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57 minutes agol| be pushing for democratic, socialist with a tightly governed capatalism system
Isn't that just China though?
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·59 minutes agoOkay I'll wait for the new thread before posting then.
The story around the autopen usage just confirms what we already knew. You just know that Antony Blinken was copying and pasting that signature onto every document.
No it has not, but I don't think that will stop the USA from trying. I think the first round of US airstrikes this time around was more about preventing Ansarallah from gaining more capabilities and containing them, rather than trying to bomb them into submission. Lots of stand off weapons were used, from AIM-154 JSOW cluster munitions dispensing glide bomb (130km range) to the AGM-84K SLAM-ER ATA air launched cruise missile (270km range). The EA-18G Growlers also flew sorties. Tomahawk cruise missiles were also launched from US Navy ships. These were probably used to destroy Ansarallah air defence systems and perform attacks from outside the range of them, before going in on later raids with the 2000lb JDAMs, dropped on the homes of some Ansarallah senior members.
If this initial SEAD/DEAD and decapitation strike campaign is successful from a US perspective, it could enable a wider air campaign. I can't see it being successful in ousting Ansarallah or anything like that, but it could degrade their ability to carry out a naval blockade of the Red Sea, something Ansarallah has been very successful in doing with their lastest Iranian anti ship cruise and ballistic missiles.
Yeah that was an extraordinary event in the context of the war, where Ukrainian forces were encircled over 60km from the frontlines I think? The Kursk tactical encirclement is not equivalent to that, it's not a physical encirclement yet, the Russians have full fire control over the only entry and exit road though. Making the Kursk salient tactical/effectively encircled. If Russia can pull off a physical encirclement that gets detached from the frontlines by tens of kilometres again, then yeah they can probably capture some NATO advisors. But that hasn't happened since Mariupol.
Some of the helicopters to Mariupol got shot down, some managed to make it out with damage. I think the Azov member that did a Reddit AMA was onboard one of the helicopters evacuating Mariupol.
Going to be honest, I don't think the "30 NATO advisers" are trapped in Kursk. NATO advisers being captured are Russian telegram channels version of "North Korean hordes stroming Ukrainian positions". In both cases, it's true that the parties are involved in the war, but evidence for the exorbitant claims is never presented. I also don't think that NATO would be dumb enough to get dozens of advisors trapped in Kursk, and besides the Kursk salient is tiny now, Ukraine only controlled 57km² of Kursk yesterday, the number is even smaller now.
·13 hours agoThe survey is on California voters only. The BlueSky poster either didn't read the article, or forgot to put this vital piece of context in their post. California voters not the target of this podcast or any of Newsom's latest statements (national voters are the target), and were never going to like it anyways. Also the survey that this data is based on, is showing California voters three clips from the podcast and asking their opinion based on that. The respondents don't even watch a full episode of the podcast!
Dunk on Newsom all you want, but this article and BlueSky post are just misleading, it's not the way to do analysis. Showing California voters (who lean heavily Democrat) three of the most controversial clips from a podcast episode where Newsom is buttering up Charlie Kirk and the right wing, is just fishing for an outcome from the start. Everyone knows that this will illicit high amounts of disapproval with the demographic surveyed. That's not interesting and doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know, or anything of importance. It's like doing a survey of a hypothetical podcast stating "majority of Texas voters disapprove of Beto O'Rourke after endorsing gun control policies on a podcast with David Hogg" andbeing surprised at the result.
As far as I know, it was turned into a tourist attraction of sorts, Yemenis could board and tour the ship for a small fee. So probably a symbolic attack by the US.
HTS and the clans on the Lebanese - Syria border have been fighting for a while now, this is it boiling over.
According to Al Masirah TV (Yemeni/Ansarallah owned TV channel), there have been US airstrikes targeting the captured "Galaxy Leader" ship docked in Yemen, as well as airstrikes in Hodeidah tonight. No other attacks reported as of 00:00 UTC.
More US airstrikes in Al Jawf Governorate, and the Yemeni Armed Forces are set to release an important statement at 1:40 UTC, 20 minutes from now.
Statement from the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e:
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In retaliation to the continued American aggression against our country, on the anniversary of the great Battle of Badr, and as an extension of islam's march against tyranny and arrogance, these operations by the Yemeni Armed Forces come as.
The Yemeni Armed Forces targeted, for the second time during 24 hours , the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the northern Red Sea with a number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones in an engagement that lasted for several hours.
The Yemeni Armed Forces succeeded in thwarting a hostile attack the enemy was preparing to launch against our country. Its warplanes were forced to return from their launching point after launching a number of missiles and drones at the aircraft carrier and several of its warships.
The Yemeni Armed Forces, with trust in Allah, are confronting this criminal aggression and responding to escalation by escalation, and will proceed with implementing the statement made by Sayyid Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi (may Allah protect him) regarding additional escalation options should the aggression against our country continue.
The Armed Forces salute all the beloved Yemeni people, along with all the free people of our nation who have expressed their rejection of this aggression.
The Armed Forces affirm that they will continue to ban the passage of Israeli ships through the zone of operations until the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted.
