US and UK launch new wave of strikes targeting Houthis in Yemen with support of New Zealand
The US and UK have conducted strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen from air and surface platforms, including fighter jets, with the support of several other countries. At least 30 targets were struck across at least 10 locations, according to two US officials.
The targets included command and control; an underground weapons storage facility; and other weapons used by the Houthis to target international shipping lanes, one official said.
“Our aim remains to de-escalate tensions and restore stability in the Red Sea but let us reiterate our warning to Houthi leadership: we will not hesitate to continue to defend lives and the free flow of commerce in one of the world’s most critical waterways in the face of continued threats,” the US and UK said in a joint statement with Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
New Zealand and other allies supported the operation, according to US Central Command.
Jesus wept!
REMEMBER: Most military analysts are telling us that bombing the Houthi is totally counter productive and will only empower them!
REMEMBER: The only reason the Houthi have expanded this attack on shipping lanes is because Israel is committing a real time ethnic cleansing war crime!
REMEMBER: NZDF personnel are target selecting for these attacks, so our finger IS on the trigger, we are enabling the strikes, we can’t pretend we are not directly responsible for any collateral damage.
The inanity of this is our Government’s attempt to put some wall between our strikes in Yemen for shipping lanes and America’s revenge attack for a drone that killed 3 American soldiers.
Put aside the audacity of America claiming their soldiers blood is somehow sacrosanct while there is a mountain of dead in Gaza, Biden is only flexing because of domestic criticism by the Republican Hawks who want to bomb Iran.
How on earth are NZ backed Houthi revenge attacks totally different from Syria/Iraq revenge attacks?
We are getting sucked into the vortex now.
Uncle Winston and Aunty Crusher have sold our Independent Foreign Policy for 3 American magic beans.
They glow in the dark.
That sound you can hear is Winston and Judith digging up Lange’s corpse and taking selfies as they whistle the Star Bangles Stripes to him!
Who had ‘Get into an American War in the first 100 days’ on their New Government Bingo card?
Because Luxon is so feckless and weak, the Hawks are selling our mana and honour to the Military Industrial Complex!
I do not want NZ controlled by China AND I do not want it controlled by America either!
Aren’t you all shocked with the speed of us getting ready for war?
Aren’t you all shocked at the speed of all of this?
Shouldn’t we be terribly concerned that two Hawks are running things?
Winston loves America almost as much as he loves himself and we have a Minister of Defence whose nickname is ‘Crusher’!
How the Christ we have managed to get sucked into the vortex in barely 3 months of this Government should alarm everyone.
NZ should not be helping to bomb one of the poorest countries in the Middle East!
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Look on the bright side, at least Crusher might finally crush a car and earn the name.
US attacks are different from other attacks. The US is- and always has been- a force for evil, and attacking outposts of the American empire overseas is always legitimate.
Here’s hoping if you weren’t on a watchlist you are now.
And you don’t have to vote Trump to understand Trump is a slam dunk.
Certainly this applies to outposts that are in defiance of specific requests to remouve those outposts by the government of the country occupied.
D J S
It’s not really possible to make a differentiation, given that Yankee military bases/embassies are often used to subvert the government of the land they squat on.
If the result of a government choosing to take the decision to free their land from American pollution will be the seizure of their banking reserves (as has been threatened against Iraq, to cite just one example out of many) then they are hardly free to make that decision, and patriotic activists are entirely justified in taking action to do the pest control themselves.
Your colours nailed.
” Stop! Three Wankers ” Ba hahah ! That, is funny.
Why doesn’t some soulless war nut drop judith collins on the Houthi. They’d be fucked. Imagine looking up and seeing that coming at you? Those eyebrows scare the be-Jesus out of me.
And then there’s roger douglas’s plaything winston peters. His cruel wit isn’t that. It’s a trick. He has a script he sticks to which does the job in that he beats people down with a tool box full of cruelty. It’s a learned game and a good kick up his little withered balls would immediately derail his narrative.