The mighty empire bombs Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, with its most advanced strategic stealth bomber
The mighty empire bombs Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, with its most advanced strategic stealth bomber
This is why we don't have healthcare! So we can indiscriminately kill people only trying to defend themselves on the other side of the planet!
Oh no, it's MUCH worse than that; we're killing some of the poorest people on the planet while they're going out on a limb to stop a genocide we're backing.
It's so... like there aren't adjectives for this. Obama, Trump, Biden, and Harris have spent a decade attempting to exterminate Yemenis, they've killed hundreds of thousands and horribly injured millions, and the Yemenis, far from being cowed, defeated the US Navy in order to stop a genocide. And all we can conceive of is sending more bombs, killing and maiming more people. It's incomprehensible. "Evil" isn't sufficient.
It's still much worse than what you've written here! You used the word "while" when the word "because" is much more accurate.
that's one reason. The other reason is that the healthcare industry is for profit, and profits are good. If we don't profit off healthcare, the economy will suffer! what a stronk economy.
Yemen has only been being bombed for a decade, but this should do it
one more bombing mission bro!!!
Wish someone would knock one of these things out of the sky as highly unlikely as that would be.
Each B-2 Spirit bomber costs ~$2 Billion dollars
Fascist country makes Nazi Luftwaffe looking jet.
So that's why they are called b2
It can be done. These sorts of planes are invisible totally and completely. Until they aren't.
There's a reason these things are only ever fielded against inferior air defence networks.
All stealth aircraft have small radar signatures, not invisible, and an enemy with an active air defence network and enough time and knowledge can use ambush tactics to destroy them. This is exactly how the F-117 was downed by Yugoslavian Serbs:
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They observed the area where the bomber was regularly approaching from for bombing missions. NATO complacency assumed using different aerial routes wasn't necessary.
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Yugoslav missile systems were modified for quick redeployment, allowing them to operate despite heavy NATO air cover.
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They explicitly calibrated early warning radars to detect the incoming stealth aircraft, reducing its range from 200km to just 24km. This gave an express warning of when to activate more precise tracking radars.
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The ambush tactics, alongside the express warning given by the early warning radar, meant they were tracking the F-117 in question at the moment it was opening its bomb bay doors, allowing for a precise targeting lock by the S-125 radars.
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Luck would have it that electronic warfare planes were grounded due to poor weather. This was known by Yugoslav commanders who had penetrated NATO communications and had sympathetic civilians revealing info on sorties. This helped the S-125 targeting radars to work more effectively and for longer (knowing they were unlikely to be detected) which ensured the kill.
An enemy that is complacent, gives up operational intelligence, and otherwise ignores basic operational procedures will never be totally invisible to the right combination of luck, planning, and cunning.
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Spending 10s of billions trying to break a blockade that probably has cost less than 10 million. Ansar Allah and Iran are ~1000x more cost effective and still winning.
The Creator was a dogshit movie but the USS Nomad floating around blowing up the global south was an incredible vibe read
Aww I enjoyed the movie. Yes it was telegraphing its morals so hard it came off like a kid movie at times and some of the internal logic is incredibly silly, but they got a bunch of dumb American meat heads to watch a movie where America was unequivocally the bad guy and they showed what these horrifying conflicts look like from the perspective of regular people just trying to survive
Agreed. Its "Fuck USA!" energy made up for its shortcomings.
Does Yemen even have a radar system or AA missiles? Are they worried about Yemeni's taking cover before the bombs drop?
Ansar-Allah has killed like a dozen MQ-9 predator drone bomber planes in the last year. The fash are likely sending B-2 Spirits partially to curb losses of MQ-9s.
The B-2 is one of the last remaining "carpet bomb" style bombers left in the US arsenal. If you imagine bombing in your head as just a plane dropping a massive torrent of bombs over a large area, that's the B-2. The US still has the B-52 of course, but it's ancient in comparison, so that leaves this. One of them can drop 80 500kg bombs on a civilian population in a single pass
They're using it not for the stealth value, but the pure terror value of carpet bombing civilians. It being stealthy is just ensuring they can't be reprised against
this strike is a message to Iran as much as it is to Yemen.
They have MANPADS (Russian, Iranian, Chinese), and a few Repurposed R-27 (Soviet Sidewinder copy) missiles ripped off some MiGs that weren't airworthy following the blockade and bombing by Saudi forces.
Most of their static radar systems were either destroyed or not operational for air defence when they were seized from the Yemeni army. A lot of them were repurposed as artillery missiles.
They've taken down a bunch of reaper drones (as others have said) but also damaged/destroyed at least half a dozen F-16/F-15 fighters using the ground-launched R-27s in ambushes.
The success of the 9/11 attacks cannot be understated (see Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism).
After a supposed victory over an ideological opponent (USSR), the US engaged in building the "rules based international order" and, after a frenzy of neoliberal export (Bosnia), began to show rot. The cultural angst of the late 90's - unintentionally enunciated in Fukiyama's "End of History" - reflected the hollow promise of the capitalist vision.
The 9/11 attacks forced the contradictions of this aimless and self-destructive impulse into overdrive and spawned an unfocused frenzy of jingoism which served to mask the profound disquiet festering at the core of the American psyche.
That ideological bankruptcy has forced into focus the fundamental inability of capitalism to build a resonant faith in structural stability and justice.