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To: the traveler who wrote (1444516)	3/6/2024 4:46:25 PM
From: d[-_-]b	4 Recommendations Recommended By longz miraje the traveler Thomas M. Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575535

News flash--the "American Century" is already over! duh Must be why everyone keeps crossing the border - they should go to China.

To: the traveler who wrote (1444516)	3/6/2024 4:57:15 PM
From: Broken_Clock	2 Recommendations Recommended By longz the traveler Respond to of 1575535

Xiden went 'all in' and bankrupted US foreign policy...actually made the US a laughing stock. He can't even stop the rag tag Houthis twitter.com Pentagon blames 'intel gap' for failure to stop Yemen's Red Sea opsAfter nearly two months and hundreds of airstrikes, the US has failed to deter the pro-Palestine actions of the Yemeni armed forces News Desk MAR 6, 2024 (Photo Credit: Saba News Agency) US defense officials have blamed “ insufficient intelligence” for Washington's abortive airstrike campaign against Yemen, which started in mid-January and has so far failed to deter the Yemeni armed forces from attacking US, UK, and Israeli-linked vessels in the Red Sea in support of Palestine. During a congressional hearing on US operations in the Red Sea last week, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for West Asia, Daniel B. Shapiro, revealed Washington “did not know” the full capacity of the Yemeni arsenal used for its operations in the Red Sea, adding that the White House was “working to gather that intelligence.” He added that, while the Pentagon had “a good sense” of what US-led attacks have allegedly destroyed, officials did not “fully know the denominator” – meaning the reality of Yemen's military capabilities. According to current and former US officials who spoke with the Financial Times (FT), US intelligence agencies saw a “drop-off” in Yemen operations during the governments of former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. “Because Yemen went down as a priority, so did our intelligence focus there,” Mick Mulroy, a former senior Pentagon official and CIA officer, told the British news outlet. CIA operations in Yemen were also affected after the Ansarallah-led government shut down the US embassy in Sanaa. “Reporting on a country from afar or offshore is inherently challenging, and doubly so for a country that has seen so much churn over the past 10 years,” Ted Singer, a recently retired senior CIA official, said. Although hundreds of US-led airstrikes have hit the Arab world's poorest country since January, Yemeni leaders maintain that no amount of hostilities will deter them from continuing their Red Sea operations until Israel puts an end to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. “The US, Britain, and Israel must realize that the policies of demarcation and assertion of hegemonic influence on international waters are obsolete and no more favorable … As long as the Zionists’ atrocities continue in Gaza, we will continue our operations against the usurping entity," Defense Minister Major General Mohammed al-Atifi said on 26 February. As US intelligence agencies scramble to discover the reality of Yemen's military arsenal, White House lawyers are in a rush to find legal loopholes to justify a new war in West Asia.