If "the US has virtually no intel on Yemen beyond what it can get from overhead surveillance—and Yemen has shown an ability to regularly take down the most advanced surveillance drones"...how can the US say it knows how many Houthi leaders have been killed in the US air attacks?
A seond question:
Trump and Rubio have both called the Houthis "barbarians". How can this be, given that "Yemen has excellent universities that provide highly qualified engineers for their military."?
Methinks there are some liars in the US federal government.
Mohsen Milani, born in Iran but in USA for most of his life, university professor, said in an interview today that Yemen's topography is unique: mountainous with deep and very narrow canyons, more like deep crevices. The people build their houses and live in these canyons, workshops too, one assumes.
Excellent sources, Mark. We really are spoilt for choice, aren't we! Like Scott Ritter, I was wrong about Hezbollah's capabilities. The Israelis really did a job on them and their resistance was far less potent than expected. I suspect that sent the traditional Zionist hubris into the stratosphere. Hence the over-optimistic beliefs about taking out Iran and Yemen. I don't know if Trump will step back from the brink, but as "the only person in the world who actually wants a US - Iran war is Netanyahu", I guess that is what we will get.
iirc David Baldacci's 1995 novel, Absolute Power, describes a device and tactic not that much different from the exploding pagers that Israel is so proud of.
Like so much that Bibiites boast about, it's hot air. It's been done before.
Another example: IDF is so proud that they leaflet before bombing. Allies did exactly the same thing before bombing raids over German cities. Jorg Friedrich writes about it in The Fire.
Another one from American Conservative.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-yemen-strikes-could-ruin-his-legacy/
From American Conservative.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-shouldnt-follow-netanyahus-lead/
Thanks Mark
appreciated
My question:
If "the US has virtually no intel on Yemen beyond what it can get from overhead surveillance—and Yemen has shown an ability to regularly take down the most advanced surveillance drones"...how can the US say it knows how many Houthi leaders have been killed in the US air attacks?
A seond question:
Trump and Rubio have both called the Houthis "barbarians". How can this be, given that "Yemen has excellent universities that provide highly qualified engineers for their military."?
Methinks there are some liars in the US federal government.
Mohsen Milani, born in Iran but in USA for most of his life, university professor, said in an interview today that Yemen's topography is unique: mountainous with deep and very narrow canyons, more like deep crevices. The people build their houses and live in these canyons, workshops too, one assumes.
Too many "noble liars".
"because when his war’s fail to provide results"
Apologies for being 'that guy' but I think that "war's" does not need an apostrophe.
As for Trump; his bombastic bias into being bullied into battles is basically beyond belief.*
* wording slightly off in order to make the alliteration work. 😇
*bought* into battles, by both dual citizens and defense capital.
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Excellent sources, Mark. We really are spoilt for choice, aren't we! Like Scott Ritter, I was wrong about Hezbollah's capabilities. The Israelis really did a job on them and their resistance was far less potent than expected. I suspect that sent the traditional Zionist hubris into the stratosphere. Hence the over-optimistic beliefs about taking out Iran and Yemen. I don't know if Trump will step back from the brink, but as "the only person in the world who actually wants a US - Iran war is Netanyahu", I guess that is what we will get.
iirc David Baldacci's 1995 novel, Absolute Power, describes a device and tactic not that much different from the exploding pagers that Israel is so proud of.
Like so much that Bibiites boast about, it's hot air. It's been done before.
Another example: IDF is so proud that they leaflet before bombing. Allies did exactly the same thing before bombing raids over German cities. Jorg Friedrich writes about it in The Fire.
Copycats.
Beeper briefs helps too.
Israel has not managed to go far into Lebanon yet.
Herzbolla has taken a major hit from the other attack and leadership bombings, and the cutting off of the Syria supply line.
The missile attacks from Herzbolla into Israel have stopped.
Are Herzbolla in an unofficial ceasefire? Or has Iran changed the focus to Yemen, that is harder to attack?
I think Hezbollah are like Hamas at present: hunkering down and regrouping.