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I'd guess this is a corruption thing and not offical policy. Not paying your mercenaries when you're already having manpower issues seems like a bad idea.

Yeah, as much as we sometimes wish for something to happen right now, Ansar Allah just inviting an all-out war doesn't give them any direct benefit. It's not going to stop the genocide of Gaza tomorrow.

Or at least there is no extra benefit to shooting every ship in range as opposed to small-scale attacks consistently enough to disrupt shipping in the area and place stress on Western economies. They know for sure that they can withstand another bombing campaign better than the West can withstand losing their treats.

It's going to be wild if a NATO ship gets downed by a bunch of cheap drones and missiles. For now it seems like Yemen has been sure not to overwhelm US defences with drones. But it's going to be interesting to see what their gameplan is.

Even just sinking one navy ship would be such a tremendous blow to the US that the response would have to be huge. They would have to pull back their ships if they don't want to risk losing more. That would look so fucking bad.

So then the response would have to come through Saudi Arabia in the form of a massive bombing campaign. But give how much of a disaster the Saudi intervention has been in the past, they would have to do more than just bomb Yemen if they want to secure sea routes again. There's no way that this doesn't turn into a massive headache unless Ansar Allah backs off.

But if they're not even entertaining talking to the US, that seems far off. Either way, the ability of the Yemeni peoples to take suffering commands deep respect. Damaging directly those countries that have facilitated one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent history could motivate them to take a lot more damage.

China has gone woke, now they will go broke. The Chinese economy is going to collapse from this.

They can sorta do it by just destroying NATO from within. The US doesn't have to unilaterally withdraw, it just has to create doubts about its actual commitment.

I keep going back and forth over whether Western governments actually understand what type of government and society they are dealing with in Israel.

Not that I expect them to do anything good but the West sees Israel as part of their group. It's like they expect Isreal to have the same taste and class as the rest of the Western elites. But why should Israel care whether Biden gets elected or care about international support when the US has reiterated time and time again that their material support is unconditional.

It's definitely all cynical, but are they cynical enough to understand the huge liability that is Isreal?

Wait, is that my boy Prigozhin?

In the Netherlands, if the right-wing parties can get their act together and form a coalition government, they will have 88 seats in parliament.👁️

Can't stop thinking about the mad lads in Yemen and how much respect I have for them.

Obama could never.

Everybody is sincere posting about people enjoying stuff. But nobody's talking about how you could possibly feel satisfied after eating a whole bag of candy, instead of feeling like dogshit.

Those small bags of crisps they have in Asia > disgusting Western 300 grams Lays.

Critical support in that case.