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[-] asg101@hexbear.net 107 points 9 months ago

Actually fulfilling their obligation under U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. More power to them!

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 87 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

pizza-dance Aircraft carrier pls pizza-dance

edit: And they got a $10m reaper drone with a $10k missile: https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1759665357155865071

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

I saw an interview with a French military official about the economics of shooting down Houthi drones. He said something like "if France shoots a $10,000 drone with a $10m missile, it's more accurate to say that the drone has destroyed the missile than the other way round."

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

But in the end Raytheon has won.

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

Do you think they get a Game Over screen when this happens?

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

It will be like the high score screens in arcade games. The Houthi will achieve the greatest naval victory in history and then they'll spell A-S-S next to the death toll.

[-] context@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

true to form the humble allies of god in yemen would honor the alliance of sahel states with their high score

[-] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago
[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 86 points 9 months ago
[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 80 points 9 months ago

Maybe stop trying to supply a state carrying out an active genocide rather than sailing seas protected by a state trying to prevent itmaybe-later-honey

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 68 points 9 months ago

DEEP BREATH

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago
[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I kinda want to see a Ukraine / Yemen leader board. Who can sink more ships?

  • Country with $100B/mo in the most high end military equipment Western nations can produce

  • Some smol beans on the Saudi Peninsula going to war with surplus Tiger Electronics

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 9 months ago

Arab peninsula not saudi peninsula, Al Saud is the name the ruling tribe in Saudi Amerikkka

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A lot of people want to see an American carrier get sunk, but personally I want to see a British carrier get sunk first. These losers are still clinging onto the last vestiges of glory and prestige and still act like they rule the world. The English Angloid must be punished for being the genesis of Global Angloism and spreading themselves through several continents. They must be humbled once and for all

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago

Very difficult to sink a British carrier on account of them both being constantly broken down and unable to leave port.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

Yeah if anyone is gonna sink a British carrier it would be Mr Bean, by accident

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Ahh yes, the one good Englishman.

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

It's a shame Atkinson is such a garbage person

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[-] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago

brits learning why americans don't have healthcare.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago

fuck-around

insurance rates are definitely going to do the blockade's work for them from this point

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

"The capitalists will sell themselves rhe insurance policy well beat them with."

[-] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

britain just got its tooth knocked out

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

Wasn’t aware they still had any

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 9 months ago

Seems like "British ship" here is making people think military when it is actually a civilian ship that was transporting something.

[-] Self_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

I mean. Nobody's really a civikian if what theyre doing is perpetuating a genocide. Not to say they shouldve been hanged for being in the wrong place and wrong time but, i feel like this attack was justified

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

I don't think anybodys saying it wasn't justified I think we're just dissapointed it wasn't a more important ship.

All the ships not participating in an ongoing genocide haven't had any problems passing through from what I've heard.

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

ukkk qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

Lets hope for more anglo loses

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

Good, now do an American one and let's tank those Navy recruitment numbers! Get some pics of rank and file sailor kids bobbing around in the gulf in life jackets. Just a piddly little hole in the side of a carrier so it sinks nice and slow and it can draw out a media spectacle. Could be the straw that breaks the beast's back - a rag tag troop of kids taking out a behemoth symbol of American empire would be the funniest way to kick off the collapse.

Sigh... A girl can dream.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Things like this gives the theory of the Falkland War being an inside job more and more plausibility .

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

Oh, what's that about? Never heard that.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's not a thing going around the internet, it just occurred to me it was such a shitshow and so serving to foreign interests it's almost indistinguishable from self-sabotage

  • The Junta were ideological besties with fucking Tatcher. Both governments approval ratings were in the gutter, but Tatcher was more likely to lose power first.

  • Before the war Argentina had a reasonable argument to legally annex that cold wasteland, without disturbing at all the 4k britbongs merrily suffering there. They blew it.

  • You have no idea how much Argies, especially the high-bougie dipshits who had always controlled the military here love Britbongia. Their biggest dream is to be an official UK colony. I'm not fuckign kidding.

  • Go to war for the first time in 100 years, YOU are the attacker, britbongs don't suspect shit, yet zero fucking planning.

  • ABSOLUTELY ZERO FUCKING PLANNING

  • Trust the yanks won't betray you against the britbongs.

  • Send beardless 18 yo conscripts with zero training who had never seen snow nor the sea in their life to a very humid-freezing place with inadequate clothes and food rations at the FUCKING END OF AUTUMN. Meanwhile most of the "seasoned" professional infantry stayed at home. (Sure, the "seasoning" was killing union leaders, teachers and other civilians, but at least they knew how to grab a fucking rifle)

  • Let me stress this: imagine sending 18 yo kids from East Klansville Louisiana to Alaska in November with not enough clothes, food nor ammo. (Sure there aren't wolves nor bears in Malvinas but you get it)

  • The infantry didn't had enough ammo.

  • Tatcher gets an easy victory. Junta "falls" (calls for elections) but who cares since 1) the job was done: Privatized most gov capital, nationalized a shitton of private debt, took huge IMF loans and immediately funneled that money out of the country, and killed an entire generation of lefties. 2) Tatcher remaining in power was VERY important for the neoliberal plan.

  • The Junta's "job" was done before the war, they were happy with it, and they knew they were on their way out without any worries for their future. And they were right since by the most part they payed no consequences for their crimes nor even public humilliation for their shitshow of war.


Of course, instead of a big conspiracy this can be explained by just immense stupidity, which is more likely.

[-] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

:peppino-ha:

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago
[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

What if Atlantis but it was shit?

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

Hahaha yes!!! sicko-beaming

[-] buh@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

The dang houthis are trying to stop the free trade of sex arses

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

Turns out Oceans are now battlefields.

[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago
[-] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 9 months ago
[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

The targeting of British shipping is an entirely legal and appropriate response to the UK's engagement in open warfare against Yemen. Even wikipedia libs don't deny the basic facts:

The UK is one of the largest suppliers of arms to Saudi Arabia, and London immediately expressed strong support for the Saudi-led campaign.

The attack on Yemen saw sales of UK bombs for 2015 increase from £9m to over £1bn in three months.

In January 2016, it emerged that UK military advisors were assisting Saudi personnel in the selection of targets.

As well as supplying materiel and targeting support for the bombing of Yemen, the UK has assisted the coalition diplomatically. For example, the UK response, provided by Middle East Minister Tobias Ellwood, to the leaked report of a UN panel in January 2016, which documented more than one hundred instances of coalition air strikes that had violated international law, was to say that the Saudis had made "mistakes" and claim that other cases may have been "fabricated" by the Houthis.

Some British soldiers were involved in gun battles with, and been wounded by, Houthi fighters.

[-] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago
[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Rule, Britannia, Britannia rule some of the seas occasionally just doesn't roll of the tongue as nice does it

[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

rule Britianai Britiana rules the deep , and all the craps enjoy their feast ?

crab-party

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