After two decades of civil war, it’s a wonder that the Houthis are powerful enough to block trade and demand the response of an international coalition. They’ve been holding their own against a coalition of the former government, backed by the UAE and Saudi Arabia. American bombs were dropped on the country by both the Obama and Trump administrations.

The Houthis are Shia Muslims, and are supported by Iran, but can Iran pump money and weapons to them on the scale that NATO has been doing in the Ukraine? Not only have the Houthis survived, but they have also become a thorn in the side of the West.

The source of the Civil war seems to relate to a Cold War partition of the country, with a US-backed country in the north and a Soviet-backed country in the south. It only unified in 1990, with the ruler of the north taking control of the new country. Ali Abdullah Saleh had ruled the north since 1978, and the Houthis are currently battling against his government.

Yemen has lost almost 400k people in the conflict, many dying from disease or deprivation rather than as a direct result of the war. The Houthis have occupied the capital city since 2014, but they only control approximately a quarter of the country.

Source: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/yemen-crisis

The October, 2000, USS Cole bombing took place at Yemen’s port of Aden. Al-Quaeda was active in the country at the time, but responsibility for the attack was attributed to Sudan.

Canada’s participation in “Operation Prosperity Guardian” is three staff officers. That’s it.

Can they fill that team out with just trannies?

This video from CTV has two lisping half-Arab homosexuals presenting the story. Almost worth watching just for that.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-sending-3-staff-officers-to-support-u-s-led-operation-prosperity-guardian-1.6694016

the more this situation progresses, the more i become convinced that we are witnessing the true genius of general soleimani unfold before us. this is what he worked so hard for, even convincing vvp (who is no fool), to defend syria from the zioneocon invasion of headchopping “freedom fighters”. this is exactly why the zioneocons decided that solemani and iran must be destroyed, that they must assassinate the future leader of the iranian people. to put this into context, what if iran had assassinated the head of the joint chiefs of staff, and future president of the united states?

iran then told the u.s. that their missile strikes on their bases, were not the full response to the assassination of this great man, but that was still coming in a time and place of their choosing. well this is the time and now we see the fruition of years of planning and the far sighted genius of this unique individual, as evidenced by the miles and miles of tunnels beneath gaza, reminiscent, of korea and vietnam. we also see it in lebanon that is inflicting so many losses on these fascist forces, that gluttonyahoo has to threaten to gazaize all of lebanon, well go ahead you bloated piece of shit head back to lebanon, where you will receive an exponentially greater humiliation than you did in 2006.

yemen is the gem however, stocked full of iranian missiles, think of it as the mini iran. they have been bombed and sanctioned for decades, their people staved, infrastructure destroyed, in order to bend them to the will of the west, to no avail, they remain unbent and unbroken. they are now more than ready to rain their righteous vengeance upon these bloodthirsty mass murderers.

immho yemen is the trap zato is being lured into, as they are an independent country (unthinkable in this day and age), who’s independence has never been respected. well they are now being respected as soleimani smiles down on these long suffering people, as well as the even longer suffering people of palestine.

here’s my prediction, the u.s. will not attack yemen, with anything other than cruise missiles, not daring to attack with their 5th generation(lol) f 35’s, knowing from their aborted trumpian “attack” on iran, that all their “invisible” f 35’s, had iranian radar locks on them. fuck with yemen and your f- 35’s will end up rotting in the sand. the only real question is whether the f-35’s will rot in the yemeni desert or the arizonian desert.

How much water do the Aden based Yemenis have?

Houthis – compared with the rest of the (nonresisting) “Axis of Resistence” – are very impressive…..

but can they fight?

what kind of water do you want?

why don’t you ask mbs, you dmf.

But why can’t the Sunnis and Shiites be reconciled? Why not? And they seem extra-hostile to each other in Lebanon, too, destroying the country. What’s behind it?

I’m sick and tired of hearing how the big Arab states populations are behind the likes of Yemen yet the Arab leadership of these big states mouth empty platitudes while behind the scenes do the devils work for the U.S.

If the Arab populations are so enraged by Israel and the U.S then DO SOMETHING, don’t grizzle and groan and shrug shoulders and say what can one person do? Did the suffragettes say what can we do? Did Ghandi do nothing? No…they stopped the “buisness as usual” and irritated until the irritation got a reaction.

Arabs can pour money into Yemen and Hezbollah and Hamas, freeing the middle east of a foreign occupier who only steals and kills has to start somewhere.

But why can’t the Sunnis and Shiites be reconciled?

Excellent question. The world would be a different place if the two major groups of Islam reconciled. The division goes back to the time of the death of Mohammed. Perhaps it is like Christian Europe that was constantly at war with each other

Do you think all this must happen all at once?

Thanks for letting us know… how pathetic the Canadian “participation” in the Operation Genocide Prosperity is !

Not having seen MSM in a long while but having clicked the link, it’s amazing how fake it all is.

Again, thanks for the info. It will be shared with others (to their disgust no doubt).

yeah that’s real impressive…Houthis defeat mighty S.A. army. Let’s see what they can do against Uncle Schmuel.

And interestingly, Australia just officially declined the US ‘offer’ to contribute to the coalition. I think this is the first time ever Australia has said “No thanks” to the US.

America has no business in the Middle East, this is all an obvious distraction. The 2022 U.S. Census Bureau has our White population at 61.6%, no doubt an inflated number. On top of that when the millions and millions of non-Whites invading the Southwest become disenchanted, and they will, all hell is going to breakout. They’re no longer just flooding the cities; thousands are showing up in rural areas too. Think of George Floyd style riots in every city, in every state coast to coast. That’s the plan.

The [ALP] Government has monolithic support among Muslims.
Reports today are that Muslim Leaders in Sydney have been recommending their followers switch to The Greens.
Which is pretty laughable, since where do the Muslims think The Greens financing comes from?

If the Arab populations are so enraged by Israel and the U.S then DO SOMETHING, don’t grizzle and groan and shrug shoulders and say what can one person do? Did the suffragettes say what can we do? Did Ghandi do nothing? No…they stopped the “buisness as usual” and irritated until the irritation got a reaction.

You’d be surprised at how much control these governments have over their people, especially after the “Arab Spring” of 2011, when internet controls became even more extreme.

In Saudi Arabia even the mildest online criticism gets you years in prison. Egypt has been installing street cameras to track drivers by facial recognition. Etc… All with help from the US, China, and Israel.

But I agree, there is a certain degree of demoralization there that prevents a “storming of the Bastille” type of thing.

yeah that’s real impressive…Houthis defeat mighty S.A. army. Let’s see what they can do against Uncle Schmuel.

It wasn’t just the Saudis.

It was a whole bunch of other troops and mercenaries from other countries.

Recall seeing a houthi carrying his injured comrade across open ground under heavy fire; serious badasses! I said I’ll never make fun of men in dresses again.

Gandhi is a myth. So too we’re the suffragettes.

The Yemeni sea piracy is causing a mortal blow to Egypt, that relies on Suez revenues. Barefooted medieval tribesmen – which BTW are fighting a civil war – will end as the late Somali pirates. It will be a silent police operation.

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.[

Yemen makes Europe Stronger
Accelerates CCP Decoupling

Why are Houthi attacks on shipping backfiring?

Because there is a desirable impact to letting the situation continue. The U.S.is already on a gradual decoupling course with Asia generally and the CCP specifically. Now, the EU gets to participate in a 100% blame free manner.

CCP products now take 9-10 days of additional time to reach Europe. Nimble local producers can use better service to replace far distant suppliers.

Europe and the U.S. will provide some grants to el-Sisi’s government to cover lost Suez Canal revenue. However, that is only a few € Billion/year compared to the Ukraine boondoggle. The gains from increased domestic production exceeds this cost. And, it helps keep Egypt on side for a variety of other issues.

As an added bonus, it drives a wedge between the CCP and the Iranian theocracy. How much is Xi willing to sacrifice for Khamenei’s regional aggression?

PEACE 😇

divide et impera. not all Islamic countries acknowledge the difference in practical reality, regarding it as a theoretical and theological standpoint.

“Putin recently remarked that the Northern Sea Route is now becoming a more efficient maritime trade corridor than the Suez Canal.”

The U.S. has 3 arctic-capable icebreakers, and two of them are usually broken. Russia has at least 40, probably closer to 50. The U.S. is an arctic nation. However, The U.S. has more leafblowers.

It’s being done to prod the Egyptians into reclaiming their Megiddo!

Who knew VVP was such a comedian! OTOH
http://www.theanarchistalternative.info/index.html

Not as laughable as your mental processes. The ALP (Another Lieberal Party) has sold them out for Jewish silver, so fuck ’em. Greasy Albanese was going to be a one-termer in any case. And vote smart. Vote 1 for the Greens, but put the ALP LAST. The Lieberal openly fascist racists cannot, in practise, be worse than the ALP frauds.

“no doubt an inflated #”

Jew-S census counts 7 million mostly ashkenazic Jews and 6 million semitic muzzies as “white”; and most of the c. 30 milion illegal browns in-country aren’t even being counted.

in real #’s, JewSA is white minority right now. And at the current rate of borderless shitstain insourcing JewSA will be c. 55%-60% non-White by 2030.

I would love to be able to believe in fairy tales as much as Pepe does.

If you think the Houthis can sink aircraft carriers, you’re smoking crack

Blah, blah, blah. Everybody is just gung-ho, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes. Pepe just likes poking the empire with sticks, sometimes he gets it right. I am sincere when I say I hope the Houthis don’t wind up carpet bombed or they manage to set off that regional war. Looks like the Sunni princes are rather neutral in the whole regional mess, and would rather the Palestinians and the Houthis just disappear. The Zionists might get their war with Iran via the US proxy. Hezbollah and the Iranians look ready to fight. Unbelievable powder keg. August 1914 style, with much more hate.

I just see a bunch of fools, Pepe included, in the mad rush to fall into a trap of their own making.

