The US followed up its widespread bombing of Yemen by conducting another strike early Saturday morning. The second attack came as Biden is facing criticism among his political and Middle East allies for starting a war with the Houthis.
US officials reported that Saturday’s strike targeted a radar facility that was missed during Thursday night’s initial attack. US Central Command posted on X, “The strike was conducted by the USS Carney (DDG 64) using Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles and was a follow-on action on a specific military target associated with strikes taken on Jan. 12.”
The initial attack was conducted jointly by the US and UK. Washington and London targeted nearly 30 positions across Yemen with scores of missiles and bombs. Pentagon Spokesperson Gen. Pat Ryder said the attack had a “good effect.”
However, Yemen issued a defiant response. Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets across the country to protest the Western attack. Houthi leaders downplayed the impact of the strikes and vowed a response to the attack.
The Biden administration claimed the strikes were needed to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. The Houthis, who control north Yemen and most of the country’s population, have hijacked one ship and attacked about two dozen others transiting the Red Sea. The Houthis say they are targeting Israeli-linked ships because Tel Aviv is conducting a genocide in Gaza.
The White House’s assertion that the strikes are justified to ensure international trade is questionable. For most of the past nine years, Washington and Riyadh have maintained a blockade of Yemen, leading to a humanitarian crisis in the Middle East’s poorest country. The US has also attempted to substantially restrict trade with North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China, Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran.
Biden’s authority to order the strikes in a country against which Congress has not authorized a war is in question. “The President needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen and involving us in another Middle East conflict. That is Article I of the Constitution,” Rep. Ro Khanna posted on X. Democratic lawmakers Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Val Hoyle, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Cori Bush, Rep. Mark Pocan, Rep. Barbara Lee, and Rep. Sarah Jacobs have also publicly attacked Biden over the strikes in Yemen.
The President was also attacked by several conservative Republicans. Rep. Thomas Massie says Congress needs to address Presidential war powers. He posted on X, “The United States has been involved in hostilities in Yemen, in one form or another, for over 5 years now. The sad reality is Congress frequently refuses to assert its authority.”
Biden claims he had the authority to order the strikes as a defensive action. However, the Houthis have never attacked the US. The Houthis are enemies of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a terrorist group that has attacked America. Before Saudi Arabia launched a war against the Houthis in 2015, which the Barack Obama White House elected to support, US Central Command, then led by Gen. Lloyd Austin, backed the Houthis against AQAP.
At the time, Austin, now Secretary of Defense, was enraged by the decision. According to a senior officer who told the Quincy Institute’s Mark Perry, “Lloyd was enraged by the Saudi intervention because we [the Americans] were quietly supporting the Houthi fight against AQAP [Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] at the time.”
Austin’s role in the current discussions about attacking Yemen is unclear. The Secretary of Defense remains in Walter Reed Hospital after complications from prostate cancer surgery. It was recently disclosed that Austin was incapacitated in the hospital for several days before the White House was aware of his condition. The Pentagon claims the Secretary of Defense is informed on worldwide matters in his hospital bed and signed off on the strikes.
The White House even encountered dissent from one of its core Middle East partners. On Friday, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement calling for self-restraint and to avoid escalation.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
At something like $2 million a piece for the tomahawk missiles, these Yemen strikes are adding up. Yet what is the end result of this expenditure?
Dead people. Lots of publicity. Ra Ra from the home team. Help with the campaign for the Commander in Chief. Distractions for the tax payers financing a holocaust.
Actually its quite a deal, payed for with endless worthless printed paper at the expense of inflation.
Ruining the nation while ruining the world. It their way!
Nothing, they can keep it up longer than we can. The Saudis dumped tens of thousands of tons of finest American weapons on the Houthis and didn’t break them. So I don’t know why these strikes would change anything. It is annoying as hell they are messing with global trade, but I bet it goes on until they decide for their own reasons to stop.
Just cleaning up. They missed the targeting radar on the first strike, so they followed up. When the radar get rebuild, they will need to knock it out again. Until Houthis stopped their attacks on shipping, the radar stays down.
It hardly matters. The Mark One eyeball can see ships in those narrow waters from watching positions in the high mountains along that coast. And the Marines have wargamed a very high cost and possible failure for any efforts to land and take them out.
They are not going to land troops in Yemen. Houthis can keep firing at international shipping if they want to. You are correct that the shipping lanes are narrow. The questions is at what cost are they willing to pay? And what is the benefit to the Houthis?
How do you know that the Marines have war gamed taking the high ground?
What Heppened to your landing troops in Lebanon?
