"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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Posted by b on December 19, 2023 at 9:22 UTC | Permalink
next page »All those women, children, elderlies, innocents... blown to bits and killed or maimed by America, American proxies, American bombs. So deeply moving for Americans?
If we're talking about physically, then yes, a little easier. Ask the Taliban. The Vietnamese. A growing number of African states long under Uncle Sam's thumb. Around the world a number of turncoat puppets who come to see the light.
Posted by: petra | Dec 19 2023 10:16 utc | 2
Can I present an alternate/complementary reason?
The spice must flow
Posted by: Newbie | Dec 19 2023 10:20 utc | 3
Next week...
someone will tell Netanyahu "sorry Dave, I can't do that"
I will be laughing when Israel won't get ammo because it's needed for the next conflict.. at some point Realism dictates to rebalance the uppity Zionists, seems divide and conquer is a little out of whack right now. You especially can't be seen bossed around by a vassal. Now that Gaddafi is gone soon there will be another example made, Netanyahu, Erdogan or some Houthi leader.
Posted by: SOS | Dec 19 2023 10:24 utc | 4
Bibi is gucking florious.
After Putin and Trump, the best guy around.
Smarter than 20 Bidens pre-dementia, and able to play the US like a violin.
The Israeli are blessed to have such a smart guy at the helm.
Posted by: Augusto Pi | Dec 19 2023 10:28 utc | 5
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Dec 19 2023 9:34 utc | 1
As far as Mearsheimer is concerned, I regard his statement as an expression of his functioning moral system. He wants future generations, for example his grandchildren to know that he rejected this slaughter, knowing he's unable to stop it individually. As a German I can identify with this very much. I would like to have prove of my grandparents' rejection of Germany's historical crimes. Apart from family ties every single documented act of rejection of national socialism or - even better - act of resistance against it, are a rare source of a positive, cultural identity for anti-fascist Germans.
Mearsheimer is doing two things. First he is individually relieving his conscience. Second he is sending a "message in a bottle" to future generations.
Posted by: Moses | Dec 19 2023 10:34 utc | 6
So what does Israel now want of the US? It seems that Israel now wants the US to send its own troops into Israel to fight Hezbollah in its northern border region. Maybe the US can spare a few fighters to teach the IDF how to distinguish between Hamas fighters and shirtless IDF soldiers waving white flags. Heck, maybe the US should also take over fighting Hamas as IDF soldiers don't appear to be very good fighting Hamas at close range and prefer to spray bullets in any general direction any time and every time they are emotionally triggered.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 19 2023 10:37 utc | 7
John Helmer is interesting today. The Chinese mayo be getting interested.
Posted by: c | Dec 19 2023 10:58 utc | 8
I don't know much about military strategies, but are the BRICS and the AXIS going to sit back while the US takes the offensive in the ME. The Palestinians are to be done and next Lebanon? There are things that can be done rather than nothing. At least it is the responsibility of an international entity or state to show the world street that Israel is legally subject to the charge of genocide. Just start there, a small step. Mark Israel as the outlaw criminal that it is and show that there is a some degree of accountability in this world.
🇮🇷🇾🇪 Among all the recent attempts by the Yemeni Ansarallah movement to attack ships in the Red Sea, the raid on the container ship Palatium III, owned by the Swiss company MSC, went almost unnoticed.The peculiarity of this incident was that the Houthis hit the cargo ship with an Iranian ballistic missile: this is actually the first case in modern history of a successful strike with this type of weapon on a moving ship in real combat conditions.
Some countries showed interest in creating anti-ship ballistic missiles back in the last century. Compared to winged aircraft, they, among other things, have a much shorter approach time, which reduces the likelihood of detection and interception.
However, previously everything came down to technical difficulties - the existing control systems could not ensure an accurate hit on a moving naval target. China has made some progress in this, but it has never applied its developments in a combat situation.
Now Iran, with the help of the Houthis, has proven in practice the possibility of successfully using ballistic missiles against enemy ships at sea. It can be used to combat various targets, including US aircraft carrier groups, which have dominated the oceans for many decades.
#Iran #Yemen
@rybar
Posted by: anon2020 | Dec 19 2023 11:07 utc | 10
Memories appear in our mind as if out of nowhere without our doing anything other than our desire for them. If the brain is doing that for us, that would mean the brain would have to be intelligently aware of our state of mind, and have the ability to read our desires, and then intelligently respond with words or images which we “hear” or “see” as our memories. Whatever is causing that to happen, it must be aware of your desires, your mind, your thoughts. It must therefore be conscious of you, and intelligent. What exactly is going on?" From The Way Our Memory Works Proves The Existence of God
Posted by: kana | Dec 19 2023 11:13 utc | 12
Early on when north Yemen was using fixed shore defences to destroy UAE and Saudi ships enforcing the starvation blockade, the US sent a ship through to destroy the fixed radars. The Houthi forces are now highly mobile and will be unlucky to be hit by a ship and also a difficult target for aircraft. US appears to be assembling a coalition of the killing naval force which at the moment appears to be utterly useless when it comes to destroying Houthi mobile capabilities.
This signals either theater for the western masses or the first step in a wider war.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 19 2023 11:24 utc | 14
Posted by: Augusto Pi | Dec 19 2023 10:28 utc | 5
Bibi Netanyahoo is a silly name. If I were that clever I would have changed my name the first chance I got. Like Henry Netanballboy or Ibn bin Yahoo.com. Seriously dude, this is all a joke, right? “I’m so glad our country is run by a mass murderer”. FFS.
