USSECDEF Pete Hellsbreath shared this on Signal with the Trumpf national security team which all the NATO countries read: "I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's pathetic."
President Trump claimed this week that Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have been "decimated by the relentless strikes" he ordered on March 15. But Pentagon officials are privately offering a more restrained assessment. In recent closed briefings, they acknowledged limited success in destroying the Houthis' vast, mostly underground stockpiles of missiles, drones, and launchers, according to congressional aides and allies. In just three weeks, the strikes have cost $200 million in munitions, not including the high operational and personnel expenses of deploying two aircraft carriers, B-2 bombers, fighter jets, and advanced air defenses to the region.
So many precision munitions -- especially advanced long-range ones -- are being used that some Pentagon planners are increasingly concerned about the strain on Navy stockpiles. The depletion is raising alarms about the U.S. military's readiness in the event of a major conflict, such as a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
The total cost of the campaign could exceed $1 billion by next week, and the Pentagon may soon need to request supplemental funding from Congress, according to one U.S. official.
This boondoggle cost the Israeli taxpayer zero shekels and potentially jeopardized one Mossad HUMINT source in Yemen, but cost the hardworking American taxpayer $200m and put US pilots at risk. Meanwhile the Shia Houthis are starving and only too eager to get help from anywhere they can, namely the UN and Shia Iran (which is why they support them against Israel): cdn.openart.ai
Historically, extermination of indigenous peoples have been self-funded, like Russia's 19th-century eastward expansion against the Turkic people of Central Asia or the US 19th-century westward expansion against the Apaches and the Sioux. Israel's Nakba is a precedent in that the 20th-century ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been externally funded by the taxpayers of another country, namely the "good ole U.S. of A." media.istockphoto.com
The "savages," as Trumpf calls them, shot down another another US MQ-9 Reaper drone. This is the third such drone the Houthis have shot down since 3 Mar and the second shot down since the US began conducting daily strikes to please Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS). While the US has been carrying out airstrikes daily for 20 straight days, there have been few updates from the Trumpf junta on the status of the operation. The Pentagon has not held a press briefing in weeks and the DoD has been quiet about the ongoing strikes. The average cost of a MQ-9 drone is about $30 million and each costs about $3,500 per flight hour. (Source: Fox News, 4 Apr 2025). The hardworking American taxpayer is simply getting soaked: stljewishlight.org
@#12 ... archive.is ...
Your current seems to enjoy posting links to that website.
But, when I click on those links, I see ...
... Unable to connect ...
So then my next question might be, why the multiple postings of site links that seem to have secutiry issuesz?
I found this ...
archive.today
en.wikipedia.org
... archive.today (formerly archive.is) is a web archiving website founded in 2012 that saves snapshots on demand, and has support for JavaScript-heavy sites such as Google Maps and X.[3] archive.today records two snapshots: one replicates the original webpage including any functional live links; the other is a screenshot of the page.[4] ...
OK, I have to ask, why does archive.is seem to raise security concerns here?
Especially since an apparent trolling alias seems to proffer that URL so much?
Am I the only one who sees red flare security flags being raised here?
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