If the Red Sea becomes a declared war zone, affordable insurance will become impossible. It’s interesting that drones and mines are playing significant military role these days. So far, the Houthis have only threatened to flood the sea with mines. We have not seen the new water based drones except in Ukraine.

Video Link

Look at the map, and see that Canada is the Arctic nation. Anyway, the time has passed when Khat drugged pirates could change international maritime trade routes.

So… I guess you’ve never served on a warship.
Cause if you have and you think they can’t, you just may be on crack.

The main issue is if they dared to try.

Which could trigger a tactical nuke in response on Mocha or Aden.

Aden or Mocha is where Arabs drove a Jewish king into the sea.

These wee Princes are just Anglo American clients.

Your video link made me laugh:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-sending-3-staff-officers-to-support-u-s-led-operation-prosperity-guardian-1.6694016

Canada sent three staff officers and proclaimed that due to staffing shortages, this was a significant contribution. Let’s hope someone puts them in a boat to patrol the Red Sea.

Don’t forget Israel’s Dolphin class subs and the possibility of a false flag attack upon the US Navy. It has happened at least once with the USS Liberty, perhaps twice when the USS Cole is considered.

John McCain almost did.

You talk shit: “Khamenei’s regional aggression”? The only significant aggression going on in the world today is the Talmudist Zionist regime’s genocidal attacks on the common people of Gaza. Those chickenshits cannot fight man to man. They are too soft, gobbling up all those goodies parceled out from the back pockets and purses of American taxpayers.

Who the fuck wants to keep Egypt “onside”…only ones are the enemies of humanity, those who have bought and paid for dictator General $I$i…an oppressor of the people of Egypt. Maybe they’ll get their balls up and hang the bass-turd. Like too many of the Arab speaking leaders, he’s nothing more than a tool of the ruling financier elite…a Quisling, a puppet of outside forces, beginning with the Rottenchild Crime Clan and their own private little holding, City of London.

Does your cover name reveal that your real name is Hyman Lipshitz?

Since 07 October 2023, more than 25,612 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli Jews. About 92 percent of those killed in the Israeli air and artillery attacks were civilians (including 10,091 children) and over 54,000 have been injured, According to EuroMed. Jews displayed truly chilling callousness and disregard for the sanctity of human life, with Western unconditional support to kill Palestinian children and babies. The rest of the world is turning blind eye to the present Palestinian Holocaust because the Jews have an iron grip control on the global mainstream media and U.S. regime. “The behaviour of the Jews is simply too bad. It is unjustifiable, and they must be removed from civilized societies. They are free to go live amongst themselves and engage in weird behavior with one another, but normal people are under no obligation to be a part of their psychotic madness and destructive schemes,” observes Andrew Anglin. Jews pose the greatest danger to world peace and Humanity itself.

There’s no staring down. Escobar is AgitPropping again.

The Houthi are already indiscriminately attacking Non-Actors. Beyond Scope.

Once the Houthi start attacking Murican+GBRitsh Merchant Vessels and Military Assets, Murica will respond in kind.

My guesses are that the Whitehouse Staff are arguing btwn Factions trying to make this a purely Defensive Operation, those who’ll torch the Houthi if directly attacked, and NeoCons who wish to strike Iran along with the Houthi.

Those who read my Post in Mr. Johnson’s Article know that my Opinions+Preferences are in the 2nd Option Camp.

Chances are the Red Sea Transit may need to be closed off to Civilian Traffic for awhile if the Hegemony engage the Houthi.

Do your basic geography research. Aden is currently under control of forces financed by the UAE. There is some sort of bad blood between them and the Saudis. In turn they each back opposing factions, both of whom have been directed by their financial supporters to make war with the legitimate government in Sanaa, the Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis.

Wondering whether the U$$A attack dog on behalf of the Talmudist Agenda will have the stones to actually mount aerial and missile attacks on the Yemenis. If those desert hard-nuts have even a fraction of the missiles possessed by Hezbollah…there may be some sailors on that concoction acting as a Coalition for the Killing needing to change their undershorts from a sudden dye-job, the color of which would resemble the noses of their higher ranking commanders.

That tangled mass of a relative handful of naval contributors including the soon to be overwhelmed by the sea the Seychelles. Latest word on the street is that their contribution will be two row-boats and a steam-powered inter-island steamer. Most likely they are attempting to convince their “allies” to give them refugee status when rising sea levels in the Indian Ocean overwhelm their low-lying tiny islands.

Of course, the Zionistas are hoping that if they can pull off a false-flag sinking of the U$$A carrier, the incident will become yet another “Remember the Maine; remember the Lusitania; remember Pearl Harbor; remember the Tonkin Gulf Incident and remember 911″…all notorious false-flag incidents perpetrated by the ruling elite here in the ruptured republic.

Yep. Its a regional conflict now. The Yemini Armed Forces are stepping in with a perfectly authentic and strategic defence of those on the receiving end of the monomaniacal genocide in Gaza. The Gaza Massacre is aimed at culminating the 75 year-old Nakba with the attempt at a final solution to dePalestinianizing Israel.

Ansarullah Supreme Political Council member Muhammad al-Bukhaiti felt compelled to re-stress the obvious: “Even if America succeeds in mobilizing the entire world, our operations in the Red Sea will not stop unless the massacre in Gaza stops. We will not give up the responsibility of defending the Moustazafeen (oppressed ones) of the Earth.”

Hmm —- whom should we listen to — Bukhaiti or Netanyahu. What would be best for the world?

Really there is no rational choice —- but Bukhaiti!

FUCK – Netanyahu!

watch saeed1/zakah1 on youtube or archive. shiism is literally a jewish sect. they only believe in certain parts of the quran. houthis/zaydis were not always shia, most of their beliefs are basically sonni and conflict with pro transexual iran, proving that they aren’t actually allied with nor supported by iran.

I was wondering who was behind 10/7 and what was the move and counter move?
To put aside the lies of the Empire, the Houtis have not endangered the world’s supply chains. They have only endangered Western supply chains and those supporting Israel. Russian and Chinese traffic moves unmolested.
Here are some facts. The US Treasury and the ECB are putting downward pressure on the price per barrel of oil. The +Opec are forcing upward pressure on the price by limiting production.
After the failure of the Zionist World Order (ZWO) in Ukraine and the addition to the BRIX, of countries who control the choke points to the sea lanes, such as Egypt, it was important for the ZWO to counteract this constraint on the flow of Energy products to European Oligarchs. Pressure had to be put on Egypt by the ZWO. It was decided that Hamas was a semi-controlled asset to be used to apply the needed pressure starting on 10/7. Bibi had nothing to loose and something to gain to rally the country around him. Do you believe it was really a total surprise?
Consider this, it is estimated that the additional demand by Western supply chains for oil, to navigate around Africa into the Med, will be around 500,000 barrels a day or 180 million per year . Even at 150 million barrels a year, that’s no small amount and will surely put upward pressure on the price of oil.
So, who benefits? The boys who own the oil and their friends who purchace it at a discount, the BRIX.
The big loosers here are the European Oligarchs and their inbred ancient nobless. They live in a garden yet have no collateral, no natural wealth. So what do satan worshippers do after sacrificing Ukraine?, They sacrifice Gaza.
Israel was sure Egypt would take the one time offer of IMF debt forgiveness in exchange for taking the Gazans into the Sinai. Egypt refused and al-Sisi already conferred with the BRIX, you think?
Mr. Escobar, the US Navy will not attack nor destroy the Houtis, it is in the best interest of the US Energy producers to limit avenues of supply of Energy into Europe.
The BRIX are switching from sea lane hegemony to overland pipelines to every country in the Global South. The West just blew up Nordstream2 to make the point that hegemony of sea lanes shall continue and will not be replaced by land pipes. Now the choke points have been activated and Egypt is supported by Russia and China, just like Iran. This is the Energy producers response to the vandalism of Nordstream2, “a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
I say to the President of the Garden, how’s the weather over in the Garden deckhand.
PS. We will never know every detail as to the who and how, instead concentrate on what you see happening. It prevents one from loosing one’s mind in minutia.
It’s all about the struggle between a system of land based Energy transportation for all, through prosporous nations at peace and Sea Lane hegemony among warring nations. And, how do you weaken Sea Lane hegemony? By controlling land based choke points protected by anti flotilla long range hypersonic missiles. It’s all about Energy, those who have it prosper and those who don’t live in a garden.

“… the time has passed when Khat drugged pirates could change international maritime trade routes.” What do think is happening now? They’ve stopped using Khat and switched to Fentenol you, pull your head out.

The street cameras are being stolen and sold back to the government as spare parts. Poverty in Egypt is severe.

When you are talking about Arabs, you are talking about Sunnis and Shiites. Arabs were never united by a national identity and were infighting tribes for centuries being used as pawns by the main protagonists of the Levantine and the Greater Middle East. The only moment in history that Arabs had their moment under the sun is when the Prophet Mohamed united the Arab tribes under the banner of Islam putting large geopolitical areas, from Western Africa till Western China, under the rule of the Islamic Caliphate. But for most of the nearly two decades that Arabs were in control of the Caliphate, their reign was tainted by constant inter-Arab wars in a power struggle for the Caliph position. By the ninth century Arabs were totally ruled and controlled by their erstwhile Turkic mercenaries and never after that did they regain the Caliphate.

The Sunni impotence at facing up to the colonial rule of Zionists and Westerners had a limited lame duck success in the war of liberation of Algeria and most of the Arab world managed a nominal independence by virtue of the new geopolitical reality after WWII. The only Arab party that managed to soundly defeat Israel was the Iranian trained and equipped Hizbollah, a purely Shiite political movement. Whatever the Sunni Hamas fighters managed to learn in way of resistance to the Israeli occupation, they acquired from Shiite Iran. The propensity of Shiites for martyrdom was instilled into them by the heroic resistance of their Imam Al Hussein Bin Ali who preferred to fight and die rather than surrender against overwhelming odds.

