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HSV 2 sunk by Iranian supplied ASCM

Uncle Fester

Robot Pimp
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Yemen is another front in the ongoing Islamic civil war. Or perhaps Islamic Cold War might be a better analogy - Iran and KSA fighting each other via Shi'a and Sunni clients and proxies and terror groups across the Muslim world. Our policy of trying to stay out of the various fronts while wanting to influence the players is largely incoherent because we don't seem to get how it's all connected behind the scenes.

What I don't get is why someone in Yemen is trying to drag the US into the war. Time is largely on the Houthis' side and they'd be better off bleeding the Saudis and Emiratis until they get fed up and leave, like they did to the Egyptians during the Yemeni civil war (Yemen is referred to by Egyptian historians as "the Egyptian Vietnam"). I don't see what they stand to gain by involving us directly.
 

nittany03

Recovering NFO. Herder of Programmers.
pilot
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The US has interests in the free flow of commerce in and around the Red Sea. We'll respond to provocations involving our ships. That's about all that needs to be said in open source, so let's not start dickering over the details of what the USG is, isn't, or may be doing. If you think people aren't looking here to see what "US military people who would know" think, you're wrong.
 

picklesuit

Dirty Hinge
pilot
Contributor
The US has interests in the free flow of commerce in and around the Red Sea. We'll respond to provocations involving our ships. That's about all that needs to be said in open source, so let's not start dickering over the details of what the USG is, isn't, or may be doing. If you think people aren't looking here to see what "US military people who would know" think, you're wrong.
Fuckin' Jublov...
 

Flash

SEVAL/ECMO
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Super Moderator
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Or, to GTFO. None of this helps the ceasefire we want to see in Iran and Saudi Arabia's proxy war. (Yes I realize X trillion in global shipping goes through that straight.)

It is spelled 'strait', important distinction for us Navy folk.
 

wink

War Hoover NFO.
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I know you understand the need for accurate language that everyone in the conversation agrees with the definition. If either person thinks a word means something different then we're not communicating effectively.

"US funding Iranian backed terrorists" and "Previsouly frozen Iranian funds released back to Iran are used to fund terrorists" have a lot of the same words but say two very different things (to me at least).
Except that I can't find those phrases used in any post here. You have made this into something that could be misunderstood. You can't criticize someone for something they didn't say.
 

Brett327

Well-Known Member
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Come on, Wink. You can't seriously feign innocence that this isn't a rhetorical tactic to make it appear a certain way to those who don't understand the nuance here. Nobody believes that and you lose credulity when you imply otherwise.
 

Pags

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pilot
Except that I can't find those phrases used in any post here. You have made this into something that could be misunderstood. You can't criticize someone for something they didn't say.
Those phrases weren't used by anyone here. I used quotes to highlight the hypothetical headlines I made up to illustrate the nuanced difference between the phrases. Sorry for the confusion.
 
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