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April 29, 2025 - The David Knight Show
18:35
750 Airstrikes & Counting: Trump’s Unauthorized Yemen War Explodes
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The U.S. has launched 750 airstrikes on Yemen since March the 15th.
Yeah, six weeks of this.
750 airstrikes.
We've got a full-on war.
Has anybody debated that?
Have any discussion about whether or not we want to do that?
This is for Israel.
It is for Saudi Arabia, this Yemen war that is there.
The Yemeni group is also not deterred by a U.S.-U.K.
bombing campaign that was conducted under Biden.
From January 2024 to January 2025.
Just a bipartisan thing.
This is all being done in your name and with your debt.
This is what is happening.
That's where the plane fell off the ship.
The only thing that was able to stop the Houthi attack on Israel and the Red Sea shipping was the Gaza ceasefire.
And after that was violated by Israel, it started again.
And all of this bombing campaign, 750 airstrikes, have not stopped the Houthis.
They announced that they would impose their blockade on Israeli shipping.
In response to that announcement, the U.S. began bombing Yemen yet again.
Yemeni air defenses have taken out multiple Reaper drones, which are worth $30 million each, downing seven of them in the month of April alone.
The Houthis have also continued to launch missile and drone attacks.
On Israel and on U.S. warships in the region.
As I said before, we now have asymmetric air warfare.
They can take out our $30 million drones with, I don't know how much their missiles are, but I guarantee you that they're nowhere close to $30 million.
We have seen asymmetric warfare in occupied areas like Iraq and Afghanistan.
you know we go in with shock and awe and air support and we take them out and now the question is you know what do we do with this um air warfare that is there now we've got the asymmetric warfare as far as drones are going the u.s has been
bombing yemen using two aircraft carriers in
The Pentagon has shared virtually no details about its war, which was not authorized by Congress, but it is likely...
The bombing campaign has already cost billions in just one month.
So you really believe that they're going to get rid of the income tax?
You think they're going to somehow balance the budget?
I don't think so at all.
As a matter of fact, Peter Hitchens, who is the brother of Christopher Hitchens, the glib atheist who died a few years ago.
Peter is a Christian, but he is also a conservative.
And he said, they lied to us about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and now they've taken it to another level with Ukraine.
With Ukraine.
He said, in my trade, as a reporter, writer, he says, I've long grown used to the way that governments lie and get others to lie for them.
It is what they do.
But I have seldom seen such a cloud of lies as we now face.
Hardly anyone in this country, in the UK, and I would say in the US either, knows the truth about Ukraine.
There's been nothing like it since we were all lied to about the Iraq invasion, with all the bilge about fictional weapons of mass destruction.
And I would remind you again, who was it that created those lies?
It was Gina Haspel who did it with that torture program, and she took the lies that were created with the torture program.
You can torture people, get them to say whatever you want.
See, he said this.
She shops that.
To the Bush White House, these lies about weapons of mass destruction, we got lied into the Iraq War.
Trump even called that out, and yet he appointed Gina Haspel, who ran all of that and who sold all the lies.
He made her the head of the CIA in his first term.
Yeah, that's the amazing thing about it.
Like Dave Chappelle said, What's amazing about Trump is he comes out and he tells you the truth and then he comes out of the building and the meeting, you know, where this club is meeting and tells you, you can't believe the kind of stuff that they're doing in there.
And then he goes right back in and he joins them again.
We got lied into the Iraqi war about lies with weapons of mass destruction.
And then he goes right back in and he appoints her the head of the CIA.
He said, well, what did they learn from all this?
They learned how to lie even more skillfully, says Peter Hitchens.
We have never had a debate about the Ukraine crisis which started from the beginning.
Not in the U.S. and not in his U.K. Have we ever had a debate about this stuff?
He says, did anyone in power ever tell you truthfully how and when or why this war began?
No.
Did anyone in power explain why Britain Crime-blighted, decrepit, rubbish-strewn, rat-infested, broke Britain.
Had to get involved in it?
No, never.
You have just been fed propaganda rubbish about democracy and freedom and an invented Russian menace.
The war, they say, was not provoked.
Seldom in history was a war more provoked.