For the large Sunni majority, their resistance will hardly go beyond street demonstrations and commercial boycotts of Israeli and American products. They are governed by police states that do not shy away from using brutal force against their people if they dare cross the red line of Zionist Western imperial wishes. The two most powerful Sunni states, Egypt and Turkey, will not lift a finger to provide material support to Palestinian liberation. OTOH, the much less powerful Shiite Houthis have taken a stance that no other Arab state would ever dare emulate.

“It wasn’t just the Saudis.

It was a whole bunch of other troops and mercenaries from other countries.”

Plus American weapons, SRI and training. All against fighters who lacked military boots and helmets who soundly defeated the coalition of the killing.

As Notsofast mentioned, the Iranians know how to eat their vengeance plate cold. The Great Soleimani is gone but his legacy persists.

Cracks form in NATO as US claims over 20 nations onboard for anti-Yemen coalition
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/cracks-form-in-nato-as-us-claims-over-20-nations-onboard-for-anti-yemen-coalition

As of posting this message, both Italy and Spain have withdrawn their support, while France remains tentatively aboard.

Bad omens for Operation Prosperity Guardian.

here’s my prediction, the u.s. will not attack yemen, with anything other than cruise missiles, not daring to attack with their 5th generation(lol) f 35’s, knowing from their aborted trumpian “attack” on iran, that all their “invisible” f 35’s, had iranian radar locks on them. fuck with yemen and your f- 35’s will end up rotting in the sand. the only real question is whether the f-35’s will rot in the yemeni desert or the arizonian desert.

I’m in general agreement. A cruise missile attack against anti-ship missile launchers would, let’s say, be ineffective. As for F-35’s, did you know that the outer skin on the damned things rusts when exposed to salt spray?

Here are a few comments of my own that support your assertion:

An axiom should be set in stone: Washington would rather bet on a possible, deep global recession than simply allowing a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The recession may well turbo-charge a widespread economic collapse of the collective West, and an even more rapid rise of multipolarity.

and

Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt and retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer told Newsmax on Friday that the United States has “paid for both sides” of the conflict in which the Middle East is currently embroiled.

“The Pentagon plans for everything,” he said. “We have contingencies for everything — from space aliens to five men in a rowboat — and we do it very well, so it’s not that we haven’t anticipated this. I know the intel is there to tell us that they were planning this, they had this. This whole idea of re-provisioning ships? Come on! We knew this was coming, and we’ve seen it.

“So, this is a political decision,” he continued. “This has nothing to do with the military capabilities, even as diminished as they are, of the U.S. military. We could be conducting effective, precise, and overwhelming military strikes immediately. Take out all the resources, make them go back to Tehran and ask for more and then hit those when they’re coming out. This is a political choice not to do that.”
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/blaine-holt-tony-shaffer-houthis/2023/12/22/id/1146963/
Right, even if the US had an expeditionary capability in 2023, it’s a political decision.

Back in the days of the National Lampoon it ran an “alternate history” of the Kennedy Administration in which JFK was not killed, and the Jewish coalition, having shown their hand, was purged under the supervision of a CIA that itself had been purged.** In this “alternate history”, a Jewish nightmare in content, JFK “pursued a neutral policy towards Israel and the Arab states by arming both sides”. The surviving Israelis ended up in a US constructed refuge called the “Gaza Plaza”, which looked a lot like a shopping mall. The piece was entitled “The 4000 Days”.

I honestly never expected the “neutral policy towards Israel and the Arab states by arming both sides equally” to be actually followed, but it is now. The only difference is that it’s Iran, the Persians rather than the Arabs, who are being armed. https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-10-billion-biden-administration-sanctions-iraq-israel-hamas-72bfc33a And all the arms needed can be purchased on the Iranian black market.

The US is in serious trouble. Despite what the two former military men (USAF, US Army) said, the US has destroyed its expeditionary capability (and was the last of the Western nations to do so) and would make out badly in a prolonged guerilla war that would prevent traffic through the Suez Canal by insurance rates alone, assuming that shipping companies could get insurance for transit through a war zone. Attempts at rounding the Cape of Good Hope would rapidly overload Union of South Africa refueling/repair facilities.

Add to that the takeover of Obama during the second half of his term as President, and his retention of that near dictatorial power thanks to the threat Trump poses the uniparty’s income stream. Obama is anti-Israel, and is implementing the Jewish nightmare scenario first outlined by the National Lampoon. Only real difference is that it’s the Blacks rather than the Irish behind it.

“The recession may well turbo-charge a widespread economic collapse of the collective West, and an even more rapid rise of multipolarity” is exactly what has been developing since the US had everything in place to take down the Russian Federation and Putin made a successful counter-move. Putin’s success has enabled small players to move against the US (by closing the Suez Canal, for example, and the PRC’s Taiwan initiative), and the US, after decades of looting and skimming of its basic institutions, lacks the ability to counter these moves.

We are exiting what, in retrospect, will appear to be a golden age. Not that it’s pure gold, but it will look that way from the age the world is entering.

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** That wasn’t much of a reach. JFK and RFK had arrested, tried, and convicted many Italian Mafia and many Jewish “organized crime figures”. I worked for one of the Jewish figures, briefly, so I’m not guessing here. The Talmud would classify any arrest of Jewish people as a direct assault that must be retaliated against — indistinguishable except in incidentals from the “neutral policy” of the fictional Kennedy. “A blow against one is a blow against all.”

The affirmative action morons on the US Carrier will sink the ship all by themselves.

The M E cut throat countries like Saudi Arabia. Jordan and the rest that won’t blockade Israel, will be the downfall of any chance of an Israel defeat in the economic war. Israel can lose the Hamas War, just like the US does everytime, but they don’t lose their place. But then again, Israel unfortunately, can make a phone call to the Federal Reserve can print out a hot 200+ Billion, and dole it out to Israel and the peasants in the US will never – ever know about it.

The only “game changer ” would be Hezbollah getting serious involved, but Israel uses their threats to scare everyone and keep the propaganda going, and who knows what is being played under the table. The beach front condos are already being designed where the Gazans once lived – nobody buying those will care about all the blood under the sand. The OW Order cares little on how they Win – they just want to Win. Greed is King – Righteousness sticks too close to the moral rules.

thanks Pepe for the article. but IMO Egypt is a determinate of the outcome of the current situation.

Why does Russia not support the GAZA genocide ?

How many mercs have been returned from Ukraine to assist in the GAZA genocide?

Is it true, the Yemenis Air defense system is based on the principle that the best defense is a strong offense? Shall we measure Yemen fire power as a function of the depth of red in the red sea? .

If Saudi Arabia does not sign the peace treaty with the Houthi in Yemen will Saudi Arabia remain eligible to join BRICS?

General SISI is caught in the middle.. it will be interesting to see if his western handlers or the demands of the Egyptian people will direct SISI’s response.

What steps have the anti Netanyahu factions in Israel taken to restrain Netanyahu.

You’re squawking in the wrong cage. Folk here love to pontificate, but suggest an action and they’re quick with a wet blanket.

The U.S. is an arctic nation.

Look at the map, and see that Canada is the Arctic nation.

Heard of Alaska?

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

The result of this shipping problem will be to STREAMLINE the BRI and push for faster high speed rail links between China and West Asia/Europe.

There will be no wedge between China and Iran. They are working together. Russian oil tankers are transiting the Red Sea at higher rates than before. The same is true for Arab tankers. ONLY western shipping is being targeted, specifically that related to your sacred cow: Israel. It seems that Ansarallah have been tremendously precise in not hitting non-western oil tankers. I imagine that their precision will only improve over time and Chinese, Russian, and non western shipping will get the message that as long as they aren’t shipping to or related to the apartheid state, all will be well.

https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/16119

I’ve read elsewhere that the Komnenoi, 12th century ruling family of Byzantium, who were crypto-Jews who were chased out of Constantinople and setup shop in Persia. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran has a similar last name

The Zionists might get their war with Iran via the US proxy. Hezbollah and the Iranians look ready to fight. Unbelievable powder keg. August 1914 style…

General Soleimani = the new Archduke Ferdinand

You ignore the fact that the Houthis were bombed for YEARS by US supplied fighter jets with British and US pilots. The MIC had a field day selling bombs to Saudi Arabia. What was the result? The Houthis learned how to hit and move. They also received extensive training, missiles and drones from both Hezbollah and Iran’s Quds force. This article takes a deep dive into the Houthi’s capabilities, and it was written two years ago, when the war with Saudi Arabia was still hot. The fact is that nobody wants to wrangle with the Houthis. They are armed, trained, experienced and motivated. A US attack is just what they are aiming for. They want to set off the regional war and sap and destroy Uncle Shmuel’s military power, prestige and economic might.

If the US and their coalition of the puppies attack, the Houthis will prevail. You need not worry about them disappearing.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/iranian-and-houthi-war-against-saudi-arabia

Canada sent three staff officers … in a boat to patrol the Red Sea.

I’m picturing the Skipper, the Professor and Mary Anne.

Sorry, I made a mistake. It’s the F-20 that corrodes, not the F-35.

Also, with respect to radar and the F-35 — here’s a clarification.

A cruise missile attack against anti-ship missile launchers would, let’s say, be ineffective. As for F-35’s, they are apparently good at their tasks, but really too expensive (at about .8 or .9 billion dollars each) to use as a ground support fighter. The “troops fire straight up and hope for a golden BB” tactic still works on low flying aircraft, and restricts the F-35 to higher altitudes. Also, the design is over two decades old since the first prototype, and the requirement that the F-35 serve both as an air superiority and a ground strike aircraft is fundamentally self-contradictory. The specifications might as well have included crop dusting.