Ita all hogwash isnt it.
oh and benefit? Thats a US war philiosophy. Kill for benfgit.
Yemen is defending the Palesinians from obvious terrorism tacticts. (You know, mass bombing innocent women and children in order to make a statement to the world and cause fear)
Its teŕrorism nothing more.
Yet you still go on like a broken record and youve done it so much no one believes what you say anymore.
Much like the rest of your clan.
Rambling on with no point. What silly comments you make.
I mean his name is Wino, and he is more coherent than the neocon bile you’ve been spewing all over the comments section.
Like they cleaned up in afghanistan. . .
It appears you don’t understand the difference between destroying a radar station and at multi year war.
The difference is you run with your tail between your legs in a multi year war.
The words for your war and your nations debt is unsustainable.
Cause understanding is in your job description
Your transparent.
Multi-decade, multi-decade occupation. It was not a war. It was a brutal, illegal, and immoral occupation. But I’m sure plenty of IC types made millions running heroin. Also, the they’ve been trying to “clean up” the Houthi for almost a decade now so I don’t think the Houthis are exactly shaking in their boots.
The Biden gang will have their hands full to get Biden elected. Maybe bombing Yemen helps to get the attention of the ICJ off the frontpages.
But bombings in Yemen could be just as problematic or even more so. More and more people support the Palestinians, Israel/USA/UK are losing the propaganda war.
So the Palestinians supporters want to kick out Biden and replace him with a more pro Israel president. Good plan. Idiots.
I mean from where I’m sitting both Trump and Biden are equally pro Israel. So It doesn’t seem to matter when voting for both mainline parties, you will be getting a pro Israel shill.
And only the neocons behind the curtain count anyway.
Real Americans expect competent and common sense government. Look around you and see in what a shabby condition the nation is in, all our elected idiots in DC know is how to make the war profiteers richer so when the officials retire the corporate doors are open with seats on the board or to be a lobbyist for million $$$ salaries. They are as corrupt as the people in Ukraine, see Hunter Biden.
Doesnt matter who is elected, What do you think George w Bush would be doing right now.
Some days its just all blamed on the obvious jackass, The next day its just the elephant in the room.
It does matter, that is why we need to STOP voting for the Dems/Reps, look for Third Party Candidates. Staying home is not an option, we need to vote, even write in candidates, if needed. Congress needs to be emptied of the Reps/Dems, because they are the cowards who bend to Presidents, ignoring the Constitution.
I would go with write in, A third party if popular through media coverage would just be a controlled wild card
Doug Macgregor is my write-in candidate.
The system is the problem, it is not democratic. The Constitution was written by big landowners for big landowners, now replaced by big powerful global corporations. They fund the elections, they own all three branches of government, and have their lobbyists write the laws to suit their busyness.
Neoliberal economics destroy the working middle class. First they destroyed the unions and any left leaning parties like the socialists and communists. They are in control of the MSM which manipulates public opinion.
Votes alone can’t change that. Votes alone did not write the voting rights act.
I know what Bush DID do. It started long before W., there is the JFK assassination. But now we have to deal with demented Biden and the people who pull his strings.
Who is in charge now, who is accountable?
Bomb the way to de-escalation.
Killing for peace. I hoped that we had killed that bizarre notion long ago.
Does this look like “tens of thousands”? Stop quoting Reuters.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/37500fbe56a7632c21ae3810e0604b211619209a7a54cd541472187aac811b7d.jpg
All media is an echo… echo………echo.
Globalist media is so slanted these days we all adjust their numbers in or head accordingly when we hear protest numbers given.
And anytime it says they took a pole. Well, you know, its immediatly taken as the lie it is.
Its pretty simple, For the US media, ten thousand protesting against the US equals over a hundred thousand i reality. Tens of thousands equals up to five hundred thousand in a much broader region. And total silence from the US media means damn near everyone is out in the streets hating what they are doing.
On the flip side tens of thousands of people supporting a political party means invites were sent out, the normal fill ins were paid,. Only 750 showed up. And the picture was taken with the best camera angle.
When you read these, You just adjust it accordingly on the fly.
US main stream media still think they are being clever, when in real life everyone knows the emperor has no clothes. Kinda sad really.
I consider this to be false advertising:
https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles.html
They’ll do anything to protect the Petro-Dollar and Israel.
It’s funny that everything the USA has been doing post 911 has accelerated the demise of the petro dollar. If the USA had gone for stability and development over power vacuums and bombing campaigns they could have extended the life of the dollar as the worlds reserve currency for quite a while longer. But unfortunately we have greedy and corrupt neocons who use ideology as a cover for fleecing the public. That’s why they never meet a war they don’t like. I mean have these fascist fucks ever been against a war?
