@RyanMcbeth especially since the US isn’t going to take this lying down. The USN is going to rock up with a task force to protect free navigation. (2/2)
@RyanMcbeth I mean sure but if you look a a map of Houthi strikes during their previous interdiction campaign in the Red Sea they were almost all off the coast of Yemen. I remain skeptical that they have the capability to interdict Saudi trade further north… (1/2)
@ChinaUncensored Why are you such a Trump shill? He’s not even competently anti-China; he destroys the international partnerships we need to contain the Chinese and wastes years of munitions production that are desperately needed in Indopacom on a quagmire in the ME?
@MacabreMacaw@judgeglock Isis would probably have formed anyway during the Arab Spring and Iran has been weakened in Iraq, the new PM just signed a new cooperation deal with the IS and is taking steps to rein in the PMF
@rakishanis@TrueSlazac And this is demonstrably correct for nationalism. Nationalism didn’t exist for most of human history and continues to shift and evolve over time; it is not an immutable national reality and can change.
@RachelBitecofer I mean I despise his ass but the camera doesn’t capture how it looked irl. Was actually pretty cool to see from the Washington monument