Red Sea / Houthi rebels situation

[VincentHanna]

I must have missed the peaceful marching, all I saw was aggressive anti Israel protests.

Hundreds of thousands rally for Gaza in London as police arrest far-right protesters

Huge attendance at march will add to pressure on Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to back calls for ceasefire in Middle East conflict

www.theguardian.com

 

[gingergundog]

Every country on their borders has been bombed by the US in the last decade. Should they carry on as normal?

Ok?
As I said Iran don't care one bit about any of their neighbours they will use the conflict to push the narative.

 

[bingham67]

Tanker carrying Russian oil targeted near Yemen 'by mistake'​

 

[Stelly]

Ok?
As I said Iran don't care one bit about any of their neighbours they will use the conflict to push the narative.

Yer like every country right?

Stelly

 

[gingergundog]

Stop reading your comically biased news sources then, overhwhelming majority of protests have been peaceful.

Literally, millions of people have marched all around the world, to try and make out the majority of them were aggressive is ridiculous.

Not sure you can just assume someone is reading 'comically biased news sources' just because they have a different opinion. You might as well say 'read these biased in my favour news reports instead'.

 

[fastwunz]

Not sure you can just assume someone is reading 'comically biased news sources' just because they have a different opinion. You might as well say 'read these biased in my favour news reports instead'.

Agreed - and these marches are filled with religious nut jobs who have been bread from birth to believe Jews are the enemy. We are so lucky to have them here. A wholly worrying amount of people are marching under the pretence of peace whilst really it’s just a good chance to have a jolly good racist anti Jewish screaming contest

And no - not everyone behaves this way

 

[burtie]

Might as well make a "World Unrest" sub-forum. Include the Covid Thread and Aliens.

 

[imtoooldforthis]

Not sure you can just assume someone is reading 'comically biased news sources' just because they have a different opinion. You might as well say 'read these biased in my favour news reports instead'.

It’s not really about opinions is it, it’s about the rather obvious fact that the majority of protests and protesters have been peaceful. Where is the evidence to support that they have all been aggressive in nature ?

Yes you’ll get some melts turning up with extreme views but what percentage of the hundreds of thousands of people protesting in London (as one example) do you think were being aggressive or chanting death to Jews etc ? It’s obviously a small percentage rather than a majority.

 

[alchal]

Tbh this is the best post in this thread.

West ham.... lol.

Would the UK have got involved if the US didn't tell us to? What's your point?

Iran isn't allowed to look out for it's neighbours? None of the western conflicts in the ME have been a success, maybe it's time to stop destabilising the region further.

Someone is certainly on the mad mullahs pay roll.

 

[Stu999]

I feel a war subforum coming on!

What is it good for?

 

[steve45]

What is it good for?

Groan...

 

[gingergundog]

Groan...

You couldn't resist the temptation

 

[Roar87]

You want the US to get into another war in the ME

If you send Typhoons and F-22's to bomb another country, are you not already in another war in the Middle East?

They've just got out of one that lasted 20 years and achieved the square root of **** all in the end. This is about keeping sea lanes open and safe, the rest is local politics and should be left to them to sort out.

They can't keep the shipping lanes open by dropping a few bombs on a country the size of Yemen, which is more than twice the size of the UK by the way.

 

[Grim5]

Proves what the Americans said is true. The houthis claim they target Israeli ships but the US says they mostly fire missiles at random ships and this proves it, they fired missiles at the Russian oil tanker

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

If you send Typhoons and F-22's to bomb another country, are you not already in another war in the Middle East?



They can't keep the shipping lanes open by dropping a few bombs on a country the size of Yemen, which is more than twice the size of the UK by the way.

Did they really send F22s? Genuine question since I thought they were not aircraft carrier compatible and they have very very few based outside the US typically

 

[StriderX]

All we need is for another uprising in Egypt and we can finally admit to ourselves that Suez should be abandoned as a shipping lane.

 

[Roar87]

Did they really send F22s? Genuine question since I thought they were not aircraft carrier compatible and they have very very few based outside the US typically

They didn't say, but almost certainly. They have them in the area.

 

[Grim5]

Did they really send F22s? Genuine question since I thought they were not aircraft carrier compatible and they have very very few based outside the US typically

No they did not use any F22's, Roar doesn't know what he's talking about as usual

 

[Roar87]

No they did not use any F22's, Roar doesn't know what he's talking about as usual

AFCENT Commander Statement on Strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen

At the direction of U.S. Central Command, U.S. Air Forces Central, CENTCOM’s Joint & Combined Air Component Command, executed deliberate strikes on over 60 targets at 16 Iranian-backed Houthi militant

www.afcent.af.mil

It was USAF Central Command that launched the attacks, not the Carrier Strike group in the area. F-22s would be the logical choice for this type of mission, and it was USAF that conducted the attacks who operate them.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

They didn't say, but almost certainly. They have them in the area.

Like I have said many times I live near 2x US bases and the pilots tell me frequently that F22s spending time outside the US is pretty rare all told.
And again, they are not carrier capable from what I heard.

The F35 is far more likely to be used in bombing as opposed to a F22, (F22 is air superiority fighter where as the F35 is multirole).
They could use an F22 if desperate, but it seems a very odd thing to do if more suitable and capable (from a bombing perspective) aircraft were nearby.

I didn't check which carriers the US has nearby, but many have some F35Bs on them now.

So thats just you guessing then and not a confirmed F22 mission.