However, it is unlikely that F-35s will be destroyed by ground to air missiles. Detection is not the same as a radar lock: See: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/yes-iran-might-be-able-pick-radar-f-35-stealth-fighters-206778 . The missile designer’s problem is that any electromagnetic frequency (EMF) detection system cannot determine location to less than one wavelength, and that means a detection system that depends can fix location to within the effective destruction range of an anti-aircraft missile. To fix location to within 100 meters requires 3 MHz or higher frequency.
So the F-35 could be tracked with, say, less than 3 MHz electromagnetic (EM) wave, but not with over 3MHz EM wave. That is, the approximate location of an F-35 can be determined, but the missiles can’t see well enough to get within 100 meters. As is so often the case today, the Iranian claims are true, but highly misleading.

Interesting. The Jewish king Dhu Nuwas was massacring Christians so the emperor of Ethiopia sent his troops to crush him, and he is said to have died by riding his horse into the sea at Aden. Perhaps Yemen will once again prove to be the downfall of Jewish rulers

Ann Nonny, the Shia/Sunni divide goes back to the four days following Mohamed’s death some 1400 years ago. When Mohammed died his wife and stepson took his body home to prepare for the funeral. As prescribed by Mohamed, this took three days. When wife and stepson returned to the halls of power they found that the rich had already decided who would take Mohamed’s place.

Wait a minute, said the widow and stepson, the leader must have “the light of heaven shining from him.” And clearly the big money boys didn’t ( funny how things never change.) So off went the spiritual wing, separated from the money and power wing.

Funny thing is the Arabic word used for “the light of heaven shining from his face” might be sort of familiar. BARAKA! What sort of arrogant narcissist names himself that way.

But why can’t the Sunnis and Shiites be reconciled?

Because in the case of Persia / Arabs it’s not the origin of the bad blood.

I feel that Persia sided with Ali the Infidel BECAUSE the Arabs are Sunni. The Arabs like that guy, well we like this guy! The Arab conquest of Persia and the attempt to get them to speak Arabic ruffled feathers as the relationship used to be reversed.

I can’t back up this theory with anything historical or written evidence by smarter assholes.

Canada’s participation in “Operation Prosperity Guardian” is three staff officers. That’s it. Can they fill that team out with just trannies?

Dont be disrespectful and unpatriotic ! An operation named “Prosperity Guardian” is a worthwhile one. Canada also sent three birchbark canoes, pink dresses, handbags and high heel shoes and some walking sticks. Unfortunately they forgot to load the paddles which are still in the workshop. Get your facts right ! If Canada did not participate the US will sanction our home made buttertarts and maple syrup eh ??

As for “capacity” challenges, well thats political correctness for fuck the Canadian Militree. Here is one amusing story from a friend of mine whose son enlisted in City A/ Ontario. They ran the kid back and forth frequently losing paperwork which he had to replace time and again. Finally they lost the whole file which was “found” in City B some 4 hours away. When a request was made to forward the file to “A” it was misplaced and turned up in “C”. This was a 4 month odyssey of paper and file chasing during which the kid got into excellent shape for his basic. Sadly, by the time he was called for his umpteenth interview he had lost interest (to his Daddy’s delight). As the Father told me anyone who enlists in an organzation where the politicians fuck over veterans for their 3% raise while voting 25% raises for themselves must have the IQ of a nutmeg.

In the meantime “Prosperity Guardian” (where do they get these names ?) is being led by hard charging Field Marshal Floyd Dustbin. At 300 pounds of black flubber he is an awe inspiring ape, oops I meant Leader. When those Houthis see who is in charge they will take a massive dump in their dishdashas !

You cant make this shit up. As time goes by the West stumbles into one moist bison chip after the other. I fear it will culminate in a climax ie world war ! Canada and the US, unscathed in past conflicts will get a taste of what total destruction is all about. Then we will be happy ! Why?……. because as Claws Swab said “You will have nothing and be happy” ! LOL

Celebrating a bunch of Islamic lunatics who are attacking commercial ships and putting the lives of innocent civilian mariners at risk is pretty sick.

There are no “good guys” in that dystopian conflict. Pepe Escobar should know better.

¡No pasarán!

If the Arab populations are so enraged by Israel and the U.S then DO SOMETHING

I suspect you’ve been paying more attention to Israeli talking points then you’ll admit to.

The mideast and Arabs in general are not enraged about Israel. The USA in general maybe but just as the newest empire in a long line of shitty situations.

Morocco for example, I’ve never been, but historically the king there and obviously some people have been big supporters of the USA being close by and the first to recognize the place (you would think this was France).

Zionism is not popular in the Arab world but when I’ve talked to Arabs here about it, there are things higher on their list. Yes their leaders cooperate with zionists but what choice do those leaders have? War with the USA and who suffers when the water infrastructure is bombed?

Egypt is the #2 user of the M1 Abrams tank and in the Arab Spring we saw plenty of footage showing why. The #1 enemy of the Egyptian government is the people. And the #1 enemy of the Egyptian people is the government. Those tanks ain’t in the Sainai…

It’s not easy to unite countries full of tribally different people. In Europe the Danish speakers are in the borders of Denmark. Iraq has a deadly mix of Shia majority, Sunni minority, half a dozen Christian minorities, Aramaic speaking minority. How and why would they come to common cause on anything?

Jews aren’t the Arabs’ favorite people, yet they co-existed for 1300 years until zionism. Sometimes they’ve depended on each other as Arabs are poor organizers and Jews are poor warriors.

Talk to Arabs – when I do they hate the Turks more, the Persians more, their neighboring Arabs more than they hate Israelis.

Look at the death tolls alone of Iraq or the Iran/Iraq war or resistance against the USA, versus Israel / Palestine. While tragic and horrible and pasted all over social media the century of misery for the Palestinians is less death than the more intense conflicts of US occupation, and US sponsored invasion.

That “evil schemer” Henry Kissinger would never have allowed the world to get to this dangerous crossroads. It’s a crossroads with multiple choices leading to world war. Kissinger always saw the dangers in unrestrained empirical arrogance. He knew how to douse critical outbreaks of incandescence before they spread.

Our current western leadership is too busy advancing gay marriage to perceive the threats to normal humanity.

The upcoming Hiroshima and Nagasaki treatment to Yemen will clean up Houthi mess, followed by Iran… no Sunni is going shed a tear over the pretenders to the line of the Prophet. And the atomic weapons are not going to be launched from the West but from the east as in Wahabi Pakistan. A very Merry Christmas!

Thank you for this link as I would never dial into CTV on my own volition so as to not waste my time. I see what you mean about the lisping duo, just another reason to be ashamed of what my country has become post the Trudeau Liberal takeover. Still waiting patiently for the good people of the Americas to take their nations back from the crooks who run things currently and restore the their mission of bringing real prosperity to the people of the world.

right,right, right.

you totally get it, abc123 needs to go back to elementary school. iran is now threatening to close the mediterranean sea to traffic, if the genocide in palestine is not stopped. i wonder if that is implying an algerian response similar to the yemenis? curiouser and curiouser.

I agree, Houthis have proven scrappy and capable. But you got the Pentagon and the neocons wanting a free hand to deal with the Houthis. These guys don’t care if they lose a war, spend a lot of money, and get a lot of people killed. The means justifies the ends. They’d also like a shot at the Iranians, which has been something of unfinished business 45 years, which judging by the news today is a real possibility. So nobody knows the outcome, but the chess pieces are in place and being pushed forward. Looks like everybody will get more than they bargained for.

A Jewish sect are the Shia, eh? As opposed to the Sunni? My understanding is that both major branches of islam accept much of the pointless, absurd, primitive, self-worshipping, tribalist nonsense in the “Old Testament.” They both accept the “prophet” status of the Jewish prophets (real or fictional). They both accept the notion that God made a special covenant with the Jews at least for a time, and the belief that God would send a “messiah” for the Jews (and now “for” the pathetic Jewish wanna-bes in the two junior abrahamic cults), etc.

Both Sunnis and Shia likewise agree on some of the nonsense in the “New Testament”, e.g. the pagan-derived fable of a “virgin birth”, in this case the “virgin birth” of yet another Glorious Superior-Jew Prophet Sent By God, King JAYsus “peace be upon him.”

Like the Protestant-catholic-orthodox distinctions in Christianity, the Sunni-Shia divide is much ado about nothing. Just different versions of the same conclusory drivel.

Worship God, not human beings, as Muslims to their credit believe (as most early christians also believed, as they did not consider Jesus to be God or “part of a godhead” of “one of the three persons of God” or any such logically incoherent thing). Like Christians, Muslims shouldn’t be wasting precious time in our short lives debating, let alone fighting over, which version of unproven and unprovable (and unimportant) nonsense is true. They can make much better use of the intellect that God gave us.

The biggest problem for the US that is not mentioned in this article.

The Houthis in Yemen will be fighting from land and the US from the sea.

Lord Admiral Nelson summed up the US’s major disadvantage in his famous quote:

“A ship is a fool to fight a fort.”

“ But for most of the nearly two CENTURIES that Arabs were in control of the Caliphate.

That’s a promising development, if Italy and Spain stick to their refusal to help attack Yemen.

Now, much more is needed from the dying Euro-faggot countries to undermine the US regime’s “prestige” and veneer of “support from the international community.” Practically, they may need to push the US bully back by starting to dismantle its network of aggressive forward bases (thousands of miles from US borders).

What’s needed is Italy, Spain, and Hungary withdrawing from nato and expelling US troops from their territory. Then a coordinated boycott of US-manufactured goods and US-based “services” if the US won’t withdraw its thugs.

(If all other measures are insufficient to expel US murderers from the soil of current eu/nato members, this one may do the trick: invite the Chinese and Russians to establish military bases right near the US bases. US bullies like to take on far weaker countries and peoples; let’s see if the bankrupt Fatmerican have the courage and the resources to fight the Chinese and Russian militaries to keep those US bases in Italy, Spain and Hungary.

The Russian Federation has the means at its disposal to incentivize such a drastic move by Italy, Spain and Hungary. Russia can offer a generous multi-decade contract to supply all the oil and natural gas that Italy, Spain and Hungary may need, at guaranteed below-market prices.

Such ”sweetheart” energy deals from Russia will give Italian, Spanish and Hungarian businesses and consumers prices less than half what “the uk”, Germany and other Russia-sanctioning US vassals are paying.

