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The US Navy has destroyed Houthi “small boats” attempting to board a container ship in the Red Sea.
Four vessels from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen fired upon the Maersk Hangzhou and got to within metres of the ship, the US military said.
Helicopters from nearby US warships responded to a distress call and after being fired upon, sunk three of them “in self-defence”.
The crews were killed and the fourth boat fled the area.
The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea since November.
I honestly feel a little bad for these pirates, imagine being so deluded and uneducated that you think shooting at a US navy helicopter is a good idea
Imagine being so desperate. I don’t have sympathy for their actions, but let’s not pretend we’d fair any better under similar circumstances.
These aren’t the normal Somali pirates we’ve seen in previous years. These are Iran-backed terrorists following orders.
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I get you
Privilege speaks in status quo
The one surefire way to trigger an overwhelming US military response is to shoot down one of our helos. So unless they want the entire
SomaliYemeni coast glassed (which, to be fair, they might as part of a larger geopolitical strategy), they would have to be very stupid to shoot at a USN helicopter.ETA: corrected location; my bad
This isn’t happening in Somalia.
Were you fondling yourself with a stars n stripes when you wrote this?
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Other then the fact that this is happening in Yeman, the US would likely issue a “proporstional” response. Take a look at when Iran almost sunk a US destroyer (I think it was a destroyer), and in return iran had half of there navy sunk in 8hr.
Edit: for those who may want more details on what happened https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
Sounds like the definition of a bully
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