They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones. Joe Biden’s response was pathetically weak, so the unrestrained Houthis just kept going. It has been over a year since a U.S. flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden. The last American Warship to go through the Red Sea, four months ago, was attacked by the Houthis over a dozen times. Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have fired missiles at U.S. aircraft, and targeted our Troops and Allies. These relentless assaults have cost the U.S. and World Economy many BILLIONS of Dollars while, at the same time, putting innocent lives at risk.
The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective. The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important Waterways of the World, grinding vast swaths of Global Commerce to a halt, and attacking the core principle of Freedom of Navigation upon which International Trade and Commerce depends.
Our brave Warfighters are right now carrying out aerial attacks on the terrorists’ bases, leaders, and missile defenses to protect American shipping, air, and naval assets, and to restore Navigational Freedom. No terrorist force will stop American commercial and naval vessels from freely sailing the Waterways of the World.
To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!
To Iran: Support for the Houthi terrorists must end IMMEDIATELY! Do NOT threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History, or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!
March 15, 2025
"Today, I have ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen."
Writes Trump, on Truth Social.
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I did not understand why "we" allowed the Houthi to shut down international shipping. We really can't defeat a bunch of rag tag pirates?
This would be the finding out part of the fucking around.
As I said last thread, the contrast with Biden couldn’t be made clearer - or more explicit.
@Original Mike, who wonders: <"I did not understand why "we" allowed the Houthi to shut down international shipping."
Well, you see, we allowed a fake election to occur in 2020 and didn't hang anybody afterwards. That sends the wrong signal to the rag tag pirates that we're not a serious people.
They're getting a different message in this administration.
Start of Trump's forever war.
The usn and usaf should target airports, port and ship unloading facilities, and border rail connections. I hope the usn can do much of it with naval artillery from surface ships, that would save money.
So this is why I was seeing from Democrats on X that Trump was unlawfully waging war against Yemen. Except it's not Yemen- and it's not war, per se. It's anti-piracy actions. Is it similar to war? Yes. Involves killing and everything else. But there's no entity there to declare war against...
"So this is why I was seeing from Democrats on X that Trump was unlawfully waging war against Yemen."
Wait. I thought democrats liked war.
I'm so confused.
Former Law Clerk summarizes teh sitch @5:29pm.
They were left to FA for far too long.
Blow the Houthis to Djibouti.
When bombing them back to the stone age doesn't work, Trump can call in his Silicon Valley buddies Best and the Brightest Whiz Kids to figure out how to win his war.
I can smell the dead bodies from here... Yee ha!
(you folks really like to live like this... America's strength and Israel's too is all about high-tech killings now? Fucking sickos. It's gonna come to us that drone warfare, you know?) and we don't have enough math majors to effectively compete... There's no guarantee we will always be the victor in these war games, and god knows it's the innocents who pay the price... Not With My Tax Dollars. No More.
Where is the declaration of war?
I wish we would have secured the borders back in 01.
Here we are funding and fighting wars across the world with our barn door down south still sitting pretty much open...
Can you be ready in a minute to defend our borders with your gun, mr. meade? You might just get to be the protective hero you dream of, backing up your bullshit and dying for your country. Dare to dream!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Naval_Gunfire_Liaison_Company
Breaking things since 1943.
Tom said...
Where is the declaration of war?
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We don't need no steenkeen declaration war. Where you been, TOm? USA USA USA
We 'merica, all roided up. BDE. We do what we want, and eat the little children's corpses for breakfast! Might>Right
Hey, wasnt it right around this time all those years ago gwbjr attacked iraq? lol. I guess March 17 holiday bucks em all up in politics so we attack like wild banshees??
Silly americans...never met a war you didn't think you'd win.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Houthi Yeman!
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
You just KNOW pete hegseth is tipping back a few tonight...
Maybe even get lucky with a lady not his wife! ;-)
His types live for this stuff; they dont do well in "peacetime".
Seems like a sensible move -- it should have happened 16 months ago. Pirates/terrorists impeding traffic in shipping lanes should be eliminated.
We need to protect US shipping. Otherwise, we need to stay our of Yeman. I cant think of a more useless place on earth.
We'd better stop the Houthi's now
Or
They'll conquer the world!!!
Gospace said...So this is why I was seeing from Democrats on X that Trump was unlawfully waging war against Yemen.
Did they really? I would have thought this would be too much, even for them.
Oman.
No Mame
on Yeman.
Ok - Kak said something sensible.
24 comments, but I’m the first: FAFO
Tom Jeff - Kicked pirate ass. Go DJT.
Kak - Welcomer to the club, pal!
For those commenters who are frantically attempting to find out where the Declaration of War is ... it's in the same drawer of Joe Biden's desk where the Ukraine war declaration is stored.
I'm not real happy about this;
"The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important Waterways of the World, grinding vast swaths of Global Commerce to a halt,".
"grind" can be a transitive verb, but not in that usage.
"Do NOT threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History,"..... Heh. I love how Trump is always going to flick the ears of libtards who have been raging and harassing him and his supporters for years. Just a few words but it causes Party members so much anguish and ruins their day.
Transnationalists. Tren de Arabia.
Who's paying for this?
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“hope the usn can do much of it with naval artillery from surface ships, that would save money“
Re-commission the USS Iowa. That thing can send serious messages, 18,000 lbs. per salvo.
I guess we're going to Yemen...!
@Dwerve, who wants to know: Who's paying for this?
