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Ivar Ruslan's avatar

Of course, quite obviously, the US is being drained dry to watch over their beloved "Elder Brethren" in Zionistan. Nothing new, the States just happen to be the newest Golem that's fallen under the spell of the Self-Chosen...

Gotta hustle-up the Mosiach, ya know, he's running behind for the great Final Party of rolling back the scroll of the heavens, everything and everyone destroyed, angels singing, etc.

The ethnic doctors of the world : kill you slowly as possible, to take all your sh*t and scurry away as "poo-ah" refugees to the next victim-nation.

"Nothing new under the sun" and all that.

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Wolf J Flywheel's avatar

It's only necessary because of that country east of Egypt.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Or the country west of Jordan.

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Stephen McIntyre's avatar

I have made this point before and I will try to make it again.

Post World War II, the United States Air Force did a strategic study assessment of bombing daylight and nighttime bombing of Germany and the effects of it .

They found that the bombing alone was not going to bring Germany to its knees under any circumstances . The bombing missions produced ambivalent results. A mixture of success and failure..

The conclusion was that there was no way that Germany could be subdued by bombing alone that a ground army was an essential element to winning the war . in that contract, you had the Russian army coming in and then the Western army coming in that’s what won the war.

Now in the situation with Yemen once again, you can see that we can do all the so-called strategic bombing you want and that is not going to subdue these people.

The reality is, you would have to put a land force in Yemen and I suspect, regardless of how many troops you put there it would be an uphill slug to subdue the Houthi.

In my opinion, it would be another version of Afghanistan. We would get tied up in a war in a country like Yemen for years to come, and it’s not worth it.

Trump in my opinion is wasting valuable resources when other measures could work . Of course, the biggest thing would be to cut off all aid Israel, and stop the madness.

You do that And the Houthi Will stop firing missiles and try to tie up the red sea.

I wanna know what’s going to happen if somehow the Houthi are able to launch missiles to Diego Garcia and wipeout part of the B2 bomber force.. you see, we don’t know what munitions and missile technology that the Iranians have given to the Houthi.

The B2 bomber fleet is irreplaceable , one or two hypersonic missiles aimed at the Diego Garcia airfield we pretty will cause unbelievable damage that we will not be able to recover from.

I am beginning to think that trump is being totally irresponsible with the economy, with the obsession with tariffs and he’s thinking that somehow he can get Putin to do what he wants as to Ukraine and the Middle East. But let’s face it. Foreign policy is being controlled by the Israelis and we seem to have lost our ability to be independent and use our logic and common sense to get out of the mess we are in.

What we are observing right now is the absolute implosion of the Trump presidency a little over two months in.

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Mike richards's avatar

I think the tariffs are excellent - short-term pain for fabulous long-term gain, and for all countries. Why have tariffs anyway? Is it too simplistic to call them a type of welfare, or interference where unintended consequences are inevitable? But now that they are there, why should they not be reciprocal?

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Steghorn21's avatar

I do wonder if there is going to be some kind of coup against him at some point. He's annoying too many people - including many like us who really wanted Trump 2.0 to be different.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I agree re the military stuff. I'm in no position to assure anyone that Trump's economic plan will work. I'm only presenting alternative interpretations. I do agree with PP that the current neoliberal system is anti-human.

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dpy's avatar

Imagine knowing right from wrong and standing up for humanprincipiles. It hasn't been a thing in the west for a long time. Yemen is setting an example.

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Steghorn21's avatar

The Houthis are the only people on the planet actively standing up for the Palestinians. That's a rather mind-blowing fact, isn't it?

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Joe's avatar

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I opine part of the decision was a side deal with the Saudis

Increase Output More Cheap Oil and we will bomb Yemen for You

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

What’s Trumps goal?

Perhaps it’s freedom of navigation.

Or a negotiating chit with Iran.

Or a negotiating chit with Israel?

Houthis view this as supporting Gaza.

Trump, I assume, is not stupid enough to believe the US can stop the Houthis from firing missiles at Israel. He remembers Vietnam, Saudi invasion of Yemen, and Afghanistan.

Trump I assume was forced into this by Israeli pressure.

And knows Netanyahu needs an ongoing threat to stay in power.

And Israel is bleeding economically every month.

And that the U.S. navy in war fighting ability has major issues that are being ignored.

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aDoozy's avatar

[The Israelis] they also clearly regard dropping bombs as the only tool of foreign policy."

Well -put!

The Israeli slogan could be 'Make war, not diplomacy!'

Israel has been supplied wth bombs from the US, perhaps with bombs from Ukraine's Black Market, and likely some bombs from the UK and other European entities.

Do they make any of their own bombs?

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Any chance that attacks on Yemen are seen as a method to reduce China’s need for Iranian oil? Seems like a future leverage spot eg blockade or similar. Of course EU reliance on oil from this area will be impacted too.

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Texas Khaan's avatar

Vlad and Lil' Marco should schedule a judo contest on pay per view!

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