Open Thread #25 - Discussion on Wars in Ukraine and in Gaza
War! Canvassing your thoughts, short updates, etc.
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I am presently working a very, very big essay on the War in Ukraine. I was hoping to have it up this evening, but I don’t think that I’ll be able to pull that off. I’m on the road tomorrow (going to Mostar, Hercegovina, just over the border), so I will do my best to publish it on Thursday. This essay is going to be VERY COMPREHENSIVE (and therefore very long too), and will approach the conflict from several different angles. Please bear with me in the meantime!
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This upcoming essay on the War in Ukraine is going to try to be as comprehensive as possible, and will strain to be of a high standard of quality too.
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Va Armchair Warlord( X)
Excellent video about the recent Yemeni antiship attacks in the Bab al-Mandeb by
@mercoglianos It's very noteworthy the Yemenis seem to be targeting ships at will despite the presence of a considerable USN force - with an ARG and multiple DDGs - in the area.
It's also quite interesting that CENTCOM reported one of the attacks (albeit an unsuccessful one) as using an "anti-ship ballistic missile," which is a genuinely rare type of weapon hitherto only known to be deployed by China. Have the Iranians developed one of their own?
By the way, the large US base in Djibouti is in very easy drone range of Yemen.
https://youtu.be/Fkzgt4YvwLw?si=Z4mfQBOouHJPxJfn