2 US-flagged cargo ships attacked off Yemen Two U.S.-flagged merchant ships were attacked in the Red Sea on Wednesday by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Iranian-backed group’s latest act of aggression in the region. Shipping giant Maersk said in a statement to The Hill that the Maersk Detroit and Maersk Chesapeake were attacked during a transit through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The strait is a major targeting point for the Houthi rebels in a campaign to attack merchant shipping. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4426811-two-us-flagged-cargo-ships-attacked-off-yemen/ |
That was cause because Bush had daddy issues and the CIA either lied or was incompetent or both |
That's crap. Inspectors came in and found nothing. You can read below how Robert Kelley, who was part of the IAEA's Iraq Action Team in 2003, and other weapons inspectors found no proof of the WMD claims but their findings were ignored in favor of dubious sources because Bush and his team wanted war. "By early 2003 we knew at a very high level of confidence that there was no nuclear weapons effort of any kind in Iraq, and we were regularly passing this information back to the UN Security Council." https://www.sipri.org/commentary/essay/2023/twenty-years-ago-iraq-ignoring-expert-weapons-inspectors-proved-be-fatal-mistake |
This post brought to you by the people that gave you Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. |
Not many US flagged merchant ships. It’s like 2% and most of those are ocean tugs. Some how two are off Yemen and get attacked? Does not seem like a coincidence. |
Maersk has a bunch of US flagged cargo ships |
From a military standpoint, the US would not survive a war with China or Russia. Have we already forgotten MAD? |
Every ship will put up a U.S. flag when they want an F-14 escort in the Red Sea. |
The only military that flies F-14s is Iran |
LMAO. A big part of executing a war is having the will to use the tools at your disposal. Another huge variable is strategy. The Americans fully lack will and have serious issues with planning and strategy. See the defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan as proof. |
I’m sure PP meant Super Hornet, a plane that can’t go 30 mins on-station without refueling. |
The tomcat/Tomcrap. |
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US retaliatory strikes have begun:
The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend, officials told The Associated Press. https://apnews.com/article/attack-military-iran-iraq-houthis-229a735edbb7759ba9ade543013917df |
It will do nothing to deter Iran. As a retired Col. said.... "All they are doing is turning sand into glass." |