The following report is by ZeroHedge:
SEE: Escalation: US And British Militaries Launch Large Retaliatory Strike against Houthis In Yemen
Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree released a videotaped address saying “The American and British enemy bears full responsibility for its criminal aggression against our Yemeni people, and it will not go unanswered and unpunished.” Houthi sources have tallied over 70 strikes across five regions of Yemen, indicating that at least five people died in the attacks. The Pentagon indicated over 100 missiles of a variety of types were used.
The US Air Force’s Mideast command said in a statement that a combination of jets, destroyers, and a submarine were used, hitting Houthi “command-and-control nodes, munitions depots, launching systems, production facilities and air defense radar systems” in the operation which followed repeat Houthi attacks on Red Sea vessels.
I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary.
President Biden had said in a written statement.
“These strikes are in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea—including the use of anti-ship ballistic missiles for the first time in history,” the US Commander-in-Chief had added.
According go more details of the variety of weapons systems and platforms used:
More than 15 F/A-18 Super Hornet strike fighters operating from the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower were involved, according to Fox News, citing unnamed Pentagon sources. Unspecified Air Force fighters operating from a base in the Middle East were also part of the attack. Newsweek has yet to verify these reports.
The USS Florida guided missile submarine and U.S. surface ships launched Tomahawk cruise missiles. It is not clear what other vessels took part in the bombardment, but American Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers have been operating in the Red Sea in recent months.
But though intense, it was a relatively brief attack, likely lasting not more than 30 minutes, or definitely less than an hour. Videos of large fireballs lighting up the night sky flooded social media as key cities like Saana and the port city of Hodeidah were hit, where there also remain large population centers.
But again, the key takeaway here is that after these brief fireworks which many officials have complained comes much too belatedly (though some US lawmakers have already highlighted there was no Congressional approval), the Houthis are likely soon to resume their attacks. Also likely is that there will eventually be more rounds of coalition strikes on Yemen as the crisis endures. Thursday night’s attack is likely to actually result in further reduced commercial shipping traffic in Red Sea waters now visited by war:
- MILITARY ADVISES SHIPS TO AVOID BAB EL-MANDEB: INTERTANKO NOTE
- OIL TANKER FIRM HALTS RED SEA TRIPS AFTER US STRIKES: BBG
- Hafnia has stopped all southern Red Sea shipping, according to a statement from a spokeswoman for the company.
- Tanker Carrying Saudi Crude to Suez U-Turns Before Gulf of Aden: BBG
Videos (unverified) of large fireballs on the horizon have been widely circulating…
A Foreign Ministry statement by a Houthi spokesman, Hussein al-Ezzi, acknowledged “a massive aggressive attack by American and British ships, submarines and warplanes” before going on to say that “America and Britain will undoubtedly have to prepare to pay a heavy price and bear all the dire consequences of this blatant aggression.”
Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the Houthis’ chief negotiator and spokesperson, additionally said the Western powers have “committed foolishness with this treacherous aggression.”
“They were wrong if they thought that they would deter Yemen from supporting Palestine and Gaza,” he said in an online statement, vowing further that “targeting will continue to affect Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine.”
Yemenis remain defiant, attending large Friday anti-US demonstrations…
The Pentagon has said that it has no plans to send more troops or assets to the region for now, and will monitor the situation, also as all eyes are on US bases in Iraq and Syria, as American forces brace for potential retaliatory attacks from Iran-backed militias.
Importantly, CENTCOM had called out the Iranians specifically.
We hold the Houthi militants and their destabilizing Iranian sponsors responsible for the illegal, indiscriminate, and reckless attacks on international shipping that have impacted 55 nations so far, including endangering the lives of hundreds of mariners, including the United States.
Said General Michael Erik Kurilla, USCENTCOM Commander.
Meanwhile, Dave DeCamp at AntiWar.com provides the following brief backgrounder of the history of the war which raged in Yemen going back to 2015. Interestingly, Saudi Arabia was quick to distance itself from Thursday night’s major Western coalition operation…
SEE: World War III: Yemen’s Houthis Militants Declare War On Israel And Launch Drone Strikes
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The US and its allies have a history of killing civilians in Yemen, as the UN estimated in 2021 that about 377,000 people were killed by the US-backed Saudi/UAE war against the Houthis that started in 2015. More than half died of starvation and disease caused by the blockade and the coalition’s brutal bombing campaign.
The strikes risk shattering a fragile truce between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition that’s held since April 2022, although the Saudis have distanced themselves from the US anti-Houthi activity in the Red Sea.
Some members of Congress have criticized President Biden for launching the strikes in Yemen without congressional authorization. “The President needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen and involving us in another middle east conflict. That is Article I of the Constitution,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) wrote on X.
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There is no slowing down the war machine. All signs continue to point towards an obvious expansion of this war, and yet so many people still just don’t care and chose to remain willfully ignorant of it, like they do with everything else. Be ready for a false flag event to greatly exacerbate this war. SEE: Be Ready For A False Flag Attack To Greatly Expand The West’s And East’s Involvement In The War With Israel And Hamas
[7] And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. [8] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. Mark 13:7-8
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew 24:6-8
A false flag is coming to America and perhaps other nations as well even. Meanwhile, Americans are still too obsessed with who’s going to win the Super Toilet Bowl and if their crush will ask them out on Valentin Day. But that’s soon about to change when this false flag strikes – whether it’s a bomb, an airliner explodes, or an airstrike on over a dozen U.S. cities, a ferocious event is about to take place!
Many elders watch & understand. Prepping as can, praying & realizing powerlessness of the situation outside of what the Lord permits otherwise as prophecy unfolds: maturity, experience & sobriety puts a rein on flapping lips & an undisciplined tongue. Allowing for resting in Christ, without going limp to disobedience.
