"Anti War" Moron Spends $1 Billion Dollars On War 🤡
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Samael — 10 months ago(May 08, 2025 04:58 PM)
Trump operation against Houthis cost more than $1 Billion
May 8, 2025, 11:43 AM CDT
By Courtney Kube and Gordon Lubold
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s fight against the Houthis never dealt a crippling blow to the militant group, but it has cost America more than $1 billion since March, including the thousands of bombs and missiles used in strikes, along with seven drones shot down and two fighter jets that sank, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the cost.
After weeks of operations by the United States, the Houthis seemed to still be able to strike outside Yemen, launching an attack that targeted Israel’s main international airport just this week. But the surprise deal that Trump announced Tuesday, in which the U.S. would suspend strikes and other operations against the Iran-backed Houthis in exchange for the group halting its attacks on U.S. ships, might be enough to declare mission accomplished, for now.
Details about the deal have been sparse. It is still unclear how it was made, how long it might last and what it meant in the long term for a conflict that began weeks after Hamas — which, like the Houthis, is backed by Iran — attacked Israel in October 2023.
What is known is that the agreement, which was brokered in part through the Omani government, according to two U.S. officials, pertains only to U.S. ships. The Houthis are expected to continue firing on Israel and on other countries’ ships.
Success in the fight since March was hard to measure: U.S. drones sent to determine if targets had been hit were often shot down by the Houthis and there were no American forces on the ground in Yemen who could assess the effectiveness of the campaign for the Pentagon, the official said.
But the effort under Trump came at great cost and was depleting American stockpiles, the two U.S. officials said.
Since March 15, when the Trump administration announced its current campaign against the Houthis, known as Operation Rough Rider, the Pentagon has expended roughly 2,000 bombs and missiles worth more than $775 million against the group, according to the two U.S. officials briefed on the cost. That includes hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs which can cost $85,000 each, at least 75 Tomahawks which run about $1.9 million each, at least 20 AGM 158 air launched cruise missiles at about $1.5 million per missile, and many other munitions.
The U.S. also spent at least $10 million moving at least two Patriot missile defense systems and military supplies to sustain the systems to the region by ship, according to a U.S. military tally provided to NBC News. That does not include the cost of equipment it moved by air. During congressional testimony last month, Adm. Sam Paparo, who heads U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said the military used 73 C-17 flights in moving a single Patriot air defense system from his region to the Middle East. A C-17 costs about $27,000 per hour to fly, and the U.S. military moved two Patriot systems to the region.
“Washington has little patience and a short attention span, and was unlikely to commit the resources and high-level attention necessary to see this campaign through to a meaningful outcome,” said Dana Stroul, who was the top policy official for the region at the Pentagon during the Biden administration.
If the agreement Trump announced Tuesday holds, it could allow the U.S. to justify suspending operations against the Houthis but it won’t likely change the reality that the Houthis can still be disruptive to shipping in the Red Sea.
“The Houthis will stop shooting at U.S. ships for some period of time,” said Stroul, now the research director at the Washington Institute. “But they will not stop firing missiles at Israel, commercial shipping will not return, and nothing will change in the Yemen civil war,” she said.
The EU mission said Monday that there were no signs of an oil spill emanating from the Sounion, which came under repeated attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels amid their campaign targeting shipping over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
In March, Trump administration officials announced they would increase pressure on the group. A second aircraft carrier and its attendant ships were brought into the region; NBC News reported last month that a number of missile defense platforms, including the two Patriot mobile missile defense systems and a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system, were also moved in.
Under Trump, Army Gen. Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, was given wide-ranging authorities to go after the group. Under then-President Joe Biden, many of Kurilla’s plans to attack the Houthis had not been approved.
But there were divisions within the Trump administration over just how far the campaign against the Houthis should go. As NBC News has previously reported, Biden officials had put together a blueprint for decimating the Houthis that required a long-term commitment, and felt they were in a position to put that blueprint into action at t -
Soul_Venom — 10 months ago(May 10, 2025 12:23 AM)
You are a leftist.
Leftist politics are contradictory and self defeating.
You of course being a leftist are not smart enough to see the contradictions.
While you are busy railing against Trump your argument wrecks one of the OTHER leftist causes.
Disarming the populace.
One of the main arguments of leftist gun control is that the people don't need guns because the whole 'people holding the government in check' thing is a fairytale. It is the leftist position that because the government has tanks and planes and missiles and bombs that the people have no chance against the government thus they may as well disarm.
Congrats. Your smack talk about Trump just shot you in the foot. No matter what you argue against you sabotage another of your ridiculous positions. You are too dumb to know you are clowning yourself.
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 10, 2025 12:29 AM)
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AnthonySocksss — 10 months ago(May 10, 2025 12:36 AM)
You are so aggressive because you feel guilty for how warped your views are
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AnthonySocksss — 10 months ago(May 10, 2025 02:33 AM)
At least I have a family, you unwanted bastard. What excuse do you have?
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-- wot -- — 10 months ago(May 10, 2025 01:13 AM)
1 billion dollars. Thats one million one thousand times over.
for one billion Dollars, would you drink £200 worth of coffee made out of the sweat of the fattest guy you have met instead of water?
1 billion dollars, tax free.
