Big "You can't fire me, I quit!" energy from

the synthesis is even funnier, that the Houthis successfully goaded the Americans into shooting down their own aircraft using the 5D chess tactic of flying their drones really close to planes making a landing approach.

HOW THEY DO THAT

HOW

I don't like this at all. Incredibly dangerous. From someone linking an attack-page with javascript and a zero-day that means one doesn't even have to leave the (presumably safe) site to get hit to someone trying an IP-scraper meaning you just have to visit/expand the post for your IP to be collected. This is a security nightmare. I'm not against click to play embedded videos or media where you can click to load but this is not good. Just scrape the website for text to create a locally hosted snippet or something. At least make it click to open.

At the very, very least run it off an allow-list though even then some of us may not like our computers unexpectedly accessing certain resources. I know some users in Europe could get in trouble if for example it was an RT page and I'd imagine some of the news sources around here (not this one but others) that people link definitely move one up the empire's automated threat radar merely by accessing them and that should be a consensual and conscious choice not something that happens because you open a comment thread.

Ironically what enabled this was the joint US-UK bombing raid on Sa'ana and Hodeidah port, intended to punish them for a ballistic missile strike on Tel Aviv earlier in the week.

The fact they lost a single plane is beyond the level of acceptable losses for the Americans. Vietnam syndrome has utterly shattered the resolve of the average American warship to the point where I'm not surprised they're retreating at the tiniest amount of resistance.

Kissinger ironically was very very correct when he said:

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

And in the red sea, the conventional navy is NOT winning.

Nothing short of an aircraft carrier going down

When you're an empire that has been at war for most of a century the different conflicts become more or less amalgamated. With that, every small loss is actually compounded with every loss from years past in a way that no other military has to contend with.

The same thing also serves as a benefit, as every military victory can be endlessly propagandised and lionised to your civilian base. Meanwhile, the military is aware of the realities and becomes more and more passive (or indirect, for lack of better words) with its actions to avoid the compounding effect of military losses.

Shame we'll never find out because forced friendly firing an aircraft would be such a windmill slamdunk of embarassment for the USAF that they'd never admit it