And that energy-price difference, in turn, will give the año/eu countries defectors a huge competitive advantage in manufacturing and assembly over the dying “uk”, Germany and France. Not to mention a far better standard for living and qualify of life for the countries switching from nato/eu to peaceful relations and profitable trade with Russia, China and Iran.

Russia can extend a similar “requirements contract” to countries that leave nato and the EU, covering a range of metals and minerals with important industrial, military, medical, and scientific uses.

The real kicker, of course, will be Turkey withdrawing from nato and demanding removal of US troops/“advisors” from its soil; hopefully Recip Tayyip will make that move before he shuffles off this mortal coil, in sha Allah.

Quoted from Bretigne Schaffer “The people who were killed in the Holocaust, in the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward, the Cambodian Killing Fields, were not killed because of anyone’s racist or hateful thoughts or words. They weren’t even killed by “hate” – not on its own anyway. They were killed because there was a large, centralized state that had the power to kill en masse. If you want to prevent further genocide and mass murder, then oppose powerful, centralized states. Not hate-filled losers on social media.” from her substack.

I know it’s a bit OT but relevant as well.

Good point. Russia, Canada, the USA, and the Scandinavians are all considered “Arctic nations.” But of the countries directly involved and owning Arctic territory, only Russia and for now the US have the military strength to decide who controls the natural resources in that vast region.

(Collectively, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland have a population less than that of Texas’s 31 million, and an old, aging population at that (I.e. high and rising median age), as well as insignificant military forces.)

With KSA and Iran having a honeymoon now, Iranians will most likely not give any help to Houthis right now, in deference to the Saudis. I read somewhere that Chinese are clandestinely providing Houthis military equipment, instead. Not sure if it’s true.

“The recession may well turbo-charge a widespread economic collapse of the collective West, and an even more rapid rise of multipolarity.” That is exactly what the globalists want. The US must be depleted militarily and economically in order for the global cabal to take complete control. And sometimes they do call it a ‘multipolar world order’.

Just in case there is any doubt.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei says the Palestinian people will triumph and Israel will be eradicated, hailing the people of Gaza and its fighters for standing “like a rock” in the face of an unprecedented brutal war.

Probably the reader will recognise the portrait to the right.
The General that ZionDon executed with others on a peace mission at the time. Try to protect the US creature ISIS/”Daesh”. To no avail as it happens.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/12/23/716868/Leader-Ayatollah-Seyyed-Ali-Khamenei-election-vote-Kerman-

Israel continues its rampant civilian slaughter and targeting journalists.

📷 Lebanon: The attack that targeted Al-Manar journalists today was an air-burst artillery shell.

These are designed to explode in the air and kill with sharpnel anything in its area of effectiveness.

https://t.me/LebUpdate/36233

🌷 Dozens of decomposed bodies were recovered from the streets of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

A civil defense official confirms that most of them were subjected to field executions and others were mauled by dogs.

Street animals have been feeding of dead Palestinians since the early days of war, because the Israeli army is preventing ambulances from reaching them.

https://t.me/LebUpdate/36216

Opposition.

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 Al-Qassam: Our fighters repurposed two unexploded 2-ton Israeli bombs, planting them on the path of advancing IDF vehicles in Jabalia and detonating them when they approached, causing the destruction of 5 tanks and the killing and injuring of their crews

The Saudis are firmly in the Western camp, and will be forever probably. The West rules via corruption. Anybody putting their trust in the Saudis is a moron.

Meanwhile away from the combat, developments that more or less guarantee very large price increases for everything, including food.
Perhaps even actual food shortages.

This is as Western govts look for ways to “legally” steal $300B of Russian bank deposits. Russia has promised “severe consequences” if they do this.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231223/nobodys-money-safe-in-the-west-if-russias-assets-used-to-fund-ukraine---journo-1115768710.html

Reports revealed that 40-foot sea freight cargo shipments from Shanghai to the US have quadrupled in price, rising from $2,400 to $10,000 in just a week. 20-foot container prices have levelled at $1,900 last week. Truck shipments to the Middle East, on the other hand, have doubled in price.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cnbc--ocean-freight-rates-skyrocket-amid-red-sea-development

🇪🇺 🇧🇾 🇷🇺 At least 50 fertilizer production facilities have closed in Europe. This is stated in a report by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (a major financial group among the world’s top ten).

https://t.me/CIG_telegram/40946

“The Road To (self-induced) Ruin”.

How is the war going for Israel?
Lola like it is as aspirational as was Neocons’ supports for Ukraine.

There are no “prophets.” And the Sunni-Shia “divide” is as meaningless and unnecessary as the argument over Protestant drivel versus Catholic drivel versus orthodox drivel.

There is only God, our Creator, and the intellect and free will that he gave us mortal, fallible, limited, sinful men and women. The precious time in our short lives is wasted on primitive nonsense like “debates” over competing irrational religious denominations.

An apt comparison has been made between the American situation with the Houthis and an episode related by Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War (the Thucydides trap). Athens was the hegemon at the time and the city of Mytilene rose up in revolt. A debate ensues over whether the Athenian response should be harsh or lenient. The argument for a harsh response wins, because anything less would set a dangerous precedent and threaten Athens’ hegemony. This escalation ended up turning into a war that lasted for nearly three decades, which concluded with Athens’ defeat by the Spartans, who were being funded by Persia.

The parallel is that America needs to respond to the Houthis. Besides brute force, the only legitimate justification for American hegemony is that the world’s shipping lanes are kept open for commerce. America might be getting baited into a conflict, with powerful state actors behind the scenes and supporting the Houthis. Already America’s coalition is collapsing, as France, Spain, Italy, and Australia are balking at joining.

If America does nothing, it will admit that Pax Americana is over and it is no longer the world hegemon. If America proceeds, with limited allies, to attack the Houthis, it risks escalating the conflict into a war that it cannot win.

Checkmate.

As Luongo says, this is Putin’s revenge for bombing the Nordstream pipeline.
https://tomluongo.me/2023/12/21/no-one-grokked-suez-houthi-gambit/

Covid was the most spectacular show of force I’ve ever seen in my lifetime and particularly germane to the question “why don’t they just do something?”

First and foremost, it is us against us. You’d be hard pressed to find more cruel and oppressive slave drivers than fellow slaves. For literally no gain whatsoever random checkers and grocery store workers demanded a mask and called the cops on me. The System never broke these types, they were born broken and serville – it is fundamental to their very nature.

With Arabs and the other Middle Eastern races, it appears that leadership is primarily through whoever wields superior violence. There appears to be some semblance of civilization through their law of the jungle system – but not much. Unlike Blacks they don’t try to steal every single inch of copper wire and piece of metal that can be sold for scrap. But, their governments always to be precariously close to revolts, military juntas, and the lights and water going off.

You definitely hit the nail on the head about the demoralization effect though. If you’re the only one storming the Bastille you aren’t exercising bravery so much as suicidal futility.

No matter what you think of their politics, you have to give Yemen credit. The are the only Muslims putting their money where their mouth is. I will give Malaysia credit for cutting off the Israeli shipping at their ports.

Here is a good assessment of F-35 written by British Scientist neither associated nor paid by Pentagon:

Also he wrote another book:

which includes chapter on nuclear weapons. I am familiar with nuclear technology yet I was surprised how affordable nukes became recently, in the range of $80M – $100M to obtain & $20-$50M per year to maintain.

Well, as a former US Army vet (who never saw combat) I sincerely hope for Total Victory of anti-Talmudist Forces followed by Nuremberg Trial 2 with JUDEA in the dock.

ANY alternative to Jewish global dominance is preferable. ANY country, ANY nation, ANY tribe is less dangerous and less toxic for the long-term interests of the White race than Jews. This simple axiom can be proved by looking at the last 2,000 years of History. Each time and each place where Jews gained too much influence or state power, a disaster for the local population ensued.

Because they have been shitting on each other since the death of Mohammed.

let’s not forget that a bunch of sheep herders deafeted the US military in Afghanistan.

Yoda’s force is helping Hamas!

Deconstructing Golani retreat: How Hamas forced Israeli military into a corner
By Shabbir Rizvi

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/12/23/716876/deconstructing-golani-brigade-retreat-how-hamas-forced-israeli-military-into-corner

In a potentially course-altering turn of events, the Zionist regime’s much-hyped and celebrated “Golani Brigade” has just retreated from the besieged Gaza Strip – completely humiliated and functionally inoperable.

This notorious military brigade has existed since the 1948 Nakba and has been instrumental in carrying out some of the occupying regime’s most horrific war crimes against Palestinians.

This week, the Hamas-led Palestinian resistance dealt a heavy blow to the brigade that will take years to recover from – the time they do not have.

Israeli military officials claim that the brigade is “regrouping.” But information has leaked, in combination with public announcements, which reveals that it is no tactical regroup.

Not only have a significant number of Israeli regime officers been eliminated by the resurgent Palestinian resistance fighters, but scores of troops are also either dead or wounded.

The regrouping at this point means the infamous Golani Brigade, which is the pride of the Zionist occupation, has been rendered incapable of carrying aggression within Gaza. The eliminated officers include rankings ranging from sergeant all the way to multiple lieutenants, colonels and commanders.

The significant lack of leadership and destroyed troops, paired with those who have been wounded or suffer mental health (PTSD) issues have put the brigade out of commission, at least for the foreseeable future.

Within their ranks, morale is at an all-time low, especially considering the fierce fighting still displayed by Palestinian resistance, which has effectively pushed the occupation forces on the back foot.

By most modern military standards, being forced into a retreat with no plans for re-entry means losing roughly 30 percent of a fighting force. It is reported that the Golani Brigades lost anywhere between a quarter and a third of its active force, with significant leadership ranks eliminated with no replacements.

It is long known that the Tel Aviv regime hides its true number of casualties. If we can estimate that they lost even a conservative fourth of their Golani force, the number of casualties for the brigade alone could range from 250 to approximately just below a thousand.

