Current Affairs World War 3
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Spadge Vernacular
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Spadge Vernacular
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Has it started yet?
Spadge Vernacular
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I think they are just waiting for a syphilis thread to start in the ale house.
Yes, it started Feb 2022.
BrendanGOT
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Twitter accounts saying UK, France and USA preparing to go to war with Yemen/ Houthis. Not sure if true /probably a strategic bigger picture to it if they do. Doubt they'd do a full scale attack over a few attacks on boats etc heading to Israel
BrendanGOT
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Suppose I should provide links
Oh the irony of someone else wanting to stop the boats.
Martin Alvito
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Sinking pirates is a long way from a declaration of war, much less WWIII.
tsubaki
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Even by the standards of stupid, self-defeating foreign policy mistakes that would be up there.
The Houthis are not - or at least it hasn't been publicly announced - attacking boats heading to Europe, Egypt, Jordan or Saudi. Eilat isn't even that important a port to the Israelis, either for civil or military traffic. What the Houthis have been doing so far is relatively minor level attacks that could and are being dealt with by convoying vulnerable shipping. Actually start a war down there and they will be able to close the straits for everyone, which is going to really harm Egypt and Jordan, and really annoy the Saudis. That sort of thing could only ever be justified by an attack (or really a successful attack) on a US, UK or someone elses' warship.
This absolutely stinks of them being asked to do something to demonstrate how much "we" back the Israelis, probably with the deliberate intention of drawing us in to this war they are losing. It should be rejected.
The west’s obsession with killing Arabs is bizarre
tsubaki
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If only it was "the West"; the problem is our politicians.
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