity. However, a few kilometers away is the port of Aqaba in Jordan,

    Israel’s Eilat Port sees 85% drop in activity amid Red Sea Houthi attacks
    By Ari Rabinovitch

    Reuters
    December 21, 2023

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-eilat-port-sees-85-drop-activity-amid-red-sea-houthi-attacks-2023-12-21/

    The other ports north of the Suez Canal would be supplied by ships operating within the Mediterranean Sea. Air freight is always an option.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  30. By the looks of things, the evangelical community is giving Christians a bad name during this atrocity. Someone needs to put in a good word for real believers and how we feel about genocide. https://folkpotpourri.com/a-genocide-exposes-hidden-sons-of-perdition/ We don’t all agree with it, and the televangelists don’t speak for all of us.

  31. Anonymous[304] • Disclaimer says:

    Very apposite use of R2P. The US tries to pervert R2P into an excuse for blowing rando shit up. But it’s a straightforward application of the UN Charter. The source document is Implementing the Responsibility to Protect.

    When a state fails, breaching peremptory norms, like the absolute prohibition on genocide, culpable states have in the past raised claims including nullum crimen sine lege. “But but but law provides no penalty for invading and exterminating subhuman vermin.” But legal precedent responds, Hey, you shoulda known. Genocide is not on.

    And maybe law has not developed to the point of authorizing effective countermeasures to Zionazi genocide compounded by US abuse of Article 27 impunity. But hey, you shoulda known. Fuck around, find out. Maybe you’ll get blockaded. Maybe your statelet will get reverted to Neolithic desert with 225 shots on your infrastructure.

    Suck on this, Jew supremacist scum.

    • Replies: @Jim H
  32. Z-man says:

    Tim Anderson 👍👍👍

  33. Anonymous[786] • Disclaimer says:
    @Been_there_done_that

    {Attacking ships heading to Europe, some of which are even too big to dock at Israeli ports, does not in any conceivable way prevent the intended genocide being committed against Gaza, nor does it protect its population from these murderous operations.}

    You are a stupid person who is trying to protect the GENOCIDE of the Palestinian people like the genocidal Jewish Netanyahu. How many times people should tell you that the Houthis are targeting ships going to Israel or the tanker is OWNED by an zionist Israeli.
    How many times liar?

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  34. @YetAnotherAnon

    Ahh, you poor suffering Brits. Just yesterday, I shopped at an Aldis here in the $tates and did not encounter a single Chinese food item. As I’m not a consumer of friss and frills, Chinese items which that market may have presented in their aisle which caters to consumerists did not get my attention.

    Up to now this ruptured republic does produce a plentitude of edibles. Here,Aldi proffers bargain veggies and fruits at a more reasonable price than any other market in my state. Several of their food offerings do include German, Austrian and Italian foods of excellent quality and at reasonable cost.

    Frankly, old chap, I would not be in the least bemused if American migrant policy were to do a 180 on who gets to come here and stay from Third World types to half-starved Britons along with the rest of the decaying lands of Europe.

    However, a sensible migrational policy is but a pipe dream until like Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia the Talmudist masters are all deplatformed….with the worst actors being deported to the Congo.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
  35. @cousin lucky

    Aye. The Izzies are scurrying and scrambling like a broken hideout of a covey of cockroaches…many of them in each others’ faces. Ahh, to be a little birdie in their conference rooms.

    • Replies: @cousin lucky
  36. Miro23 says:
    @Almost Missouri

    Perhaps the plan to bury the Houthis won’t work. But the “billionaire elites” have a bigger plan: they want to entangle the US into war with the Houthis’ sponsor, Iran. The Houthis are just an on-ramp to this, the actual objective.

    So using a US – Iran war as cover, the Israelis intend grab Gaza and all that remains of the West Bank.

    Problem that Israel’s survival greatly depends on US sponsorship, and it looks like the US is falling apart. These wars are too costly. The days of the US military doing a “Desert Storm” are long gone, with the current Ukraine “Regime Change” project looking more likely to generate regime change in the US than Russia. Gen Z have more interest in overthrowing their own corrupt government.

    • Replies: @meamjojo
  37. @Mactoul

    If Uncle $hmuel, the cucked ones running our ruptured republic would not molest those brave Yemenis who are righteously supporting the ever suffering Palestinians in Gaza who are being steadily genocided by the evil ones.

    It’s really simple. The U$$A has no business fooling around in places far from our shores.

    If the occupied Di$trict of Corruption contained actual statesmen rather than corrupted, blackmailed and bribed pro$titicians , bought and paid for by the Talmudist bank$ters…we would be living in a free country and nobody would hate America.

    You, Macfool, are coming on like some goddamned “Christian” Zionist, anxiously awaiting the Rupture, so Jesus can remove your garments and whisk you up to his spaceship which will transport you to Peter, Peter pumpkin eater manning the Gate and thence to get your white robes, your harp and maybe some sandals to spend all your daze praising Yahweh, the ancient Hebrew tribal WarGod…piss be upon him.

  38. Globalists give lip-service to upholding the rule of law and protecting democracy, but actually, Globalists hate both when they go against them—and then try mightily to work actively to subvert both the law and democracy.

    Globalists are evil and subscribe to: “Globalist’s wrongful selfish ends justify any and all corrupt, threatening, blackmailing and warfare means.”

    • Replies: @Curmudgeon
  39. Anynomous says:

    Satans forces, american, british, israeli and saudis, have been getting stronger for past hundreds of years now. This is mainly a holy war against Satan, axis of evil.

  40. @YetAnotherAnon

    The problem dates back to the 19th century when erstwhile Burma – now Myanmar – was a British colony.

  41. @Anonymous

    Houthis are targeting ships going to Israel or the tanker is OWNED by an zionist Israeli.

    If you insist on perpetuating this bogus claim, why have you not provided even a single example of this, much less a list of such alleged incidents of successful targeting?

    Also, in other threads I have highlighted two cases of Norwegian ships that were attacked even though they were definitely not headed for Israel. How do you explain that?

    Exactly how will attacking commercial ships prevent genocide? Your ridiculous accusation, that I am trying to protect genocide, reflects the mind of a lunatic.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  42. @meamjojo

    How the hell are you able to type your comments with one hand
    while swinging a squawking chicken over your head with the other?

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  43. Notsofast says:
    @Mactoul

    americans should feel kindly towards the houthis because they are standing up against the same governments that are oppressing us.