Good points indeed.
Also, when you think about it imagine if the USA had allowed Russia to integrate into Europe instead of pushing them into the arms of China. Would, coulda, shoulda I guess.
Yes, but the Military Offense Industry needs perceived enemies to keep the trillions flowing.
Russia never stopped working against US interests. And is letting countries like Germany, Poland, and Ukraine choose their own future “pushing” Russia? It was Russia has launched an illegal, unprovoked war against a sovereign neighbor.
So NATO planning to put nukes in Ukraine is not provoking Russia? The U.S. elites had a hissy fit because Russia stopped letting themselves be exploited by American multinationals. So they created a false choice between Russia and the USA. This was totally of American making. The sooner the American empire ends the better it will be for everyone. Especially Europeans.
The US chose the future for Germany by blowing up the nord stream pipeline, and for Ukraine by supporting the 2014 antidemocratic coup. Russias invasion was totally unprovoked, except for the many ways that it was provoked.
There is no evidence of US involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline destruction, and supporting Ukraine in 2014 is not grounds for a military invasion and the murder of civilians.
As for the change of government in 2014 in Ukraine being an “antidemocratic coup,” that is an oversimplification, and it implies that somehow Russia supports democracy, which clearly it does not.
Denial of the US sabotage of Nord Stream is too ludicrous for a response.
Russian military intervention in the Donbass was at their invitation.
Ukraine is a failed state without legitimacy and a threat to regional stability. Russia did the right thing.
Ok, then if oversimplification is a no no, this is not about democracy vs autocracy. That would imply that the US supports democracy, which clearly it does not.
Yes, I don’t endorse simplistic narratives. The US clearly supports many autocratic regimes, such as Saudi Arabia. And in Egypt, the democratically elected president was overthrown in a military coup. The US is interested in US power – the same as China, Russia, Iran, and every other country. But in the case of Ukraine, they are a sovereign nation being attacked by another nation, so US self-interest aligns with international law in this case. There is nothing good about Russia’s war on Ukraine; it is a simple attack of imperialist military force by a new Russian empire, and there is no reason to expect Russia to stop once it conquers Ukraine. Next to Ukraine is Poland, then Germany.
Whoa there Cujo, where do you get so certain that after putting a stop to the US’s provocation in Ukraine that Russia has the means and intent to knock down the dominoes across Europe?! There’s no reason to expect Russia to continue after it takes back Ukraine. That’s a German, British or perhaps an American move. Project much?
Unprovoked?
There are two classes of people here
Those who know, and those who know mothing.
“There are two classes of people here
Those who know, and those who know mothing.”
I suspect that some of the know nothings are actually liars.
Yes, Russia attacked Ukraine. Ukraine didn’t attack Russia. That is a fact, unless you work for Mother Russia.
As for “knowing,” that is based on facts. Do you perhaps have any?
Here in the real world, we have the UN Resolution ES‑11/1, which “deplored” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demanded a full withdrawal of Russian forces. This was supported by 141 countries, except 5: Belarus, Eritrea, North Korea, Russia, Syria. So, which are you from?
Right on Frank, right on… US hegemonic ambitions.
The fascist fucks think no country can defeat US… So they allow it to defeat itself,,,!
No evidence supports that statement.
US government uses $ as a weapon against other countries. So, it is logical that those countries against whom $ was used as a weapon, started to abandon $.
It is very logical and a foreseeable consequence of American foreign policy over the last 20 years. Unfortunately the people running the show in Washington aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. Nepotism and the deterioration of our institutions of higher learning have produced mediocre (at best) technocrats. That’s the generous interpretation. It could be that they are smart and that they are actively trying to destroy the USA and to fuck the middle class as hard as they can on the way down. I tend to believe the first explanation: that they are just full of hubris and incompetent.
They are evil!
It appears that given the choice, they will damage the Petro-Dollar in order to serve neocon dreams and the Israel Project.
Why not? You think the other side are the good guys? Maybe you want Russia-Iran-China to win, and pay $15/gallon for gas (if you can get it) and work for a Chinese boss; suit yourself.
As for protecting Israel, that is what alliances do. China protects North Korea, and we protect Saudi Arabia. That’s how the world works.
Win? Teams? Sounds familiar.
And working for a chinese boss is probably in line with an American one.
At least when a major real estate developer went bankrupt through shady dealings in China they kicked him out force sold his mansion estates and took his stuff.
