Update (1305ET):
CNN’s Pentagon reporter Haley Britzky reports that the US Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Carney shot down two drones belonging to Yemen’s Iran-supported Houthi rebels.
The destroy then received a “distress call from the civilian commercial vessel M/V Unity Explorer, after the Carney saw at least one ballistic missile fired at the Unity Explorer & land in its vicinity.”
NEW: The USS Carney shot down two Houthi drones today — one while responding to a distress call from the civilian commercial vessel M/V Unity Explorer, after the Carney saw at least one ballistic missile fired at the Unity Explorer & land in its vicinity: Defense official
— Haley Britzky (@halbritz) December 3, 2023
According to Bloomberg data, Unity Explorer is a bulk carrier and recently transited the Suez Canal. The ship’s last known position was last Tuesday, in the middle part of the Red Sea.
Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the attack.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels issued a press statement confirming that they carried out an operation targeting two vessels:
– Bulk Carrier UNITY EXPLORER (9726035). AIS offline 5d ago.
– Container Ship NO.9 (9340752)https://t.co/Xu3h0mxQJnAIS data by @MarineTraffic, a @Kpler company pic.twitter.com/WrFwFqyQFB
— TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) December 3, 2023
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In a significant development, AP News has reported that a US Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and two commercial vessels were targeted in the Red Sea. This incident is part of a growing trend of maritime attacks in the waters of the Middle East, which have been linked to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
“We’re aware of reports regarding attacks on the USS Carney and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and will provide information as it becomes available,” the Pentagon said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a US official told AP that the attack was around Sanaa, Yemen, and said Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, repelled at least one drone during the attack.
Despite no confirmation from the Pentagon on who exactly were the attackers, one might suspect Yemen’s Iran-supported Houthi rebels, who have frequently attacked ships in the Red Sea, could be responsible. The terror group has also launched drones and missiles at Israel.
Let’s remember the Red Sea is one of the world’s most heavily traveled commercial shipping lanes.
Meanwhile, “Gulf of Tonkin” is trending on X in the US.
The latest data from intelligence firm Stratfor shows two US aircraft carriers are in the region:
- CVN 69: The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is underway in the Persian Gulf.
- CVN 78: The USS Gerald R. Ford is underway in the Mediterranean Sea.
With an amphibious group in the Red Sea
- LHD 5: The USS Bataan is underway.
This comes weeks after the “Galaxy Leader,” a vehicle carrier vessel, was hijacked in the Red Sea.
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The bond market is collapsing and the lumpenproletariat are getting uppity. Time to start a war.
God knows how many years of occupation, and continued occupation in the ME. Every single attack is our government’s own damn fault.
A common sense update on Global-Communism versus Sovereign Nations (senior editor at Ronin’s Revelations). Podcasts coming soon:
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Remember when Shrub Jr. said something like the war on terrorism would last a long, long time?
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
RIP Shane MacGowan
I hadn’t heard. My top two guesses are oral disease and OD.
Oh my gawd!
Could those two drones have sunk the destroyer?
Let’s turn it up to 11:
“US Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Carney almost sunk
by two dronesby drone swarm“Gee Wally didn’t Eud say that was why they were sending TeamusA ships to the region?
So they can attack themselves and claim this or that party “did it” because they say so.
And a good chunk of us dipshits will fall for it.
[Edited to include my credulous self]
Gulf of Tonkin Two.
Sinking of the Maine 3: The Gulf Theater.
But they denied it was an attack on US navy ships.
They attacked US inn the Gulf of Tonkin….reeeee
We (the USSA) are going to fight “them” over here because we (the USSA gubbermint, again) absolutely suck at geo-political and military decision making.
Auntie is looking for a soon-to-happen CONUS FF to get things kicked off in the proper See-Eye-Aye way.
your daughter first
CNN’s Pentagon reporter Haley Britzky reports that the USS Maddox.. ..cough cough.. .. I mean the US Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Carney shot down two drones belonging to Yemen’s Iran-supported Houthi rebels.
Fixed it for your CNN.
At this point it almost has me convinced they are sending all of our forces elsewhere so the invaders can hit us hard here.
Monkey Werx raises that possibility in his Operation Trojan Horse – SITREP 12.1.23….
HR, you have a good political insight.
Have you by any chance seen this?
Smart guy. But its an Islamic ploy to align with a goat fucking caliphate under Sharia Law. Don’t buy it.
I understand the Middle East part, but see the principle in play of dehumanizing the population along with a controlling police state.
So do you enjoy living under imperialism, under colonization [in the West]? (11:00 in the video)
Methinks (((they))) doth Tonkin too much !!!
The US government has no ethics, and no morals. Supporting Israel, is supporting evil in its worst incarnation.
Well atheists have no real morals either…
Respectfully, you are full of shit. Religion and morals have nothing to do with each other. In fact I can easily make the case that the most immoral people throughout history have been fanatically religious.
Case in point at present the majority of so called Christians are supporting the genocide in Gaza because of the religious fanaticism, and their blind faith in a book written by Jews. How morally superior are people who justify the murder of children? This is just the latest example of criminal immorality, going back hundreds of years, and not getting any better.
Mao, Stalin, Hitler, PolPot… all religious fanatics, you are entirely correct there.
