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Concern grows within Biden administration as Ansar Allah continue attacks despite US strikes

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Concern grows within Biden administration as Houthis continue attacks despite US strikes

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They know that this strategy won’t work but they continue anyways. They know they can’t restock their ammunition but they still fire them. What am I missing here?
I did write here two months ago or more that the US has no path to victory or a definition of what victory means. But I thought it would take much longer than this. It took much longer for US defeat in Afghanistan to be apparent. Unless you start counting from when the US first started fighting Ansar Allah in 2004.
Fun fact: it was the USSR that helped get South Yemen’s missile program started. Later this technology was transferred to Yemen after reunification. So it isn’t just Iran supplying them.
- I imagine it's a similar situation to Ukraine, US got in over their head and now they don't have an exit strategy. If they just pull out now then they look really weak, and this is especially painful in an election year. On the other hand, they don't have a practical way to escalate. Putting boots on the ground would require declaring an actual war and getting congressional approval. So, I expect they're just going to keep doing what they're doing and try to portray it as some sort of a success.
  Meanwhile, painting all resistance against US as Iran proxies seems to be neocons laying the ground for a war with Iran that they're salivating for.
  
  Lmao man they would actually look a lot better if they just admitted their mistakes and pulled out, if they think pulling out makes them look weak then how would continuing to stay and waste resources and not even be able to do anything about it make them look?
- They know they can’t restock their ammunition but they still fire them
  They can't restock their ammunition sufficiently, because their MIC didn't invest in surge capacity. But given enough time... eventually, they will restock (probably). So whatever they use, they might not replace immediately, but certainly they can add it to the budget.... I imagine that's the motives (alongside typical AmeriKKKan sadism)
According to the article, some of the ships targets were carrying supplies to Yemen. Was this some kind of mistake? Is there missing context? If not, what is the point?
- Seems like something CNN just threw in without any actual source cited.
  
  I mean, it does cite a state department and pentagon official as a source (lowest quality source imaginable), but provides no context. Literally the whole article is written as if Ansar Allah is just doing stuff because ... reasons?
  Even their publicly stated goal of ending the war in Gaza is treated as a fringe opinion amongst US officials. "Some senior officials concede it is entirely possible the Houthis will stop if Israel does" --> Like wtf do you think the purpose of these attacks even is?
  As for ships carrying supplies to Yemen, there are 2 cited examples in the article. One was a ship heading to aden, which this article claims that Ansar Allah said was a mistake. The ship arrived at port and no crew was injured. Important context that CNN leaves out.
  The other was the Rubymar, which is owned by a company golden adventure shipping. This does not appear to be a mistake, as it is a UK company. It was also heading for a port in Bulgaria
  Doing this research took me literally just 10 minutes. CNN is a rag.

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