The Saudis are firmly in the Western camp, and will be forever probably. The West rules via corruption. Anybody putting their trust in the Saudis is a moron.

Yep.

The only “good thing” about the Saudis is their fucking military ineptitude. Despite the largest single arms deal in human history $250B worth of F-15s and associated hardware, US satellite surveillance and assistance, they could not do real damage to Yemen – except for hospitals, ambulances, and schools of course.

The online pro-Palestine brigades should dig into internet archives and point fingers at the Saudis too, not just the Israelis. Blow this whole mideast slaughter of civilians wide fucking open.

Anyone who thinks it’s just the zionist Israelis is a fucking moron and is already on my nerves. That goes for academia double, and all the forms of media who fucking ignored Saudi crimes for years and years and now suddenly give a shit about a Jew conflict.

The ONLY REASON that the slaughter of Palestinians is on our news is because Jews are involved. Saudi money I suspect silenced the legacy media if not some alternative media (local Arab media).

Thanks for the clarification (I don´t remember seeing an F-20 outside
the commercials); apart from being insanely expensive the 35 has internal
hardpoints for six pipsqueaks i.e. the same firepower as a HIMARS
(and roughly the same aerodynamic qualities); you can load it with more but lose
its only selling point (the Izzies say the childrenfinder sensor is super, but
Hamas has no air defense – not that the Ansar would have, apart from a fossil F-5).
Did I mention it is outflown by the MiG-21 (not a typo)?
Either way there are plenty of rocks in the Yemeni mountains that have been bombed
and rebombed.

Yemen Houthis have been more effective to restrain Israels GENOCIDE than any other country on earth..Israel has managed to destroy International LAW and the UN…But Unfortunately other Arab Muslim Nations like Jordan/UAE are helping israel overcome food /oil/gas shortages thereby facilitating the mass killing of Palestinians (7K children),,IT SEEMS THAT THE ARAB MUSLIM NATIONS DONT UNDERSTAND THAT THE BIRTH AND RISE OF THE GREATER ISRAEL ‘COUNTRY’ WILL BE A PERMANENT PRESENT EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ALL ARAB NATIONS (Christian/Muslims) IN THE MIDDLE EAST..

Ali was the Prophet´s (a.s.) cousin, son-in-law and chief enforcer; when he
returned from the rites he found the Prophet´s (a.s.) father-in-law from the
rival Banu Umayya clan (the marriage had been intended to bridge said rivalry)
claim succession; the Shia´t (lit. “Party of”) Ali contested his legitimacy.

Get your X mas gift .This might be your last.
How is the war going buddy?
Meanwhile chaotic empire is disintegrating itself without any prompt.

The guys at the Duran think this is all a cover for an attack on Iran.

Video Link

So if they attack Iran, won’t all US bases in the region become legitimate targets for Iranian retaliation, and this would include US bases in Arab countries and Turkey? So will these Arab countries and Turkey not want to drive the US bases out of their countries rather than become targets themselves? Their choice would then be to either join the US against Iran or turn on US and drive its bases out of their countries. The navies would not be sufficient for an effective war on Iran and US would have to use its bases in the region. Anyway, even if they don’t use these bases, they surely become legitimate targets even though they are on some other countries’ soil once they attack Iran.

There is a worldwide groundswell of frustration because of the unconditional U.S.
backing of Israel’s ongoing war crimes. While the Great Powers hedge and haw, and
and try to avert a total genocide, the Houthis have tossed a stink bomb into the debate.
It was inevitable that someone would act to shake things up. Good for them!

Back in the days of the National Lampoon. 1978-02, it ran an “alternate history” of the Kennedy Administration in which JFK was not killed, and the Jewish coalition, having shown their hand, was purged under the supervision of a CIA that itself had been purged.** In this “alternate history”, a Jewish nightmare in content and likely by Jewish writers, JFK pursued a neutral policy towards Israel and the Arab states by arming both sides. The surviving Israelis ended up in a US constructed refuge called the “Gaza Plaza”, which looked a lot like a shopping mall. The piece was entitled “JFK’s First 6,000 days” and the issue was entitled “Grand Fifth Term Inaugural issue”, so the piece was a fictional retrospective from 1977.
Biden, under Obama’s directions, is doing just about what JFK did in “JFK’s First 6,000 days”. The Lampoon piece is worth reading just for that resemblance. Here’s the URL in Internet Archives: https://archive.org/details/LampoonArchive1977/1977_02/ . Check it out for yourselves.*** The story starts on page 28. Gaza Plaza is on pg. 70. To quote from that page, “Despite Jewish dissent against the war for the Irish homeland, the Skipper continued to be even-handed about aid to both sides in the Middle East, and Israel’s consolidation continued at a healthy pace. ” Substitute “Ukraine” for “Irish Homeland” and “Iran” for “Middle East” and you get today’s situation.

February 2, 2023 The US is Making Billions Being Warlords in Yemen

The United States is making billions of dollars from the war in Yemen as 200k have been killed from direct violence. Between 2015 and 2021, the United States sent 54.2 billion dollars in weapons and services to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according to data acquired from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

https://original.antiwar.com/Joziah_Thayer/2023/02/01/the-us-is-making-billions-being-warlords-in-yemen/

Israel wants US to attack Iran for them, so maybe Duran is right.

Meanwhile various nations are deserting USN’s Operation.

— 🇺🇸/🇳🇱/🇳🇴/🇩🇰 NEW: The Netherlands, Norway and Denmark will not send warships to participate in ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ in the Red Sea

Reportedly, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark will only send liaison officers to the U.S. command center in Bahrain to assist in ‘coordiation efforts’.

This comes after Italy, Spain and France already announced they will not be taking part in the US-led naval coalition.

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/4081

Maybe this will end up quite contrary to US-Israel wishes.
Very much contrary perhaps …

There are more obvious ways for Arab countries to (indirectly) help the Palestinian cause that would probably have been more effective.

Obviously Yemen is a low capability nation that has more than enough of its own problems, and should not really be attacking shipping — but if they are going to do that, they ought to give more thought to the possible consequences than Hamas apparently did before attacking Israel.

If true, i.e. and not just a pretext for action against Iran, this is not too surprising, since Yemen has no strategic intelligence capability, whereas Iran, which has fairly sophisticated drone technology, could probably help and perhaps still maintain ‘plausible deniability’:

Twitter/X/The Spectator Index

BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal reports that Iranian forces are providing ‘real-time intelligence’ to Yemen’s Houthis that is being used to ‘direct drones and missiles to target ships passing through the Red Sea’

As someone rightly points out in the replies (recall Musk did not really want to allow Ukraine to use Starlink):

The US has been feeding Ukraine a constant stream of tactical data from AWACS and surveillance craft, satellite imagery, and ground assets for most of the last 18 months. All this, plus GPS, enables extremely precise targeting with UAVs, HIMARS and guided 155mm shells

To quite considerable online “laughter”

— 🇺🇸 ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ now consists merely of the following:

– 🇺🇸 7 U.S. Navy ships, including the USS Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier

– 🇬🇧 1 British Navy ship

– 🇬🇷 1 Greek Navy ship

@Middle_East_Spectator

Maybe they are going to fight Houthi from the ComCen in Bahrain.

“somebody” drone’d an oil tanker going from Saudi Arabia to India a few hours ago, struck it about 200 miles off the west coast of India. Pretty LR for the Houthis. Izzies are claiming Iran did it.

Already America’s coalition is collapsing, as France, Spain, Italy, and Australia are balking at joining.

I wonder what we can read into this situation. Is Europe finally growing a spine against American hegemony? Is the Ukrainian war the straw that broke the camel’s back?

The Wall Street Journal reports that Iranian forces are providing ‘real-time intelligence’ to Yemen’s Houthis

The Israeli’s also reported that Iran directly attacked (drone) a ship in the Indian Ocean. This has been uncritically repeated by other western media.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 The Pentagon: ‘The Israeli-linked tanker ‘Chem Pluto’ that was attacked in the Indian Ocean today was struck by a suicide drone launched directly from Iran’ – WSJ

Please recall who owns western media.
Israel’s position is getting worse, getting USA to attack Iran would work for them.

Here’s an item from Iran

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister, Amir Abdollahian: ‘America asked us to tell the Houthis to stop their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. We told them no, not until the Zionist agression against Gaza stops’

“Russia has promised severe consequences”

another Babyface Tsar “red line” about 2B crossed by Uncle Schmuel….

another Babyface Tsar promise of “dire consequences”….

aaaaand: nothing will happen.

“The people who were killed in the Holocaust, in the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward, the Cambodian Killing Fields, were not killed because of anyone’s racist or hateful thoughts or words. They weren’t even killed by “hate” – not on its own anyway. They were killed because there was a large, centralized state that had the power to kill en masse. If you want to prevent further genocide and mass murder, then oppose powerful, centralized states. Not hate-filled losers on social media.”

The Great Leap Forward? Mao didn’t kill anyone during that time. And no, one billion people didn’t die during the Great Leap Forward. Anti-Mao propaganda doesn’t make any sense at all, especially coming from the Zionist-controlled West.

It’s not the quantity but the quality. Canada likewise has 2,000 combat ready prior experience from Afghanistan ( shooting kids playing soccer and shooting mothers preparing evening meals) holed up in Estonia watching cartoons who any day now—could be on the frontlines in Donbas —

“They’d also like a shot at the Iranians, which has been something of unfinished business 45 years, which judging by the news today is a real possibility.”

To that I would say that any shot taken against the Iranians at this point would make the Red Sea situation look like a child’s game.

