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Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

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Post by andriy_koval »

pphysch wrote: post #517
andriy_koval wrote: post #336

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> Iran clearly has the capability to flatten every major hospital and university and desalination plant in Israel its not clear at all. They clearly tried to hit Izrael with barrages of missiles, but looks like their targeting systems suck.

I suggest you look into the many confirmed impacts in Israel, including at heavily protected airbases and downtown Tel Aviv where the regime embeds its military intelligence centers. There's a reason why Israel has stopped directly striking Iran.

> There's a reason why Israel has stopped directly striking Iran.

its inefficient at this point and Israel has other targets

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Post by pphysch »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #392
pphysch wrote: post #152

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Why can Israel have a nuclear weapon? It is also an insanely violent ethno-theocratic regime.

Under what scenario would they use it against New York or Washington?

That's very hypothetical, but one might also ponder what under scenario Israel might attempt to sink a US battleship and murder dozens of US servicemen.

It's hard to predict what a theocracy might do.

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Post by Georgelemental »

bhouston wrote: post #151

The Houthis created a fake audio of a major Yemeni commander telling his troops to retreat which was subsequently amplified on Twitter/X, telegram, etc. Apparently, this helped the Houthis advance quickly as the opposition forces were in disarray. https://x.com/BashaReport/status/2097862335494795579

This is why you should always sign orders with your public key smh

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Post by rdm_blackhole »

Tuna-Fish wrote: post #59
eagleal wrote: post #40

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Yeah the EU leadership has been really shortsighted on these past decades (especially since the 10s), especially in their strategic energy and industrial sectors. Be it the Ukranian conflict, the ME crisis, the NA wars and instabilities, etc. The EU is the one that geopolitically speaking lost the most. Unless they're full puppets for foreign interests, I simply do not understand how they could leave foreign actors t…

Aren't those really easy to explain? EU opposes the Houthis because they are a horrifying slave state that distributes children as sex slaves to their troops. EU opposes Russia because it is a horrifying fascist dictatorship that has repeatedly invaded it's neighbors, and constantly talks about it's historical claims to EU territory. In the NA conflicts it's harder to draw such a clear line, because the conflicts typ…

The EU and Macron welcomed the new Syrian president who is a former ISIS fighter in Europe. So much about morals when hundreds of French citizens were killed by ISIS in France.

The EU is like the US, it does business with vile and despicable people if it is in its own interest.

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Post by [deleted] »

drTobiasFunke wrote: post #475
ericmay wrote: post #340

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India and Pakistan both rushed their programs back in the 40s/50s ( or maybe later I can't recall off the top of my head). Libya and South Africa were negotiated away. That leaves Israel probably from the, what, 70s or 80s? And North Korea was supported by Russia and China. I'm not sure you could consider any of those countries to be "pursuing nuclear weapons" today. Plus by that logic you'd have to throw in the US,…

India and Pakistan were late 90s. Japan and South Korea literally have 100s of American military bases on their territory. You really think they are sovereign nations who can pursue an independent nuclear program?

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Post by theplumber »

ericmay wrote: post #231
globalnode wrote: post #224

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Yes ofc its a world problem, and guess who the world is not going to be happy with?

You can be mad at America and ignore Iran's role if you want, but that doesn't lead you to anywhere productive. The United States like any country is an actor on the world stage that has interests and can take action to defend or assert those interests. If the world thinks this is a problem, they should have mediated between the United States and Iran and helped to prevent conflict. Instead they did next to nothing.…

I think the world will start mediating but not in the way you think/want. They will just divest from the U.S., slowly but surely so that when the next U.S clown start messing around they don’t have to flatter it anymore.

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Post by andriy_koval »

IAmBroom wrote: post #507
737min wrote: post #482

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There is no evidence Israel killed 70,000 innocents. But there is strong evidence Iran killed 40,000 demonstrators and Hamas killed 1,000’s innocent.

There is evidence, unless you are of the genocidal cult that believes every Palestinian born is automatically a terrorist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

Not every, but I hope it is hard to deny that concentration of radicalized members of Hamas is very high in that area, they historically use civilians as human shield, thus casualties.

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Post by mamonster »

tptacek wrote: post #425
mamonster wrote: post #208

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>Ansar Allah (Houthis) is a terrible Islamist group IMO this is kind of bad framing because it suggests that they're the minority in Yemen, when in reality they basically are the government of 70-80% population of Yemen and absorbed 60+ percent of the Yemeni regular army. They are basically at this point the de-facto Yemeni government

Ansar Allah isn't even close to a majority of the population of Yemen. Yemen is majority-Sunni. Ansar Allah is a militant Zaydi revivalist movement, and what they're attempting to revive is a Zaydi caste system.

>Ansar Allah isn't even close to a majority of the population of Yemen.

I never said that. The areas they control have about 70-80% of Yemen's population though.

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Post by 737min »

IAmBroom wrote: post #507
737min wrote: post #482

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There is no evidence Israel killed 70,000 innocents. But there is strong evidence Iran killed 40,000 demonstrators and Hamas killed 1,000’s innocent.

There is evidence, unless you are of the genocidal cult that believes every Palestinian born is automatically a terrorist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

Wikipedia not evidence but result of coordinated pro-Hamas campaign, 8 editors banned by them

https://americandreaming.substack.com/p/wikipedias-islamist-...

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Post by tptacek »

mamonster wrote: post #528
tptacek wrote: post #425

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Ansar Allah isn't even close to a majority of the population of Yemen. Yemen is majority-Sunni. Ansar Allah is a militant Zaydi revivalist movement, and what they're attempting to revive is a Zaydi caste system.

>Ansar Allah isn't even close to a majority of the population of Yemen. I never said that. The areas they control have about 70-80% of Yemen's population though.

Yes, that sounds about right. And it's very, very bad.
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