The administration officials gave Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic a front-row seat to the planning for the strike against the Houthis – a stunning intelligence leak that has caused anger against Republicans who called for criminal investigations against Hillary Clinton and others for playing fast and loose with sensitive information.
On the face of it, the strike against the Houthis had far more to do with the administration’s policies on protecting maritime trade and containing Iran than its concerns about Europe freeloading on US defense spending and military prowess.
But Vance appears determined to push that angle as a reason to postpone the strike.
“I think we are making a mistake,” wrote Vance, adding that while only 3% of US trade goes through the Suez canal, 40% of European trade does. “There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary,” he added. “The strongest reason to do this is, as [Trump] said, to send a message.”
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The only reason the Houthies are attacking is because the States’ vassal state is doing a genocide, it has nothing to do with Europe, unless you count a country as European because they managed to get on Eurovision
“If you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again,” Vance replied. Hegseth agreed that “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.” But, he added, “we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this.”
The American exceptionalism mind virus.
(Western) Europe is better than America in everything except warfare and giant megacorps I think.
Actually the US are lagging behind a few decades regarding military equipment in quite a few categories already and have also failed several modernisation attempts in the last years looking at offers from European producers again now.
Hate and greed are all they have.
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Older thread with the original article from The Atlantic: https://feddit.org/post/9727375
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Another submission on the same topic (thread removed): https://www.dw.com/en/signal-group-chat-had-us-plans-for-yemen-attack/a-72023690 (via @Mbingu@lemm.ee.)
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