Russians...
He says nice ones like the liberal democratic politician Yegor Gaidar and nasty ones like despot Putin begged the West to stop trundling its military alliance NATO eastward towards Russia.
All Russians, including the great anti-communist author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, We're shocked and angered when NATO in 1999 abruptly gave up its defensive posture and launched attacks on Yugoslavia,
which had not attacked a NATO member.
Yeah, think about that.
Solzhenitsyn was astonished at that.
And Christopher Hitchens is right to take this back to the Yugoslavian war.
Russians have said, and I've alluded to it, Briefly, the fact that Russians have said, well, when we saw that, we realized that NATO was coming for Russia, even though the Cold War was over.
It wasn't over, as far as NATO was concerned.
They wanted more territory.
And so, yeah, it really did begin back there with Yugoslavia.
But then it got even bigger.
These protests reached their peak in February 2007, when Putin made a dramatic speech in Munich.
He said, NATO expansion was, quote, a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust.
We have the right to ask, he said, against whom is this expansion intended, unquote.
Christopher Hitchens says, George W. Bush, the genius who invaded Iraq, deliberately raised the temperature the following year.
Can it be that Bush likes wars?
So Putin says that.
So he says, so why are you increasing this, right?
That's eight years after they had attacked Yugoslavia.
And everybody was amazed that that was happening.
But, you know, hey, we're just, who cares, right?
We're America.
We get to do whatever we want.
So in April of 2008, Bush said that Ukraine should be placed on the path towards joining NATO.
Even The Guardian, the liberal warmonger's gazette, conceded that this was, quote, likely to infuriate the Kremlin.
And so it did.
And so he says, I suspect that we were on the path to war from that moment on.
I am always accused when I say that of making excuses for Putin, but I am not.
I think he was stupid as well as wrong to be provoked.
Wise men ignore provocations, but to claim that he was not provoked is to lie.
And I agree exactly with Christopher Hitchens.
I was absolutely surprised that he took the bait and moved into Ukraine.
We knew that they were doing everything they could to provoke it.
I was surprised that he took the bait.
Another lie we repeatedly told is that Russia attacked Georgia later in 2008.
But anyone can find on the web a 2009 Reuters news agency story headlined, Georgia started the war with Russia, says an EU-backed report.
So the EU's own report says that Georgia...
Ukraine started this, the war with Russia, not the other way around.
And that was made public by Reuters, among others.
He says, and then there's the claim that this is about democracy and freedom.
It's not.
The more the West claims to care for these things, the less it does to help them.
Ukraine's elected president was lawlessly overthrown by a mob in 2014.
That mob has three initials, CIA.
He doesn't go there.
I'll go there.
He says, Britain and the USA condoned this shameful event because they preferred the illegal rebels to the elected government.
They actually created this.
They actually created this.
See, that's what they do.
They lie, they cheat, they steal.
They have classes on it, as Pompeo said.
They also have classes on coups, assassinations, and starting wars.
And they're pretty good at it.
You will search in vain for protests against the treatment of Romania's presidential candidate in a country that is in the EU and in NATO.
Oh, by the way, I mean, we don't even have to go to Romania.
We can stay in Ukraine and we can look at the fact that Zelensky shut down the election.
Zelensky arrests his opponents.
Zelensky steals property from the church that's been in Ukraine there for about four centuries.
Because they have cultural ties to Russia.
They have cultural ties to Russia because Ukraine, and especially the Crimea, have been a part of Russia for centuries as well.
A few weeks ago, the Turkish Putin, Erdogan, arrested and jailed an opposition politician who looked likely to beat him at the polls.
Are they complaining about Erdogan?
No.
He's a NATO member.
And as you point out in Romania, Georgescu's election was annulled by judges in December when he looked like he was winning the first round.
And he's been banned from standing for a second round, all because he has the wrong kinds of politics.
Okay, so that's Romania.
That's Turkey.
What about Germany?
The German government is all but banning an alternative for Deutschland, AFD.
You know, they're doing all kinds of things.
Take away guns from people who are in AFD.
They're calling them terrorists.
They are shutting them down.
Same thing in France.