If you think the interruption of western shipping in the Red Sea is having a negative impact, what would you say to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz? The neocons don’t seem to understand it. The Iranians will consider “a shot at the Iranians” as the beginning of full-blown war. You DO remember the Iranian bombing of Ain al-Assad military base and the US facility at Erbil Airport in January 2020, don’t you? The Iranians claimed that it was a response to the assassination of Soleimani, but it wasn’t the complete response, and they would determine when and where to respond in the future. The subsequent events and communications are enlightening. Trump, who needed to save face after promising to attack 52 targets in Iran if the Iranians retaliated for Soleimani’s assassination, reached out through the Swedes. At that time, US/Iran communications were carried out through Sweden, a third party. Trump told the Iranians that he needed to respond, and he invited them to provide coordinates for a place in Iran that the US could bomb; it could be a completely uninhabited location, basically bombing a desert or coastal site. The Iranian response demonstrated the situation. Any attack on any location in Iran would result in a full-blown attack on all US targets in the region, as well as any Gulf nation hosting US troops. Trump consulted with his intelligence chiefs, who informed them that Iran had indeed moved its forces, specifically its missile forces, into full combat readiness for war. And so an attack on US military forces went unanswered, probably the first since the infamous US attack on the USS Liberty. At least with the Liberty they tried to cover it up with a Jewish propaganda story and hide the facts. There could be no hiding the facts in the Iranian attacks.

By the way, from my perspective, Qasem Soleimani seems to be smiling from his vantage point up above, as he witnesses the long-term outcome of the plans that he created and started to implement.

Jesus is on Israel’s side 100% according to John Hagee et al because Israel follow the Beatitudes to a T. poor in spirit –comforting the widow and orphan—meek —seeking justice —merciful –yes indeed–peacemaker –Should get the 2023 Nobel Prize—pure of heart –Hollywood porn Jew actors and actresses –Ron Jeremy and Nina Hartley—reviled for Christ’s sake –Abolutely–sold him for 30 pieces of silver and demanded Barabbas be freed but Pilate gets the blame even though Pilate found No fault in Christ and washed his hands of the matter—those cunning Jews — and USA support from the Christian community for Jews !!!

I see it a bit differently. The US is putting pressure on Saudi Arabia to trash the peace deal that is nearing fruition between the Saudis and the Houthis. The Saudis do NOT want to do this, as it opens their oil industry to more attacks by the Houthis. The 2022 attacks did significant damage. The Saudis want the peace deal.

The Iranians are not likely to stop relations with their close allies in order to improve relations with Saudi Arabia. The Quds Force (and Hezbollah) has been training and equipping the Houthis for some years; do you really think that they are going to stop suddenly. What kind of message does that send to other members of the Resistance?

At this point, I find it highly unlikely that the Chinese are providing military equipment to the Houthis, though they may have facilitated delivery in the past. The spotlight on the situation in the Red Sea at present has attracted a lot of intelligence eyes from the US, and the Chinese will avoid such increased scrutiny.

Is Europe finally growing a spine against American hegemony? Is the Ukrainian war the straw that broke the camel’s back?

This could be the case, or else perhaps the illusion of American invincibility has been shattered, and the Europeans have realized that America cannot fulfill its commitments

It’s not the quantity but the quality. Canada likewise has 2,000 combat ready prior experience from Afghanistan ( shooting kids playing soccer and shooting mothers preparing evening meals) holed up in Estonia watching cartoons who any day now—could be on the frontlines in Donbas —

The only Canadian soldiers I personally know who’ve… “smelled gunpowder” in Ukraine are the ones who quit the Canuck army and joined up as Western mercenaries.

One of the first real reports I got about the mess that front really is/was – no organization, no ammo, units full of disparate people who once they realized what a fix they were in went scrambling for Poland.

Canada’s army is like that – 50,000 of the fuckers went AWOL to join the US Army in Vietnam in the 60s. The government was forced to quietly “allow” it. None of them were charged. This confuses Americans such as Anne Coulter who honestly thought we participated. In a strange way we actually did.

It’s one of the great things about Canada’s impending breakup – the army and the government cannot trust each other and even when the protestors are at Parliament fucking hill the feds cannot call on the “Forces” because they know they might get hung one by one on that snowy front lawn.

More Canada AWOL adventures, this from a very reliable (to me) source:

Excuse me if I’m wrong, Haxo, but you seem to be condoning open theft from bank accounts and oil eg from occupied Arab countries.
Sort of Might is Right …
I’m sure that can’t be correct and perhaps you are decrying Russia’s lack of response in a prior case and your opinion is that nothing will happen if the Great Satan continues its now well established path of International Criminality.
Sort of despite things like UN votes … Mass civilian deaths …

However —
Pres Putin didn’t put a timeframe on his remarks.
And here’s a statement from one of his core allies, made 2023.12.23 at an International Conference on Palestine. It seems now that a ceasefire (consistently blocked by Great Satan) is not enough to satisfy Justice. There is no timeframe on this demand, either.
But you can be reasonably certain it (and thievery) will be prosecuted.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the United States and Israel must be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity during the Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Addressing the Tehran International Conference on Palestine on Saturday, Raeisi condemned the crimes of Israel, including massacre of women and children and the destruction of Palestinian homes in Gaza.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/12/23/716891/iran-palestine-raeisi-gaza-conference

Your writing style/content gives the impression that you are a juvenile.
I urge you to grow up, perhaps “smell the coffee” in international affairs.

I read somewhere that Chinese are clandestinely providing Houthis military equipment, instead. Not sure if it’s true.

Not true at all.

Rwanda wasn’t a large, centralized state.

So the M.E.S didn’t even log in the two rowboats and a steam powered inter island steamer due to be contributed to the cause? Looks like yet another fart in church ember-assmeant for Uncle $hmuel.

Open question…are the Greeks getting any decent payback for their offering? Could a bit of government debt-relief be in the offing.

Now, the insertion by “Britannia Rule the Waves” doesn’t surprise me in the least. They do hafta put up a showmanship effort to maintain at least SOME level of relevancy.

Seem to recall reading about an air attack by U.$$A forces having happened over the last bunch of hours…on Yemen, that is. As false flag attempts go, its doubtful whether Ansar Allah has any type of missile which could take Ike down in one swell foop.

So will the I$raelis supply one of their patented micro-nukes to take down those 5,ooo American sailors? Seems like they may be getting desperate enough after getting their elite Golani Brigade pulled outta Gaza due to inordinately heavy casualties in the PTSD category…to not get specifically down on KIA’s and severiously wounded.

Nuts and Yahoos gotta be getting plenty desperate, as there would be that looming prison sentence for common criminal activities along with having to ‘splain why Hamas is kicking the crap outta his precious little armed psychopaths.

Desperate needs could lead to desperate deeds.

I agree except for the “stumbling.” The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were calculated, carefully planned and completely contrary to American interests. The proxy war in Ukraine was about 20 years in the making. The Neocons in the State Department were driven nuts by Putin’s forbearance in confronting NATO provocations.

The U.S. involvement in the the Gaza genocide is that of a financier, arms supplier and diplomatic apologist. The American involvement is critical, but hardly accidental. As our economic and political standing continue to decline it seems inevitable that even our closest allies will begin to fall away.
Of course, we can always count on Israel-or maybe not.

“Rwanda wasn’t a large, centralized state.”

Neither was the Independent State of Croatia run by the Ustaše during WWII.

The red sea is exactly where something someplace would happen, as I expected. The US UK France naval agglomeration can be struck by proxy. And it will happen now because we are stuck protecting Red Sea Pedestrians. Russian and Chinese anti ship missiles can rain on anything passing by and cause mayhem. It is Oceania’s chokepoint and even had a Jewish garrison next to the canal.

‘The Coalition of the Shilling” Lol. I just made that up.

OK. You make good points.

@ Notsofast,

The internet was [and still is] filled with clips of Houthis walking/running around on sandals with their AK47s and RPG7s, blasting Saudi proxies to smithereens, so this poster is arguably either jesting [not holding my breath] or deliberately trying to obfuscate the heroism of these men.

Makes you wonder why, doesn’t it?

More collateral murder!

UN Office Details Alleged IDF “Summary Killing” of Gaza Men in Front of Families by Jessica Corbett

https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-war-crimes

OHCHR noted that reporting on the killings “raises alarm about the possible commission of a war crime.”

Amid mounting war crime claims against Israeli troops, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights revealed Wednesday that it “has received disturbing information alleging that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) summarily killed at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men in front of their family members” in the Gaza Strip.

Citing witness accounts shared by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and journalists, OHCHR said that while raiding a Gaza City building where multiple related families were sheltering on Tuesday night, “the IDF allegedly separated the men from the women and children, and then shot and killed at least 11 of the men, mostly aged in their late 20s and early 30s, in front of their family members.”

“The IDF then allegedly ordered the women and children into a room, and either shot at them or threw a grenade into the room, reportedly seriously injuring some of them, including an infant and a child,” added the office, which has confirmed the killings at Al Awda building-also known as the Annan building-but not the other details.

Here’s an Indian report of that attack.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/drone-attack-hits-ship-in-indian-ocean-alert-issued-for-vessels-101703323876198.html

But why would Iran attack a ship completely unconnected to Israel? Could it be a false flag to try to get the Indian navy on board the multinational Red Sea force now that several NATO countries have pulled out? Or the drone could have been launched from Pakistan by some Islamic extremist group.

So in Yemen humans exist with principles that require action, no matter how futile!

A war torn country and people surviving against all odds and showing the courage and fortitude of a Jesus or a Muhammad.

May the force be with them; they are going to need lots of cosmic help against the ” evil empire” of the West!

Whites will officially be a minority in the USA in 20 more years. America as we knew it is doomed.
The next Civil War is drawing closer by the day.

Apologies for trolling you. My mistake.

The Red Sea is the location of the Suez Canal through which Arab oil gets shipped to Europe via tankers. The IMEC (India Middle East Corridor) — first proposed during the G20 Summit in India — would bypass the Red Sea and Suez Canal altogether. Israel has an interest in seeing container ships and oil tankers bypass the Suez Canal because Haifa is part of the land corridor of IMEC, as shown in the map graphic below:

China has shown no interest at all in supplying weapons or providing material support to the Houthis in Yemen in their proxy war against Saudi Arabia which is a long-standing supplier of Arab oil to and anxious buyer of Chinese weapons including the DF-21 ballistic missile from China. Iran — not China — has all reasons in the world to back their Houthi allies in their proxy war against Saudi Arabia. So I won’t be surprised if Iran ends up supplying missiles to their Houthi allies in their proxy war against the Zionists in Israel or the USA.

