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2025-04-13 Arabia

RUMINT: Yemeni gov't reportedly preparing 80,000 man assault on Houthi-controlled Hodeidah port

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-13 03:59|| || Front Page|| [11180 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 Yemen has a government?

Posted by Mercutio 2025-04-13 09:02|| 2025-04-13 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Several.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-13 10:27|| 2025-04-13 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 That’d be the puppet government supported by the Saudis, Mercutio. It’s not good for much, and I wouldn’t trust the 80,000 man army to number anything close to that, or be of much use even on the parade ground.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-13 13:19|| 2025-04-13 13:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps that's the Inshallah payroll number?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-04-13 13:33|| 2025-04-13 13:33|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember the Saudis used to be at war with the Houthis, but after years of the US trying to "help" the Saudis eventually wound up going with a truce brokered by China. The next year the war between Israel and Gaza broke out, and the Houthis started sinking random traffic going through the Bar-El-Mandeb if they thought the ships' noses were too big. Including some ships carrying Saudi traffic. But by then the operations by the Saudis had been wound down.

SO... maybe winding back up again?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-04-13 21:43|| 2025-04-13 21:43|| Front Page Top

#6 As an old friend named Frank once said, "We're going to have a Frank and Earnest discussion. I'm going to be Frank and you're going to be very very Earnest..."

The Yemenis and their Inshallah targeting is a way for the Russians/Chinese/Iranians to turn anti-Israeli sentiment in the middle east into Anti-European-and-other-western shipping action. Yes, they're supposedly doing it for the people in Gaza, but all they seem to affect is European shipping for the most part. It's another way for Putin to put pressure on Europe to not support Ukraine, while his idiots say they're fighting Israel.

While they occasionally hit a Russian black-fleet tanker or Chinese ship, for the most part they're affecting Europe. (And Egypt, which is strangely OK with the damage to their economy.)

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-04-13 21:49|| 2025-04-13 21:49|| Front Page Top

#7 The Saudis (and the UAE and Iraq and Kuwait, etc) _may_ be finally sick of their so-called truce where a lot of their seaborne traffic gets cut off.

Or maybe someone in the US government finally did something. Is anything different about the US since roughly January? I can't tell, I'm working nights, and I get tired of trying to keep up with what all you daywalkers do in the day.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-04-13 21:52|| 2025-04-13 21:52|| Front Page Top

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