Ending most all of Iranian oil exports is a much more telling blow
Posted on 01/05/2024 3:52:31 AM PST by hardspunned
WASHINGTON (AP) — An armed unmanned surface vessel launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen got within a “couple of miles” of U.S. Navy and commercial vessels in the Red Sea before detonating on Thursday, just hours after the White House and a host of partner nations issued a final warning to the Iran-backed militia group to cease the attacks or face potential military action.
Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Navy operations in the Middle East, said it was the first time the Houthis had used an unmanned surface vessel, or USV, since their harassment of commercial ships in the Red Sea began after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. They have, however, used them in years past.
Fabian Hinz, a missile expert and research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the USV’s are a key part of the Houthi maritime arsenal and were used during previous battles against the Saudi coalition forces that intervened in Yemen’s war. They have regularly been used as suicide drone boats that explode upon impact.
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(final warning)
This time, include the words “or else”
Did we say final? We meant penultimate. Next time we will really really mean it.
When Biden wakes up this morning he’ll order another plane load of cash for Iran.
That was just the first final warning. The state and defense departments are prepared to fire a full salvo of final warnings should circumstances require. Things could even escalate to the deployment of red lines of final warnings go unheeded.
Kind of following obama’s pattern isn’t it.
The military Trannies are going have to huddle up and pull oneah others dingys on this one.
Somebody get a message to the Republicans in the House. This situation warrants a sternly worded letter.
You joke, but I think the US Navy has quietly been given the go-ahead to fully respond to the next Houthi attack on ships
Patience with the Houthi games has run out, and Biden could use a victory as PR
Now they’re just waiting for the Houthis to attack ... and they will, because they’re too stupid to pay attention to the many warnings they were given
Watch the next coupla weeks
Stop or I’ll shoot!
That’s the problem. You give 1 friggen warning. Anything after that is worthless if it isn’t extremely violent.
Yup
Ronald Reagan wouldn’t have tolerated this nonsense
Remember when Kaddafi tried to close part of the Mediterranean with his “Line of Death”?
Right. Even Ford did Operation Paul Bunyan.
That’s the final straw, next time we will text your leaders in all CAPITALS!
Why give a warning?
final warning, funny, coming from the unfuuny
I’m thinking more along the lines of “Operation Praying Mantis”.
“Proportional”.
CC
Should’ve turned the desert there into glass weeks ago.
And, yes — that means all those shipping lines that register their vessels in Panama or Bermuda to take advantage of the favorable tax laws and regulatory requirements of those countries are on their own.
Ending most all of Iranian oil exports is a much more telling blow
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