I don't think so, Afghan was different due to the Russians messing the place up and the USA empowering warlords etc. A proud people ruined by Russia. One thing is common the religion requires a ruler that rules with Iron. It's the only way it works now. Saudi, Dubai, Kuwait none of them stand for the Muslim brotherhood etc. They are removed instantly and never seen again. The west is to soft about it though.
Red Sea / Houthi rebels situation
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Cargo ship crew abandon ship after attack.
Crew abandon ship off Yemen as Houthis claim new missile attack
The Yemeni group says its missiles damaged a British-registered cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden.
www.bbc.co.uk
Just drop a battle group on the ground and start working towards the coast. The entire area is sess pit of trouble and insignificance, Its like we will drag you back to the stoneage with us if you like it or not. So instead of dragging put them in a field and bomb the ******** all in the best possible taste.
Caporegime
Welp, this is awkward.
You couldn't make that one up however given their slap happy approach I'm not surprised.
Soldato
Looks like another round.
Hopefully this thread doesn't end up in SC like the rest
Soldato
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Soldato
Hopefully this thread doesn't end up in SC like the rest
TBF it's probably best if it did. I know it hasn't been infested with bickering like the Ukraine thread but SC is still probably best for long duration and contentious conflicts like this.
^^^ Bit more on the additional airstrikes:
US and UK carry out fresh strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen
The US says the allies targeted 18 sites, including missile storages, drones and radars.
www.bbc.co.uk
Ship attacked by the Houthis 12 days ago has sunk.
www.independent.co.uk
UK ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels sinks
The vessel had been abandoned for 12 days after the attack
www.independent.co.uk
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Soldato
sigh, just declare war on them if they can't keep their own country in order.
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lol ? Their country is in the midst of civil war thanks to the houthi's
Soldato
I really think that we have to stop projecting ourselves as a major world power. By that, really, I mean the politicians have to stop cutting our armed forces and at the same time continuing with the arrogant belief that we can go pushing other countries around!
We can not project ourselves in to the world any more. We have cut our armed forces to the point of almost complete dysfunction. It is ridiculous and we either have to stop pretending the empire still exists and eat humble pie or we have to reverse Osborne's dodgy accounting processes and increase spending on the armed forces.
Personally, I am in favour of doing both - increase spending (urgently) and stop acting like we still rule the waves.
Soldato
That's not going to work, despots, Marxist dictatorships, authoritarian Fascist regimes and all those other nasty horrible cosplaying nations only respect one thing, strength. It's important the UK and other countries who believe in rules based order stand up to these people and show this behaviour isn't going to be tolerated. If we don't then we leave anarchy in it's place.
The question you should be asking isn't how strong or poor are the UK armed forces but why aren't other Western countries helping?
Soldato
It was a civilian vessel on a commercial contract. Unless we arm all our civilian vessels with anti missile missiles or anti drone stuff, train or have trained personal on each one then the hootys will have an occasional win.
We should however keep the bombing runs going.
Caporegime
It was a commercial vessel. It has no armed defence on board. They are equipped with weaponry from Iran. The vessel probably could have been saved had the crew not abandoned ship when they did and the operators carried out a decent emergency response.