In the US they bail them out and give them a bailout so he can rip off more of the poor and all at the cost of the US workers taxed salary and inflicting inflation upon the masses
Not sure China is so bad as you say.
And the US isnt that great from where i am standing. Its in debt and killing people in endless wars.
I suggest you do some research, if you think life would be better under Chinese communist dictatorship. First of all, no rights at all. No right to vote, to travel, to strike. No freedom of speech or religion. China is a nation with forced abortions, religious persecution, no elections, and forced organ donors. China has vast “re-education” camps and is rapidly building their military for war
“As for protecting Israel, that is what alliances do.”
The deal that the US has with Israel is that the US protects Israel, and Israel is committed to nothing. That is not an alliance.
Israel is not an ally.
How can such evil people get honestly elected in democracies ?
Advanced Western US/NATO democracies are contaminated by moral and characterless people. One could honestly believe they are CIA paid traitors of their country. Scholz of Germany, is the German Zelensky.
Because they are not as evil as you think.
Right, they are worse than I thought possible.
I mean killing upwards of 5 million over a 20 year period is pretty evil from where I’m sitting. The crimes of the U.S. government are far worse than anything the Russians or Chinese have done over the past 20 years, and they aren’t exactly angels either. But you keep whitewashing atrocities. That seems to be what you love doing.
To expand on what Frank said:
The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II
The extensive loss of life in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and Libya is not included in this study.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051
“Honestly elected.” There’s the rub.
In recent US Presidential elections, the popularity of both candidates has been less than 50%. IMHO, Elections are no longer about whom the best candidate is. We’re reduced to voting for the candidate we dislike/fear the least.
Who picks the candidates we may vote for? The powerful corporate donors? They want something back in return for their investment, the voters get kicked in the butt and out of the room?
I would like to point out that the USA has been always meddled in other nations elections and here at home too, it is routine to manipulate, recall the SC appointing W. the winner? I still think potentially Gore would have been the better president, maybe.
It sure seems as if the deck of cards is “stacked”. But there seems to be more going on than corporate donors. Case in point: Israel.
I also think Gore would have been better. He 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 have avoided 9/11, the wars that followed, and the assault on the Constitution by the Executive branch.
We will never know, but we do know the Israelis do have a powerful lobby, and oil resources, economics and hegemony are involved.
and Putin in Russia.
What is that to us, we don’t vote for Putin, he owes us nothing. Putin is accountable to the Russian people, and they do not need our advise at all.
I’m reminded of Clinton’s attacks around the time of Monica and their augmentation (stiffening the image, so to speak) of the Commander in Chief.
I assume the current occupant is getting his rocks off defending freedom of the seas (read profitability) as yet another in the long list of soporifics aimed at calming the (cf voting) natives.
The US and the UK are leaders in the global economy, which is why the Houthis (Iran) are targeting shipping. So of course the US and the UK will oppose the pirates trying to stop international shipping.
Failing leaders who are losing their grip.
What evidence supports that claim?
Another one who refuses to acknowledge the Houthi’s intent. The attacks on shipping ended when the genocide took a break. Their attacks had nothing to do with piracy or any other imaginary excuse you can come up with.
The Houthi’s “intent” is clear. They are part of the Arab world, which views itself at war with the West, a conflict that will result in Arab world domination.
However, if you have an alternative view, then based on what evidence?
I was talking about their intent regarding a specific circumstance, Israel’s onslaught of Gaza. Whether the Arab world wants world domination or not isn’t relative to that specific circumstance. The attacks started when Israel’s onslaught started, ended when there was an exchange, and started up again when Israel’s onslaught started up again. Seems pretty simple what their motives are, and I believe they’ve stated they have stated them repeatedly. Stop the genocide and the attacks stop. Pretty noble in my opinion.
The intent of the West is clear, the West is in conflict with Arabs and Persians because they have natural oil reserves, just like Russia and Venezuela, and Iraq, and Iran and the Anglo-Saxons know that God Almighty gave it to them and not to the Arabs or the Palestinians.
Yes, the world is a competitive place, and everyone wants what the other guy has.
Currently, the US is the world’s largest oil producer, at 20%, more than Russia or Saudi Arabia. Iran is believed to have dwindling oil reserves.
The Palestinians – however you define them – have no oil. And as we see in Gaza, they make billions from their main industries: victimhood, building tunnels, stockpiling weapons, and murdering women, children, and babies.
Keep up with the news, there are substantial oil resources off the Gaza coast, and yes the greedy Israelis, and Americans want it. Money and resources is the only value the good people know. They are worse than Mafia types. Western money hungry political/economic leaders are despicable, repulsive people, for money they will kill their mother or children, morally they are totally bankrupt, evil people.