Posted by: Patroklos | Dec 19 2023 11:26 utc | 15
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
My repost response from Sonar… agreed, ridiculous over simplification, and lots of “sub-plots” in this story, but bottom line, which is power and hegemony.
The “coalition” is about the Chinese Port of Djibouti, nothing else. (**I mean as long term presence)
All efforts in the ME are about weakening China, as Ukraine & EU were used to weaken Russia.
US wants to destroy China’s ME power & disrupt fuel supplies.
The U.S. doesn’t need the oil, nor the revenue (as it can print whatever it wants while hosting a war)
It’s happy to sacrifice Israel in the process of destroying Irans appendages, if not Iran itself.
As Ukraine was to Russia, Israel proxy is to Iran, as Taiwan to China.
The proxy’s & their sacrifices as nation states are worth the extending and over extension of their enemies, because frankly, unless counter measures in greater costs to Empire aren’t imposed more swiftly by Russia and China, more plots & machinations are executed.
I know folks are all “Israel controls the US blah blah”… no, it’s a little shit hole country plopped in the ME, and like Ukraine is being used atm as a genocidal ME shit stirrer to disrupt BRICS and Russia.
There’s nothing the U.S. is doing that isn’t about China particularly & Russia secondarily.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Dec 19 2023 11:38 utc | 17
Back when I was a kid I was at my Uncle Jack Nathan's when Nutly came through Montreal and Jack declare loudly to any and all "That's No Mensch, it's a NAZI".
What I also have come to understand that he's No Fuckin' Rocket Scientist, getting in bed with the Pentagram like he has: they make "sacrafices" to their Master (no, not the Biddie) with regular levies of their allies and their OWN. It gets called Friendly Fire in the MSM but it's planned in advance and they don't usually miss.
Posted by: Fubar El Haq | Dec 19 2023 11:44 utc | 18
Maybe it is just that karma is a bitch. You remember the time when the collective west denied cargo vessels western (i.e. British) insurance if they had any links to Russia? Can't remember the details as it was a long time ago, a few months in fact.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 19 2023 11:57 utc | 19
War games off Yemen have made it more dangerous for commercial shipping, not less. Given a choice between longer routes and passing costs to customers Vs taking a huge risk and insurance premium...
It's just going to be warships out there and not much else.
Israel of course is not participating.
The stupidity is that the war games will make it more dangerous for non-Israel linked ships that would have been safe otherwise.
FUBAR
Posted by: Pq | Dec 19 2023 11:59 utc | 20
Trubind1 @17: "I know folks are all “Israel controls the US blah blah”… no, it’s a little shit hole country plopped in the ME..."
I would say it is not even a country, but an unusually large military base.
In all fairness, though, since Israel is used to launder payouts to western politicians and lackeys, it looks like the control originates from Israel. Clever bit of misdirection, that.
Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 19 2023 12:03 utc | 21
Interesting how power seems to flow in one direction... Must be an unspeakable anomaly, right? Ceasefires impossible, only pauses. Finger fillip, USA CIAs (covers Israel's ass).
Nothing to see here. ;)
Posted by: titmouse | Dec 19 2023 12:06 utc | 22
Houthi show off their sea mines. In case anyone wondering if they have them.
https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/22144
I'm not sure what Israel thinks it can do to Yemen. Neither the guarding prosperity operation. Houthi have survived decades of bombing and invasion sea blockade. They didn't fold then. So it's usa boots and body bags on the ground for Israel's imports near election cycles?
Endless variables. The one being ignored is to stop the inhumane siege of gaza and houthi back down. That's tangible de escalation
Posted by: Hankster | Dec 19 2023 12:15 utc | 23
Germany is called upon to strengthen the hegemonist fleet. The defense minister wants to make the entire Bundeswehr fit for war! 6000 men to the Baltic states. And now: Even at sea - we remember the emperors "Schimmernde Wehr". The Houthis should be targeted! We remember the scuttling of the emperial High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow on June 21, 1919! We should not forget that. And lets look at the aircraft carriers in the waters off Palestine. Magnificent goals.
Posted by: hatomune | Dec 19 2023 12:19 utc | 24
I have to give the Yemeni's credit. They are tough, can take punishment, and are fearless. They are doing what the rest of the civilized world should be doing, trying to stop the slaughter in Gaza. I wish them well.
Posted by: Chicago Bob | Dec 19 2023 12:25 utc | 25
Naval Mines
Naval Minds
Naval all the way
Oh what fun
It is to die
On a half blown open quay
Naval Mines
Mistook signs
Sorry you got in the way
Tried to get to eilat port
But now you're
Freedom Filet!
Naval Mines,
Shipping deadlines
Yemen's in the way
Oh what fun it is
to send our young
To die in the desert
Far awaaaaaaaay...
Houthi lines
Of naval mines
Cross them,
rue the day!
We can't wait,
The Houthi say,
To see what Austin sends today ...
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 12:38 utc | 26
The Yemenis are very tough and determined people, like the Afghan Taliban.
They are not easily intimidated.
They took on Saudi Arabia and all its foreign hirelings for years and gave them a good hiding, who then reverted to type and bombed and starved the civilian population.
They have a strong warrior tradition.
They don't even have to sink any ships, just threaten to, to close down the Red Sea, Suez Canal, 12% of global maritime trade, and Israeli imports. Iran can do exactly the same at Hormuz as soon as the first US bomb falls on Iran.
No oil or gas from the region.
They are setting an example of what can be done when the will is there.
Compare them with all the Arab stooges and whores like Abbas and Sisi.