Same people who gave Stacy Abrams $2 billion to buy votes by giving people new refrigerators in Georgia. It comes out of that same pile of cash.
You got any other questions?
@Dwerve, who wants to know: Who's paying for this?
Same people who gave Stacy Abrams $2 billion to buy votes by giving people new refrigerators in Georgia. It comes out of that same pile of cash.
You got any other questions?
I would ask our enlightened Dem friends to consider the added carbon footprint of ships forced to go the long way around Africa rather than through the Suez Canal due to the Houthis hi-jinks.
tcrosse - Nice.
"I would ask our enlightened Dem friends to consider the added carbon footprint..."
of setting Tesla dealerships on fire.
Perve Horson doesn't seem to realize that the Houthi blockade of the Red Sea has cost western nations trillions of dollars, as hundreds of ships that would normally take that route are forced to take much longer routes, often all the way around Africa. This adds thousands of miles and dozens of days to the length of each voyage, which of course means tens of thousands of dollars per ship in extra fuel and crew-salary costs. The blockade is also bankrupting Egypt, which used to depend on Suez Canal toll charges for a large percentage of its budget.
Why did I write "western" nations? Russian and Chinese ships are allowed through, though the Houthis have sunk a couple of those by mistake. It's all part of the Russian-Chinese-Iranian-North-Korean semi-hot war on the west. The cost of destroying the Houthis' pirate forces is in fact far less than the cost of complying with their blockade. Too bad none of our NATO allies have much in the way of naval and air power to contribute.
This will get some results, I think. With the advent of kinetic munitions, the six-bladed 'Ninja' Ginzu Hellfire missile, precise personal strikes can be made fairly inexpensively, and with little to no collateral damage. Let's see if our satellite intelligence is up to the task.
The Houthis have filed a request for an injunction with a Federl judge in Hawaii
"Who's paying for this?"
The estimated losses caused by the interruption in shipping are ten billion dollars per day. Covering the cost of 10,000 missiles every day for as long as it continues. Cost savings are immense, will more than cover the military costs, and give a yuuge ROI as well as lower inflation pressure worldwide. But wait! There's more! It also damages if not eradicates another Iran toady.
"The Houthis have filed a request for an injunction with a Federl judge in Hawaii"
They'll get it, too.
Didn't DJT already promise that hell would rain down on Hamas. Too much talk like this will make him a paper tiger if he doesn't follow through or the usual presidential warmonger if he does.
It's not the taking of action against the Houthis that's objectionable -- it's the manifestos. Act or do not act, but don't bother announcing it in advance to the world.
The US isn't competent to do anything in that part of the world.
Big talk with a small stick.
Given the will to strike, strike hard and ignore the whimpering of the media, the following is nonsense:
"The US isn't competent to do anything in that part of the world."
got it.
THe US taxpayer is paying so that the terrorists that object to Israel's slaughter of civilians and are disrupting free trade are stopped.
Are we on the hook for ALL free trade world wide? How soon do you think until the Jewish homeland "defense" army starves out the full population of their neighbors? Might take longer than we think...
We're gonna have a world war again over the Jewish religious homeland? Where does this end? Their god will step in and smite them... again... before the US taxpayers purchase peace through killing all their enemies...
Silly myths. The stories are fake the dead people are real. Happy St. Patrick's day to all who celebrate. Hug your children tight in case they're not around this time next year....
WOOF WOOF USA USA USA
May God have mercy on all your mother fucking souls...
01/11/2024
MTG post on X:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
The President must come to Congress for permission before going to war.
Biden can not solely decide to bomb Yemen.
And what is the condition of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin? Is he still laid up in the hospital?
Biden admin wants to fund war in Ukraine, control the war in Israel, arm Taiwan and prep for war with China, and is now going to war in the Middle East???
This is insanely out of control!
It’s about time!
No, No, NO! Let the EU/NATO handle this one. Yemen/Suez is in their sphere and so it's their responsibility Mr Blorrmf. All the yelling and screaming he's done lately about Europe carrying their own load and then he swings a fist right into this newest tar baby. Bottom line: Europa is not going to step up until they absolutely f****** have to, and so now's the time for them to either sink or swim. America has bigger fish to fry in its own pan right now and so they need to put out the fire this time.
Like it or not, the USN controls the shipping routes around the globe and is responsible for keeping them safe. It would be a very different world if that weren't so. We can't have pirates taking pot shots at ships and aircraft without a response, and only people not happy about this are Democrats, the "declaration of war" crowd, and the Iranians.
Remember the "barbary Pirates"?
They've hardly bothered us at all since then. We are the boat people. We have many very large boats used in fighting, Granted the Navy is a bunch of pansies but they have Marines to give them backbone.
I don't think this will take very long.
@gadfly: How many billions, sent to Ukraine so far? How many audits performed, tracking where the money and the arms actually went? How many billions expended on the Houthis, so far?
Can you compare the economic impact of both conflicts, on world trade?
Just curious if there's any depth behind this rather simplistic attempt at an 'irony own'.
Where is the declaration of war?
No official declaration of war is required for the U.S. to participate in a war already in progress against it—and the Houthis' attacks on American shipping and warships sailing in international waters have made it so.
UCLA constitutional law professor Eugene Volokh has written about this principle.
Tom said...
Where is the declaration of war?
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Where was one when Jefferson went after the Tripoli pirates?
Note to Jupiter: Congratulations on your appointment as "Grind" Task Force Chief, Transitive Verb Usage Subcommittee. This is an important job. Don't fuck it up.
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