Nowt to do with elections and all to do with HAVING to stand with the USA as lapdogsNot surprising given the warnings going out the last couple of weeks, no doubt there will be retaliation and escalation.
Hmm, wonder if there are any elections coming up for either country
Yep, as ever.Affecting other Countries but once again let the Yanks and Brits do the dirty work.
So your supporting Houthi rebels...The Yemen defends the rights of Palestinians against the genocide and slaughter, by the Zionists, of almost 30,000 innocent people in Gaza [mostly women and children].
Meanwhile, the suppliers of the weapons of death [US and UK] talk about "freedom of navigation" and continue to ship bombs and jets to Israel - to commit war crimes.
Yemen is preventing ships destined for Israel, in order to support a stop to the carnage and killing.
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states and we support it.
So much wrong with your statement... you obviously don't have a clueThe Yemen defends the rights of Palestinians against the genocide and slaughter, by the Zionists, of almost 30,000 innocent people in Gaza [mostly women and children].
Yemen is preventing ships destined for Israel, in order to support a stop to the carnage and killing.
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states and we support it.
What's he said wrong like? We're literally bombing them to allow ships through.So much wrong with your statement... you obviously don't have a clue
Sunak still begging for that trade deal with the U.S.Nowt to do with elections and all to do with HAVING to stand with the USA as lapdogs
I hope Biden is telling Israel to start backing off and consider the two state solution !!!!!!!
Jesus where do we start?What's he said wrong like? We're literally bombing them to allow ships through.
Money over lives.
All while Israel are currently in the ICC for committing genocide, not that any news channel in this country would tell you that.
The ADSA ??Jesus where do we start?
1st of all its not "The Yemen"... its just "Yemen"... people that call it that are the same idiots that called Ukraine "The Ukraine"... honestly you don't call Spain or France "the Spain or "the France" do you.?
They are not attacking Israeli ships. How is attacking random cargo ships helping the people in Palestine?The Yemen defends the rights of Palestinians against the genocide and slaughter, by the Zionists, of almost 30,000 innocent people in Gaza [mostly women and children].
Meanwhile, the suppliers of the weapons of death [US and UK] talk about "freedom of navigation" and continue to ship bombs and jets to Israel - to commit war crimes.
Yemen is preventing ships destined for Israel, in order to support a stop to the carnage and killing.
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states and we support it.
"Basically Sunak slut-shamed Biden into acting more forcefully."Bear in mind that the red sea carries all kinds of shipping/cargo ... including food. So the issue is more nuanced than "Money over lives". This is also part of the wider hybrid war. Although related to the Palestinian conflict, it is also related to Russia's war against Ukraine and Russia's wider global ambition. And, aside for the disruption to shipping ... both ways.... consider the climatic implication of sending all that shipping around Africa instead.
I do agree that the US (and the rest of the Western world) should be doing more to moderate Israel's conduct in Gaza.
Anyways... here's my mate's take this morning
"Technically it is probably not a war in the parlance of people with their buttcheeks in a twist (politicians), but I am a simple general, so I use more common and direct vernacular.
Legality
First I want to get the legality of it out of the way.
By international law any naval power have both the right and the obligation to defend freedom of navigation on international waters, and to hinder piracy on open sea.
Let it here be clear that the Houthi's have performed both of those criminal acts several times over by attacking more than 40 individual ships, and by taking 3 ships captive and attempted to take two more.
This has been international law since mid 19th century.
The biggest proponents of this has historically been the Royal Navy, after 1945 most nations have done this.
The Why?
Why did the US participate in what they inherently see as a European problem?
There are two reasons for this.
The first is that the UK forced the issue the day before, as HMS Diamond of the Royal Navy started to blow up incoming missiles it also fired back at the launch sites.
The UK had "opinions" after the engagements about the US not also firing back, and Downing Street held a long call with the US about their obligation to Defend Freedom of Navigation.
Basically Sunak slut-shamed Biden into acting more forcefully.
The second reason is that China also had "opinions", and threatened to send in their navy to solve the problem.
Because yes, it is a European problem, but at the other end it is also a Chinese problem since it is mostly their goods that are being attacked on the ocean, and their economy can't take another interuption of international trade through the Red Sea.
The last part would have made it public that the US is no longer able to be a superpower, not from a military standpoint of course, but not able from the political standpoint.
Being a superpower turns out to be more of a "will-thing" compared to an "ability-thing".
War Powers Act of 1973
EU+Friends now has 60+30 days and counting to get our **** together and get enough warships down there to continue what was started yesterday.
The reason is that the US President can start a war on his own, that lasts for 60 days, after that he must either have congressional approval to continue, or he has 30 days to pull out of the war.
The chance of Biden getting any congressional approval is slim to nill, Chinese or not."
Whatever"Basically Sunak slut-shamed Biden into acting more forcefully."
Have to say that's the biggest nonsense I've read so far in 2024.
Sunack 'the tail', wagging the whole American dog.
Love to see him 'slut shame' Biden into a trade agreement.
The US are looking out for their own interests. The world would be dafter than the Post Office to think otherwise.