    • Agree: El_Kabong, Joe Levantine
  44. @emerging majority

    Practically none of the Chinese stuff sold in the UK is food. Aldi’s centre aisles in the UK are full of hardware and home items. I have a couple of Aldi chainsaws – much cheaper than a Stihl if not as good – and I’m still kicking myself for not buying an Aldi log-splitter.

    The delayed items are

    a) plastic 42mm pipe cutter for water pipes

    b) 8 piece trowel set

    c) fitted sheets (presumably polyester/cotton)

    d) duvet sets likewise

    e) faux sheepskin rug

    f) candle scent diffuser

    g) reed scent diffuser

    I know a few Brits who’ve gone Stateside, even 35 years ago I met an illegal couple who were doing very nicely, he in the SF building trade where any Irishman could find work, she as a nanny. But property was cheaper then, this was in San Mateo.

    • Replies: @Anon
  45. The Houthis are heros for their attempt to defend the Palestinians and stop the genocide of the Palestinians by the zionist/communist/satanist Israeli death cult that is in charge of both Israel and the ZUS and both are complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

    America is under the control of the zionist/communist/satanist death cult and soon this death cult will turn it’s bombs and guns on we the American people and it makes no difference if Trump or Biden is in office, as both are zionist pimps and do the zionist bidding and both are pedofiles, as is most of Washington DC aka the district of criminals and pedofiles.

  46. Here’s the probable recipe for a “sustained campaign” against the Houthis:

    1. Backing/employment of the Southern Transition Council (STC)–the rulers in Aden and its environs–as a proxy ground force. (They’ve got “former” AQ guys on the payroll too.)
    2. UAE as the main suppliers of the STC with weapons and ammunition.
    3. Assassination campaign against Houthi leadership.
    4. Sustained cut-off of weapons, ammo, food, supplies into Houthistan.
    5. Possibly some use of SOF in support of the STC/UAE.

    The key is number 1–using a proxy ground force to compel the Houthis into ground combat against which our airpower can perhaps be more effective.

    Whether the STC has what it takes to do the job is by no means a certainty. But an effective proxy like the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan or the Croation and Bosnian Muslim armed forces in the former Yugoslavia can be a serious weapon against the Houthis especially given that supplies to them from Iran have to go by sea and are easily interdicted if enough maritime assets are employed.

    • Thanks: meamjojo
  47. Notsofast says:
    @Buck Ransom

    he uses his tail to swing the chicken, remember mossadjojo is just one of the thousands of zionist monkeys chained to typewriters, to bang out senseless hasbara. here a clip of the dogfaced monkeyboy at his job.


    Video Link

  48. Jim H says:
    @Anonymous

    ‘Maybe law has not developed to the point of authorizing effective countermeasures to Zionazi genocide.’ — Anon

    Today two tank rounds smashed into a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killing at least nine.

    Khan Younis would be the place where northern Gazans were told to flee by the Israelis … only to be shelled there too, after following orders.

    What kind of depraved brutes would do this? Never mind, that’s a rhetorical question. We all know the answer.

  49. @meamjojo

    “We’re gonna bomb their silly asses back to the stone age!”

    Merkas the greatest, bestest, most freedom loving democracy the world has ever seen. We’ve got the strongest, bestest military the world’s ever seen and with our faithful and loving friend (the only democracy in the middle east) Israel we’ll show those muzzies a thing or two. We’ll stand by Israel until the tribulation and all those who are against Israel will perish in the lake of fire, amen!

  50. @emerging majority

    Both Bibi and Biden need to watch their backs because both of them are expendable to the movers and shakers of both the Mossad and the Central Intelligence Agency.

    French mercenaries are fighting in Ukraine against the Russian; I wonder if Israel will be hiring them to fight for them.

  51. El_Kabong says:
    @Oscar Peterson

    You’re a real cheerleader for continued US warmongering eh. You got it all figured out. The geniuses at the Pentagon and the retired US military gasbags like Generals Keane, Patraeus and Hodges who have inspired us for the past 2 years with their bumbling analysis on YouTube need your help. Poor guys. Lookin’ for a win! Sad really.

    • Replies: @Oscar Peterson
  52. c matt says:
    @Been_there_done_that

    The Houthis are simply doing what the US has done for nearing 100 years.

  53. Megoy says:

    “In other words, the western media is deliberately misleading the American people to accelerate the rush to war. Here’s the story from Press TV (Iranian state media)”

    In other words the JEWS controlling mindless Joe Biden’s administration (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-in-the-biden-administration

    https://forward.com/news/462330/enough-for-a-minyan-a-jewish-whos-who-of-bidens-cabinet-to-be/?amp=1)

    and the media, are intentionally deceiving American citizens to serve the Jewish agenda!!!

    Negotiating? Since when do evil Jews lying to the world that knows they are lying ever attempt to “negotiate”? Nope! Just like the Protocols tell us, when Jews have attained power their whole narrative changes: https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1034849460344573952

    Is China denying their responsibility? Russia?

    There are no RULES for JEWS!

    • Replies: @El_Kabong
  54. El_Kabong says:
    @Megoy

    The Israelis have gotten away with, and received cover for, their direct involvement in the attacks on 911 and murder of over 3,000 US citizens. No surprise then that they continue to receive cover for virtually every other crime they commit. How many Palestinian civilians have these soft-ass bullies murdered so far? If the Zio-Jews are such tough guys, then withdraw all military support and let’s see how they do then.
    Beating up unarmed people on a daily basis in the West Bank does not make anyone a tough guy. These Jews are feckless little punks.

    • Replies: @Marukee
    , @Megoy
  55. MarkU says:
    @Mactoul

    Try starting the story at the beginning instead of halfway through

    Nobody had even heard of the Houthis until the US/UK decided to back the KSA in their interference with the governance of Yemen. After aiding and abetting the KSA while they bombed and starved the people of Yemen for a decade, the US/UK are now playing the innocent (yet again)

    Similarly, Iran was a secular democracy until the US/UK knocked over their government and installed the Shah and his mass-murdering SAVAK secret police.

    Hezbollah didn’t even exist until Israel invaded southern Lebanon and made it clear they intended to stay.

    Those are just a few examples from the middle east, an exhaustive list of self-created enemies would fill an entire book. Making enemies seems to be a full-time job for the MIC and lying about who started it is a full time job for the corporate media.