Oh, one last thing, China gets its Arab oil from the Persian Gulf not the Red Sea. So China won’t be affected much by a shooting war in the Red Sea, unlike Europe which gets its Arab oil from the Red Sea.

It’s probably more a matter of soulless and spineless European technocrats realizing they have large Muslim populations getting increasingly angry and restless.

Thanks.
My money is on false flag attemt to get philosemitic Modi to commit Indian Navy. Possible some wild card group also, but ff most likely.

>To quite considerable online “laughter”

A coalition (‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’) is more a political desirability than a military necessity — the US doesn’t need any help militarily to strike against those who are targeting mainly international shipping in that area — in fact it’s not clear anything will be or needs to be done as long as a ship is targeted only now and then, and there is little real damage — the potential political complications won’t be worth it, which is probably the reason other nations are unwilling to get involved (as well as why there has been no retaliation so far).

The main issue is shippers stopping or diverting traffic for financial and liability (insurance) reasons — there are or could be largely financial solutions to that problem.

However never underestimate the stupidity of Congress and their corrupt subservience to the military industrial complex — they may be willing to back unneeded and politically risky military action should a Gulf of Tonkin-like incident happen (or be arranged).

… the US doesn’t need any help militarily to strike against those who are targeting mainly international shipping in that area …

With respect and as a non-American, most of the very many US military adventures since WW2 have not ended well (to put it mildly). This speaks directly to what the world knows, but apparently Americans do not know — the low standard of US military.

… in fact it’s not clear anything will be or needs to be done as long as a ship is targeted only now and then, and there is little real damage —

have you been paying attention to this situation ?
Houthi will target only Israeli-managed ships and those heading for Israel.
They will stop whenever a ceasefire/aid is arranged.
Which Uncle Scum has opposed, against the rest of the world in UN votes.

Do you imagine that after Uncle Scum carpet bombs Yemen and kills all Yemenis that the world will all shrug and go home ?
That Iran will do nothing ? China ? Russia ? Even little DPRK ?
Have you thought through the implications ? trade embargoes ? direct war on USA ?

It is generally recognised that Americans, believing their own Hollywood propaganda, are incapable of thinking more than one move ahead, so what you say about Congress certainly rings true. The possible/probable endgame for them following the usual moronic American path is the destruction of their own country.

“So will these Arab countries and Turkey not want to drive the US bases out of their countries rather than become targets themselves?”

The Gulf monarchies including the Saudis want US troops there to protect their tyrannies and kleptocracies and as to Turkey, the NATO membership puts it in the First World category.

Do you really believe those Sunni nations would want to be at the mercy of Shia Iran?

Yes,Sunni Muslims who can agree to be at mercy of American sponsored Zionist which infiltrates and destroys ,would rather be under the umbrella of Iran .sharing the burden of holding the umbrella afloat and open .

I agree, but an attack on Iran would put them in a difficult position if they actually wanted to stay neutral, given that they have US bases on their territory. They would actually be siding with Israel against Palestine, given that Iran would be attack because of its support for Palestine.

I’ve been re reading Hagee’s most recent book.I think there are a fair few commenters on here like Johnson who agree with him in principle on all the key arguments.

I doubt that Brave Houthi Warriors ever heard the name of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Father of the Nuclear Navy.

Well, he is sending you an Inspirational Message – from wherever he is now ( opinions differ )

Don’t blame me, IDF trolls, I am just re-transmitting it. The signal from UP THERE ( or from DOWN THERE ) is pretty weak.

In hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress (second session), Admiral Rickover unmercifully criticized the narrow advocates of cost-effectiveness studies:

“On a cost-effectiveness basis the colonists would not have revolted against King George III, nor would John Paul Jones have engaged the Serapis with the Bonhomme Richard, an inferior ship. The Greeks at Thermopylae and at Salamis would not have stood up to the Persians had they had cost-effectiveness to advise them, or had these cost-effectiveness people been in charge. . .”

“Since the calculations are extensive and complex, the experienced people in positions of management responsibility do not have the time or the detailed understanding to review them. Judgment as to the weight that should be given to various factors in the analysis is left to the analyst himself instead of to the judgment of people who have experience in the field that is being analyzed. . .

“The basis for using cost-effectiveness studies as the rationale on which to make a decision is the assumption that the important factors can be expressed in numerical form and that a correct judgment of the situation can then be calculated mathematically. But for most complex situations this is an unrealistic assumption. Frankly, I have no more faith in the ability of the Social Scientists to quantify military effectiveness than I do in Numerologists (😁😁😁) to calculate the Future. . .”

“Considerations which cannot be quantified are necessarily left out of the calculation. In my opinion the ability of the social scientists to calculate numerical values for military effectiveness is even less than our ability to calculate a numerical basis for many of the engineering decisions we are forced to base on judgment, experience, and intuition. To make the correct engineering decisions requires extensive knowledge and experience in engineering. Mathematical ability alone will not suffice. . .”

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hey 24th, you can change your agree/disagree posts anytime after it posts, even days later, i love this feature, to fix fat fingered mistakes or comments made after misreading a post. thanks for clarifying your comment. nothing worse than accidentally hitting an agree on a meamjojo post!

hey jackass, it was you and all your sledgehammer zioneocons that said assad must go, assad must go, assad must go….(do that line in the accent of every european language). yes the whole world apparently agreed…

assad must go! aaaaaaand: nothing happened.

just so you know, putin’s still there, assad is still there, their people love them, as much as western people hate their puppet leaders. so all the puppets, singing their pinocchio opera aria chorus, of “assad must go!”, are now gone….. yeah right, babyface tsar, get a new line you nafo loser.

“Apologies for trolling you. My mistake.”

When I checked your history [on this site] I knew something had gone wrong.

Apologies accepted and no hard feelings [on my side].

Merry Christmas, bro, to you, family and loved ones :o]

Damaging Red Sea traffic hurts Israel, Egypt,Suadi and India but it hurts most Israel andEurope. Europe becomes more dependent on Russia .Houthi is showing a skill and tactical thinking that no one from the west was able to anticipate or , believe even if were told. We dont think that Houthi had not factored the responses from US EU and Israel. That means Iran has factored it.That means China must have .Saudi by refusing to join US ,has confiremd that Saudi confers top priority on peacce with Houthi and with Iran .Now the operation Guardian in tatters,Saudi has more reason to believe that America is feckless unreliable or is not on board with Israel for an all out ME war agisnt Iran .
Now Isarel might decdie to act agisnt Houthi .But the more Israel waits,more its energy and forces are depleted . Israel waits because it sees yearslong operation in Gaza not ending soon to its favor . Again Saudi and UAE must be wondering about this invincible army’s prowess in actual battlefield .
While Israel waits,Iran and Houthi arent sitting on any laurels .They are revamping and accelerating on the escalator to higher points . Russia and Iran are still cooperating in Ukriane . China and Iran have not shown any indication that their mi,itary relations are on hold .China has also called for Israel to accept viable 2 state solution.Coming at this time, thats a rebuke .

Egypt is clear about not accepting refugees. Egypt might join the fught agisnt Isarel if Israel pushes . US wont be able to do anything .

Algeria is sounding ist discomfort with Israel. Morocco is quiet .Jordan is very worried and anxious about Israeli plan on WB .It can join wars against Isarel if its kingdom is threatened with influix of 1 millions from W Bank .

Given the rapdily moving pieces on the board,only 2 countries are stuck into unworkable military strategies – Israel and US . US might lose a whole lot of clients . To facilitate that China and Russia will tilt to that long term goals of displacing UK UK and the way to do is to stick with Iran and not think of short term supplies of a few millions of barrels of oil from Saudi .

Arabs can pour money into

If you are addressing the Saudis, who were established at the same time of Israel, and UAE, and others of the same, they are not Arabs. They are not Arabs period; nor they are Muslims. Many Arabs will agree on that. Saudis are of the same blood of those in Tel Aviv.

Yup, you nailed it!

You’re correct that Europe relies on the Red Sea and the Suez Canal for its Arab oil and Asian cargo imports. Reeling from US sanctions imposed against Russian oil (and natural gas), Europe can’t really afford to lose its Arab oil imports from the Red Sea which explains why European nations have all but backed out of joining the ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ proposed by the USA.

The collective responses of Iran and its Shiite allies in Lebanon (Hezbollah) and Yemen (Houthis) — targetting ships bound for Israel or owned by Israelis — so far have been quite rational and restrained compared to the irrational bloodbath of the Zionists in Gaza. Given its geophysical location on the edge of the Middle East, Israel is highly vulnerable to a military blockade on its maritime trade which relies on the Red Sea for its Eilat Port as well as the Mediterranean Sea for its Haifa Port. The Houthis in Yemen and the Hezbollah in Lebanon can and will do a lot of damage to the maritime trade of Israel due to their proximity to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea respectively.

The Iranians have once again proven themselves to be the only rational actors in the volatile region. With or without the Palestinians in Gaza, Iran will emerge as the biggest winner in this latest episode of the Zionist destruction of the Arab World which is now completely disillusioned with its so-called Arab Leadership who have pretty much sold their Bedouin Asses to the Zionist Imperialists for fifteen pieces of Silver Shekels.

You are the one who is deluded, probably a tranny smoking crack…LOL who seems to think the Coalition of the trannies have balls…LOL one single DF20 or DF21 missile can take out one of these old second war legacy useless rust bucket who have no place in modern warfare….not surprisingly the American cowards removed one of these tubs away from Red Sea in a hurry yesterday knowing full well what an anti aircraft missile can do….I mean the hillbillies are known to be stupid world wide but they are not that stupid….LOL….so much for the Coalition of the trannies