Who's Paying the Houthi Bill?

Chris questions who’s footing the “Houthi bill” for U.S. Red Sea ops—costly carriers and planes vs. cheap drones. He backs Vance’s Signal chat gripe: China, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Japan, and South Korea profit, but won’t pay. Endgame? www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Who the hell's paying this HOUTHI bill?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
By the way, you know, you know it's not not free,
not free to send aircraft carriers and airplanes flying airplanes
shooting down drones.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's an expensive endeavor that we have taken on in
the Red Sea. Vance was right, Vance was right that
signal chat and again I mentioned this before. We got
five countries. One of the five countries that are going

(00:50):
to benefit from what we're doing because we're again Team America,
World Police. China nine point six billion dollars in shipping,
Saudi Arabia five point seven six billion dollars in shipping,
Germany three point eighty four billion dollars in shipping, Japan

(01:13):
three point zero seven to two billion, South Korea two
point six eight eight billion. Do you think any of
the any of these five countries are going to cut
us check d Thanks us, Thanks us for preventing uh

(01:33):
preventing our ships from being fired upon do you think
do you think they're going to cut us.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Check for this?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
No way, no, how yeah, I yesterday, you know, Trump
and other Republicans and you know the pundits out there
that back Donald Trump to a fault, you know, bending
over backwards talking about the success, this great success of

(01:59):
this that took place in Yemen. Okay, if you say so,
if you say so again, I just want to remind
everybody at the time throwing this out there, at the
time Yemen had stopped shooting at chips. They stopped. Now
they're shooting again. Now they're attacking are ships. Now again

(02:26):
they're shooting drones, multiple drones at our aircraft carried do
and all this stuff. And we can, you know, we
shoot them out of the sky. You know. However, they're
you know, they're shooting drones at us and attacking us
with you know, we discussed this before. Inexpensive, very inexpensive
equipment that we have to spend very very very expensive

(02:48):
equipment knocking out of the sky. You want to explain
to me the endgame on this one. Again, I don't
get it. I don't get it. I've been saying this
for some time. Okay, we have to step away despite
what the neo cons want and military industrial complex once

(03:12):
again again they love this. Yeah sure, yeah, yeah yeah,
send all of our neighbor Yeah, what do you think?
What do you think? Defense contractors don't think that this
is just grand. Oh yeah, they make great stuff. Keep
our ships safe, knock in all sorts of you know,
cheap drones out of the sky that could hit our ships.

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