#Houthis: What is the US Navy plan to respond? James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, @GORDONGCHAN
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
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#Houthis: What is the US Navy plan to respond? James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL:
https://www.newsweek.com/real-force-behind-houthis-attacks-us-warships-isnt-iran-its-china-opinion-1853867
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/world/europe/russia-interest-rates-inflation.html
1866 Suez Canal
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| 0:40.0 | Over 100 container ships reroute as US weighs Red Sea response. |
| 0:46.5 | Sub-Ed oil prices rising as ships avoid the key transit route. |
| 0:50.7 | Sub-Ed US is talking to allies about how to prevent Huthy attacks. route, extremely disciplined. They are high-risk tolerance peoples. They are aligned in |
| 1:06.4 | some fashion with Tehran. They are opposed to the Saudi regime and they're extremely unhappy with the US participating |
| 1:16.4 | in the Saudi regime's war with the Houthis these last years. |
| 1:20.3 | Most recently the Houthis have demonstrated their ability to take over a ship with a spectacular raid, |
| 1:26.0 | a Russian helicopter coming up behind a container ship that remains in possession of the Huthies, dropping off black-suited combatants walking |
| 1:36.8 | across as if they just come out of Marine Basic. |
| 1:40.5 | These are not ragtag rebels from the mountains of Yemen. |
| 1:45.0 | This is a sophisticated military outfit and has got cruise missiles, |
| 1:50.0 | lots of them, perhaps hundreds and thousands provided by Iran. |
| 1:55.0 | We welcome Captain Jim Finel, U.S. Navy retired to comment on the threat because part of the response right now is speculation |
| 2:06.7 | that Washington, the Navy, in conjunction with our allies, the British and the French are mentioned, is preparing a military response. |
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