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2025-02-23 Arabia

US officials: Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles at US fighter jet and drone this week, but missed

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-23 2025-02-23 03:24|| || Front Page|| [10329 views ] Top
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#1 I guess they don’t understand yet that the next attack will not include a week’s warning and a flight plan.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-23 09:23|| 2025-02-23 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 One says the incidents could suggest the Houthis were improving their targeting capabilities.

I dunno, Anonymous Guy. Being 0 for 2 is generally not the sign of an upward trend. I can understand missing the fighter. They are fast, maneuverable, and have counter-measures. Drones are slow and defenseless, but they still missed.

This "could suggest" journalistic idiom is becoming both tiresome and over-used.

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-23 10:48|| 2025-02-23 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Wouldn’t this be a great place to send the Paleo’s in Gaza? It is already a shithole so they’ll feel right at home and the locals are crazy loco so they’ll fit right in. It’s a worthless place no one wants full of people no one cares about…perfect!

Posted by Remoteman 2025-02-23 12:20|| 2025-02-23 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Re #3: And they're brother Arabs, and Muslims. So the Houthis should welcome them with open arms.

Posted by Rambler 2025-02-23 12:49|| 2025-02-23 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 ^3, 4

Gazans are 95%+ Sunni
Houthis are 99%+ Shia

they might cooperate on some issues but things would soon get, uh, complicated

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-23 13:09|| 2025-02-23 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, I thought of the Shia/Sunni split right after I posted it.
So some Sunni Arab country should welcome the Gazans, right? Right?

Posted by Rambler 2025-02-23 13:24|| 2025-02-23 13:24|| Front Page Top

#7 They’re both taking Iran’s money — they’ll be fine. And if they’re not, that’s fine with me. Maybe both will learn something useful from the experience.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-23 14:18|| 2025-02-23 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 The Iran dollars may be hard to come by based on what Trump and Musk are doing. The USAID spigot is mostly shut. There is a large amount of State Dept “anti-terrorism” funds going weekly to the Taliban, but if Trump cranks down on the Iranian sanctions again, the Mullah’s will have a tough time making payroll on the home front, yet alone for the exterior jihadi enterprise.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-23 14:46|| 2025-02-23 14:46|| Front Page Top

#9 What would hurt Iran even harder is if we can get oil back to around $60.barrel again.

If everything goes right oil production in the USA ought to go up 1M bar/day by late summer. Depending on demand and OPEC action, that might do it.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-23 16:27|| 2025-02-23 16:27|| Front Page Top

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