The targeting of another U.S.-owned commercial ship Wednesday shows the militant group remains intent on continuing its attacks in the face of multiple rounds of U.S. military airstrikes.
The Houthis launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at the U.S.-owned, flagged and operated commercial ship Maersk Detroit as it was transiting the Gulf of Aden, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely shot down two missiles and a third fell into the water. There were no indications of damage or injuries in the attack.
The U.S. military has been conducting airstrikes against the Houthis to degrade their capabilities since Jan.11, after several weeks of attacks on commercial ships by the militant group.
I do think this is a strategic miss step from the Hooti Bros. Attacking global trade is the fast track to be on the wrong end of universally approved military actions .
…and I have a horrible feeling Iran might just be about to order in some Freedom & Democracy . US and UK are in election cycles, and tough looking leaders win votes .
I’ll see myself out
I hope you’re wrong about the regime change bit, but it’s entirely possible you’re right on the money.
Now that you mentioned the freedom and democracy order, I wonder if there’s a connection with Biden sending the CIA director to Israel supposedly for peace negotiations.
They are militant group so do you think they care, or are sophisticated to think about all this?
Darn Hoothi’s standing up to Genocide.
America isn’t starting more wars because they can’t afford it, not because they’re so nice. The Hoothies can blow up Saudi’s oil infrastructure which is going to make this global shipping blockade look like a complete joke in comparison.
Ukraine and israel are draining the budget. If America starts escalating the middle east they won’t be able to keep their aircraft carriers next to Taiwan. Fighting one war at a time is easy but it’s starting to stack up.
Middle Eastern issues never seem to get solved with more violence. The freedom and democracy barrage is just going to backfire as it always has.
lol Ukraine is a bargain. I think the US has spent maybe 2% of the entire military budget supplying Ukraine with weapons. In exchange we get to see the last large generation of Russians turned into fertilizer along with all of their frontline hardware.
Israel is perfectly capable of turning the Gaza Strip into a moonscape without much support from the US.
The US hasn’t even touched the hardware needed to take on China (long range missiles and aircraft). On top of that we now have a west that is more united than ever behind the American Hegemony.
I think the US can afford to let a few off the chain and rain some good old fashioned freedom on a few Houthis.
You’re talking like Goku is stronger than One Punch Man because he can go SSJ9001. War isn’t some attack power meter where the party with more attack power just magically wins. Tell me how more about how America just won against the Taliban.
Israel’s iron meme system got wrecked by a bunch of Hamas fireworks. Their wall penetrated like it’s nothing. Just like how israel can flatten Gaza, Hezbollah can flatten israel. Everyone can flatten each other these days. Rockets and Drones are insanely cheap and stopping them is expensive.
The question is if you think that’s a good solution to the problem. From behind your keyboard it must look really funny.
War is never a good solution, but I prefer to be on the side making the craters than getting cratered.
War is never a good solution
Yes.
I prefer to be on the side making the craters than getting cratered.
Everyone is getting cratered.
:Looks up: nope my sky is clear and I’m thousands of miles and an ocean away. That sound like a you problem.
Are you talking about israel vs their neighbours right now or about America?
Not being able to afford it has never deterred the US from taking military action.
Comment is being reported, but I don’t really see anything actionable here. My only request would be to please not minimalize the Houthi movement by calling them “Hoothies”, I mean it’s spelled correctly right there in the subject.
Going down the low hanging fruit road starts butting uncomfortably close to racism and I know you didn’t mean it that way.
Good points each of them, and it’s why I wonder if the US might move to conclude some of them, rather than have them nagging on .
America is probably going to drop and screw over Ukraine if the budget gets tight. But the Hoothi problem looks unsolvable with military force. Saudi tried that for quite a while with American weapons. And America just lost to the Taliban trying to do the same thing.
By for the easiest solution is to reign in Netanyahu and stop the Genocide in Gaza. Hoothi demands are what I would call “normal to anyone that isn’t a genocidal maniac”.
Was about to say the same thing.
Unless they want to keep grinding Putin by proxy, Big Z might be not be getting his calls returned.
The problem so far has been that “more violence” has not been “enough violence”. Apply enough and there will be a peace.
So instead of fucking off, they’re still fucking around. Well, there’s plenty of Find Out to go around.
Oh wait, I thought your comment was about American cargo ships. I’m like “fuck yeah! That’s punk rock, they should respect the protest (mostly cause the protest comes with missiles) and go around. Never cross a pocket line, bruv” but I think I misread the situation.
Cool story bro
Yeah because more military action is going to stop terrorism! Have people learned NOTHING from the Bush administration and the wars they started??
What’s the play to stop this then?
I don’t know. I don’t have to in order to recognize the fact that military action only exacerbates the problem by making it easier to radicalize the people whose loved ones are killed, though.
Normally I’d agree, but the Houthis can stop all hostilities by stopping attacking international trade vessels. That isn’t a difficult ask. They can even try to use this as leverage to get other things they want.
the Houthis can stop all hostilities by stopping attacking international trade vessels.
Yeah, that’s bullshit. A Saudi-led coalition has been bombing the shit out of them with American weapons for several years now.
I don’t in any way condone terrorism under any circumstances, but to pretend that there’s not been any previous acts of oppressive violence to radicalize them is as unhelpful as it is (wilfully?) ignorant.
I don’t disagree there, but this is what I meant by leverage. “We’ll stop attacking if you stop helping the Saudis”. It wasn’t too long ago that the Houthis actually considered the US as a friendly state.
Wilfully ignorant it is.
There’s no way the US government is ever going to make any such deal, much less honor it.
You do realize that Americans get boners from this, right? Americans LOVE getting attacked so they can use their billions of dollars worth of weapons that they’ve been hoarding. Then resell it.
Some do, yeah. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to point out the futility of it.
Q: Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?
Biden: Well, when you say “working”. Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.
Typical US anti-terrorism policy
The entire city of Detroit is about to ask “The fuck you doing fuckin’ with our big ass ship?”
You’re telling me military action doesn’t stop terrorism??
