Yemen Red Sea shipping disruptions and piracy

[killramos]

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All Canada could muster up is three generals in canoes.

Justin will make sure all the men on the front lines are stocked with a supply of tampons.

[Swank]

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All Canada could muster up is three generals in canoes.

We got this.

[SJW]

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We got this.

Sweet Four on the Floor moses. Nice dig.

[ThePenIsMightier]

Fuck around. Find out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67851897

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Getting spicy!

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a...ce7954ba4155a3

It is understood an unprecedented statement is expected to be released by the UK and the US in the coming hours which will warn the Houthis to stop attacking commercial vessels or face the military might of the West.

Ahead of the statement, Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, said: “If the Houthis continue to threaten lives and trade, we will be forced to take the necessary and appropriate action.”

The Whitehall source said the statement was a “last warning” and if the Houthis failed to stop the attacks, the response would likely be “limited” but “significant”.

Short of dropping a nuke on Yemen, this won't be the end of it.

[ExtraSlow]

Is it odd to anyone else that China navy isnt more active in that area? It's a lot of Chinese good being endangered. I would have thought there was some security component to thier international influence.

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And is it weird how active the USA is, given that very little this impacts good bound for USA?

[mr2mike]

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Is it odd to anyone else that China navy isnt more active in that area? It's a lot of Chinese good being endangered. I would have thought there was some security component to thier international influence.

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And is it weird how active the USA is, given that very little this impacts good bound for USA?

$100,000 of Temu and Aliexpress products.

USA is definitely looking for a war. Biden will be dead before that war ends.

[03ozwhip]

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Is it odd to anyone else that China navy isnt more active in that area? It's a lot of Chinese good being endangered. I would have thought there was some security component to thier international influence.

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And is it weird how active the USA is, given that very little this impacts good bound for USA?

What are you uhhh, what ya trying ta say?

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$100,000 of Temu and Aliexpress products.

USA is definitely looking for a war. Biden will be dead before that war ends.

We will all be dead before those wars end lol

[ExtraSlow]

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What are you uhhh, what ya trying ta say?

Countries often use thier navy to protect the flow imports and exports from thier own country.

[mr2mike]

Xi is after Taiwan. He just proclaimed that.

He's not wasting resources on Yemen.
He'll let the USA burn out on that and helping Israel.

[killramos]

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Is it odd to anyone else that China navy isnt more active in that area? It's a lot of Chinese good being endangered. I would have thought there was some security component to thier international influence.

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And is it weird how active the USA is, given that very little this impacts good bound for USA?

Apparently the Chinese navy has basically no force projection or blue water capability.

They are just a very large coastal defence force.

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Xi is after Taiwan. He just proclaimed that.

He's not wasting resources on Yemen.
He'll let the USA burn out on that and helping Israel.

after that, the koreas will unify

[Buster]

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Apparently the Chinese navy has basically no force projection or blue water capability.

They are just a very large coastal defence force.

Culturally, the Chinese have very little in their history in terms of force projection...going back a very long way. Even that Han ethnic group is fairly concentrated geographically within China to the eastern third.

The Americans going back to the Brits have a very robust history of projecting force to protect their economic interests vis colonialism or other means. The Chinese are rookies/amateurs at that game. And they are going to learn the hard way. Especially in Africa.

[msommers]

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Xi is after Taiwan. He just proclaimed that.

He's not wasting resources on Yemen.
He'll let the USA burn out on that and helping Israel.

Iran helping China to draw attention to the Middle East. Russia helping China drawing attention to Ukraine.

Taiwan ripe for the taking.

Doesn't sound umpossible

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Culturally, the Chinese have very little in their history in terms of force projection...going back a very long way. Even that Han ethnic group is fairly concentrated geographically within China to the eastern third.

The Americans going back to the Brits have a very robust history of projecting force to protect their economic interests vis colonialism or other means. The Chinese are rookies/amateurs at that game. And they are going to learn the hard way. Especially in Africa.

i am fascinated to see what happens in africa
all those deals going down
is the belt road still happening?
i haven't looked into it in a bit

[Xtrema]

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i am fascinated to see what happens in africa
all those deals going down
is the belt road still happening?
i haven't looked into it in a bit

BRI still happening but they are more picky now as a number of them turning into deadbeats, like Sir Lanka.

Indonesia got a HSR out of it. Plenty of 3rd world countries has paraded into China in 2023 looking for money as CCP is desperate in buying friends. Chinese netizens has labelled them beggar gang.

This high interest environment is fucking with everyone's debt servicing ability. BRI basically serves the same objectives as IMF with a few points of extra interest with property right grabs.

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Is it odd to anyone else that China navy isnt more active in that area? It's a lot of Chinese good being endangered. I would have thought there was some security component to thier international influence.

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And is it weird how active the USA is, given that very little this impacts good bound for USA?

China doesn't need to do shit (not that it can anyway). Just let Iran cook while come out looking innocent. I doubt the rebels will go after any Chinese ships in the area. Let US be the bad guys and get all the terrorism or at very least, vote interference via immigrants population from the area.

And the railway traffic into Europe has increased 30% in 2023 anyway. So there are ways out besides the ocean even if it's more expensive.

End of the day, these are not pirates, they just just Iran backed shit stirrers.

[Gman.45]

Ward Carroll's YT channel is excellent, former F14 RIO officer, and excellent golfer/guitar player too. He's run a lot of well known defense websites, and now does his own thing. Great analysis on the recent shipping attacks, more recent vid here.

[ExtraSlow]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67938290

[ExtraSlow]

Houthi drones cost $16,000, and are shot down by $1 million interceptor missiles.

Seems a long drawn out status quo favours the Houthis greatly.