“at present the majority of so called Christians are supporting the genocide in Gaza”
Oh, the so-called Christians in the US are representative of all Christnas, including for example Russian Christian Orthodox? And those US “Christians” are closely following the words of the bible, if you yourself look at it with an unbiased view? [which you are not capable of, I know]
But now you need to tell us how atheists will… even just improve the current situation in Gaza.
Where are those masses of atheists demanding a stop to Israeli carpet-bombing of civilian targets?
You have 3 Presidential candidates, that all have sold out 100% to Israel. Why? Why is the US government owned by Israel to the determent of the US Citizens? Is Israel blackmailing the entire US government? Is their control over the media and Hollywood so complete they can ruin anyone at any time? After being the victim of the media, controlled by the Jews, why is Trump still their slave? Why is the US the slave of Israel?
Yes
Thank God the Jews control the weather, the depths of the ocean, the color of the sky, and the number of planets in the universe. Oh, and all the money tooooo
GFY
We have before us a puzzle, a mystery worthy of Holmes, Poirot, or Columbo: the world’s first example of a pedophile pimp; convicted, sentenced, jailed, with no johns. It’s a miracle… far greater than a burning bush.
For the people who really run things Jews may be a convenient historical scapegoat to blame for everything when time comes. It is either this arrangement or that the U.S. non-Jew elite has been dumb as a rock and has allowed the Jews total control over itself. Amazingly enough, the absolute majority of people seem to believe in the second option (hence the idea of ZOG). Me thinks the first option is a lot more likely though.
Jews of all levels except for the very-very top are basically patsies.
But then how come the oh-so-intelligent jews aren’t vocally protesting in big numbers, against being made a scapegoat or becoming patsies?
Well, at least Henry Makow (www.henrymakow.com) is vocally protesting, or at least he is definitely sensing that something “is not quite right”.
Most of the regular Jews (at least all those around me, who btw are all conservative) are 100% convinced that they are being disliked either for “historical reasons” or for being “smarter and more successful” than the average. Any other explanation is rejected as “conspiracy theory”.
Well, I know about 10 jews vocally protesting, Gideon Levy being the strongest example.
Compare that to the number of jews that are vocally supporting the current line of action, and you absolutely cannot assume the silent majority is all opposed.
However, with intelligence and not avoiding going down unpleasant line of thoughts, I personally would be getting close to the point of starting to consider converting to a different religion now, if I were a jew.
The Jews run the US government like a franchise, that is not even arguable. Israel receives more US taxpayer money than any US State.
It is certainly not arguable, for if it were arguable then it would have been a lot more difficult to easily convince everyone that it is all ((their)) fault when need be. The amount of money “to support Israel” must be a small price to pay to have this convenient scapegoat.
Again, it is not impossible that ((they)) control the U.S. (elite) for real, but then the U.S. elite kind of deserves it for being that stupid, don’t they? I just think it is unlikely that the U.S. (or any other elite) is _that_ stupid, hence there must be another explanation for the obvious “((they)) control everything” narrative.
“then the U.S. elite kind of deserves it for being that stupid”
Yes, that is the typical jew victim inversion argument:
‘The victim deserves being taken advantage of!’
But then what do the jews, or at least the zionists, deserve now…
Are there large groups of non-jewish elites who haven’t intermarried with the jews? Who have opposed their infiltration, worked to keep them out?
jews aren’t the only problem, but holy shit this is willful blindness.
If the gypsies were in this up to their eyeballs, and people complained about GOG, no one would bother to say it’s just the ones at the top, the rest are just patsies. But gypsies don’t run your media, your religion isn’t based off of romani stories, etc.
This alone should be of concern for anybody who thinks of themselves as a patriot, etc. If it was any other group, “we” would be loosing our minds over it. But somehow when it comes to jews “we” are willing to take it up the ass.
From goat.
We are sailing to False Flagistan
This time it’s in the Red Sea
Let’s keep Americans Naval and merchant ships if we have any merchant fleet left congress and Wall Street fucked over merchant class vessel construction decades ago In terrorist cross hairs sooner or later the BIG CLUB CIRCLE JERK of Wall Street To K-Street to Capitol Street along with the EU , NATO , UN and of course everyone’s favorite population reduction groups like the DAVOS assholes, WEF & NWO
They can get a real war with navy ships sinking Americans in body bags
Which is what they want to play cover up on how fucked up the free world has become under leftist lunatics
Pentagon just confirmed that the attacks were all misgendering and non-inclusive of white males.
ZFG, out.
P.S. this new push for war is a continuous fire horse of bull shit.
You would do your kid a favor, if you cut off a foot when he gets his draft notice.
You could achieve the same results by cutting off his head.
From the remember back when Obama was President files:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-loses-sight-of-500-million-in-counterterrorism-aid-given-to-yemen/2015/03/17/f4ca25ce-cbf9-11e4-8a46-b1dc9be5a8ff_story.html
At the time if memory was correct the true amount was around two billion dollars. Wonder if any drone technology was among that?
With 2 ships now damaged, and one in danger of sinking, insurance for ships traveling through the Red Sea, and Suez Canal is going either dry up or become stupidly expensive. This will mean disruptions in supply lines, resulting in shortages and of course, increased prices… again.
If this war expands to include other countries, all bets are off, and the world economy will slide off the slippery cliff it is struggling to hold on to….
Shades of Tonkin Gulf. Sounds familiar.