Posted by: anon | Dec 19 2023 12:52 utc | 27
While I do not believe that there is any actual coordination happening within AXIS, it seems like all of them are probing and pushing, thus collectivly putting pressure on the empire. North Korea is shooting missiles again, Venezuela still has an ultimatum against the US oil platforms off the coast of Essequibo, the attacks against US occupation bases in Iraq and Syria don't stop, Russia has announced that the conflict will now have to end with Ukraine's capitulation (all other possible negotiations are now off the table), Hamas martyres itself and Hezbollah is doing it's part. Only China remains cautious about any provocative moves.
Anyway, success of the glorious Houthis so far:
https://twitter.com/AyazK100/status/1737083540532252902
And here is the current state of affairs vis-a-vis Taiwan:
https://www.chinadailyhk.com/article/367467#China's-Defense-Ministry-urges-US-to-stop-arming-Taiwan
Posted by: Hamburger | Dec 19 2023 12:57 utc | 28
Amen to Anon.
You are so correct , the western colonizing nations are done with .
The Arab stooges will be done with very soon .
The Zionist shows the entire world how nasty and criminal they are supported by the stupid American politicians and congress . But remember the Crusade in Jerusalem, after many years were kicked out by Salahaddin , and the zionists will be done with sooner or later , I am hoping will be done in my life time .
Posted by: Bobby | Dec 19 2023 13:07 utc | 29
Amen to Anon.
You are so correct , the western colonizing nations are done with .
The Arab stooges will be done with very soon .
The Zionist shows the entire world how nasty and criminal they are supported by the stupid American politicians and congress . But remember the Crusade in Jerusalem, after many years were kicked out by Salahaddin , and the zionists will be done with sooner or later , I am hoping will be done in my life time .
Posted by: Bobby | Dec 19 2023 13:07 utc | 30
Analysis from The Cradle: a good 3 minute read
The Cradle gives detail on the Jake Sullivan/Biden admin's attempt to stifle the Houtis: coerce fake "friends" to join another coalition against the newly designated terrorist Houtis.
"According to news reports, the US is already applying pressure on Riyadh to delay the signing of a peace agreement with Yemen. Washington is instead urging the Saudis to renew their confrontation with Yemen by joining the expanded maritime protection task force."
xIf the plan is to destroy Yemen's military capabilities, Sanaa will respond harshly and could well “close the Red Sea for years,” official Yemeni sources tell The Cradle.
Bottom line-- first, it won't work, then it will backfire.
Posted by: migueljose | Dec 19 2023 13:12 utc | 31
"Prosperity Guardian"?
More like "Genocide Guardian", I would say.
Posted by: expat | Dec 19 2023 13:16 utc | 32
More like "Genocide Guardian", I would say.
Posted by: expat | Dec 19 2023 13:16 utc | 31
Well named. I'll steal that, thanks.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 13:20 utc | 33
While I do not believe that there is any actual coordination happening within AXIS, it seems like all of them are probing and pushing, thus collectivly putting pressure on the empire.
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Posted by: Hamburger | Dec 19 2023 12:57 utc | 27
What you're seeing is perhaps the only remaining loose association of completely sovereign and independent states. Ironically outside of the so called "Free World".
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 13:24 utc | 34
@ kana | Dec 19 2023 11:13 utc | 12
Could you spam your string of non sequiturs elsewhere?
Posted by: malenkov | Dec 19 2023 13:32 utc | 35
It must therefore be conscious of you, and intelligent. What exactly is going on?" From The Way Our Memory Works Proves The Existence of God
Posted by: kana | Dec 19 2023 11:13 utc | 12
I would counter:
There no Bodhi Tree;
Or mirror-mind shining bright.
Since Buddha-Mind is born of Void
Where then can the dust alight?
-- Hui Neng
Off topic, by the way.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 13:51 utc | 36
The trade that is being affected is primarily Asia<->Europe, as I understand it. Which would be primarily Western Europe/China-Taiwan-Korea-Japan trade.
Not everything is a conspiracy but this has the faint odor of being more of a feature than a bug.
Posted by: Billb | Dec 19 2023 14:00 utc | 37
Prosperity Guardian
We now know that there will be some Prosperity collapse soon.
Posted by: Greg Galloway | Dec 19 2023 14:01 utc | 38
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.
Humanitarian blackmail?
It's an interesting reaction to umpteen years of attempted 'neutralisation' by the Jew-$lave$.
You know you've created a REAL Enemy when the harder you stomp on it, the smarter it gets...
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Dec 19 2023 14:08 utc | 39
@Moses | Dec 19 2023 10:34 utc | 6
I agree but my point is Mearsheimer isnt the opposition
He is part of the establishment.
Thus he isnt just doing it for his own consciousness but
for the perception management of the world audience.
In the service of the empire
Virtue signalling
It aint us
Not really us
No!
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Dec 19 2023 14:17 utc | 40
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 13:20 utc | 32
By all means, please do.
Posted by: expat | Dec 19 2023 14:20 utc | 41
Not everything is a conspiracy but this has the faint odor of being more of a feature than a bug.
Posted by: Billb | Dec 19 2023 14:00 utc | 36
It could very well be. Uncle Sam sitting in the corner have a good chuckle.
However it works out just as well: The RoTW needs to wake up.
Asia specifically needs to understand that the "Not my problem, not my business" philosophy" only goes to far.
As long as I can munch my noodles in peace I couldn't care less if Palestinian children are being plowed under the ground by Jewish bulldozers like seeds for a bloody future harvest
Well, when they can't munch your noodles anymore because they can't ship their goods perhaps they'll do more than ask Uncle Sam to stop.
If Uncle Sam wants to make Izzrael everyone's problem, all the better ...