You know, both in France and in Germany, they played, I guess you could say, you know, election rule games in order to make sure that the rising popularity of these different parties did not go through.
So, Le Pen's party beat The established French parties in the European Parliament elections, by a significant amount, caused them to have to have local elections.
And in the local elections, they came in second.
There was, you know, then a runoff for this stuff.
That was the first round of elections.
And then in the final round of elections, they lost.
So they were moving up.
And then they lost.
And if you go back and you look at it, you see that in each of those three elections, the percentage vote total of Le Pen's national party was increasing each time.
The reason that they lost in the last round, even though their percentages went up dramatically and everybody else's percentages went down, was because everybody else, all these other parties in France, conspired against AFD.
It was a conspiracy.
They all joined forces against AFD.
And what they said was, we're going to look at this on a district-by-district basis.
And if our candidate for parliament is ahead in this one, then you will step down and allow us to win without dividing the vote between us.
And then in this other area, if you're ahead, we'll do the same thing for you.
And that's what they did.
So even though you had the National Party's election total go up, they lost seats because of that.
And the establishment stayed in control.
In Germany, similar stuff happened.
AFD came out ahead.
They said, well, we're not going to allow you to create a coalition.
Because that's the way this always happens in parliamentary politics.
Nobody gets more than 50%.
Everybody has to create a coalition.
But nobody would create a coalition with a top vote-getter.
Instead, what they're doing is portraying party members and anyone who votes for them as being terrorists, domestic terrorists.
So, whether you're talking about Romania or Turkey, Or Germany?
Or France?
We don't have democracies there.
He says, Erdogan has crushed free media in Turkey, free speech, and the freedom to protest.
But his country is still allowed to stay in NATO.
And Western states have made less noise than an angry vole guarding its nest.
They are scared of Erdogan.
He says, I won't even try to explain how Germany recently recalled its old dead parliament.
To push through laws the newly elected parliament would not pass.
This was done to allow the spending of extra billions on the Ukraine war.
But he said, I hope you get my drift.
We need to demand proper debate, demand the truth.
You've got to start with free speech.
And what is concerning is the fact that Trump doesn't support free speech any more than Biden did.
He wants to punish his enemies.
He wants to shut down the press that disagrees with him.
Anybody that doesn't get the poll right, I want somebody fired or I'm going to come after you to shut you down.
And his followers are just as intolerant of free speech as the radical left is now.
We want people out of this country if they criticize Israel and so forth.
Free speech is being held in contempt universally now in the West, and even in the Trump administration, and even amongst people who identify themselves as conservative Republicans.
So with all of this, as a listener was saying earlier, the fighter jet that fell overboard, fell overboard on the USS Truman, and they were evading inbound Houthi fire.
It isn't.
Now, we don't really know the truth of this.
I mean, it isn't like, you know, did you lock that thing down?
I thought I did.
Oh, well, it wasn't like they forgot to turn the key and lock this thing down.
They were in the midst of evasive maneuvers or whatever.
That must have been pretty significant.
The $60 million fighter jet has been lost at sea at a moment that American naval assets under U.S. Central Command have been conducting bombing campaigns, 750 of them, against Yemen's Houthis since March 15th.
It apparently rolled off the aircraft carrier.
Fell overboard, they said.
Well, or maybe something else happened.
There was also another F-8.
From the Truman that was also mistakenly fired upon and shot down by the USS Gettysburg in the Red Sea in December, both pilots ejected safely.
All of this brings up the possibility that these U.S. warships have suffered direct hits in the past, but the Pentagon has kept it quiet, says Zero Hedge.
Sina Tusi on social media says, That the F-18E fighter jet made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire and fell overboard is worth noting.
Oh, okay.
Made a hard turn and fell overboard.
So maybe it just didn't roll off.
Maybe there was incoming Houthi fire and it was maneuvering on the deck or something and then fell off as it was trying to maneuver on the deck.
That would make more sense.
I mean, you kind of expect that an aircraft carrier, they lock these things down pretty good.
When they come in, right?
The Houthis have claimed a direct hit on the USS Truman aircraft carrier, and Hezbollah's Al-Manar aired footage that it claims shows parts of the ship damaged and draped over.
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