What drives someone who has millions, billions of $$$, what drives them to want more? They only know how much they have because their accountants tell them. Why on earth do they want more, why can they kill millions of people for some more money they can’t even see or touch and don’t need. Just knowing how much they have, that it is more than they would ever need, that is all they get out of it?
Not sure how to respond to your bizarre question. The fact is that most of the US economy, transportation, and military run on oil. Our housing market depends on cheap oil, as we put most of our housing dollars in car-based communities. It unfortunate but without out, the US economy, military, and stock market would collapse overnight.
If I may play amateur psychiatrist for a moment, the majority of us can’t understand why enough is never enough for these people because we don’t think the way they do. The motivations of the average Joe is vastly different than those creatures. However, trying to understand the motives of the global cult/elites comes down I believe, to the unadulterated lust for power and control. Of course, what good is having power if you can’t use it whenever you get the opportunity. The money is a perk that comes with power, but I believe POWER is the prime motivator.
You make sense, sounds right. I think a contributing factor may be that they are competitive people and must win, to be able to have some million $$$ or so more makes them the winner, like “I am richer than you”?
power!
“The Palestinians – however you define them – have no oil.”
Except for the oil off the coast of Gaza.
The people of Gaza could develop all their resources. All they have to do is stop trying to kill their neighbors. It’s that simple (remember, Egypt also wants nothing to do with Hamas, which is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which they are fighting in their own country).
The best way to get along with people is by not torturing and killing them, in my view. I could be wrong.
You are wrong.
I am right.
and murdering women, children, and babies.
Takes some balls to blurt out that shit considering the ongoing genocide being conducted by Israel.
I am simply stating facts. Hamas sent 3,000 armed militants to slaughter as many Israelis as possible, often in the most cruel way possible.
As for “genocide”, that is not an accurate term. Genocide is the extermination of an entire people. If you look at Palestinians, they are not being “exterminated”. First, the Israeli Arabs in fact have the longest life expectancy in the Arab world (as well as more freedom, rights, education, and opportunities).
If you are concerned about the people of Gaza, why not support the removal of Hamas? They are not a legitimate government and clearly they are bringing nothing but misery to the people of Gaza, by attacking a powerful neighbor, then hiding behind women and children as human shields. But for some reason, I don’t see any criticism of Hamas. In fact, you appear to defend them.
gen·o·cide
[ˈjenəˌsīd]
noun
the deliberate killing or severe mistreatment of a large number of people from a particular national or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
Not once have I condoned what Hamas did or defended them. And I’ve already said that I would not want to be governed by either Hamas or Israel’s far right government. Ask the mod, he reads all of the comments. But, as usual, any criticism of Israel’s brutal assault must mean that I’m on team Hamas. Similar when I bitched about the US destroying Iraq. I must support Saddam. But regardless of what Hamas has done, and whether the Arabs have better lives in Israel (always love that one), nothing justifies genocide.
No, I never said you supported Hamas, and it is to your credit that you admit that Hamas should not be supported.
And I never said that it is not appropriate to criticize the brutal war in Gaza, in which thousands of innocent civilians are dying.
However, it is calling the deaths of civilians genocide that isn’t accurate. The Israelis seek to protect their own people; I think we can agree that that is valid; the Israelis left Gaza and offered to ignore the threats and provocations from Hamas, which is sworn to murder every Israeli citizen. But after Hamas organized 3,000 fighters to launch an extermination of Israeli men, women, children, and babies – often with extreme cruelty, torture, and documented sexual violence – clearly Israel had to destroy the people who committed these acts.
The simple response by Hamas would to have simply surrendered. They would give up their weapons, and release all hostages. Hamas has no legal authority in Gaza – they are not a legal government – so they could have simply left, taking their suitcases stuffed with billions of dollars. Instead, they chose to use the people of Gaza as human shields – with tunnels in schools, playgrounds, hospitals, etc. – and give the Israelis no choice but to pursue military action. Anything short of this would be suicidal. There is no example in history of a nation that has suffered such a horrendous loss that has simply waved it away. Clearly there was no option to negotiate – for what? That would only postpone the national suicide of Israelis.
I agree that the situation is horrific – the loss of any life is a tragedy – but I don’t see how the Israelis have any choice. They must eradicate every member of Hamas. Anything less only makes the death of more Israelis – in more horrific attacks – a matter of time.
But after Hamas organized 3,000 fighters to launch an extermination of Israeli men, women, children, and babies – often with extreme cruelty, torture, and documented sexual violence – clearly Israel had to destroy the people who committed these acts.