Collective punishment only serves to expand the collective ...
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 14:37 utc | 42
Next week:
Joe Biden nominates "Israel" for a bunch of Nobel Piece Prizes...
One prize for each piece of Palestine the Jews have stolen since the beginning of their Piece Process?
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Dec 19 2023 14:39 utc | 43
Posted by: migueljose | Dec 19 2023 13:12 utc | 30
the US is already applying pressure on Riyadh to delay the signing of a peace agreement with Yemen. Washington is instead urging the Saudis to renew their confrontation with Yemen by joining the expanded maritime protection task force."
what happens if Riyadh signs the peace agreement?
Posted by: snake | Dec 19 2023 14:40 utc | 44
Posted by: migueljose | Dec 19 2023 13:12 utc | 30
the US is already applying pressure on Riyadh to delay the signing of a peace agreement with Yemen. Washington is instead urging the Saudis to renew their confrontation with Yemen by joining the expanded maritime protection task force."
what happens if Riyadh signs the peace agreement?
seems to me blocking the maritime shipping is costing the wealthiest people in the world (globalist) millions each day..it will be interesting to see how the nations move their citizen financed military in to protect the private wealth of the richest very few citizens and the banks and the insurance companies the wealthy few seem to always own?
Seems like an opportunity for the enemies of that wealth to do some real harm? This could get interesting in short order.
Posted by: snake | Dec 19 2023 14:52 utc | 45
With its new coalition of the willing the US is guaranteeing the freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, it says. Really? Is this going to reassure civilian transportation? With that kind of massive military presence in the region (ok, I was not thinking of the Seychelles), it is like flying a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane over Ukraine when there is a war. Who knows, a Russian missile might hit it. This time it is difficult to blame the Russians. Could it indeed be that the US has China in its sights, in Africa, as I think someone suggested? Namely the Chinese naval base in Djibouti. In a somewhat similar vein, Bloomberg reported a few weeks ago that Russians have been promised a naval base in Haftar's part of Libya, which however turned out to be panicked disinformation from the Americans. At least the massive military presence in the Mediterranean would take care of that threat.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 19 2023 14:53 utc | 46
You remember the time when the collective west denied cargo vessels western (i.e. British) insurance if they had any links to Russia?Can't remember the details as it was a long time ago, a few months in fact.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 19 2023 11:57 utc | 19
The United States is part of an international coalition, including the G7, the European Union, and Australia, that have agreed to prohibit the import of crude oil and petroleum products of Russian Federation origin (the "Price Cap Coalition").
[...]
These countries, home to many best-in-class < wipes tears > financial and professional services, have also agreed to implement a policy with regard to a broad range of services as they relate to the maritime transport of crude oil and petroleum products of Russian Federation origin.
[...]
To implement the price cap policy for Russian oil, OFAC issued a determination pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14071 ("Prohibitions on Certain Services as They Relate to the Maritime Transport of Crude Oil of Russian Federation Origin") (the "determination"). The effect of the determination is to authorize U.S. persons to provide certain services as they relate to the maritime transport of Russian oil (the "covered services"), as long as that Russian oil is purchased at or below a certain price (the "price cap").The covered services are:
• Trading/commodities brokering;
• Financing;
• Shipping;
• Insurance, including reinsurance and protection and indemnity;
• Flagging; and
• Customs brokering.
In short, The Determination® authorizes U.S. persons to provide covered services if the Russian oil is purchased at or below the [undefined] price cap. As explained further in this document, OFAC has established a ["]safe harbor["] process, so that U.S. ["]service providers["] can provide covered services without concern that they will be penalized for inadvertently violating U.S. law or regulation. U.S. service providers that comply in good faith with this safe harbor process, as set forth in this document, will not face OFAC penalties....
[...]
Posted by: sln2002 | Dec 19 2023 15:00 utc | 47
I am an elderly Yankee who thought he had seen everything. But it looks like Robin Hood has been reborn again in Yemen.
The Houthi rebel group has defied authorities in order to protect children and women in Gaza from genocidal acts from their Israeli enemy. Warnings about stopping sea commerce to the Israelis have been met with a defensive Operation Prosperity Guarantee created by the new Sheriff of Nottingham, Defense Secretary Austin. (Austin was a former board member of Raytheon the large weapon maker). Raytheon recently got huge USA contract to make defensive missiles. Houthi drones and missiles, like Robin's bows and arrows, cost a pittance while Raytheon defending missiles cost millions.
The Sheriff's costly missile defenses have failed so far. Rebels say that if the genocide defenders attack them to protect shipping lanes they may simply destroy oil fields stopping important commerce at the source. The Sheriff and his mentally challenged leader seem dumfounded. Stay tuned for the next chapter.
Posted by: RAM | Dec 19 2023 15:02 utc | 48
You remember the time when the collective west denied cargo vessels western (i.e. British) insurance if they had any links to ....
Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 19 2023 11:57 utc | 19
ICYMI, Dec 18
"The Joint War Committee on Monday The Joint War Committee [Lloyd's Market Association] expanded the portion of the Red Sea that it considers to be part of the world's riskiest waters."
The Joint War Committee [JWC] comprises underwriting representatives from both the Lloyd’s and IUA company markets, representing the interests of those who write marine hull war business in the London market. It usually meets quarterly; also see Committee Terms of Reference. The JWC retains independent security advisers, Herminius, whose objective input informs and underpins the Listed Areas.LMA Competition Law Guidance
Listed Areas
From time to time, the JWC updates and disseminates the Listed Areas - these are areas where owners are required to notify underwriters of voyages. Rating is a matter for individual negotiation between underwriters and brokers and the JWC plays no role in that.
