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Dems rip Biden for launching Houthi strikes without congressional approval
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They are directly impacting the Israeli economy and security, by threatening a traffic lane vital for Israel's continued existence.
Getting your military advise from Douglas MacArthur? The man who threw up on the White House lawn when he found out he was heading up the war on the peninsula and suffered one of the most humiliating American military defeats since Lee surrendered at Appomattox?
Christ, its like you haven't been paying attention to the last 50 years of US military history. Aerial bombardments have never successfully secured territory. All they've done is waste $10M ordinance on $100 targets.
The Saudis have been bombing Yemen for a full decade. They're better at building tunnel networks than the fucking Gazans.
You are shitting out your doo-doo ass and refusing to acknowledge the smell.
Nobody said shit about it staying at aerial bombardments. Why do you think I'm so pissed? I know people who are going to end up there.
And it's still not impacting Israel's economy. So the ships had to go around, supply is already re-established. Nobody going through the straight is going to Israel anymore because insurance won't let them. So now the Houthis decided it's the entire Western world which is just stupid. Like pissing in the wind. They're getting people killed for nothing.
And no. MacArthur is neither here nor there. He didn't come up with the concept of a DMZ or militarized zone. I fully expect it to look like Eastern Turkey with a lot of stupid shit going on because some local dickhead though he could gain an ounce more street cred by attacking the West.
But the way, they have now explicitly attacked American cargo ships for being American. If you look at American history you know we don't back down. We only ever escalate once our civilians are being shot at. And we certainly aren't going to give up on global trade just because a random warlord decided he could control international water.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/31/gaza-war-costs-israel-economy/
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