Trump has not even taken office and China, Russia are already signaling their willingness to strike peace deals.
Vance expresses openly that Trump's administration will "pursue a foreign policy of diplomacy and respect... rooted in the national interest of this country".
The warmongering Deep State will not let this stand.
Leftytard Jimmy Dore comments on the subject:
EDIT: Thanks to u/horstshort for correcting the portion regarding Houthis.
Isn't that called a "carrier" in this case?
I don't see what you're getting at. The Red Sea is basically blocked for all civilian traffic at the moment anyway. Most ships are going around the Horn.
Carrier group cant do carpet bombing anyways. You need large ass bombers, not f35s. It can barely do substained precision strikes. Hell.. in its current situation, they run out of ammo in a day or two. Our logicistics is horrible atm.
You're right, that was for comedic effect. Those causes are what I was suspecting as well... combination of weak leadership, DEI, and resources shipped to Ukraine.
Yea. Im very surprised china didnt make a move on taiwan while biden was in office. Our military is at its weakest in decades atm. DEI at all levels, no strategic oil and weak oil production, shipped half our ammo to ukraine, our country having its own turmoil and divison, and being occupied in ukraine and israel.
China hasn't made a move on Taiwan because they're weak as hell. Their carrier is old shit that used a fucking ramp. I'm guessing they're not sure they can take Taiwan and hold it against even our current military right now. Don't forget, Taiwan can shell the mainland from their island if China gets frosty, I'm sure they don't think they'd be able to absorb that.
Carriers are vulnerable to anti-ship missiles. Hypersonic missiles pose a serious threat and the Houthis are in possession of such missiles. It'd require a major military effort to neutralize the Houthi threat.
Traffic dropped by around 60%. Bringing that number up to 100% would not go unnoticed and would cause more than just a minor annoyance for quite a few nations.
In all I've read on the Houthis I didn't see that the carrier group pulled out because of hypersonic missiles. It seemed more like the game of whack-a-mole was too costly. Can I read more somewhere?
OK but what point does this address?
Why would the American military ever admit that they are withdrawing carriers from a hostile area because they can’t adequately defend them?
You have to parse the news through your actual brain.
Easy there tiger. We are talking about a lot of different plausible reasons.
FYI the most technical problem with hypersonic missiles is targeting a ship, as opposed to fixed geographic coordinates.
I can't tell you the exact reasons why they pulled out. Those are just a few of the reasons why you can't just start carpet bombing or send naval assets into the Red Sea to protect civilian traffic.
That shutting down all traffic in the Red Sea would most likely have severe political and economical consequences. Taking major military action against the Houthis would do just that.
So unless you want to invade Yemen you can forget about simply bombing them into submission. That's not going to work. Hasn't worked for the Saudis, doesn't work for the US currently and won't work even if the US escalates it.