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US navy certainly doesn't sound pleased with the having its ass kicked by Yemen https://apnews.com/article/us-navy-yemen-houthis-israel-war-7a9997f9d84ac669fae69ecf819913fb
Ass kicked?, considering they have to act in a limited way currently, but if Russia ramps up it's involvement you get this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/middleeast/american-commandos-russian-mercenaries-syria.html
Or
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/you-ought-go-home-f-22-raptor-flew-under-irans-f-4-phantom-undetected-207455
Edit: to be clear here, I'm not stanning for the us military, I'm suggesting the US mic would LOVE to openly contest Russian interests and are certainly itching for the opportunity. Ukraine is not that place, but Syria can be.
Edit edit the linked article doesn't show an ass kicking, it shows a contested navel space, which it sounds like is going "just fine", but is risky. And obviously insanely expensive.
Yes, ass kicked because US navy failed to accomplish its primary mission which was to keep the waterway open for the empire.
https://www.worldwideerc.org/news/mobility/turmoil-in-the-middle-east-and-its-impact-on-shipping
A contested naval space between US navy and a country that doesn't have a navy. 😂
US also spent over a billion dollars trying to attack Yemen with nothing to show for it https://en.royanews.tv/news/52092/2024-06-15
Ass kicked implies lost lives, lost vessels, lost territory of operation. The ships are still there, they are just busy.
It's nothing new and nothing about the houthis or the us navy that makes mobile land launched missiles and drones a competent challenge to ships at sea.
The normal follow up would be to fuck off or start blasting the whole coast. The fact that we are seeing a third option is interesting.
No, ass kicking implies being defeated in what you set out to do which was to protect shipping. US navy failed to do its mission. It was defeated by Yemen. Blasting the whole coast was precisely what US tried to do at the start with the air strikes, and that achieved nothing. Furthermore, it's pretty clear that US lacks the industrial capacity and supply chains to maintain this for much longer.
No, blasting the coast is desert storm levels of obliteration, anything less is as I said earlier "one arm behind back".
Military Ships are still there, commercial ships are still traveling there.
Edit there's lots to disagree on rationally, but the depth of the US mic is not anywhere close to being tapped, by ability.
US doesn't have this capability kiddo.
What part of commercial traffic having dropped by 90% are you struggling with there?
you keep on coping
Hah ad hominems after you dodged half my original points. Cya!
When you definitely know what ad hominem means, also nobody dodged any of your "points". I addressed them repeatedly, but I guess lacking basic reading comprehension you had trouble understanding what I wrote.
"kiddo"
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Confusing insults with ad hominem is a common mistake that individuals with low intellectual capacity make.
No, you weren't just insulting me, you were trying to devalue my presence in the discussion by painting me a child, in turn diluting my position.
That's classic ad hominem because the insult was tied to the possible value of the argument.
Now you're just insulting me, and still not addressing my argument / position / points.
You're slap fighting all on your own now, as I won't engage in that edit by calling you things back.
Pro tip. If you don't want people to call you a child then don't act like one.
Bye