    • Thanks: El_Kabong
  56. werpor says:
    @Been_there_done_that

    In a war, any war, there is strategy, tactics, and execution. The Houthis are disrupting shipping and thus disrupting supply lines throughout the world. This strikes at the heart of corporate interests, banks, and political establishments. Obviously the Jewish Zionists whom are deliberately murdering thousands of Palestinians is attracting attention. Attention garners sympathy for the Palestinians and focuses opprobrium on those whom are cheering on the Jewish Zionists. This includes Netanyahu of course but in increasing circles of influence includes Biden, Trudeau, Macron, and etc.

    Elections are likely to reflect the average man or woman’s or children’s natural sympathies. The electoral remit may dislodge established figureheads and even their elite supporters. Disruption is costly. And today’s rebels, or terrorists are just as happy to prolong wars’ of attrition while neutering big army, big, navy, and big airforce. This is hardly good for these complexes — they prefer their material to be destroyed which ordinarily necessitate new borrowing from the big banks. Drone making hardly stimulates.

    The elites in economies like the U.S. have burned their own bridges and destroyed their own infrastructures and destroyed the social cohesion that not too long ago existed in the United States;

    Drone making — given its technological requirements —may be good for smaller economies, wherein the focus is narrower. The citizens of the United States have participated in an orgy of infantilization from which it unlikely to recover.

    I am not making a case for any particular protagonist, other than to suggest the obvious; generals and politicians are almost always, without exception, fighting wars implementing strategies, tactics, and consequently planning and execution which proves unfruitful. When reach exceeds grasp retrenchment is an obvious solution but retrenchment is humbling.

    The U.S. has been ever so gradually weakening the social integration necessary to galvanize public support for the heavy handed and hard headed strategies it has been accustomed to deploying. Presently those strategies are exposing a weakening flank few of the powerful interests are wont to admit.

    Netanyahu imagines Jewish Zionism is powerful enough in its hold over the media it controls throughout the world — as it once upon a time did — to continue to garner sympathy for events it did once upon a time promulgate and make use of to advance almost exclusively Jewish Zionist interests.

    Except that media is spinning its wheels while the traction it seeks is merely burning out the engine. I would say the elites whom are at the wheel of the economic engines which they controlled are discovering the strategies, tactics, and assumptions they deployed are fast failing. The ‘West’ is bankrupt!

    • Replies: @cousin lucky
  57. @Independent Thinking

    Globalists give lip-service to upholding the rule of law and protecting democracy,

    Yes, and no. The globalists simply re-define what the “rule of law” and “democracy” are whenever need be. Therefore, “the rule of law” and “democracy”, when re-defined, are always upheld to their new definition.

  58. @Oscar Peterson

    Always with the Big Plans, these loud-mouthed Yanks. When did you last win against anyone? Grenada, Nutmeg Capital of the World? The slums of Panama City? Always cowardly and barbaric in action.

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  59. @Been_there_done_that

    Norway is part of the globalist Real Posse of Evil. Fuck them, NATO scum that they are, and the same to you as well, globalist troll. And, of course, as a globalist troll, you are complicit in Gaza, before and after the act. At least have the honesty to admit that.

  60. @Been_there_done_that

    Gotta keep Israel supplied, as they slaughter children, eh, Been? You must be over the moon that the butchery continues on. That’ll show those fucking untermenschen that the West is still The Boss.

  61. @Fidelios Automata

    The US is almost done, and it will not seriously try to deport the tens of millions of illegal aliens and their “birthright citizen” offspring.

  62. Rangewolf says:

    When the goat fuckers start shooting missiles at the U.N. I might be interested. Hopefully the Saudis will carry out a few dozen more genocides on them. It would give the goats a much needed rest. Goats are people too, right? Every goat in Yemen gets gang raped by Allah’s heroes, but who will speak up for the goats? This is genocide. When will Whitney speak up for the goats?

    • Troll: Arthur MacBride
  63. Thank you, Houthi, for acting to prevent genocide.
    All nations are obliged to do that under international law.
    It seems USUK+Bahrain coalition are in fact lawbreakers for attacking you. In reality a Criminal Conspiracy in this and many other matters. Although westerners, esp Americans, seem unable to see that reality or the penalties that will accrue.
    Some developments —

    Apart from now advanced plans for US to exit Syria, there are US proposals for talks with Iraq on future of US bases in that country.

    📢 🇾🇪 🇾🇪 Statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces regarding the clash with a number of American destroyers and warships, … A clash took place today with a number of American destroyers and warships in the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-Mandab while those ships were providing protection for two American commercial ships. The results of the clash were as follows:
    -A direct hit on an American warship.
    -Forcing the two American merchant ships to retreat and return.
    -A number of our ballistic missiles reached their targets despite the attempt of warships to intercept them.

    🛑| 🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq announces 3 operations:

    They attacked, using missiles & drones, 3 US bases in Iraq and Syria, Conoco Base, Erbil Airport Base, and Ain Al-Assad Base.

    — 🇮🇱/🇪🇬 NEW: Benjamin Netanyahu called the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, but he refused to answer the Israeli PM’s phone call – Channel 13

    • Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  64. Anonymous[658] • Disclaimer says:

    Izzie fingernail count reaching 10 on the Jew pain dial:

    https://www.rt.com/news/591174-israel-idf-highest-casualty-rate/

    That means another 500K wandering Jews. Nobody better act surprised when the Resistance walks into a vacant Tel Aviv.

  65. Marukee says:
    @El_Kabong

    The truth about 911 will come out at some point as the subject has not gone away.

    Wed’s the 24th Richie Allen Show

    Richie is joined by Captain Dan Hanley.

    Dan is a vastly experienced commercial pilot who also flew for the US Navy. In 2003 Dan was forced into mandatory retirement for blowing the whistle on safety issues following the 9/11 attacks. This depite his impeccable flying record and unimpeachable character.

