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Will NATO bomb the Houthis??

Frankfooter

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..there's no justifying 12k children deaths franky...there's no justification for 20k civilian deaths....Hamas should've moved civilians out of gaza before they started waging wars....
Now you think Hamas should have ethnically cleansed Gaza for Israel?

Israel chose to drop 2000 lb bombs on civilian areas.
They chose to kill 12,000 children.

 

WyattEarp

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French and other countries are there, but not subject to US command. And they might not have the capacity to strike offensively.

This is a decent Twitter page to start with:

Okay thanks. It's good to see other Western countries have military involvement.

I think France, Canada and possibly even Australia have fighters capable of delivering serious firepower. It's probably a matter of their fighters are not in position and/or have limited experience on U.S. carriers. I'm definitely not an expert just surmising.

I'm not touting American military capabilities just discussing the geopolitical realities. Having said that, it's probably better if the U.S. and U.K. take on the bulk of the duty in the Red Sea. Most of the heat from the belligerent actors in the region is directed at the U.S. and the U.K. on an on-going basis. Although, I still think it's kind of stupid for the Houthis to attack oil shipments heading to Europe and Asia.
 

mandrill

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Biden is dividing world now more than GWB and is GWOT did.
How is Biden doing that, Frankie?

In Iraq, Dubya had the support of the UK and a super-sketchy allegation of WMD's.

With the Hooties, there are naval vessels from a large # of countries on station and a history of the Hooties attacking cargo ships. And the Hoots are just fucking vile. Read the stuff I posted about their human rights atrocities.
 

nottyboi

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There was no occupation
There was no Apartheid
There was no Genocide (oh wait, there is in Yemen, not done by jews but never heard you cry about it...why franky? no jews?)

So resistance best operation is to gun down party goers (civilians) take hostages, doesn't sound like resistance...
So what happened to the orignal borders then? If you invalidate those then the whole resssolution is invalid.
 

Vinson

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The importance of British participation in strikes on the Houthis shouldn't be lost on anyone. This is not just your standard Anglo-American cooperative military effort.

The U.S. currently produces more oil than it consumes. This is even before you account for Canadian, Mexican and Caribbean production. The Houthis (and indirectly Iran) are flailing about at the wrong enemy. Europe is reliant on Mideast oil coming through the Red Sea and onward through the Suez Canal.

While these attacks aren't sponsored by NATO, I bet the NATO countries support these attacks. I don't know the time, coordination and politics needed to bring in say the French or anyone else. Let's just say the U.S. as the world power with the responsibility for keeping global trade routes open and Britain can usually get on the same page rather quickly.
You noticed the French pussies were not part of this. I think they have 5 million Muslims.
 
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