So, an attack that took 1,200 lives was an attempted “extermination” but an all-out bombing blitz (with inaccurate “dumb” bombs not suited for densely populated areas) on 2.3 million people, mostly woman and children, stuffed into 140 square miles of land can’t be considered an attempt at genocide? And the rest of your comment is just trying to justify that real attempt at extermination.
It seemed to me that they were not trying to slaughter as many Israelis as possible, but rather to take as many hostages as possible.
I suggest you look up the legal definition of genocide and get back to us.
I agree Hamas is not a legitimate government, but then why did elements of the Israeli state fund and back them over fatah? Either way, yes it would be great if Gaza could hold elections and get a legitimate government in place, but Israel has made that impossible over the last 16 years through their incursions and bombing campaigns now haven’t they?
“So of course the US and the UK will oppose the pirates trying to stop international shipping.”
Would these staunch proponents of unconstrained international shipping be in favor of delivering supplies to Gaza?
A ceasefire in Gaza is all that is needed, but that is not to be considered by genocide Biden. He is a real k* iller.
Those are two separate, unrelated issues. The delivery of supplies to the people of Gaza does not affect international trade in itself.
The Houthis targeted only ships with cargo for Israel.
The UK and US are protecting Israeli interests, nothing else.
The Houthis claim to target Israeli ships, but that’s clearly not the case. They even attacked a Russia ship this week, and their actions have already increased shipping times and costs and affected the supply chain.
The US and the UK are the leading financial nations in the world. They rely on world trade, as do their partners and allies.
Look, the USA/UK chose to go to war, and now you are crying for the poor victims, they lost money, others lose their lives, children getting amputated without anesthetics. Does that bother you? What do you have to cry about? Neocon monsters vetoed a ceasefire to get food and medicine to women and children and people like you prevent it. You support the brutalities, how can you? Have you no conscience?
I don’t give a damn for the so called leading financial nations, let them go to hell, the sooner the better and let them take Israel with them.
Then the US and UK should have thought of that before going balls to the wall for the Zios.
They aim at the cargo for Israel, it does not matter who owns the ships.
They have openly and unequivocally said they aim at shipping “linked to” Israel, including any ships that they think might be Israeli owned, regardless of what those ships are carrying and regardless of where those ships are going.
You are splitting hair. Ships linked to Israel one way or other. Cargo, or ship, or both cargo and ship together.
If you don’t want your very specific claims noted to be bullshit, feel free to not make those very specific claims.
The aim is to affect the costs and supplies. What other reason is there, just like sanctions which are meant to do harm to nations economies, or not, what other reason is there?
What right do the US/UK have to attack Yemen? Their cargo ships were in no danger in waters that do not belong to the UK/US, their economic leadership in the global economy does not give them special rights.
Of course the Houthis opposed the terrorist US/UK nations. They blocked military cargo for Israel in their waters in support of the Palestinian people, the Israelis block food and medical supply to be delivered for starving and suffering unarmed Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Do you know that doctors had to amputate young children without anesthetics because the bastardly Israelis do not allow trucks to carry medical supply including anesthetic into Gaza?
So what is your complain? The UK/USA BUSINESS is more important than the life of infants, toddlers children and nursing women, because they are Palestinian, right? You are in complicity of genocide of the Palestinian people. How can you justify that???
I am ashamed to admit I voted for Biden, I now despise him and the whole criminal cabal called government, both parties.
“I am ashamed to admit I voted for Biden, I now despise him and the whole criminal cabal called government, both parties.”
The other choice was no better.
There were six choices on my ballot, and at least a couple of them were better than Biden or Trump.
Pretty much ALL of them on my ballot and I’ll even admit I didn’t know anything about a couple of them. Just figure they couldn’t possibly be as bad as Biden or Trump.
And how did those other four choices fare?
To vote for the lesser of two evils is the problem, that was wrong, they are equals.
Leaders in instigating conflicts and chaos around the world would be more accurate
False. Russia has invaded a neighbor, tortures and murders its people, and talks about nuclear bombs in Europe; North Korea fires missiles at Japan; China threatens Taiwan with invasion; Iran has holidays calling for “Death to America! Death to Israel!” Syria – with Russian help – has killed 300,000 of their people. Hamas attacks Israel and slaughters 1,200 men, women, children, and babies. Yet – you think the only problem in the world is the US?
Take those blinders off and you might, I repeat might, just have a clue.
I’m dealing with facts. You have none. Suit yourself.
