Got Pirates?

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Iran's bought-and-paid-for Houthi pirates have concentrated at the top of the Red Sea, at the southern end of the Suez Canal. These are not dirt-poor Somali's racing up in a couple of wooden boats with outboard motors; these pirates are scouting their targets with reconnaissance drones and coming aboard unarmed merchant vessels by helicopter. And what do the mighty nations of the West do in response to these pygmy provocations? Well, the commercial vessels simply run away and add another 5,000 miles of water and twenty days of travel time to sail all the way around Africa. As far as The Most Powerful Navy in the History of the World is concerned, a sternly-worded declaration was made by the US Secretary of Defense, and a ten-nation coalition -- including the full naval might of Seychelles, the smallest and least-populated country in Africa -- are involved in Serious Discussions about building Multi-National Coalitions to combat the problem. Hooray for us. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	Well, based on what we've been seeing in the last few weeks, it looks like 2024 is shaping up to be international, act like a pirate year, and there's nothing funny about that at all.
0:09.3	Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, and this particular episode of Right Angle has some actual data in it, so I'm going to have to put on my cogitation spectacles here.
0:19.8	Gentlemen, there's a group of pirates.
0:22.0	They've been operating off the coast of Somalia for quite a while, but now there's a group
0:25.5	specifically known as the Houthis.
0:27.5	The Houthis are backed by Iran, and they're no longer coming after these shipping
0:32.7	container boats, or whatever the case may be, on these wooden speed boats with high powered outward
0:38.1	motors, they're coming in by helicopter.
0:40.4	And they are landing on these ships armed with AK-47s in something that looks quite a bit
0:45.1	like a uniform.
0:46.3	They're scouting out these ships in advance with drones.
0:49.4	And basically, what is happening is the Houthis are being paid by Iran to raid the world shipping
0:57.0	in order to protest the so-called Israeli atrocities in Hamas in Gaza after Hamas committed actual atrocities and so on.
1:05.0	So we actually have a genuine, honest-to-God piracy situation here again.
1:10.0	Steve, why don't we start with you? The response of the international honest to God piracy situation here again.
1:12.4	Steve, why don't we start with you?
1:17.2	The response of the international community, the response of the West, which has provided the most incomparably powerful economic, military, philosophical, and moral force in the
1:24.6	history of the world, has been to realize that these attacks are taking place
1:29.0	in the in the red sea in the indian ocean on the other side on the south side of the suez canal
1:36.0	and so the answer that the west has provided in all of its might and glory is to no longer use a suez
1:43.9	canal but rather to sail around Africa,
1:46.5	which is an additional 5,000 miles or so and adds approximately 20 days to the voyage.
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