Houthi Movement & Yemen Conflict

Didn't the US put out this big cinematic trailer showing their naval assets travelling to the red sea to bomb the houthis like a year and a half ago, and the houthis were still bombing ships all this time? Am I insane, or is Western military action more about image and looking strong rather than actually accomplishing anything?
 
Didn't the US put out this big cinematic trailer showing their naval assets travelling to the red sea to bomb the houthis like a year and a half ago, and the houthis were still bombing ships all this time? Am I insane, or is Western military action more about image and looking strong rather than actually accomplishing anything?
New administration. People are curious to see how Trump handles it.
 
Didn't the US put out this big cinematic trailer showing their naval assets travelling to the red sea to bomb the houthis like a year and a half ago, and the houthis were still bombing ships all this time? Am I insane, or is Western military action more about image and looking strong rather than actually accomplishing anything?
Under Democratic presidents, yes
 
Hasan must be seething now that all the groups he supports are getting leveled by the US and Israel whilst his supporters are now getting deported.
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jRHaup7l3qI

Trump orders attacks against Houthis in Yemen​

Trump said the US will use "lethal force until we have achieved our objective."

President Donald Trump announced he ordered the U.S. military to launch "decisive and powerful military action" against the Houthis in Yemen.

"They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones," Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social. "We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective."

A U.S. official confirmed to ABC News that U.S. air and naval assets hit dozens of Houthi targets in Yemen, including missiles, radars and drone and air defense systems. The official characterized the attacks as an opening salvo against the Houthis and sends a strong message to Iran.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=14F2KFsv66cAl Jazeera reporting that Sanna is being bombed.


Its a probably a response to this.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels say ‘any Israeli vessel’ in nearby Mideast waterways again a target​


Trump seems to have decided to take them up on their offer and is preempting.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_gwXijGF5AQ
I'd been waiting for a while hoping that someday somebody would show the tough guy cave dwellers and shantytown pirates what a big boy defense budget looks like. It's one thing when the Somalians think they're the captain when they pull up on small civilian craft in a wooden dinghy, but let's see them try to take some balloons up into the stratosphere without being turned into a skeet shooting session from an F35 a horizon away. I hope Trump decides to crack down on piracy worldwide if for no other reason than to put the defense spending to use. I don't want to see money blown on some forever war in the desert, but I assume we could make sport of pirates in the better part of a week.
 
Videos of cruisers and destroyers of the Harry S. Truman strike group launching Tomahawks and leveling buildings. KINO
Well don't just post a link, share them with the rest of the class:


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I hope you're joking right now. The whole reason why the Houthis have been a pain in the ass is because they are very close to Bab el-Mandeb Strait which is a choke point for international commerce. See map.
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US and a coalition of Western states have been securing the region for decades protecting against Somali pirates without a word in protest but when Iran aligned monkeys start attacking US ships for passing through people start crying
 
I hope you're joking right now. The whole reason why the Houthis have been a pain in the ass is because they are very close to Bab el-Mandeb Strait which is a choke point for international commerce. See map.
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Huh. I don't see anything labeled "United States of America" there. What were we defending exactly?
 
Why were our ships there? Why do we need a navy in the middle east?
The USA is the world Island. Our navy inherited the mandate of the British Empire. We rule the waves and insure the flow of commerce across Earth into our ports. As the world Island, our Navy must secure the routes to San Francisco, Norfolk and New York.

The Red Sea and the Bab Al-Mandab straights are a critical chokepoint. It sits astride the main trade route between Venice and Singapore, as well as the resupply route of the US military installation Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands which serves as the lynch pin of America's naval control of the southern hemisphere, as well as the only eastward facing approach to the Pacific Wall that protects America's colonies and subject nations in the Pacific Ocean.

Beyond that, its responsible for massive trans shipment of oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf, support of which is essential for maintaining stable energy prices globally. And since those stable energy prices are also the currency which backs the US Dollar, it's a military necessity for the USA to insure the oil flows.
 
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