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Post by farmgirl on Jan 15, 2024 17:33:51 GMT
A ship SE of Yemen has been hit by a missile launched by Houthis. Talk of extensive damage to the ship.
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Post by farmgirl on Jan 15, 2024 17:35:03 GMT
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Post by farmgirl on Jan 15, 2024 17:35:40 GMT
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Post by farmgirl on Jan 15, 2024 19:20:19 GMT
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Post by farmgirl on Jan 15, 2024 19:20:34 GMT
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 15, 2024 19:46:46 GMT
Yeah, the fake pictures from some other time doesn't help with the media nor the tweeters' reputations.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 15, 2024 21:38:04 GMT
With all our satellites and other surveillance apparatus I don't understand why the Houtis still have any offensive weapons, or are still alive for that matter. Apparently our strikes have been more for show than for real damage.
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Post by farmgirl on Jan 16, 2024 15:50:36 GMT
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Post by farmgirl on Jan 16, 2024 20:40:05 GMT
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Post by farmgirl on Jan 17, 2024 5:41:36 GMT
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 17, 2024 18:40:31 GMT
These houthis are supposed to be just a bunch of rag-tag terrorists. Why would they be doing this? Just for kicks? To stir stuff up?
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 17, 2024 21:19:59 GMT
Just guessing, but probably for a few reasons. One, they're fundamentalist Muslims who hate everything not fundamentalist Muslim. And, in the crap-hole country of Yemen they're probably getting paid by the Iranians what they consider a fortune. Plus, they see themselves as part of the coming world caliphate, surely with every non-Muslim they kill they're a step closer to their 64 Virginians.
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Post by farmrbrown on Jan 18, 2024 0:17:20 GMT
It might be worth looking into OUR relations with Yemen over the last several decades for clues as to what's going on now and why we can't seem to stop it, which I agree makes no sense at all ....IF we really wanted to. I was surprised when I did just that.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 18, 2024 1:16:21 GMT
farmrbrown, Would you mind casting your pearls before we poor swine as to what you learned about Yemen?
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Post by farmrbrown on Jan 18, 2024 1:40:38 GMT
farmrbrown , Would you mind casting your pearls before we poor swine as to what you learned about Yemen? Not at all. Long story short, up until 2014 we'd been supplying them military equipment and other things to support their gov't. Then they had an uprising/revolution etc. and those leaders have been in exile ever since. Now the Saudi's have been in a conflict with Yemen cuz the new guys hate the Saudi's whereas the previous regime were friends of theirs. And all this time, the U.S. has been hoping the "rebels" will be defeated so the exiled gov't leaders can return and go back to a convenient "ally" (I use the word loosely) that we can use for military operations when we get the urge. IOW, we COULD wipe them off the map but we'd rather not unless we absolutely have to. I hate trying to make sense out of bad foreign policy decisions, but that's the way it looks to me. See what y'all come up with..... www.state.gov/countries-areas/yemen/This has 30 pages of State Dept. reports but after reading a few between 2010 and 2020 it looks like a case of an overdue breakup of a bad relationship, lol. www.state.gov/countries-areas-archive/yemen/
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