US mulling direct military assistance to help seize key Yemen port: report
Source: The Hill
The U.S. is considering giving direct military support to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in an effort to capture a key port in Yemen from Houthi rebels, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The UAE has reportedly asked the U.S. for assistance in helping the Saudi-led coalition retake Hodeidah, which provides support to the whole of Yemen.
U.S. officials told the Journal that the Saudis and the UAE will not act until they receive U.S. support, but Washington worries about the toll such a move could take on the war-torn country.
We continue to have a lot of concerns about a Hodeidah operation, a high-ranking official told the Journal. We are not 100% comfortable that, even if the coalition did launch an attack, that they would be able to do it cleanly and avoid a catastrophic incident.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/international/390491-us-mulling-direct-military-assistance-to-help-seize-key-yemen-port
Oh boy more war. Cadet Bonespurs feels the need to thump his chest.
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(476 posts)The US couldn't be more on the wrong side of this.
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(11,841 posts)If Iran would not have started this war to over throw the legal government, there wouldn't be any of this going on.
I love running into people who are as brainwashed as you are.
Iran didn't start the war lol.
Iran wasn't involved until relatively recently, remembering that Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen and murdering its civilians since 2009.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scorched_Earth
Yemen and Iran are extremely different versions of Shia, which US politicians have made sure you didn't understand, and the main claims that Iran was there have been based on their religion, and nothing else, until recently.
On the other side, the dictators you support, have been committing vast war crimes in Yemen for almost a decade.
And who has benefitted?
Al Qaeda and Isis.
Says every single news outlet... Except American ones. Lol. That ensures that people like you support propaganda and dictators massacring women and children, and in the process helping AQ and ISIS.
They say thanks a lot for bombing those pedeadtric hospitals and refugee camps, to help install a Saudi stooge in Yemen (the person who the US and SA want in power ran unopposed in the last election and is backed financially and militarily by SA remember, and his opponents have fled or been murdered by jihadis... That's your good guy).
Anyway... Same as it ever was... Americans desperately supporting massacres and dictators and using easily disproven Western propaganda to justify it.
So thanks for the laugh. Shame it won't help any of the millions of women and children that the US and Saudi Arabia have been starving to death for years, but sure, you can't have it all.