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“America is something that can be moved easily.”
The cause:
Who Are Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Attacking Israeli Ships? – Declassified UK
The Houthis have pledged to target “all ships in the Red Sea bound for Israeli ports, regardless of their nationality”. Attacks, they say, will continue until Gaza receives the food and medicine it needs.
2010:
Tricky Bibi (archived) – Haaretz – Jul 15 2010
The real Netanyahu also brags about his knowledge of America: "I know what America is. America is something that can be moved easily."
A week ago:
Netanyahu tells Biden Israel will act militarily against Yemen's Houthis if US won't: report – MSN
Today:
US announces 10-nation coalition to combat Huthi attacks in Red Sea – MSN
Yesterday:
Israel tells U.S. it wants Hezbollah pushed further from border – Axios
Next week:
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Prosperity Guardian will be fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement#Naval_warfare_capabilities
mobile AShM launcers were the bane of the US navy in some blue/red team exercises a few years ago. While it is possible to protect navy vessels (up to a certain number of incoming missiles) it’s virtually impossible to protect convoys.
Seems Anshallah has quite a bunch of options here that have not been tested. Drone speedboats, next gen naval mines, new AShM generations.
This will be especially difficult as asymmetric tactics mean that attacks can always be intermittent, risk never really goes back to zero unless all launchers are destroyed. As these are basically standard trucks this will never be fully effective.
Protected convoys will be the first attempt, this will have fun results given the narrows like Bab el Mandeb and Suez. I think the West will learn that similar to Ukraine open skies mean nowhere to hide. Response time against cruise missile will be on the order of seconds so full alert all the time which will take a toll on the crew in hours to days.
US sent really big targets in there, hard to miss the big LHD and CV buckets. So far the newest missiles used were Chinese 90ies designs (C-801/C-802).
Operation Prosperity Guardian brings together a coalition of 10 nations, including the U.S., United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain, in a joint effort to address security challenges in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The primary goal of the operation is to ensure freedom of navigation for all nations while bolstering regional security and promoting prosperity.
CMF itself is comprosed of 39 nations:
39 member nations: Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, the Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Türkiye, UAE, United Kingdom, United States and Yemen.
Rumors say Australia will play a role, cue Waltzing Matilda.
Yemen (national) is also part, guess there is no risk of corruption here.
BTW it’s nice CMF and Navy are doxxing their own headquarters in Bahrain, maybe they learn some OPSEC soon?
https://www.cusnc.navy.mil/Combined-Maritime-Forces/
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is 18 miles wide at its narrowest point, limiting tanker traffic to two 2-mile-wide channels for inbound and outbound shipments.[4]
Two miles is not a lot of space to turn in, also easy to mine.
All of this might be a rehearsal for the Strait of Hormuz.
Another option is to send camouflaged ships or speedboats up the Red sea to Suez to strike there. Navy might have to rename one of their ships to USS Ever Stuck.. that single Excavator should be called back from his deserved time off.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/87948/the-new-suez-canal
If the operation blocks this, there is a whole coastline in the Gulf of Aden, Ansallah can strike where they seem fit.
Posted by: SOS | Dec 19 2023 11:34 utc | 16
“Israel tells the US..”
Or the angloamerican stooge tells the US what the angloamericans already want to do.
And Mearsheimer says when he describes the carnage that he does it for the record so in hindsight people will know there were americans who were on the right side.
But this is all false theatrical gestures.
The imperial beachhead does what it was creted for: To expand the imperial reach.
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Dec 19 2023 9:34 utc | 1
Thank you, this is it.
All the false talkers spouting the rubbish about religion, foreskins, psychoanalysis of the psychothic Israel, an existential war between the global ‘waste’ and the rest of the world, are fogging up, concealing the real reason for this ( last of) atrocity of the imperialism on rampage.It is simply the last attempt on the robbery which lasts since 13th century, born in the western europe. Colony USA comes much later but made up for the centuries of enthusiasm.
@ abierno, thank you very much ( info an the oil, canal, realestate the zionazis wan from palestine).
@pq, thank you for the thoughtful, deep posts, you are so worth reading, as you see more than many who do not see woods for the trees. I agree about Crooke, he is so false.
@ robinthehood, I am interested so in what you are saying,albeit be aware that your words fly above most of the heads of the narrow minded and entrenched in their narrowness, they will blame you for arrogance simply because they can not exit their closed minds, frustrated by that they will call you names, such as troll. I read you as am curious about contemporary Iran, the past I somewhat know about and always respected the richness, the dignity.
@ Exile, thank you for all your posts about what is going on the ground, I follow what you have to say very carefully, SFSN.
1) I am very disappointed in the reaction of Russia, the lukewarm statements of Lavrov and Putin ( yes I admired them since 2014, when I started to follow with Ukraine Maydan). I understand that they protect the Russians mostly, will not endanger them without need, etc etc, but the way they phrased the statements about this latest Naqba….
It was unpalatable to me ( we will never endanger Israel, our russian jews and all this), actually I was disgusted.Started questioning a lot of what they claim about the fight of RF for the world, no, this is not truthful in light of the palestinian genocide and their lack of reaction to it.