    Dan is the spokesman for https://911pilots.org/

    He tells Richie why neither he nor any other pilot could have flown the 9/11 flight paths. Put simply, the hijackers could not have flown the planes into the Twin Towers or the Pentagon. So, how did it happen? Do not miss this show.

    https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2024-01-24T10_22_49-08_00

    • Replies: @El_Kabong
  66. @Arthur MacBride

    The US Iraq proposed withdrawal is now mainstream (reuters)

    🇺🇸 🇮🇶 ‘U.S. Ambassador to Iraq has handed the Iraqi foreign minister a letter related to the process of ending the US.-led coalition in Iraq, sources say’ – Reuters

    🔶️ “The process could take many months to years so a US troop withdrawal is not imminent, sources add”

    It seems doubtful that USA will wish, and in fact be able to prolong their departure for “many months or years”. Practically speaking.
    They have been told to pack and get out numerous times, including by the Iraqi parliament. They have recently conducted strikes on Iraqi territory including the capital Baghdad and enfuriated the entire population. This and the Iraqi PMU strikes on US bases will ensure that Iraq will swing decidedly in a pro-Iran direction.
    There are implications for KSA, Jordan, UAE.
    Rumours that the USA has built up ISIS to continue the fight for Israel after they (USA) depart. Also Kurds seem like eternal dupes …

    • Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  67. Anonymous[404] • Disclaimer says:

    So the USA is calling legitimate and heroic freedom fighters terrorists again, eh? Takes one to know one as we used to say in the third grade. Open the window blinds and stop staring in the mirror, Genocide Joe. The ruthless regime working out of Washington. Langley and Arlington is nothing short of a planet-wide reformulation of “Murder Incorporated.” Israel is its understudy. Each claims its own villainy is excused by enthusiastically supporting the bloody handiwork of the other. Not just third graders but even juvenile Homo-erectus specimens could understand the principle which is grounded in blood-thirsty hypocrisy and sadistic psychopathy taken to the limit. My recommendation for cooling Bloody Biden’s jets yielding ever more murder and mayhem? Arm the Houthis with beaucoup submerged torpedo drones delivering enough explosive to sink an aircraft carrier or a super tanker. Supply enough of these devices to swarm the targeted ships with fleets of these things. The Ukies have been getting similar devices from the Limeys and have taken out several major Russian ships docked in Crimea. Turnabout is fair play. The Empire deserves a dose of its own medicine.

  68. @Haxo Angmark

    The Houthis fired missiles at Israel but didn’t get anywhere near. Now they are firing indiscriminately at shipping in the Red Sea, regardless of any connection to Israel. This is completely irrelevant to what is happening in Gaza.

    The Suez route is not vital for world oil shipments. Only 10% of oil shipments are transported via Suez. When the Suez Canal was closed in the 1960s and 1970s, shipments were re-routed round the Cape of Good Hope with little inconvenience. The only losers if the Red Sea is shut are Egypt, which will lose revenue from the Canal, China, which will have to use longer routes, and Iran, whose oil will become more expensive. The last will cause European and other consumers to look elsewhere. I expect Iran to put pressure on the Houthis. The Houthi caper will be over in a few weeks.

    • Replies: @Unbornawakened
  69. Sarita says:

    They lied about everything!
    “If they lied to us about Gaza and Israel.
    And lied to us about Ukraine.
    And lied to us about Libya and Syria and Iraq.
    And lied to us about Vietnam.
    And lied to us about Korea.
    If they lied to us about every single war and why it really happened and who the good guys and bad guys were.
    Do you think they lied about ww2?

    I mean…”

    (82 thousand likes)
    👇

  70. Megoy says:
    @El_Kabong

    I agree. Most people here are aware that Jews are much like the myth of the Wizard of Oz. They are the little deceptive Jew behind the curtain that will get his ass handed to him when enough people find out exactly how deceptive and much evil the tiny little Jew was. He could be stamped out in an instant without fear of the world collapsing.

    It is quite shocking that people will not realize we are the elephant and the Jew is the mouse that has no real power. They have brainwashed that many with their media. I watch morons shrink in fear at the merely saying the word “Jew”. At some point talk must turn to action or nothing changes. Like the last 100+ years of Jewish treachery.

    • Agree: El_Kabong
    • LOL: meamjojo
    • Replies: @Z-man
  71. Anon[334] • Disclaimer says:
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Your point about the Chinese good is acknowledged. Now people assert that without Chinese goods the West as we know it will collapse. I disagree.

    So for example tools. Believe it or not I still have a full master carpenter set of tools manufactured by Sheffield in the UK inherited from my GrandFather. They are as sharp as razors. That said, even if I had to replace them all, it would be a one time purchase that would last me for years. In my opinion, the high turnover for Chinese sales is the purchase of cheap shit that falls apart after a few uses. The miscellaneous tools are poor quality. Screw drivers for example shred out and the blades on many chainsaws wear out having to be replaced again and again. To me, I look at it the old British way, that is, cost per year !!.

    The same applies to everything else. Take footwear. I have a pair of black oxfords and a pair of ankle boots from the ’40s also from my Grandfather. All leather handmade, glued, stitched and nailed. When I was in Zimbabwe I got tired of these and bought a beautiful pair of brown brogues made in China. After a few months the whole heel split from the uppers. The heel itself was hollowed out like an ice tray, to save material. I took it to one of those crusty old white Rhodesian cobblers and he just laughed at me. He offered to make a pair of shoes for $600US advising they would last forever and could be repaired. “Is cheaper than paying $150 US every 4 months for this garbage”. My purchase ended up in a free bin outside the store. Some poor sod would improvise a crude repair job with string, wire and a punch.

    People buy more than they need and buy poor quality. As my Father noted the prudent Englishman buys a few high quality clothes and wears them again and again. Everyone else buys hundreds of cheap shirts and trousers and do not wear them at all. OR, hems come loose, seams split, buttons fall off and collars fray out. New or essentially scrap, they are soon dumped at the Thrift Store and the person heads to the shopping centre to buy more cheap crap.

    If we never buy another item from China it would be no big thing. We would use what we have, revert to making our own, do with less or do without. China would suffer ! To whom would they sell a pair of boots (costing $10 to produce) for $200. Who is going to buy some athlete’s sneaker for $900 ? Troung Dong Fong in Viet Nam ? Jose Picardo in the Phillipines, earning $300 a month ?

    Without the West China would revert to being a nothing country. Until frugality and an appreciation for quality returns people are doomed to hand over their hard earned dollars for useless trash.

    • Agree: Bro43rd
  72. Z-man says:
    @Megoy

    Yes, we must take action 🎬. The Jew fears this most of all.
    Anecdote: Over ten years ago I was doing a lot of driving while going between job sites and Geraldo Rivera (Jerry Rivers) was talking to a Jewess on the radio 📻.
    They were discussing how ‘anti Semitic it was to call a Jew a ‘Jew’ ‘. Funny, ironic and agitating all at the same time.
    I think Hymie Geraldo has finally had his last hurrah 👋 on television but ya’never know. A while back I had the misfortune of seeing that little worm Alan Douche-a-witz still on the small screen, very annoying.

    • Replies: @Megoy
  73. RRRic says:

    This is astute and all but fails to call out the elephant in the room.