You’re clueless. The American hegemon has killed upwards of 5 million people during the GWOT. Their body count is at least two orders of magnitude higher than either Russia or China.
Show me a single error in my post before making sweeping statements.
The majority that Hamas killed were IDF and more and more it looks as if the majority of the civilian casualties were from the IDF implementing the Hannibal Directive, i.e. killing their own to prevent them being taken hostage.
Your statements are worse than false – you are covering up evil, barbarous acts.
Hamas did exactly what it said it would do – kill Israelis. And the “Hannibal Directive”? Proof?
Where’s your proof? Do you have videos of Hamas riddling cars with 30mm rounds? Where would they get that kind of firepower? The Israeli media is reporting on this story so why are you pretending like the hannibal directive is not a thing?
https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/yokra13754368
Really not worth debating. Believe a false reality, if you want. The whole world knows about the actions of Hamas. Are the hostages also an Israeli illusion? You really should be ashamed of yourself.
I take it you can’t read Hebrew. The whole world doesn’t know about the actions of Hamas because there is no evidence of rape, no evidence of killing children, and no evidence of mass civilian slaughter. Where is this evidence? It now appears that at the very least a good portion (if not most) of the civilian casualties were actually friendly fire. This is a big story in Israel with (besides Ynet) Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post both reporting this story.
Since you are unable to read the primary source documents here is a translation of the headline from the above article:
“The order: stop the terrorists from returning to Gaza ‘at any cost’ even if they have hostages with them”
The short article then goes on to preview an upcoming expose on the failures of the IDF on October 7th. Not the type of reporting you will see in the Western press. It’s unclear whether there was an official order to kill hostages to prevent them from making it to Gaza, but I’ve read at least two Israeli accounts that say that was in fact the case. I’ve also read other reports (I am thinking of an interview of an Israeli apache pilot) who tell of all out chaos and fog of war where they didn’t know who was who and getting orders to fire without target IDs.
Here is an English language source that has been reporting on the breaking stories in the Israeli press:
https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/18512
https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/13111
https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/13145
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/how-israeli-forces-trapped-and-killed-ravers-at-the-nova-festival
Personally, I am agnostic on the issue of whether there was an actual Hannibal directive on October 7th. The Israeli media while openly discussing the Hannibal directive typically ends up emphasizing the fog of war scenario.
Social engineering the masses has lead to a dumbed down group of citizens who have no idea what the Kleptocrats in Washington are doing.
Worldwide death and destruction is the outcome of a stolen election in 2020.
FJB and POS obama!
Trump supporter never stop with the big stolen election lie. Your guy lost, but he was not man enough to accept the defeat, instead he whine like a four your old. And you believe him.
First I am an Independent and not a Trump supporter. Secondly, I hope you like the war mongers behind mentally incompetent Joey Biden. FJB and POS obama!
Cause george bush and cheny were such peaceful non waring folk
George W was and is a dunce, while DICK Cheny is a criminal evil man who hopefully will burn in hell.
I voted for Trump, because he was the best candidate, however, I will not be voting for any Dems/Reps in 2024. As for the stolen election, there were many videos, many incidents of people reporting problems with the voting machines, on the day of the election. I received a voter registration card for my son, who has not lived in Michigan for the last 30 years, WHY? Sadly it won’t matter who wins, if it is Trump or Biden, both being Zionist Loyalist.
I voted for Trump, because he was the best candidate, between him and Biden,…
Fixed. Unless they were the only two on your ballot.
JFK respected the Russians and used diplomacy to solve the missile crisis. JFK was assassinated before he could grow to his real potential. Trump liked Putin, the neocons did not like that, so he appointed neocons in his cabinet. He could not take on the old Russophobe neocons so they are still there advising Biden. Had Trump won, he could have ended the same way JFK did. The neocons are killers.
Please don’t make Trump sound like a principled man of reason.
In the end Trump turned out to be a fairly standard evil Republican president. He sanctioned Venezuelans into starvation, vetoed attempts to save Yemen from the US-backed atrocities of Saudi Arabia, assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, imprisoned Julian Assange, and, despite the incredibly virulent mass delusion that he was a secret agent of Moscow, spent his entire term ramping up cold war hostilities against Russia with extreme aggression.
Democrats and their allies in the press spent the last four years accusing President Donald Trump of being soft on Russia. And worse: some called the president a Russian asset, a traitor, Putin’s patsy and much, much more. It was all nonsense, because behind the rhetoric was the stark reality that Trump, and his administration, have actually been tougher on Russia than many of his predecessors. Now, with the president on the way out, one lone voice in the anti-Trump press – CNN, specifically – has spoken the truth out loud. On CNN’s “New Day” on New Year’s morning, the network’s Fareed Zakaria was asked how U.S. Russia policy under President Joe Biden might differ from policy under President Trump. “I think, in general, there isn’t going to be as much difference as people imagine,” Zakaria said.
