It is a big waste of our resources, but apparently the "elite" want a war in the region and want to continue to profit from the munitions sales. Some of the aid is marketed to Americans as "Humanitarian Relief" to get it past the less-informed voters, but it is actually all to be used to purchase weapons from the U.S. and to help our balance-of-payments while enriching political donors and such.
The Houthis actions in the Red Sea are now causing concerns among the Western powers. The U.S. is trying to gather a "coalition of the concerned" to address the issue. The world's biggest shipping companies have announced they will be avoiding the area and going around the Capes. This will increase pressure on the already overloaded Panama Canal, as well as increase shipping costs worldwide. The only thing now that would make things worst would be if the Chinese decide to close the Taiwan Strait that covers much of Pacific shipping due to currents, a major factor in fuel consumption. Prices of anything transported by sea will go up until this is resolved. I wonder how long the "Powers" will tolerate being beaten up by Yemen? The Eisenhower battle group is now offshore after leaving its post in the Persian Gulf (now that is open to harassment).
Reportedly, the EU is now going to be conducting military escort duty in the Red Sea since nobody but the UK trusts the U.S. leadership. I didn't even know the EU had a military capability. This will be separate form the U.S.-UK operation.
I’m going to have to do some research I guess. I mean, why would the EU have a military grouping apart from NATO and the UN and since the EU is headed by an unelected individual …I’m confused. Edit: Okay, here’s some reference points that tell pretty much everything one would want to know about the “Common Security and Defense Policy” of the EU. Apparently, the EU doesn’t have its own military forces per we but rather a collective of militaries from those countries belonging to the EU. https://thegunzone.com/does-the-eu-...hrough the Common Security and Defense Policy.
What I have inferred form the things I have seen is that none of the affected European countries want to come under American command, as they view the current administration as unreliable and without plan. I guess that is why they are going in under a different set of leaders. It goes to show how far we have fallen in the world's eyes in just three short years.
Hopefully.... Never more likely than now for the long--predicted martial law/wartime shutdown to affect the election
Now i see the U.S. military has completed a pier in Gaza to deliver aid at a cost to the U.S. of $500 million. U.S. troops are now under the guns of Hamas and even the Houthis just waiting to trigger a war if the troops are killed.
The Houthis have reportedly struck and hit the U.S. aircraft carrier Eisenhower and an unnamed destroyer. Neither ship was reported sunk, but the Eisenhower has pulled into Jedda, Saudi Arabia for repairs. The $500 million dollar pier built by the U.S. in Gaza to deliver medical and food aid to the Palestinians has also been torn apart by heavy seas. What a disaster of a foreign policy! https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/politics/us-gaza-pier-broken-apart/index.html
Maybe it’s time to do a George Bush and run a couple hundred sorties through Yemen like they did in Iraq. I mean, why play at war when we can get serious about it?
Oh, I think they have run a number of sorties from the carrier, but it doesn't seem to do much as all the Houthi facilities are underground and protected.
Israel appears to be preparing for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon. I fear that is what Hezbollah has been waiting for. Just as NATO has been baiting Putin to do something dramatic, Hezbollah may be laying traps for Israeli troops if they enter Lebanon. I seems that the Mossad and other forces have gone a long way to disable Hezbollah leadership, it is far from done, as a ballistic missile was just fired into southern Israel. The missile was reportedly shot down, but it was only one of several thousand still in the possession of Hezbollah. Of course, there is also the IED threat that the U.S. found to be a problem in the war in Afghanistan. Those were reportedly supplied by Iran, the backer of Hezbollah.