    The US is a failed state that is the most egregious and dangerous terrorist state on our mud ball.

    The sooner the world moves on and leaves the perceived sphere of influence of the unipolar world to negate a globalist agenda the better off we will ALL be particularly the sane citizens still living in the US.

  74. 迪路 says:
    @Been_there_done_that

    You have an interesting idea.
    To be honest, we Chinese are quite happy to commit genocide against the Jews.
    Do you think that our Chinese navy in Djibouti should help the Houthi armed forces intercept the US army, or directly go out and kill all Israel? Just like the US military has three aircraft carriers confronting us in the South China Sea.
    By the way, have you thought about psychiatric treatment?
    Unlike in America, our doctors shouldn’t cost you much.

  75. Megoy says:
    @Z-man

    Yup. The Jews will keep dishing it out because we keep taking it. They taught the niggers and other browns to do the same.

    • Replies: @Z-man
  76. @werpor

    The ” West ” just prints money paper money to pass to those that will accept it. When the U.S. dollar is no longer accepted, then the United States will be bankrupt!

    Then we will be both financially and morally bankrupt.

    • Replies: @meamjojo
  77. Wokechoke says:
    @Anonymous

    A sunk US ship would mean that a nuke could be launched in reply.

    • Replies: @El_Kabong
  78. El_Kabong says:
    @Wokechoke

    “A sunk US ship would mean that a nuke could be launched in reply.”

    Wouldn’t be ‘A’ nuke, it would be numerous nukes and not only heading one way.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  79. Z-man says:
    @Megoy

    It’s got to stop.✋️ The sooner the better!

    • Agree: Megoy
  80. It was reported that one Israeli port is suffering an 85% drop in traffic from the Houthis actions. Are Israeli finances able to maintain a long war with the Palestinians?

    • Replies: @El_Kabong
    , @Unbornawakened
  81. El_Kabong says:
    @cousin lucky

    “Are Israeli finances able to maintain a long war with the Palestinians?”

    Israeli finances? Our elected reps will just turn us all upside down and shake the last 2 cents we have left to give to those people. We’re paying for Ukrainian gov payroll and healthcare so what do you think they’ll do for Israel?

  82. The idea that the Houthis are attacking commercial vessels willy-nilly just doesn’t pass the ‘smell test’.

    They attacked a ship from Greece.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67992600

    Greece did not vote on the side of Israel in the UN resolution for a cease-fire.

    Seems willy nilly.

  83. Geoffrey says:

    The US War Pig cares not who the conflict is with, so long as there is a conflict. Afghanistan failed? Who cares? Now there is Ukraine. Ukraine is failing? Not a problem, start a war in Yemen. As long as the War Pig is being fed, the War Pig is happy.

    • Agree: RadicalCenter
  84. Clown World just got clownier.


    Video Link

  85. @El_Kabong

    There was no cheerleading in my comment. I don’t know where you got that from.

  86. Jamali says:

    Death to the RACIST West. Death to Netanyahu and his Mafia TRIBE.

    US – UK – Israel MUST fuck off from the region now.

    The Mafia Tribe should go to where they came from, Europe and America.

    Biden Backed Netanyahu and Israel should be arrested, along with US Backed Israeli Army, because
    what is happening right NOW in Gaza and elsewhere in the West Asia and NOTHING is being done to stop Biden/Netanyahu’s crimes against humanity. More than 30,000 people have been massacred by Biden/Netanyahu, majority of whom are CHILDREN. Both should be arrested as war criminals and shot.
    Elan Musk does not allow to copy videos that show the CRIMES of the West and the Jewish mafia. There is NO freedom of speech in the west. You are fake, fake, and fake.

    The Houthis are sovereign people who make their own decisions.
    No one is making decision for Yemen. Yemen is not US,

    @Trita Parsi
    Biden’s strategy in the Red Sea is to INCREASE the risk of shipping to make it costly to China (Israel is bearing most of the cost currently) in the hope that China will pressure Iran in order for Iran to pressure the Houthis.
    Thus Biden’s strategy is based on China and Iran bailing out Israel.

    The lengths Biden is going to avoid the most likely solution – a ceasefire – is astonishing.

    @Trita Parsi
    Saudi would make peace with Israel even if Israel rejects a Palestinian state, Israel’s Eli Cohen says.
    From the outset, Israel’s objective with the ‘Abraham Accords’ was to prevent a Palestinian state. Which is why the accords were never a “peace deal.” And why Biden is so FOOLISH in pursuing it.
    So, the illiterate Jewish mafia pimp, Drum..

    https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/01/23/could-china-stop-the-houthis-00137133

    • Replies: @Jamali
  87. meamjojo says:
    @cousin lucky

    “Facing pressure from the inevitability of military, political, and economic disaster, Zionist officials have been contradicting each other at every corner, smacking of frustration from their losses. ”

    But still, with the aid of Hamas, who are also killing Palestinians to create negative press images, the Gazan Palestinian death toll continues to grow, slowly but inexorably, reducing their population numbers.

  88. meamjojo says:
    @Miro23

    You clearly do not live in the USA.

  89. meamjojo says:
    @cousin lucky

    “The ” West ” just prints money paper money to pass to those that will accept it. When the U.S. dollar is no longer accepted, then the United States will be bankrupt!”

    If the US goes bankrupt, then anyone holding our paper currency is also SOL. D’oh.

  90. anonymous[543] • Disclaimer says:
    @anon

    Israel routinely mocks the USA/Europe/Nato…and refutes their official positions..yet Israel demands that the G7 attack Yemen/Houthis which they truly fear. It took more than a century for the West/East to build a sustainable International World Order after the end of WW II to keep Peace and avoid another Holocaust. Today Israeli Genocide in Palestine has managed to demolish the UN/ICJ/ACNUR/ etc. The post WW II world civil instiutions kept the Peace and avoided Nuclear conflict/s West vrs East, Russia vrs USA during the long years of the Cold war. The USA and the G7 including Russia/China are letting Israel piss away all mechanisms for peace. Ironically Israel has made possible the united Arab block to confront the West, which has disrupted the flow of Oil/Gas/Goods n the Red Sea. IF the USA falls into the trap of attacking Iran the reral winner will be Natanyahu/Likud/Israel and the Greater Israel radical settlers terrorists..The West will be confronting a multi/polar proxies acting irrationally unoredibtable against the USA. A post Gaza war withouts a genuine Palestinian State denies more than 7Kyrs of Palestinian History, and it will guarantee a permanent state of War/s in the Middle East which Israel will NOT fight/bleed/pay for IT. The MIddle east nejoyed 3Kyrs of peace before 1948/Israel, after that infamy there has been countless endless wars rooted in Israeli Zionism..