[...]
HormuzSince the US withdrew from the JCPOA, tensions between the US and Iran have been raised as Iran's ability to trade its oil has been steadily eroded. The IMF have shown that restrictions on the use of the dollar or the involvement of any US person or entity has significantly impacted the Iranian economy since 2007, and the US "maximum pressure campaign" magnified the effect.
The direction of US foreign policy and Iranian domestic policy remain opposed and the logical consequence will be continued friction with varying levels of tension. Ship owners have reported a heightened level of harassment when transiting. A general threat exists to all vessels in the region and specifically to tankers transiting Hormuz. Iranian and Houthi capability extends beyond the particularly vulnerable Strait of Hormuz itself but Iranian actions have indicated a wish to keep its actions proportionate, one for one. Underwriters will be mindful of the many variables in risk when assessing voyages in the region.
[...]
Wordings
The JWC issues wordings and clauses from time to time which are available for market use. Below are the wordings which allow underwriters to put the piracy peril into the war policy.
JW2005/001A Navigation Limitations for War
Posted by: sln2002 | Dec 19 2023 15:11 utc | 49
Billb | Dec 19 2023 14:00 utc | 36
It's a great advertisement for the high speed rail connections being built in eurasia. The empire ends with the breakdown of the maritime long distance trade that built it.
Freight can be moved from China to Portugal within a couple of weeks.
This might be a good time for Egypt to start thinking of its own interests.
Posted by: bevin | Dec 19 2023 15:13 utc | 50
'b' succinctly, adroitly points out that the Tail Wags the Dog.
Posted by: canuck | Dec 19 2023 11:07 utc | 11
No, b has misconstrued a matter that has to be of primary importance to almost all of the BRICS and RoW power players as a private matter to Israel that then dictates to US dog "go bite" and there she goes.
As was mentioned, days ago, Houthi action mostly affects Egypt via Suez and whoever can't afford to (pay to) go around the horn of Africa to ship stuff from Asia to Europe. The alleged "land corridor" from UAE is supposedly up and running, so this is definitely, absolutely, 100% guaranteed, not just about "Israel".
KSA and IRI just held hands again in Beijing. Does Beijing want a middle east war, yes or no? Does IRI? Does Hezbollah? Does Israel?
The answer clearly is NO.
So we that USA is actually the dog, the bitch, the leashed gholem, of the globalist project and not the shitty colonial project falsely known as "Israel" which is not an "imperial beach head". The parties not officially unboard are there in spirit, be certain about that.
(It is an occult beachhead. Its value is psychological not geographical. The strategy board that birthed "Israel" is psychological not geopolitical.)
People are controlled by manipulation of the mind.
The world model is paradigmatic and fundamentally influences projecting semantics unto observations. Is your world model a gift or a result of your own thinking?
Posted by: robinthehood | Dec 19 2023 15:15 utc | 51
Thanks b.
Next week: Israel claims Sinai to the Suez channel I am sure the USA will obey.
Also nobody notices Chinese and Iranian warships mingled there in South Red Sea with China sending some more to the region.
Let us not forget Russian subs hidden there.
Houties just might decimate NATO fleets there at will should it escalate ..but Ukraine is winning in a stalemating Russia...yeah, right.
Posted by: whirlX | Dec 19 2023 15:19 utc | 52
'Austin was a former board member of Raytheon the large weapon maker.' -- RAM
Let us not forget that Clowngress voted to waive a required seven-year cooling off period after leaving Raytheon, which would have prohibited Austin from becoming SecDef.
We now see the tragic results of flouting a sensible anti-corruption law to enable the unqualified, compromised Austin to usurp a cabinet post he wasn't entitled to.
Austin should be sacked today.
Posted by: Jim H | Dec 19 2023 15:22 utc | 53
"Does Beijing want a middle east war, yes or no? Does IRI? Does Hezbollah? Does Israel?"
Posted by: robinthehood | Dec 19 2023 15:15 utc | 49
"Want it or not" is a metaphysical puzzle: the fact remains there is a Middle East War now occurring which will escalate regardless of 'wanting or not wanting..'
It is incredibly reckless and irresponsible for the Biden administration to conduct a military response that risks broader regional war with Iran and possibly WW III instead of just demanding that the Israel's cease their genocide and ethnic cleansing (with US weapons, tactical support, and US taxpayer funds).
This whole affair is spiraling to somewhere beyond insane.
Posted by: bill wolfe | Dec 19 2023 15:23 utc | 55
You remember the time when the collective west denied cargo vessels western (i.e. British) insurance if they had any links to ....
Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 19 2023 11:57 utc | 19
ICYMI, Bloomberg Dec 18
"The Joint War Committee on Monday The Joint War Committee expanded the portion of the Red Sea that it considers to be part of the world's riskiest waters."
The Joint War Committee [JWC] comprises underwriting representatives from both the Lloyd’s [Lloyd's Market Association] and IUA [International Underwriting Association] company markets, representing the interests of those who write marine hull war business in the London market. It usually meets quarterly; also see Committee Terms of Reference. The JWC retains independent security advisers, Herminius, whose objective input informs and underpins the Listed Areas.LMA Competition Law Guidance
Listed Areas
From time to time, the JWC updates and disseminates the Listed Areas - these are areas where owners are required to notify underwriters of voyages. Rating is a matter for individual negotiation between underwriters and brokers and the JWC plays no role in that.
[...]
HormuzSince the US withdrew from the JCPOA, tensions between the US and Iran have been raised as Iran's ability to trade its oil has been steadily eroded. The IMF have shown that restrictions on the use of the dollar or the involvement of any US person or entity has significantly impacted the Iranian economy since 2007, and the US "maximum pressure campaign" magnified the effect.
