At least 148 missile strikes have hit Yemen since the US and the UK launched a new bombing campaign against the Houthis in January, according to the Yemen Data Project (YDP).
YDP said in the first 80 days of the US-led bombing campaign that started on January 12, a total of 339 munitions have hit Yemen, averaging more than four per day. The UK has joined the US in several rounds of missile strikes, but most have been unilateral US attacks on Houthi-controlled Yemen.
YDP said there was a drop in strikes in March, with 35 recorded, compared with 79 in February. The group said there were no reports of civilian casualties in March after 11 were recorded in February.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said in March that a total of 34 Houthi fighters had been killed since the Yemeni group, officially known as Ansar Allah, began targeting Israel-linked shipping in the Red Sea last year in response to the onslaught in Gaza.
The US-British bombing campaign has done nothing to deter the Red Sea attacks and has only escalated the situation as the Houthis began targeting American and British shipping in response. In January, President Biden acknowledged the bombing wasn’t “working” but vowed to continue anyway.
The Houthis have been clear that the only way they would stop targeting Israel-linked shipping is if the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza comes to an end. But the US chose escalation instead of pressuring the Israelis to stop by leveraging military aid.
The US backed a brutal Saudi/UAE war against the Houthis from 2015-2022 that involved heavy airstrikes and a blockade, and the group only became more of a capable fighting force during that time.
The war killed at least 377,000 people, and more than half died of starvation and disease caused by the siege. A ceasefire between the Houthis and Saudis has held relatively well since April 2022, but new US sanctions are now blocking the implementation of a lasting peace deal.
Song of the Biden administration (would be Trump as well) and congress: “merrily we kill along, kill along, kill along, merrily we kill along, it’s so much fun”.
“We feel so superior when we pick whom to kill or torture, whose house or business to destroy, which children to maim or starve… And which to feed, educate, empower and enrich.
It feels like being God!”
339 munitions fired. Little wonder why the Houthis keep firing missiles. Either let Houthis block the shipping or get serious about stopping them. Just 4 sorties of a B-1 could drop that many munitions.
Someone blew smoke up your halah halah if you think dropping bombs, short of a nuke, will break the will of Houthis.
The ceasefire was negotiated by China, which pissed off DC to no end.
So if there were 148 missile strikes, at $200,000 each, that’s:
148 x $200,000 = $29,600,000
So for 34 Ansar Allah fighters that’s a cost of:
$29,600,000 / 34 = $870,588 each fighter
Now if all 339 “munitions” were missiles that would be $1,994,118 each, but we know that they lost at least one F-18, at $34,000,000 so probably some of them were dumb bombs that cost only a few tens of thousands.
Biden has acknowledged publicly that the bombing isn’t making a difference, but has said it would continue anyway. It would be amusing as hell if it didn’t mean that innocent people were dying.
Would have been cheaper to pay the fighters $800,000 each to start with. Except they wouldn’t have accepted it because they have integrity.
And by doing so they play right into the hands of the Axis of Resistance whose strategy is to drain Israel and the US itself of their arsenal of bombs and missiles just like Russia has been draining Ukraine and NATO in a war of attrition.
August 9-11, 1941: USA President Delano Roosevelt formulated the “United Nations” during his conversation with UK Empire Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Newfoundland, Canada.
Churchill insisted upon continuation of empires. He wanted post-WW 2 to be ruled by a joint UK-USA empire. FDR wanted post WW II to be ruled by a democratic UN that would preserve individual independence of every nation and there would no longer any “imperial” countries.
Looks like Prime Minister Churchill’s joint UK-USA empire won.
Wasn’t Working continues in the Present and the Future…!
Sure, plenty of bombs for everybody, and the shareholders at War Inc couldn’t be happier.. They are studying their maps; deciding which country will be the next source of income..
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All great truths. Especially the last one.
And yet the Houthis still continue. They must be more powerful than U.S. and UK combined.
OMG check this out = i turned on the TV at approximately 9:00 am.
there was a guy being interviewed by a girly. business as usual, right?
except this guy was the same color as the freakin Oompa-Lumpas from the Willy-Wonka Chocolate Factory. wait, what? i had to drag my wife out of bed “check this sh*t out! what color is that guy?” omg my wife was all “how dare you woke me up! i am about to kick your punk-ass into left field!”
damnit.
what.
OMG you know what really hurts?
when your wife weighs only a third of your entire weight but some how she can karate your punk-ass into left-field.
ow.
lol