  91. Anon[162] • Disclaimer says:

    Are the U.S. soldiers, sailors, and airmen engaged in attacking Yemen, traitors to the constitution and their oath ?

    • Agree: RadicalCenter
  92. Jamali says:

    A Zionist mafia member, Roya Hakakian, a Mossad/CIA informant is very worried about the fate of holohoax, a FAKE victimization card, to steal Palestine. She spread the following lies:

    @Roya Hakakian

    {One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth}

    Do you think only 20% of Americans think that ‘holocaust’ is myth or 70% of young Americans believe
    ‘holocaust’ is FAKE, FAKE, and FAKE.

  93. Jamali says:
    @Jamali

    The State Department on Wednesday refused to condemn the shooting of unarmed Palestinian men waving a white flag in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, a scene that was captured on video by the UK’s ITV News.
    The footage shows an interview with a group of Palestinian men who had their hands raised and said they were trying to locate and rescue their family members. The cameraman then went across the street, and the video shows the men walking down the street with their hands still raised and one holding a white flag.

    The man came under fire, and one was killed. A Palestinian videographer who was at the scene told NBC News that the fire came from nearby Israeli tanks. NBC reported that it viewed and verified nine videos of the incident and said the killing took place in an area Israel designated as a “safe zone.”

    A reporter for ITV confronted State Department spokesman Vedant Patel about the killing and asked if he would consider it a potential war crime. Patel said he needed more context. (This zionist Hindi needs to make a STORY to protect US PROXY Israel). Biden must be held responsible for the Gaza GENOCIDE now. Where is Genocidal ICC?

    This zionist Hindi, Petal, gave the following stupid response:

    “I have seen that footage, but I am not going to comment on the specifics around that given I’m not aware of the full circumstances on the ground,” Patel said.
    He continued, saying Israel’s onslaught in Gaza is NOT an “American operation,”

    But the US has provided unconditional military aid, intelligence support, and political cover for the slaughter, which has killed over 35,000 Palestinians.

    US backed Israel cannot survive for an hour if US and Biden stop supporting the genocide.

    US – UK – Israel must be held accountable for the genocide in Gaza. Shame on mass murderers, war criminals and the thieves.

    https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/24/state-department-refuses-to-condemn-israel-shooting-group-of-palestinians-waving-white-flag/

    • Replies: @Sarita
    , @meamjojo
  94. Wokechoke says:
    @El_Kabong

    That’s why the Jews attacked the USSLiberty to start an American retaliation of the nuclear kind on Egypt.

  95. @Verymuchalive

    The only losers if the Red Sea is shut are Egypt, which will lose revenue from the Canal, China, which will have to use longer routes, and Iran, whose oil will become more expensive. The last will cause European and other consumers to look elsewhere. I expect Iran to put pressure on the Houthis

    Iran’s oil exports go to China and some to India. No need for Suez. Europe doesn’t buy oil from Iran, due to US sanctions. You are poorly informed.

    • Replies: @Verymuchalive
  96. @cousin lucky

    Iraqi resistance targeted Ashdod today with a new cruise missile and announced a new phase of operations to blockade Azrael’s Mediterranean ports. Nasrallah confirmed also a direct hit on Haifa which Azrael concealed.

    If these reports are true, a total naval blockade is going to be attempted by Yemeni and Iraqi resistance factions.

    Bye bye demonic “angels” of death.

    P.S.I predicted this a while ago while some fools were under the illusion that Algeria would get involved.

  97. @Arthur MacBride

    However, contrary to these reports —

    📑 Contrary to all reports, the US does not plan to withdraw from Iraq and Syria, nor has the US submitted a timeframe to withdraw.

    The leaks to media are meant to fool the public and buy time, till the hostilities calm down eventually and everyone forgets the need to get the US out of there.

    What’s ongoing now is the “establishment” of a U.S.-Iraq Higher Military Commission that will meet regularly to coordinate.

    Have only seen this on one small tg site.
    But it’s quite plausible given who is involved …
    Wait and see, looks like.

  98. Sarita says:
    @Jamali

    I’ve always said it:
    The Pentagon condemning the IDF is like Iran condemning Hizbollah.
    Will never happen.
    🤣🤣

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  99. @Sarita

    The Pentagon? It’s really not their job to make political statements. Foreign policy is set by the president, house and senate.

    The MAGA wing of the Republicans house is adamantly pro-Israel. I’ve noticed that is rarely discussed here. Trump’s biggest supporters in the house are Israel Firsters but where ‘Merica First hats.

    Forget about any condemning or even asking Israel to back off.

    The MAGA wing wants to give Israel cash and ignore the UN.

    The same wing calls themselves “isolationist” on Ukraine but wants to give aid to Israel.

    Makes zero sense. This is why I don’t like Evangelical Christianity. Everything becomes a “spiritual war” in their minds. Tucker has convinced them that Putin is Christian but Ukraine should be dropped. It’s so ridiculously deluded. Ukraine is more Orthodox than Russia (the latter uses Muslim retreat troops) but the MAGA wing claims they are ‘Merica First and can’t provide the aid. Oh but Israel is different cause chosen people.

    Evangelical Christianity does a mind wipe to the thinking White man. Just listen to any of these guys explain themselves on camera. You can see that they are under mental duress. It’s just not healthy to have all of these contradictory beliefs. The Old Testament is most likely not 100% true and Putin is most likely a mass murdering atheist. Accepting both would go a long way for these MAGA followers.

    • Replies: @meamjojo
    , @Sarita
  100. meamjojo says:
    @Jamali

    I heard that the IDF analyzed the sound of the weapon (3 shots) used to shoot the guy with the flag and it is not from an Israeli weapon. Therefore, it appears that this was a Hamas killing designed to foment increased dissension. Just another example of Hamas killing its own to advance its own purposes.

    You got scammed, sucker.

    • Replies: @Jamali
  101. meamjojo says:
    @John Johnson

    FOX is also heavily on the side of Israel.

    • Replies: @Anynomous
    , @John Johnson
  102. Anynomous says:

    Video Link
    American and british double speak, word games: We are not in a war in the middle-east. They are just tensions.

    Pentagon knows perfectly that they will need Congress’ approval for a war, so they never admit being in a war.

