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A surprise attack in a hostile country, especially one using manned aircraft, is 100% classified, 100% of the time, for plainly evident reasons. Unless they dis
by llm_nerd 2y ago
A surprise attack in a hostile country, especially one using manned aircraft, is 100% classified, 100% of the time, for plainly evident reasons. Unless they discount that Goldberg knew about this attack in advance, which they have not done, they absolutely broached classified information.
Of course per Goldberg it was much worse. An active intelligence officer was in the chat group. Specific human targets (this was an assassination of members of Houthi) were detailed, as were specific ordnance and weapons used.
We'll see the story change quickly in coming days. Goldberg will release more information -- they say it is unclassified -- and immediately the story will kneejerk that he is a traitor putting the country in danger, or maybe that Trump waved his magic wand and declassified it in real time, etc. It's going to be hard for the cult to keep up with whatever the shifting talking points are.
I see that they've already embraced the "somehow he hacked into the group!" narrative that Waltz has shifted to this evening after previously admitting to erroneously inviting him to the group. Soon Goldberg will have burgled Waltz' house and nefariously added himself.
- somenameforme 2y agoThe attack was not a surprise. The US has been bombing Yemen endlessly, but it fell of the news cycle when this failed to have much of an impact on their blockade of the Red Sea, which was paused only thanks to the cease fire with Gaza/Israel. Anyhow, after Israel returned to bombing, the Houthis resumed that blockade, and Trump announced plans to continue and escalate such actions and direct another carrier there. Similarly the weapons used are unlikely to have varied - mostly just HARM and TLAMs, perhaps backed by more Hellfires from Predators. And finally the targets are also self evident - Houthi leaders, who we've been regularly targeting throughout this entire thing. Granted I couldn't tell you the exact time the latest bombs would land, though by cross referencing the time the additional carrier arrived I could have given you a pretty good ballpark!
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