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Not all the ‘gods’ and puppetmasters are American (and Ephesians 6 should be kept in mind…with Jude, concerning the real battle & enemy), but the great blameshifting to Jews & free Americans, free by the grace of God & remnants of godly law in our Bill of Rights & Constitution….is part of the plan of the deceiving & being deceived as they move towards their goal of setting their man on a throne in Jerusalem w/ godlike power of surveillance& absolute control.
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No doubt a crusade to incite & remove many sons of Ishmael in their way is equally part of their plan. They will have their desire, and their desire will be part of their judgment. We have some evidence of chastening & repentance scripturally & historically for God’s servant Nebuchadnezzar…..but scripturally & historically though Cyrus and Alexander were both impressed to see their part in God’s plan & written word coming of the prophets…both still died diehard pagans. We can bet there are many to be warned accordingly:
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James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
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God is not mocked. He will judge the tools of his judgment as has always been the case, & all they do is fulfill the word they mock & deny on the wrong side & by their own free will choices: even those who deny having a choice, copping out with the wresting of what’s written concerning God’s election and sovereignty used to excuse their sin & abuse of neighbor & brethren. Setting themselves up for the final judgment & killing vengeance of the Lord’s return after the worst time this wicked world will ever see.
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Bible believing America was the last gasp of Philadelphia before the worldly European Thyatira & Sardis overcame & Laodicean vomit-inducing lukewarmness, apathy & presumptuous idolatry came to the majority & fore with them. Men now fall back to European Augustinian Calvinism and Rome left & right, even in the KJVO camp with their ‘revised’ dispensationalism, & their Trinitarian Society ‘defense’ of the King James Bible understood & interpreted through their philosophical grid, replacement & so-called ‘covenant’ theology.
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They don’t understand the kingdoms biblically. They get their Bible understanding secondhand via men & supposed scholarly tricks, techniques and shortcuts.
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But there are no shortcuts. And all have fallen short of the glory of God.
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The leaven of false doctrine & hypocrisy has been puffing & working through & leavening the mass….and anyone who is familiar with baking bread recognizes what happens next with such bread: the mass collapses in on itself, and any loaf coming of that mass is harder than a rock if not utterly unpalatable: inedible. Fit only as doorstops. Bricks.
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Calvinism and Augustinianism came to America, but they were not born or fully received here at the first because of men & women who read & believed that King James Bible, the simplicity of Christ, as written. Even those founders who were but deists recognized the danger & hypocrisy of that crowd, as did King James VI of Scotland raised amongst them & become King James I of Great Britain.
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And God blessed, and blesses, that. You just can’t ride the fence on that forever as the deists, or ride on one generation’s spiritual life& capital forever: every generation is responsible to pass on the knowledge of God, and even so, each generation must rediscover & relate to the Lord for themselves. Accountability & responsibility cannot be put off onto others without loss.
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Every dispensation ends with the failing of men that is nonetheless read by them as some sort of self-righteous triumph, at least for the ‘superiors’, the ‘survivors’, the scholars with their pride of life & shifted allegiances to their institutions, corporations & popes/ceo’s….those passing the buck & riding the ‘wave’ thinking themselves to be the ones ‘winning’, ‘wiser’ etc….(both of those are serpentine ‘wisdom’) ……until ultimately it ends with Babylon: confusing the increase of knowledge with ‘progress’ in their climb toward heaven on the builders’ self-made bridge; & corruption & self-advancement, ungodly gain from either end, with godliness.
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Then, when the ‘wisdom’ & the ‘salvation’ fails: the bitterness & blameshifting begins, with bloodshed following.
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Rats & traitors & cowards desert a sinking ship. Godly men repent, sanctify themselves & plead for God’s mercy, & for courage, then fight on, or at least stand, until & unless the call to abandon ship in orderly fashion comes by word of our great Commander as in Acts 27.
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Do we think that Paul was out of God’s purpose, order & care because he ended on that doomed Alexandrian ship headed for Rome, in it and not of it, warning all aboard of the greater peril concerning their souls, aiding, preparing, encouraging, exhorting those around him by God’s word as the ship was driven in hard to the roughest, shallow waters before breaking up & the order to disembark finally came? All delivered, but not easily, and as it was with the Lord’s temptation, Paul shook off the venomous viper, but the devil only departed for a time. And to Paul’s bodily loss, but to his….and our potential…eternal gain, he went on to a time of fruitful labor as God’s prisoner before he was beheaded by order of a mighty man, man of sin, Pontifex Maximus’s decree.
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So much for ‘your best life now’. For such, there’s still Hell to pay.
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And, will it not be so until the end? His head is bruised, but not yet crushed. The redeemed of this age are greatly blessed with the blessed hope. The final & worst trials of the Jews have but begun, and the Gentile men going into that time in the flesh end with many failing even under the Lord’s perfect governance & with him visible for a thousand years, even as at the first in Eden? Sin, trial and failure will still be around until after Gog and Magog’s final rebellion, when the devil is not just bound but cast alive into the lake of fire where the beast and false prophet will already be, this heavens and earth be dissolved, the new heavens and earth be come?
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We of this age are blessed with great opportunity coming with great & sobering responsibility & accountability. Do we realize & understand that? Do we see beyond our own circumstance & the bitterness & consequence of our own sin & lack, even as a part of the whole bringing judgment on this world? Blaming?
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Such understanding only comes of 2 Timothy 2:15 & context not only read, but obeyed day by day to freedom indeed & beyond to sanctification & rest in the Lord. Redeem the time. Use your time and energy wisely to what will endure.