  103. Anynomous says:
    @meamjojo

    All main stream media is always on side of war and on side of Nato. Every single time.

  104. Jamali says:
    @meamjojo

    You the jewish mafia liar, no one will listen to your LIES. Your history is FAKE, and your action is nothing but TERRORISM, ASSASSINATION, ORGAN trafficking, Sex trafficking, economic CORRUPTION around the world, oil trafficking, Gold and silver trafficking, Child Trafficking, Blackmailing the politicians to extort CONCESSIONS from them to save your shithole apartheid entity, from zionist Clinton family, Jewish mafia Trump Family, Zionist Cotton family, the faggot Graham family, The zionist genocidal Biden family, Sanction regime based on FAKE ‘holohoax’ lies suckers.
    Thank god 70% of youth in the WEST don’t believe Jewish mafia’s lies and their FAKE ‘victim hood’.
    You must pack and go to Europe and America where you came from.

    You the SUCKERS will be kicked out of the region soon. You have NO connection to our region, blood suckers.
    Get lost Mossad TROLL. People of this site should not interact with MOSSAD TROLLS.

    • LOL: meamjojo
    • Replies: @Sarita
  105. Sarita says:
    @John Johnson

    I stand corrected.
    Let me correct it:
    “The STATE DEPARTMENT condemning the IDF is like KHAMENEY condemning Hizbollah”.
    Will never happen.
    🤔

  106. Sarita says:
    @Jamali

    MEANjojo isn’t even a hasbara troll, this person is just a Jew defending his people.
    He/She knows the truth.
    Everything you said he/she knows.
    It doesn’t matter anymore because Jews have gone one level up.
    They don’t give a flying phuck because everyone has sided with them.
    IN THE EYES OF SOMEONE SAY, FROM OUTER SPACE, MEANJOJO GOT MORE DIGNITY AND HONOUR THAN EVERY ARAB RULER.

    LET’S SEE THE RESULT AT THE ICC TOMORROW.
    TOMORROW FRIDAY, AS MUSLIMS BOW DOWN TO ALLAH THEY SHOULD ASK HIM TO PUT SOME SENSE IN THE HEADS OF…NOT THE CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN JUDGES, BUT IN THE HEADS OF ARAB RULERS.

    (it’s probably gonna be laughable.)
    😔

    • Agree: Afghan
    • Thanks: meamjojo
  107. @meamjojo

    FOX is also heavily on the side of Israel.

    It certainly is.

    Fox is also heavily on the side of Con In race denial where “bad unions” and “bad Democrats” made Detroit and they just need God ‘n tax cuts.

    It also turned out that Fox was a haven for closeted homosexual conservatives.

    Why anyone would watch that wretched network is the question.

  108. @Sarita

    “The STATE DEPARTMENT condemning the IDF is like KHAMENEY condemning Hizbollah”.
    Will never happen

    I sure as hell wouldn’t take that bet. Biden can barely mumble out a statement expressing some slight reservations.

    Netanyahu talks to Biden like he is a kid brother. You can see the lack of respect in his eyes.

    NETTY CAN YOU PLEASE NOT KILL SO MANY PEOPLE?

    SHUT UP BIDEN AND GET ME A SODA FROM THE FRIDGE. IM PLAYIN CALL OF DUTY. STOP INTERRUPTING ME. YOUR MESSIN UP MY KILL STREAK.

    OH SORRY. DID YOU WANT GRAPE OR COLA?

    • LOL: Sarita
  109. meamjojo says:
    @John Johnson

    “Why anyone would watch that wretched network is the question. ”

    I used to feel similarly.

    But with their increased coverage of Israel/Gaza, I have been watching them more and there is some good reporting coming out from them. America Reports in my AM is pretty good reporting although the woman Sandra Smith? makeup job has her looking like a mannequin, even though she is really quite intelligent.

    Of course, they also have their share of loonies and idiots like Waters and others but then so does MSNBC, BBC and CNN.

  110. Jamali says:

    • LOL: meamjojo

    You may laugh as much as you want until you drop death.

    No one pays any attention to Mossad Trolls.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  111. Anonymous[215] • Disclaimer says:

    Houthies is Annsar Allah or the Yemeni Army give respect where respect is due author.

  112. @Unbornawakened

    Well corrected Mr U. It was very sloppy on my part. What I should have said is this. The last will cause Mediterranean consumers of Iranian oil to look elsewhere and, in some cases, hardship.

    Iran, like Russia, is using “shadow fleets” to transport much of its oil shipments. By their very nature, they are difficult to identify and track. In the case of Russia, they have recently been more explicit about these shipments. 880, 000 barrels a day are shipped from Kozmino in the Russia Far East, mainly to China and S.E. Asia. 1.6 million barrels per day are shipped from Russia’s ports in the Baltic, and 600,000 bpd from Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. These continue to go to Europe and elsewhere, including India. There simply isn’t enough oil from Kozmino to supply India completely. Note that these tankers continue to use the Suez Canal unhindered, and unmentioned by the Western MSM.
    https://www.upstreamonline.com/production/russia-breaks-silence-on-success-of-seaborne-oil-shipments/2-1-1582009

    Likewise, Iran’s shadow fleet passes through Suez unhindered. It is used to supply Syria, and, through them, Hezbollah in Lebanon. Also, some of this oil is also bought illicitly, at a discount, by other states in the area. Certainly Turkey. Maybe Albania and Greece, too.

    Any closure of Suez will effectively cut those supplies. Syria will be supplied by the Russians, but they would be unwilling to supply Hezbollah. They have no wish to involve themselves in the conflict between Iran and Israel, as their actions in Syria show. So closure of Suez would cause problems to Hezbollah going forward.
    As Hezbollah is much more important to Iran than the Houthis, then Iran would pressure the Houthis to desist.

    • Replies: @Bro43rd
  113. Bro43rd says:
    @Verymuchalive

    If all this is as solid as you say, why wait until now? It seems to me there’s alot of flying by the seats of the pants going on here. Some folks definitely going off script. Kinda ad-lib now so any action can “butterfly effect”, making predictions difficult.

    • Replies: @Verymuchalive
  114. Anonymous[348] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jamali

    Where oh where is the consistency in the supposed “real world?”