The direction of US foreign policy and Iranian domestic policy remain opposed and the logical consequence will be continued friction with varying levels of tension. Ship owners have reported a heightened level of harassment when transiting. A general threat exists to all vessels in the region and specifically to tankers transiting Hormuz. Iranian and Houthi capability extends beyond the particularly vulnerable Strait of Hormuz itself but Iranian actions have indicated a wish to keep its actions proportionate, one for one. Underwriters will be mindful of the many variables in risk when assessing voyages in the region.
[...]
Wordings
The JWC issues wordings and clauses from time to time which are available for market use. Below are the wordings which allow underwriters to put the piracy peril into the war policy.
JW2005/001A Navigation Limitations for War
Posted by: sln2002 | Dec 19 2023 15:25 utc | 56
"America is something that can be moved easily."
So an actual inquisitive mind would be prompted to ask a few questions right of the bat here after reading that Bibi had to mention this to a bunch of fellow Israelis about USA:
- The fact that USA was a concern to other Israelis present in that room
- The fact that "moving" is not the same thing as "commanding"
- The fact that complex inter-related power structures historically have afforded minor players to 'move' 'force the hand' of more senior "partners" in the power structure.
Bibi was simply telling his fellow _worried_ Israelis that it is not an issue as 'a lever to move easy' is in the possession of BIBI. (Not Israel, note, Bibi.)
That God given Noodle, by the Spaghetti Monster, is there for a reason. Use it maybe?
Posted by: robinthehood | Dec 19 2023 15:27 utc | 57
@Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 14:37 utc | 41Asia specifically needs to understand that the "Not my problem, not my business" philosophy" only goes to far.
I'd rather not have anyone meddling in these postcolonial affairs thank you. We had 80 years of good deeds here, time to let this crap burn out without choosing winners and losers. We will see what good this operation will do.
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.
I really wish we could try the multipolarity and actual self-determination Russia and China are pushing in many flowery words.
Posted by: SOS | Dec 19 2023 15:29 utc | 58
Robinthehood here to explain that Maerica isn't really Israel's bitch. So the genocide in Gaza is architected by Maericans then? Genocide Joe is an apt moniker.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Dec 19 2023 15:30 utc | 59
Red Sea (Bahrain division) Task Force UPDATE
Larry Johnson unleashed Simplicius into the innerboobs.
The cost of doing business: US navy no longer has any warship resupply tenders (illustrated)
I idly wonder what kind of sanction waivers that the Price Cap Coalition will issue for third-country ship-to-ship transfer.
Posted by: sln2002 | Dec 19 2023 15:35 utc | 60
p.s.
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lo- lita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the mis- informed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
Posted by: robinthehood | Dec 19 2023 15:36 utc | 61
Posted by: bill wolfe | Dec 19 2023 15:23 utc | 53
Out of respect trying to return to convention as a Norwegian suggested.
Bill, your comment supposes that a regional war in the Middle East wasn't Maericas aim from the start with this disgusting provocation through genocide.
The reality is Israel was let off the leash to slaughter Palestinians in order to draw in Arab powers particularly Iran. Then Maerica could strike Iran with cover of a cassus belli.
This serves the Maerican purpose of striking at China's oil supplies.
The complete and utter stupidity of such a strategy would require an essay to unpack, suffice to say that Jake the Snake Sullivan and the rest of the young turks believe they can have a regional war without igniting a world one. That's their idea..thread the needle.
They're fucking delusional and their direct support of mass murder and genocide by Israel is turning Maerica into a pariah state. Trapped by her own stupidity..hoisted on her own petard.
It's like a theme with these people. The Biden team and the rest of the Maerican brain trust love sleepwalking off cliffs.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Dec 19 2023 15:37 utc | 62
Also the fact that I can divine this intent without signals intelligence or readouts tells me how fucking sophomoric the whole thing is. Nightmarish, horrific and inhuman, but also dumb as shit.
And if I can tell, people paying real attention and with access to those things are miles in front of the Maericans.
Have the strutting admirals and politicos considered that luring in warships to the narrows is exactly what was wanted and what Maerica was anticipated to do? Of course not..that would suppose they consider and reflect.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Dec 19 2023 15:43 utc | 63
Let's defend our mission by sacrificing Israeli and Saudi ships.
Smart move to ask them to have skin in the game though.
The Defense News report stressed the necessity of Israel's presence alongside Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain in the proposed naval force, in addition to the G7 countries that include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Britain.
Somehow I doubt the Saudis want to cancel that peace deal with Yemen
Posted by: SOS | Dec 19 2023 15:50 utc | 64
Posted by: SOS | Dec 19 2023 15:50 utc | 61
Also: a naval force from G7? That must be a first for G7.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 19 2023 15:59 utc | 65
The Defense News report stressed the necessity of Israel's presence alongside Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain in the proposed naval force, in addition to the G7 countries that include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Britain.
Posted by: SOS | Dec 19 2023 15:50 utc | 61
This reminds me of a trick I've seen senior bureaucrats play when they explicitly don't want to do something but are being pressured to do it:
Get everyone involved. Everyone.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 16:01 utc | 66
"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
trubind1@1138
Do please bear in mind that the U$$A is but a designated attack dog for those "interests" which OWN the so-called "Federal" Reserve Bank. Both the I$raeli regime and the Di$trict of Corruption get their orders from City of London and Wall $treet. In other words those bought and paid for pro$titicians in D.C. have no actual agency. They are merely minions for far more powerful interests.
Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 19 2023 16:03 utc | 68
A message from China by Chairman forever Xi:
Attention to all RoW pepple aka little pepple. After silently watching the openly criminal actions of the State of Israel against the little pepple of Gaza, we at the Chinese Communist Party feel we can no longer be "partners" with Israel in our BRI plans.
As of today we are pausing all investments and developments in Israel and we will look for alternatives in the region. We will further recall our ambassador to Israel and we will be reviewing relations in light of the criminal and inhumane actions of the State of Israel.
The present situation is the result of unipolar order. By our actions today we demonstrate the merit of our view that multipolarity is the way. China is a just nation and stands up for justice.
end.
[oh sorry. fake news.]
"Chinese Investment in Israeli Technology and Infrastructure"
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3176.html
Btw, the 'joke' bit of the above is RAND pretending they are worried about the security of Israel "and" USA. The actual classified title likely is: is our shitty little ally in that neighborhood whoring around with our #1 geopolitical competitor and what does that mean for our security?
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/chinese-investments/
Posted by: robinthehood | Dec 19 2023 16:04 utc | 69
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.
[...]
Posted by: sln2002 | Dec 19 2023 16:04 utc | 70
Posted by: Chicago Bob | Dec 19 2023 12:25 utc | 24
Agree
Posted by: bill wolfe | Dec 19 2023 16:10 utc | 71
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Dec 19 2023 15:37 utc | 59
You're absolutely right Doc - guess I assume incompetence and hubris instead of pure evil and insanity. Am I still naive after all these years?
Posted by: bill wolfe | Dec 19 2023 16:16 utc | 73
Doctor Eleven @ 1537
Merikkka is merely the attack-dog bitch of a certain private bank in City of London. The U$$A has no true agency, merely acts a role through its (s)elected "leader" and a motley crew of minions. Once one grasps that fact, all other matters dissolve into minor adjustments.
Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 19 2023 16:24 utc | 74
Ansar-Allah were not invited to Riyadh, Nov 11 summit where Arabs nations met and decided it was better to do nothing cause everyone had something to loose. (can't find their flag on the photo finish).
And now they are all loosing big money ... but not Ansar-Allah who just don't had any money to begin with.
Might had been better to decide something back then, but hey, what do I know ?
You know what other flags were also missed in Riyadh ? Hamas, Hezbollah and Israel ... It's a tradition , when you make a peace summit in Riyadh : you invite everyone but the ones that matter most on the current crisis. They did the same last time about Banderistan, they invited Agent Z but neither Biden nor VVP .. History is a collection of missed opportunities.
Posted by: Savonarole | Dec 19 2023 16:29 utc | 75
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.
Posted by: sln2002 | Dec 19 2023 16:04 utc | 67
Of course Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries would say this and from their perspective, specifically with regard to *their* profits, they'd be right.
However from the Palestinian and Yemeni point of view, perhaps from the M.E Resistance overall, they have no customers to please at all, just a bunch of empathetic, but rather useless "well wishers".
Now, to SOS' point:
>Helping the ME Resistance just carries the risk of conflagration, not a great idea in my book.
There's going to be a "conflagration" regardless.
The more players involved the more the variables.
The more the variables the more degrees of freedom in the game of chess that could be developed to completely entrap the American Empire in the middle east.
The more complex and entangled the situation in the region becomes the higher the number of self-defeating blunders the US will be forced to commit in the region.
If Uncle Sam is smart, he'll see this and go the way of compromise, if not, he'll get dragged through an orchard of bees nests.
So the Arab Resistance has all the reason to draw as many players into the conflict as possible.
Those players could use "soft" means to pressure the Anglo-Zionist Empire into an equitable deal for the Palestinians, or if that doesn't work, use harder methods along an escalation path.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 16:30 utc | 76
I see nobody mentioned that Ansarallah has said the shipping interdiction would end promptly upon the cessation of the Gaza Siege. No need for any Coalition of the Killing naval force, just the enforcement of LEGAL HUMANITARIAN NORMS in Gaza.
just the enforcement of LEGAL HUMANITARIAN NORMS in Gaza.
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 19 2023 16:32 utc | 74
HAHAHAHA! Karlof, you truly are a man of great wit!
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 16:34 utc | 78
I suggest that this scenario below by E.M. happen sooner rather than later
to end the war crimes and the slaughter in Gaza by israel
fyi,
posted by Elijah Magnier an hour ago
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1737126014189236406
One of the most severe scenarios would be:
#Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz
#Yemen closes the Red Sea
#Hezbollah closes the Mediterranean within the commercial maritime area
Unless a cease-fire is reached in #Gaza and the massacre of children and women stops.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 19 2023 16:35 utc | 79
trubind1@1138
Do please bear in mind that the U$$A is but a designated attack dog for those "interests" which OWN the so-called "Federal" Reserve Bank. Both the I$raeli regime and the Di$trict of Corruption get their orders from City of London and Wall $treet. In other words those bought and paid for pro$titicians in D.C. have no actual agency. They are merely minions for far more powerful interests.
Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 19 2023 16:03 utc | 65
Amen
One of the most severe scenarios would be:
#Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz
#Yemen closes the Red Sea
#Hezbollah closes the Mediterranean within the commercial maritime area
Unless a cease-fire is reached in #Gaza and the massacre of children and women stops.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 19 2023 16:35 utc | 76
That's brilliant in fact. I'd say that's the response that should be reserved in event of a direct attack by the Americans on either of these countries.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 16:43 utc | 81
"Bibi is gucking florious.". Florious a dual-type Poison/Dark Pokémon. I strongly agree with Augusto Pi on this one. Bibi is just like any less-than-wise, limited worldview leader that will run the country he is tasked to govern into the ground. Looking at Israeli public opinion ( more than 80% in favor of the carnage and genocide), Israel deserves to disappear. But that's just my uninformed opinion.