2) What I read ( Helmer) about their follow up on the meeting with Iran Raisi, on the stopping of the Turkish flotilla, made me even more sceptical.
3) Thank you to the poster for telling about the latest Helmer and, he writes on the total silence of Russia on the announced attack on yemen via the latest criminal operation guard prosperity ( such rubbish). Total media hush, no opinions allowed in public.
4) But, China has reacted in a right way. No transport of goods to bloody Israel, but will continue the opther transport in the Red Sea, to other destinations. Well, I do not know about Russia, if they ever delivered to Israel, or still do.
I would not be surprised if they do.
Do as you say, and say as you do. Very simple.
Thus the first poster is so right, KISS ( keep it simple stupid ), USA is not a victim and the tail is not wagging the dog. It is fully complicit in the genocide, it is not conquered by evil jews,so the guilt is to be assuaged.
It is not to claim ( we just fullfilled the orders), likewise the UK, the big plotter, and the EU..
Posted by: stranger | Dec 19 2023 16:01 utc | 67
Also why would China or Russia help the EU in any way right now? Helping the ME Resistance just carries the risk of conflagration, not a great idea in my book.
Posted by: SOS | Dec 19 2023 15:29 utc | 56
Ah! a SWOT exercise
1. China, Russia, and allies have examined combined strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats. This is the NWO array that intentionally or not excludes the Price Cap Coalition (PCC). You may notice over-lap of interests; if not, make a four-column table. Be careful in which column you enter “martyrs.”
arab.org (NGO 1945): AE, BH, DJ, DZ, EG, IQ, JO, KM, KW, LB, LY, MA, MR, OM, PS (PLO, PA), QA, SA, SO, SS, SY, TN, YE
OIC (1969 NGO): AE, AL, AF, AZ, BD, BF, BH, BJ, BN, CM, CI, DJ, DZ, EG, GA, GM, GN, GY, GW, ID, IR, IQ, JO, KG, KM, KW, KZ, LB, LY, MA, ML, MR, MV, MY, MZ, NE, NG, OM, PK, PS, QA, SA, SD, SL, SN, SO, SR, SS, SY, TD, TG, TJ, TM, TN, TR, UG, UZ, YE
GCC (FTA 1981): AE, BH, KW, OM, QA, SA
SCO (2001 NGO): CN, IN, IR, KZ, KG, PK, RU, TJ, UZ; AM*, AF*, AZ*, BY*, TR*, LK*, KH*, SA*, EG*, MY*, MV*, KW*, AE*
BRICS (2009 FTA): AE, BR, CN, EG, ET, IN, IR, RU, SA, ZA; DZ*, BO*, ID*, BD*, CM*, ML*, SN*, TH*, UZ*, FJ*, KZ*, TN*, TR*
EaEU (2012 FTA): AM, BY, KZ, KG, TJ, RU, VN*, CN*, RS*
2. Mansour Almarzoqi, PhD, explains, the goal is not self-destruction but to live another day.
RATTANSI: We were talking about starvation actually and weaponizing food and medicine as a war crime—ninety percent according the World Food Program in Gaza don’t eat every day. What about, then, oil? It wasn’t that long ago that the Saudis were refusing Blinken’s begging for increases in oil production, just before COP28 in Dubai. Again, the Americans wanted it, but actually OPEC+ decreased production. Could oil be used in this case to save somehow the children of Gaza? At the moment, as we know, Israel is buying oil on these markets. One could make prohibitively expensive for all their war planes and jets, funded by the United States to murder and slaughter so many children
ALMARZOQI: Well, first of all, I do not think, I disagree with the link drawn between the production of oil and killing the Israeli apartheid regime’s massacre and genocide of the Palestinian childre, men, women, and the elderly. I don’t think there is a link between the two. That’s point number one.
Point number two, Saudi Arabia is a responsible energy producer in the energy global—in the global energy market, in the global economy. If we go back to the year 2019 everybody was asking us all sorts of things related to reducing production, increasing production, et cetera, for their own goals, not necessarily for the benefit of everyone else. The U.S. asked us to reduce production, then in 2022 to increase production, then they asked us a few years later to increase production, et cetera, et cetera. Saudi Arabia as a responsible energy producer our main responsibility is to maintain energy market stability. Threatening or playing with commitments, not respecting our commitments, contracts, et cetera, does not serve international economic stability. That’s point number two.
Point number three, I question whether there will be a direct, meaningful impact even if, hypothetically, we go down that path. Our main clients are not in the west. Our main clients are China, then Japan, then India, then South Korea, then the list goes on. So I question whether jeopardizing our relationship with the global south would help Palestine. If anything, it is leveraging our relationship as we have seen in the recent weeks how the Saudi Arabian leadership of the Arab and Islamic world—as symbolized by the Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee—how leveraging our relationship with those very same actors has helped build an international momentum calling for a cease fire, calling for upholding international law, and putting pressure on the U.S. and the European backers of this Israeli apartheid genocide. So we will put in those relations with China, India, with South Africa, with Latin America—we [would] put them in jeopardy, I would argue, as a consequence of jeopardizing those relations, Israel [would] gain a much more comparable position internationally to continue the genocide it’s doing against the Palestinians, not the contrary. So, I think, we should re-consider the argument for an oil embargo.