It seems as if Yemen has been able to reduce the intensity of the US airstrikes compared to yesterday by launching an attack against the US carrier group. No direct hits reported though. Anti Ship Ballistic Missiles (ASBMs) used for the second time in 24 hours, they must have been stockpiling these weapons for a situation like this.
Lots of military movement within the continental United States in the last hour, 9-12 mid air refueling and support aircraft with the "GOLD" callsign are airborne. The "GOLD" callsign is usually used for Coronet missions to and from the continental United States in an eastward direction. These are long distance refuelling missions to support aircraft that can't fly the full distance without multiple fuel stops. So a number of mid air refueling tankers provide the other aircraft with lots of small fuel stops along the way, topping up the other aircraft multiple times in the flight. In short, the US Air Force might be deploying a large number of fighter or bomber aircraft to the Middle East for further operations against Yemen and Ansarallah, given that the Yemenis are not backing down. Wichita is where a refueling squadron is based, and the USAF's B-2A Spirit stealth bombers are based in Missouri.
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This is much bigger than the Portugal comments on the F-35, as Canada is actually part of the F-35 programme.
At some point, the libs will be screaming like the Duke brothers at the end of Trading Places to "turn the machines back on"
That's already started, look at all the lib protests in favour of things like USAID, NSA, etc. They want the machine back.
·17 hours agoI ate some of the extra spicy noodles (not sure of the brand, but it came with five seperate packets of spice for one serving, spicy shallot oil, fried shallots, spicy soy sauce, straight up chilli powder, and finally a general spice packet which also had chilli, ginger and garlic in it). I ate them for lunch every day for about a month because it was quick and easy. Eating them was fine, but parts of my mouth and lips would sting afterwards for 15-20 minutes. I ended up buying a small cold dessert to eat after the noodles to complete the meal, which made for a cool hot to cold thing.
Depends on the chillies. They said jalapeno, which isn't that bad. If it was 9 bird's eye chillies or 9 habaneros, yeah that's going to be extremely spicy.
The US literally bombed the homes of these leaders in the dead of night to assassinate them. Just think about that for a second...
Latest statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e, on last night's attack on Yemen and the response to it.
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The American enemy launched a blatant aggression against our country in the past hours with more than 47 airstrikes, targeting several areas in the governorates of Sana'a, Sa'dah, Al Bayda, Hajjah, Dhamar, Ma'rib, and Al Jawf, in which The American enemy committed a number of massacres, resulting in the martyrdom and injury of dozens, In a preliminary toll.
In response to this aggression, the Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its warships in the northern Red Sea with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone. This operation was jointly carried out by the missile force, the UAV force, and the naval forces.
The Yemeni Armed Forces wil not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea in retaliation to the aggression against our country. With the help of Allah Almighty, the Yemeni Armed Forces will continue to impose a naval blockade on the lsraeli enemy and ban its ships in the declared zone of operations until aid and basic needs are delivered to the Gaza Strip.
This American aggression will only increase the steadfastness, faith, and resilience of beloved Yemen and its steadfast, faithful, and struggling people.
The Anti Ship Ballistic Missiles are back finally, but as suspected/known already, no hits/impacts on the US Navy warships. Apparently one of the projectiles (ballistic missile, cruise missile or drone) hit the Sinai Peninsula, likely after missing the US Navy warships.
In the past hour their has been more movements by the US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft and RAF refueling aircraft on FlightRadar24 similar to last night, highly likely we'll see more US airstrikes on Yemen tonight... Also the USS Harry Truman is being resupplied by two C-2 Greyhound aircraft out of Bahrain.
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Only airstrikes reported so far were targeting the captured ship "Galaxy Leader", docked in Yemen.
More airstrikes reported, I'll continue on in a seperate comment.
Announcement from the Yemeni Armed Forces set to take place at 17:00 UTC, just over 1½ hours from now.
To be honest I can see Iran leaving Yemen on their own before launching an attack against Qatar or the UAE themselves. The Yemenis would have to go it on their own in such attack, like they did against Saudi Arabia years ago. At most Iran would give them the missiles necessary to carry out the attack. Iran is not going to attack Qatar unless they feel that their existence is threatened in an existential manner. Qatar is where the US hosts nuclear capable B-52 bombers on occasion, bombing the US bases in Qatar would be a large escalation and lead to a US air campaign against Iran. Then there's the question of how effective such a long range attack would be. Against Israel Iran achieved 30-40 direct hits on Nevatim, but only hit a handful of targets. The accuracy is not there in terms of counterforce targeting for the long range missiles yet. It would more effective to attack oil facilities in such a barrage, the accuracy is there for a target like that. And the Yemenis have hit Saudi Arabian oil facilities with great success before.
Considering that US airstrikes are still ongoing, I don't think it's true. We've heard this kind of thing so many times, and each time the US Navy carriers were fine, despite near misses. I'd be glad to be wrong though.
This is also the conclusion I've come to, that the Trump administration wants to control global shipping. Almost as if they're playing a game of "Risk" and taking key strategic points in this regard. What Ansarallah (called the Houthis in western media) have demonstrated in Yemen over the past year and a half with their advanced Iranian designed weapons is very scary to that goal, it's why Yemen is getting bombed now.
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