Yemeni Houthis have attacked the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea. The strike was carried out in response to US airstrikes on Yemen, reports Al Jazeera and Houthi Brigadier General Yahya Saree.
“The Houthi military spokesperson said that the group has responded to the US bombing of Yemen by attacking the USS Harry S Truman with ballistic missiles and a drone,” the report said.
Yahya Saree specified that the Houthis launched 18 missiles. He also claimed that the US had carried out more than 47 airstrikes on several Yemeni provinces, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.
Imagine bombing the shit out of a country with the GDP of that aircraft carrier upkeep.
“American warship, go fuck yourself!”
This might get interesting. Where did I put the popcorn?
Guys this was always a bad idea, but like right now especially this seems like a very bad choice to make. Christ knows we’re looking to make an example out of some more brown people…
What do you think the US has been doing in yemen for the last twenty years?
There hasn’t been a week in the last twenty years where US bombs haven’t killed yemeni civilians.
I think it’s been established that the Houthis are not afraid of American imperialism. I mean they’re part of the Axis of Resistance, not the Axis of Acquiescence.
If a movement doesn’t understand the difference between picking one’s battles and acquiescense it’s cause is already long lost.
The rate at which the trump admin is willing to turn Resistance Fighters into Martyr Paste is unsustainable for everyone except the trump admin. Antagonizing that administration now, during one of it’s many fits of impotent self-importance, is going to end in more dead civilians than if you’d just waited a few days for it’s idiot attention span to burn out. It’s not a war of attrition based on the competing political wills of two populaces any more, its an abhorent massacre overseen by a psycho. The name of the game is no longer ‘Defeat or Drive Out’, its ‘Survive’.
The Houthis possess over plan B: flatten all Saudi oil reserves and refineries and collapse the global economy.
Ultimately it is the Houthis holding the cards here. Though most Americans do not seem to know it.
As contentious statements go, “The average american does not posess even an abstract understanding of the political and economic realities present in the mid. east” is one I wouldn’t even consider objecting to.
Isn’t Martyr Paste the stuff that brought down the WTC? If they keep making more and more of it, it’s inevitably going to end up on their faces.
It’s going to be wall-to-wall shocked pikachu in American media when the most incompetent bunch of military leaders the US has ever had makes a mistake and one of their aircraft carriers gets sunk.
I’m reasonably sure that the level of leadership that’s running carriers is still mostly competent.
Of course, President Musk might decide to go down there and take personal charge of the carrier group. That might be fun.
No doubt, but for how long is the question. And “There are too many ships together, I want them separated them so that we can control more area. We need one near Crimea, I heard from a friend. Disable all the electric plane lifts as well, we’ll have only the best gas powered lifts from now on. Also, put a destroyer near my beautiful golf course in Scotland so they know I mean business.”
American media has been largely portentious of the loss of a major strategic asser whilst under Trump’s care, but you do make a good point…
Let’s hope that doesn’t happen because oh boy, the consequences would be significant.
Don’t touch the boats - Japan learned that the hard way
Also I love HLC he comes up with the best bits.
I won’t pretend I know what, if anything, is going on in the Houthi leadership’s heads, but I doubt it’s that simple. As a government without much international recognition, there’s a good chance they can’t just afford to look weak, for example. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
It’s sad that thanks to shitrael the US is the Evil Empire and the Houthis are the Rebel Alliance.
Always has been, actually the North Vietnamese were the rebel alliance according to Lucas, but the US has always been the bad guys in that media franchise.
Undying support for Israel has always been part of it, but it was never the reason. The United States has never not been a colonialist empire.
Still. The fact that the US would rather burn resources not to mention it’s global facade of being a benign hegemon propping up a genocidal apartheid state instead of focusing on it’s strategic interests is baffling.
Dudes, what did we say about 'muricas boats?
I understood this reference
Could you enlighten us uncultured people?
In the meantime, related:
Seems you understood the spirit of it.
There’s this classic
And then this dude cosplaying as the US from Polandball
TIL …
Also shoot at the moon now that you’re at it… What did they expect to happen?
The US wastes a few hundred million shooting down a few hundred dollars worth of missiles and drones, the us then wastes a few hundred million bombing yemeni civilians, increasing the number of houthis and encouraging monetary support to be given to the houthis.
They’ve been playing the US for over a decade and have learned from all the dozens of other people that have militarily beat the US how exactly to do it.
