• nicetriangle@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Yeah this isn’t gonna go on much longer without a military response, which I am guessing is the plan. Keep spreading the US and allied countries’ military attention thinner and thinner.

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      11 months ago

      the other option is to comply with the Houthi demands that the starvation of the people of Gaza be ended and supplies be allowed in accordance with the International Laws

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        11 months ago

        Even if America succeeds in mobilising the entire world, our military operations will not stop … no matter the sacrifices it costs us,” Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior Houthi official, said…

        Some of you will die but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.

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          11 months ago

          I mean, I think they’d call that an honorable death in some circles.

          Don’t they see the US as basically the Empire?

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            11 months ago

            George Lucas certainly did. The Vietnam War was part of the inspiration for Star Wars.

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            11 months ago

            I see the level of political discourse in this sub has risen to the level of :checks notes: Star Wars references.

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        11 months ago

        No doubt that is why there have been muted responses to attacks - it would look really bad to the world.

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      11 months ago

      Operation Prosperity Guardian is already underway. Unfourtuantly, modern drone technology tilts the scales in favor of the attacker in this sort of situation relative to where it was a decade ago; and commercial shipping companies are not in the bussiness of shipping through active combat zones.

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      11 months ago

      NATO has so many resources, it’s the entire purpose of NATO.

      Saying the resources are being spread thinner is a undebatable fact but I would say not every military/country in NATO had even CLOSE to 100% of people working on Ukraine before Israel piped up.

      NATO can handle a lot more of this shit

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      11 months ago

      They did a good job of spreading themselves thin. Gotta justify that $800+ billion spending.