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Red Sea Crisis: Houthi militants claim to hit USS Lewis B. Puller warship
WION News - You Tube ^ | 1/29/2024 | WION News

Posted on 01/29/2024 2:30:13 AM PST by Paul R.

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I don't know about the reliability of this source. Waiting for other confirmation. Unknown if our ship was actually struck, if so what damage was done, etc.

Seems like she should have been within a destroyer screen.

Also seems like a ship like this would be a good platform to launch hundreds of drones of our own into Yemen.

1 posted on 01/29/2024 2:30:13 AM PST by Paul R.
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https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-us-attack-red-sea-d137bfd5a328601fc0214a9ae56b4870

US officials reject claim... Attacked but missed?


2 posted on 01/29/2024 2:35:21 AM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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DAM. ,
How the mighty have fallen

-fJRoberts-


3 posted on 01/29/2024 2:44:17 AM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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Also seems like a ship like this would be a good platform to launch hundreds of drones of our own into Yemen.

Alas, we only have the multi-million dollar sort. or very short range ones. We do not have 10s of thousands of FPV drones as used in Ukraine, and certainly none aboard any Navy ship, most of which are expensive radar and missile platforms.


4 posted on 01/29/2024 2:58:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Paul R.

Lewis B.”Chesty” Puller, a true American hero, is rolling over in his grave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller


5 posted on 01/29/2024 3:14:55 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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> the US Navy ship USS Lewis B. Puller <

The name rang I bell, so I did a quick check. Yep, he’s better known as Chesty Puller. I don’t think he’d be too happy about the state of things in Biden’s America.


6 posted on 01/29/2024 3:22:10 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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What about the reliability of this source ?

"To begin, Defense Secretary Austin will be leading a Global Posture Review of our forces so that our military footprint is appropriately aligned with our foreign policy and national security priorities. It will be coordinated across all elements of our national security, with Secretary Austin and Secretary Blinken working in close cooperation.

And while this review is taking place, we’ll be stopping any planned troop withdrawals from Germany. We’re also stepping up our diplomacy to end the war in Yemen — a war which has created a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe. < I’ve asked my Middle East team to ensure our support for the United Nations-led initiative to impose a ceasefire, open humanitarian channels, and restore long-dormant peace talks.

This morning, Secretary Blinken appointed Tim Lenderking, a career foreign policy officer, as our special envoy to the Yemen conflict. And I appreciate his doing this. Tim is a life — has lifelong experience in the region, and he’ll work with the U.N. envoy and all parties of the conflict to push for a diplomatic resolution.

And Tim’s diplomacy will be bolstered by USI- — USAID, working to ensure that humanitarian aid is reaching the Yemeni people who are suffering un- — an undurable [sic] — unendurable devastation. This war has to end.

And to underscore our commitment, we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales.

At the same time, Saudi Arabia faces missile attacks, UAV strikes, and other threats from Iranian-supplied forces in multiple countries. We’re going to continue to support and help Saudi Arabia defend its sovereignty and its territorial integrity and its people.

We also face a crisis of more than 80 million displaced people suffering all around the world. The United States’ moral leadership on refugee issues was a point of bipartisan consensus for so many decades when I first got here. We shined the light of lamp on — of liberty on oppressed people. We offered safe havens for those fleeing violence or persecution. And our example pushed other nations to open wide their doors as well.

So today, I’m approving an executive order to begin the hard work of restoring our refugee admissions program to help meet the unprecedented global need. It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so badly damaged, but that’s precisely what we’re going to do.

This executive order will position us to be able to raise the refugee admissions back up to 125,000 persons for the first full fiscal year of the Biden-Harris administration. And I’m directing the State Department to consult with Congress about making a down payment on that commitment as soon as possible.

And to further repair our moral leadership, I’m also issuing a presidential memo to agencies to reinvigorate our leadership on the LGBTQI issues and do it internationally. You know, we’ll ensure diplomacy and foreign assistance are working to promote the rights of those individuals, included by combatting criminalization and protecting LGBTQ refugees and asylum-seekers.

And finally, to successfully reassert our diplomacy and keep Americans safe, prosperous, and free, we must restore the health and morale of our foreign policy institutions.

I want the people who work in this building and our embassies and consulates around the world to know: I value your expertise and I respect you, and I will have your back. This administration is going to empower you to do your jobs, not target or politicize you. We want a rigorous debate that brings all perspectives and makes room for dissent. That’s how we’ll get the best possible policy outcomes."
7 posted on 01/29/2024 3:34:14 AM PST by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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Looks like Yemeni faggots are going to receive some special attention in the form of our tax dollars.


8 posted on 01/29/2024 3:53:21 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Paul R.

Bomb Iran!


9 posted on 01/29/2024 5:07:07 AM PST by Krosan
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To: ComputerGuy

Need to go to the source of this and that’s Iran.


10 posted on 01/29/2024 5:07:55 AM PST by Krosan
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Lindsey is fired up. Again.


11 posted on 01/29/2024 5:11:22 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Bomb Iran!

Ha! Do you really believe Joe has the balls to do that? Hell, he won't even sink a pirate ship fer God's sake.

12 posted on 01/29/2024 5:27:32 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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My Dad and I took a tour if this ship off the coast of Santa Barbara on July 4th weekend in 1982.

One of the launches in Santa Barbara Harbor had broken down so we had to wait all day, but it was worth it.


13 posted on 01/29/2024 5:35:26 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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"Bomb Iran!"

Can't, Obama would get VERY upset if that happened..

From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

14 posted on 01/29/2024 5:46:32 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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Amazing how the powerful US, British, French and other navies can’t stop Yemeni Houthi’s from constant attacks.


15 posted on 01/29/2024 5:51:15 AM PST by Solson (2024 doesn't matter until we learn how to cheat better.)
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To: af_vet_1981

Blinken and Austin are an embarrassment to all Americans. I wouldn’t trust either one of them to fry an egg.


16 posted on 01/29/2024 6:03:47 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Paul R.

Gulf of Tonkin redux.


17 posted on 01/29/2024 6:22:47 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Paul R.

We should pull all our troops out of the Middle East if they’re sitting ducks. If we can’t use the Suez Canal, we may have to pay more on certain goods.


18 posted on 01/29/2024 6:59:41 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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It’s even worse now than it was then.

Now the Republicans have a powerful peacemonger faction that would raise a stink over much needed bombing of Iran too.

Ohio Senator JD Vance already wrote his pro-Iranian message in Twitter.


19 posted on 01/29/2024 7:00:00 AM PST by Krosan
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The fact that this moron JD Vance shares a name with a luminary like Vince Vance is a travesty!


20 posted on 01/29/2024 7:04:58 AM PST by Krosan
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