    Just a few weeks ago Biden was being lambasted by the public with polling approval ratings of 25%, reportedly the new record low for all the American presidents in the history books. (Well deserved, I might add.) Analysts were finally being forced to admit that he didn’t have a prayer in Hell of winning re-election or even re-nomination by the Democratic gratuitous anti-Arab, anti-Muslim genociders (yet pro-illegal migrants and so bold as to continue preaching their incoherent “morality” including some god-given right to interfere in everyone’s business around the entire globe!)–all this leading to old Joe’s claiming the new honorific title of “Genocide Joe!”

    Now, since the presidential primaries have begun, that treacherous wretch has, according to the mass media, leapfrogged ahead of cool, calm and peaceable Donald Trump as the American public’s favorite to recapture the White House! They say he is leading by about 5 percentage points in the national polls. How can this be? Where is the consistency even if there is no logic? Certainly logic would dictate that the people have the tar, the feathers and the wooden rail ready to dispatch this miscreant who has failed miserably and totally on every stinkin’ public policy he has touched or opined about!!!

    The country is on the road to absolute collapse and complete disintegration of all the resulting fragments! Geez Louise, the cheating and theft of the election has begun before it’s really gotten started. When are all the RINO’s in Congress going to start acting on the mountain of evidence against the Big Guy and his entire family of organised criminals with the incontrovertible objective to impeach and cast him out from the people’s big white shrine to freedom, equality and democracy?? Or are they so totally committed to feathering their own nests with the taxpayers’ money–splitting it with our institutional war profiteers–that we citizens must be left to starve in the streets while some millions of foreigners are slaughtered in one contrived drama across the seas whilst millions of other foreigners, in another drama, are allowed to waltz into this country unimpeded by formal borders and be feted like royalty as a reward for crashing the party???

    Are we the people going to allow our so-called “leaders” to herd us into perdition just so they can skim the cream off of every federal budget line, even as the nominal top leader (Big Ol’ Joe) jabbers patent nonsense about how grand it all is to do it for an entire race of genocidal shysters in the Middle East? At least the Isis headchoppers were honest about their motives! Do the majority of us fools actually believe that it will be somebody else (and not US) left to pay the bills for all this carnage and insanity? And do we not think that the price will include many of our own lives and those of our children? C’mon man! Wake up and smell the reality. At least act up enough to take down the perpetrators of our collective demise.

    The Constitution specifically gives us the right to organise to redress grievances. BLM were allowed to go ape-shit in their “demonstrations” (more like riots) across the country, but we are supposed to accept the muzzle of censorship. They do not have the right to strip you of free speech. Piss, moan and bellyache about these travesties, righteously and robustly, but harm no one or even property. Get them removed from office and moved into jail cells through active legal demonstrations, dissent, and endless truth-telling, like they are trying to do with Trump but without the evidence or confabulated “laws” that are only imaginary. Make Joe and his co-conspirators pay for his betrayal of this country if only to get some revenge before we all starve in our tents on America’s shit-laden streets. Remember, much of the tax revenues they squander on their own luxuries is straight up “blood money,” raised by manufacturing and supplying the weapons used to kill and maim millions. Just because they had lots of accomplices in the immoral process from beginning to end does not absolve them. Just because their machinations were clever and complicated never made them right. Help arrange for them to meet justice well before they meet their “maker.”

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  115. @Anonymous

    Come on. You know, I know and Uncle Tom Cobbly knows that the election will be stolen, AGAIN. If not feasible, they would just kill him, or attack Russia and call the whole thing off. Who would be the patsy? I know-an Iranian!

  116. @Sarita

    Blinken-‘Could you please, possibly, consider, perhaps, slaughtering those children a little more humanely, sirs’.

    • Replies: @Whiteness is Bliss
  117. @Anonymous

    It’s like the Mafia. The muscle was Italian, Irish etc (the USA) but the brains were Meyer Lansky and the kosher nostra (Israel). How can Israel be the underling when Zionazi Jews run the Bidet Administration?

  118. @Bro43rd

    You
    Some folks definitely going off script.

    True, but even truer is that the script has changed.
    Consider Russia.

    Despite numerous and serious provocations by the Jews, the Putin Government had always adopted a cautious approach to Israel. In fact in bygone days Putin had even gone there himself. A major consideration is that over a million Israelis also hold Russian passports. Very sensibly, the Russian Government wants these people to stay where they are and not return to Russia. OK, they may welcome a very small minority of highly skilled or wealthy who are willing to conform to the standards of wider Russian society.

    Most of the provocations, you probably know, but I’ll mention them anyway. The heavy Ziocon involvement in the Maidan Coup. Think Nuland : “Thank you goyim for letting us pillage your country. Here’s some cookies.”

    The Ukrainian “Government” is controlled by a cabal of Zionist Jews. That includes both the President and Prime Minister. So Israel is not unique anymore. The role of Zionists in the proxy war against Russia is also very evident in the West.

    Despite all the denials, the Israelis were secretly supplying the Ukrainians with weapons. The Israeli military was also training Ukrainian troops. More importantly, right up to October of last year, MOSSAD was heavily involved in supporting Ukrainian intelligence. Indeed, Douglas Macgregor thinks that the initial success of the Hamas attack in Gaza was in part due to so many MOSSAD operatives being in Ukraine. All of this was not mentioned by the Western MSM or the Russian media. No need to wonder why.

    The Gaza conflict gave the Russians the opportunity to hit back at the Israelis. They will continue to do so. They may become even more pro-active. Many members of the Duma want to abolish or severely restrict dual nationals. So the right of return to Russia may not last much longer. Problem solved.

  119. Hoping your prediction is correct about those “duals” not being allowed back into Russia. When the Pals restore their country, all the worst of the predatorial parasites will likely be egested elsewhere. My preference at this time would be for them to “colonize” the outer Aleutian Islands; where even the vast majority of Aleuts prefer not to live.

    If those creeps don’t like Goys and treat us badly, then they should be kept as far away as possible.

  120. Given there is no “genocide” happening in Gaza, the Houthis are not doing the right thing.

    • Troll: RadicalCenter
  121. @Been_there_done_that

    This site is obsessed with Isreal. Very weird.

  122. @mulga mumblebrain

    Slaughter all certain future terrorists. Im 100% unequivocally for it.

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  123. @John Johnson

    Lol, good. All you no-good ingrates do is obsess over Israel. 🇮🇱

  124. Anonymous[218] • Disclaimer says:

    When will Americans wake up? Why is our country expending so many resources on the Middle East? This isn’t our problem. Let middle eastern countries handle their own problems. The Middle East would be much better off if Israel were forced to get along with its neighboring countries.

  125. @Whiteness is Bliss

    But how can you predict exactly who’s going to join the US Army?

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