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2015-04-22 Arabia

White House says movement of US ship near Yemen to ensure commerce

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Does that include guaranteeing the delivery of missles, bullets, rifles, and artillery from Iran to the tin hats in Yemen?

Posted by Mystic 2015-04-22 01:21|| 2015-04-22 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Were the Sods, French, or British threatening to intercept the Iranian convoy ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-22 01:31|| 2015-04-22 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Huthis still on Perim Island, with presumably enough hardware to start sinking ships whenever they like.

Posted by phil_b 2015-04-22 01:38|| 2015-04-22 01:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Nice, but where's the CVN or CVBG, or three, for the South China Sea???

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Bloomberg] CHINA MAY GAIN CONTROL OF SOUTH CHINA SEA [waterways = Malaccas Strait]: US NAVY SAYS.

* MANILA BULLETIN > PHILIPPINES SEEKS MORE MILITARY AID FROM THE US TO COUNTER CHINA.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MANILA PANNED BY CHINESE MEDIAS AS "CUTE LITTLE SUBMISSIVE" OF US |JAPAN TIMES.

* SAME > INDONESIA IS AFRAID OF CHINA'S MILITARY | INDONESIA IN A "BIND" OVER BEIJING'S ASSERTIVENESS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA | DW.DE.

* TOPIX > CHINA SEES PHILIPPINES [+ ASEAN] AS WEAK: BAJA.

Ex-PH Ambassador to the UN Lauro Baja.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-04-22 03:03|| 2015-04-22 03:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Piracy escort?

Posted by Skidmark 2015-04-22 04:15|| 2015-04-22 04:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Show of force with the resolve left out.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-04-22 04:59|| 2015-04-22 04:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Naval sources publicly stated the mission was to prevent Iran from supplying Houthi rebels.

White house later says the Navy is there to protect commerce.

Is it any wonder the top military brass now draws from the likes of Mullen and Dempsey?

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-04-22 09:05|| 2015-04-22 09:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Frankly, I would not be surprised if Obama offered the Iranians the use of our landing craft to help transfer weapons.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-04-22 10:04|| 2015-04-22 10:04|| Front Page Top

#9 landing craft is so 1940s;

gotta use the high tech V-22 and (formerly ASW assets) H-60 vertrep birds.

way cooler and the girls dig pilots.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-04-22 15:15|| 2015-04-22 15:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Another virtual red line that will be crossed by the Iranians with no consequence, and any remaining vestige of Champs' willingness to use force except through drone strikes will be gone. Any takers on the odds that the ROE will prohibit any kind of use of force for an interdiction action that meets even verbal resistance?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-04-22 15:54|| 2015-04-22 15:54|| Front Page Top

#11 HHHMMM, HHHMMM, Maha-Rushian strangez-vous, ITS WHAT IRAN IS ALSO SAYING ABOUT ITS FLEET OF WARsHIPS HEADING TO YEMEN.

lol.

* FYI TOPIX > [Commentary Magazine] FOR OBAMA, IRAN DETENTE' ALWAYS WINS.

Yuuup.

AKA protecting PCorrect-Deniable, OWG Globalist-desired US strategic retreat + "weak/declining" Amerika's future Rising OWG Co-Superpower Siblings-in-the-Hood.

MILPOL OR GEOPOL "PARITY" WID SOON-TO-BE-EX-"SOLE"-SUPERPOWER-FUTURE-CO-SUPERPOWER USoAMERIKa, NOT MILPOL OR GEOPOL "INFERIORITY" TO SAME.

Ditto as per PUTIN-LED RUSSIA + RISING CHINA + OTHER.

Argentina's CHRISTINA wid Nukes + leader of a future Anti-US OWG South American Union - now theres something I'd like to see.

D *** NG IT, DID NO ONE THINK TO BRING WASABI OR SPICY POPCORN!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-04-22 22:36|| 2015-04-22 22:36|| Front Page Top

#12 OOOPPPSSS, my bad, forgot to add TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > UNITED STATES: RUSSIA IS MOVING AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTO EASTERN UKRAINE [separatist regions]INCLUDING NEAR THE FRONT LINES.

Gotta wonder what "commerce" both the Bammer = USA, + Darth Vlad = Russia + Ukraine Separatists, are "protecting" from???

CHINA = has said on the MSM-Net that it will proceed full-steam ahead wid its reclamations or improvements to its "un-challengeable",
"sovereign", Chinese-n-only-Chinese island territories in the SCS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-04-22 23:12|| 2015-04-22 23:12|| Front Page Top

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