“The Biden folks are pretty tough on Russia, Iran, North Korea. You know, the dirty little secret about the Trump administration was that while Donald Trump clearly had a kind of soft spot for Putin, the Trump administration was pretty tough on the Russians. They armed Ukraine. They armed the Poles. They extended NATO operations and exercises in ways that even the Obama administration had not done. They maintained the sanctions. So I don’t think it will be that different.”
The dirty little secret? It was never a secret at all. All of the actions Zakaria listed were well-known public policy during the Trump years. Any of Zakaria’s colleagues, at CNN and in the press as a whole, might have cited them. But many instead chose to contribute to the media’s Russia hysteria that began even before the president was inaugurated and continued through the years of Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
I always considered Trump to be irrational and unpredictable, a conman, but never a man of reason. He spilled the beans sometimes saying out loud what other politicians would not say.
I don’t think Trump is a Russophobe.
I just don’t think he was “forced” to do anything regarding Russia because of the accusations that he was a Russian asset. In fact, I think he used it to his advantage.
FTA (F them all, red and blue alike)
IMHO the neocons did not like to deal with Trump, he liked Putin and that is a huge, NO, NO WAY. Biden was the man, he served corporations for decades and he still does, and he is a neocon, that is why he kept all the Bush, Obama neocons in the state department. The stock-market is doing well, inflation does not touch the political/economic elite at all.
By now the Houthis are well acquainted with American munitions, I don’t get what this piddling pinprick strikes are going to accomplish. I suspect nothing. So this is for the home audience. I wonder who breaks first with a 3 million dollar missile vs a 10k drone.
I don’t get what this piddling pinprick strikes are going to accomplish.
Listen to Biden stumble all over himself trying to avoid WHY the Houthies are doing what they are doing. It’s making the world even more aware of the US’ unconditional support for genocide.
“I don’t get what this piddling pinprick strikes are going to accomplish.”
They seem likely to markedly increase the chances of a really horrendous regional war.
Would that help Biden, the Democrats, to get him reelected?
Not that it matters who gets elected, the same people will rule the corpocracy. Biden is a poor make believe acting president.
I don’t think it would help him at all. I’m not sure anything likely to happen is likely to help him. And you’re right. It doesn’t matter which major party candidate is elected.
“ “We’re not interested in a war with Yemen. We’re not interested in a conflict of any kind,” John Kirby, a White House spokesperson, said Friday. “In fact everything the president has been doing has been trying to prevent any escalation of conflict, including the strikes last night.”???
https://news.yahoo.com/regional-war-no-one-wanted-151931875.html
The neocons want a conflict with Iran, not a war. That is on the neocon plate for years, Trump opened the door for Biden to walk through, he has to hurry to get there before Trump.
The only issue, decision, that can hopefully slow down WW111, is if the ICJ does the right thing. The ICJ needs to show courage, display strength, fear no country and find Israel GUILTY of War Crimes, plus the USA/UK, etc., of being complicit of War Crimes. We all know that the ICJ can only put pressure on the World Community, it might turn some around and STOP supporting the Genocide, STOP sending weapons/technology to Israel, giving the Houthis a way out. NO sane human being wants WW111!
The problem is that there are no sane people in the WH. We don’t even know who is in charge and accountable.
The US would never have the courage to wage a war alone. They need the UK support, another nuclear power, to attack Yemen one of the poorest countries on the planet to justify their immoral politics. The cowards rely on bombs, to be the biggest military power and able to bully any nation.
The USA, once a great nation has become a joke, a corrupt pariah nation. The government is despicable, people without character and moral compass.
Well, it could’ve been worse for the Houthis, the US and UK could’ve invented some BS Neo Nazi / Genocide excuse then invade and annex parts of Yemen in the name of peace.
“The Biden administration claimed the strikes were needed to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. ”
Now that the Biden Administration has turned the Red Sea into a war zone, ships that sail with insurance policies that exclude losses in a war zone will probably avoid the area entirely. Since Yellen’s price-cap sanctions on Russian oil target insurers rather than transporters, one might think he would have thought of that.
He can’t say he didn’t know that it violates the Constitution to fire missiles into Yemen without Congressional authorization because he was there when several legislators threatened to impeach Obama for doing the same thing in Libya.
He might, however, get some traction with a mental incompetence defense.