Posted by: NewJerseyJoe | Dec 19 2023 16:44 utc | 82
thanks b... so who is controlling who here? it is pretty obvious..
Posted by: james | Dec 19 2023 16:47 utc | 83
Thanks for the posting b
The God Of Mammon cult is in charge and directing Occupied Palestine as well as the US and other Western countries to insure its survival.
Yes, humans are easily fooled and fear driven. The God Of Mammon cult has been the cancer of our species for centuries and it just might kill us yet.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 19 2023 16:53 utc | 84
What NATO wants to do is shift the optics from Gaza to the Red Sea shipping interdiction that actually impacts its citizens in a quest to get them to stop protesting.
As for "next week," as Crooke discussed on numerous venues and others having the same message, Netanyahu needs a distraction from the failure in Gaza to defeat Hamas, which means Hezbollah and the North is where the optics will be shifted. As many said, this is extremely risky as 2006 proved, as Hezbollah is much stronger and its political ties with the rest of Lebanon are also much stronger as most Lebanese see Hezbollah as a better protector than the Lebanese Army. And the truth is the vast majority of Lebanese have zero love for Occupied Palestine as those bought by the West have become ever fewer.
The "escalation ladder" has proven to be well predicted by the "Resistance Axis." While Gazans are certainly suffering, the IOF is being badly mauled by Hamas, and the Zionists like their Ukie kin are forced to show off their very few PR victories, while news of their many atrocities circles the globe and ever larger portions of Humanity stand against them.
@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.
- 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
What NATO wants to do is shift the optics from Gaza to the Red Sea shipping interdiction that actually impacts its citizens in a quest to get them to stop protesting...
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 19 2023 16:55 utc | 82
How would this shift the optics when the Houthi keep saying the Red Sea situation is coupled to the Gaza situation?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 17:00 utc | 87
Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 16:34 utc | 75--
Thanks for your reply. Note how easily is was to get those nations to join the enforcement flotilla whereas none of them try putting the same level of pressure on the Zionists. Think I'm the only human on the planet seeing that? The fucking solution is so goddamned obvious, but the West can't seem to do the simple things when it comes to doing the obvious. How long before one of their toy boats gets sunk when it didn't even need to be employed?
Arch Bungle | Dec 19 2023 17:00 utc | 84--
Thanks for your reply and query. How? BigLie Media doing its thing is the answer. Expect a plethora of items linking inflation and shortages to the shipping issue taking over the main page and primary broadcast news.
"Who the fuck does he think he is? Who's the fucking superpower here?" Bill Clinton on Benjamin Netanyahu (1996)
Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 19 2023 17:08 utc | 90
Why are the Houthis wasting time and resources attacking foreign ships when they have a civil war to fight?
Posted by: Inkan1969 | Dec 19 2023 17:16 utc | 91
@ Jonathan W | Dec 19 2023 17:08 utc | 87
a timely quote.. thanks jonathan.
Posted by: james | Dec 19 2023 17:17 utc | 92
@ Inkan1969 | Dec 19 2023 17:16 utc | 88
principles... some folks still have them..
Posted by: james | Dec 19 2023 17:18 utc | 93
Posted by: james | Dec 19 2023 17:18 utc | 90
Foreign concept to OFAN Bronies.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 19 2023 17:20 utc | 94
"The Sheriff's costly missile defenses have failed so far. Rebels say that if the genocide defenders attack them to protect shipping lanes they may simply destroy oil fields stopping important commerce at the source. The Sheriff and his mentally challenged leader seem dumfounded. Stay tuned for the next chapter."
Posted by: RAM | Dec 19 2023 15:02 utc | 47
I think you hit the nail on the head.
However, the 'next chapter may be' actually a new book, "Learning to live with Radiation." Only hand written copies...
The coalition from Ratheon is also there to add to the reinforcements of the siege of Gaza as well as patrolling the straits. With geopolitical realignments, some countries may decide to resupply Gaza via sea access as grim pictures of starvation and disease cross the world on social media. More important to Bibi, Blinkin and Biden - reinforcing Israeli ownership of the Gaza oil fields, as well as those overlapping with Lebanon, a next target - which will also soon be under siege...
Posted by: abierno | Dec 19 2023 17:32 utc | 97
Posted by: james | Dec 19 2023 17:18 utc | 90
Principles... some folks still have them..
A deranged slogan and a habit of pushing conspiracy theories. Those are some warped principles.
Posted by: Inkan1969 | Dec 19 2023 17:34 utc | 98
Both Russia & China as supposed “global leaders” have turned out to be complete cucks in the spine department of calling out: War Crimes
No expectations of some military intervention or anything, but not even a pursuit of justice here in anyway. Their entire contribution has been to extricate their dual citizens and insist on humanitarian aid.
I had thought when (not if) the “West” collapses, there actually might be a more just, fairer global landscape.
International Law doesn’t actually mean anything more to these aspiring global leaders than it does the current shitty hegemony. It’s just the US that gets to be the punching bag for their rants, while Israel, who is by far and above more “obvious” gets a pass.
Whatevs… pretty fed up with all these piles and there doubled fork tongues.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Dec 19 2023 17:38 utc | 99
@ Inkan1969 | Dec 19 2023 17:34 utc | 95
well lets say we have different viewpoints.. cheers..
Posted by: james | Dec 19 2023 17:41 utc | 100
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"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