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The Houthis were pushing the idea being paid protection money a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t heard of any ships or insurers buying the idea. Rather, they’re just sailing around Africa. Does the USN have to register? This type protection racket was tried on the British in 1970.

https://youtu.be/Zz0_r4PDyCs?si=Egt3pnk52uyl3r9g

1 posted on 03/05/2024 2:17:05 PM PST by hardspunned
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https://youtu.be/Zz0_r4PDyCs?si=Egt3pnk52uyl3r9g


2 posted on 03/05/2024 2:17:44 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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Toll booths, in a new twist.


3 posted on 03/05/2024 2:19:14 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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And Austin and Biden are digging in their pockets for quarters instead of knocking down the toll booth.


5 posted on 03/05/2024 2:23:00 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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The West lost the Battle of the Red Sea to a country without a navy.


8 posted on 03/05/2024 2:27:51 PM PST by kiryandil
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They have to pay a raghead fee because President Retard didn’t bomb enough tents


9 posted on 03/05/2024 2:28:11 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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Drop 10 fuel air bombs. Tell them nuclear weapons are next if they keep making trouble.


10 posted on 03/05/2024 2:32:21 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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It is very difficult to take out these clowns who are launching from mobile missile launchers on rocky barrens. Iranian Revolutionary Guard are in Yemen, working with these Houthi idiots of allah.

Houthi only get paid when they play court jesters to make Iranian mullahs laugh.


12 posted on 03/05/2024 2:35:44 PM PST by dennisw (Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.)
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The country that has a vital interest in stopping the Houthis is Egypt, and they have so far been silent. Until someone stops the Houthis the Suez canal is almost useless.


16 posted on 03/05/2024 3:15:44 PM PST by devere
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What happened to the Barbary Pirates?

This group sounds like they are trying a replay of what the Barbary Pirates did in the Mediterranean. The only thing missing is slavery, but come to think of it, slavery is prevalent in Muslim countries. All was done for the cause of spreading Islam.

Thomas Jefferson took the matter into his own hands and used the US Marines to settle the matter.

You know, “From the shores of Tripoli.”


22 posted on 03/05/2024 3:45:48 PM PST by Yulee
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Months of perpetual escalation out of Teheran while you were posting endlessly of US/Israel escalation.


23 posted on 03/05/2024 4:00:31 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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I think carpet bombing might solve the problem.


24 posted on 03/05/2024 4:04:18 PM PST by Agatsu77
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Here is the problem.

You could solve the Houthi problem by killing Abi Jibril and his brothers.

But to do so, you have to understand that this is exactly what requires "immunity" as the President acting on behalf of the US. So few people genuinely understand this. We, as Americans, are consigned together in eliminating non-American state targets in defense of American armed forces, American civilians, and American interests.

This requires an invigorated President who can persuade the world that this was done to remove those few. Trump did it, Obama fwiw pulled it off after Bin Laden.

Biden, however, can no. longer. assertively. forcefully. communicate. our privilege, our right to extend this extraordinary power.

This has left Jake Sullivan stuck with his thumb up his azz pressed between Kerry's Iranian sycophancy (raise your hand if you think Kerry is half-a-Muslim or has recited the shahada *spit* in front of someone who was able to communicate that to his Iranian superiors), versus both the USN and critical American and free world trade shipping interests.

25 posted on 03/05/2024 4:31:19 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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Not our military, we live in a different age.


44 posted on 03/05/2024 6:36:11 PM PST by JZelle
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