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Posted by: sln2002 | Dec 19 2023 16:04 utc | 70
@stranger
– control of minds rather brute force has historically been the preferred means of governance and societal control.
– our perception of reality is purely psychological. Manipulating the psyche can alter others’ perceptions of reality. This ranges from perception of “miracles” to mundane matter of interpreting the news. [Conceptually: the act of ‘Reading’ a ‘text’ is subject to paradigmatic lens of the reader. “Read in the Name of your Lord who Created” we are advised in the Qur’an by God. That is a paradigm. Name is Ar-Rahman..]
– the common man does not comprehend the nature of power. The mechanics of power. It is, in the final analysis, a fundamentally psychological phenomena. How and why do the powerful act in a collective manner and address the problem of egotism in power structures?
– religion has always had a powerful hold on humanity
– religion is explicitly tasked with furnishing a comprehensive paradigm of the reality. that is the fundamental function of religion.
– religious movements have always been hijacked and (negatively) altered almost immediately by powerful after the demise of the relevant spiritual figure. this includes Islam (which is the position of the Shia, btw..)
– religious tendencies are not confined to any period, location, education, economic or social position (although this can influence outward expressions), or civilization, or “race” or “ethnicity”. A subset of humanity is god bothered, and will continue to be god bothered (“unless there is a gene we can modify?”)
– it is an exceptionally safe bet that such madness will continue as long as the scriptural narratives can be construed that map to contemporary events, personages, and places.
– https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/millenarianism-and-millenarian-movements
– Occult/mystic aspect of religion has *always* been a matter of fascination to ruling classes, East or West. European history of the last 1000 years indicates a clear interest in, and projection unto, the Abrahamic prophecies. The Crown of England, for example, claims it is an inheritor of the David.
– Regardless of the actual belief system of the ruling classes — and there is no such thing as a human being without a belief system — and their judgment regarding its veracity, the fact of its being hugely important to continued Lordship over the unwashed, the “common man” (an expression even used by Sufis ..), the “unaware”, the “unilluminated”, the “uninitiated”, is perfectly clear. After all, look at Iran! Look how that nation was “moved” ..
– So there is supposed to be a big fight in the holy lands. There will be a final victory. There will be a Messiah that will be a king — “ultimate Authority” @Scorpion — in Jerusalem and all the “kings of the nations” will come and lick his boots.
– It does not matter if the masses believe in stupidities. What matters is who tells them what is what and that they are controlled.
The Zionist Project at the tippy top level was approved as a mass psychology project. The lords in London are not necessarily fond of Jews or the God of Abraham or any such matter. But they did recognize the importance of psychology long ago (thus the Freemasonry monkey business which is primarily a 10% control mechanism) and realize that this Jewish-Christian-Muslim matrix requires a *resolution*.
A ‘managed closing of the Abrahamic books and prophecies’ provides all the necessary elements, since per these religions, after this, guidance will be given ‘real time’ by the ‘messiah’ or ‘mahdi’.
Important to note that a significant amount of effort over the years has been made in pseudo-dissent/marginal spaces to assert that the “anti-Christ” is a “system” and not an actual person.
There is an important story in Hebrew Bible and Arabic Qur’an regarding the matter of ‘control over religion and mind control’. It is the story of Pharaoh and his “magicians”.
Now these magicians were confronted by a messenger of God. Both the servant of God and the magicians used the same ‘mechanisms’: “Rods that turned into living snakes”. God won the round since the snakes of Moses ate the snakes of Pharaoh’s magicians. After this, the magicians prostrated themselves and said “we submit to the Lord of Moses”.
Now dear stranger, we come to the point:
Rod is FORM.
Snake is MEANING.
(contemporary example: A Swastika or Hexagram in India means something different than a Swastika or Hexagram in Nazi Germany, Zionist Israel, Zionist Occupied Palestine, Islamist Occupied Iran, … different paradigms of meaning. same form.)
They said, `O Moses, wilt thou throw first or shall we be the first throwers ?’
He replied, `Throw ye.’ And when they threw, *they bewitched the eyes* of the people and struck them with awe and produced a mighty magic.
And WE revealed to Moses:`Throw thy rod,’ and lo ! it swallowed up whatever they feigned.
So was the truth established and whatever they did, proved vain.
Btw, I hear Tucker Carlson, who was so excellently cast by central casting agency, is “scared” of the stuff he has been told about “UFO”! LOL.
I’m pretty sure ET will play a role in this role-play that MUST involve something called “Israel” and some sort of mega-battle.
Those flunkies the world over going over to Jerusalem to make kissy face with a Roman garrison’s ruins are not doing it to show fidelity to Jews or Zionistan.
No, it is “the God of Israel” that may reside in the City of London, actually.
Posted by: robinthehood | Dec 19 2023 16:58 utc | 86
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