The US Used a $2bn Stealth Bomber on the Houthis... And More

[@brandanpalmer]

“So how we wanna handle it?” “Well the B2 pilots need more flight hours…”

[@vfxswagg1337]

That part lol

[@jackstamford9937]

Yep they got to practice somewhere

[@777jaris]

The pilots keep begging the Kansas City Cheifs to let them do fly overs on EVERY home game. We heard them take off and the chiefs we’re in Vegas this week so we all knew someone was in trouble

[@hello_hansen]

usa flying the gdp of yemen over yemen

[@Maya-uq7tc]

10%

[@periodicdragonflare5572]

@@Maya-uq7tctake into consideration of research for B-2 bomber(23 billion) technically it would be more than Yemen’s GDP. . If you’re only counting Yemen’s exports (900 million) then yes the B2 would be worth more than Yemen too.

[@investingfeed8971]

@@periodicdragonflare5572 nerd

[@periodicdragonflare5572]

@@investingfeed8971 ah yes, using factual information instead of based propaganda= bad.

[@a.b3203]

I was surprised to learn that Yemen's GDP was more than the price of a milk carton.

[@TeamOT]

Capable of "intercontinental" engagements. A little over 100 years ago, we were still dressing up in bright colors and lining up in a neat "gentlemanly" manner to fight.

[@Lamont-Cranston]

Yeah. In ww1 the french still lived their red pants :) brilliant right?

[@generaltom6850]

Funny, not sure if you actually believe that myth, but that was tactically the most sensible thing to do in most circumstances in Europe at the time.

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@generaltom6850 french death numbers from before they changed their uniform suggest otherways

[@jimandskittum]

Then came America and now any ground can be battle ground. Yay! America, you're with us or you are with the terrorists. Thanks Bush, do I get an AK or a plane ticket or?

[@elix901]

@@generaltom6850for large scale engagements sure but, camp had been a know technology for a long time.

[@krisfrederick5001]

Congratulations to the Houthis. You have now reached B-2 Spirit responses. Although you will never know this.

[@Laplata-r9n]

"Congr-ACK! NOOOO NOT ANTI SHIP MISSILES IN MOUNTAINS"

[@sil3ncer7]

ahahhahahahaha

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

I bet there so scared dummy😂😂😂😂😂

[@CrypticCocktails]

Ewoks: we won! Empire: destroy the star system

[@gryphonprovenzano3156]

That’s the US military “If you don’t overkill it you didn’t kill it.”

[@ZedNull.]

is it overkill to stop literal terrorists from producing nukes as fast as possible? dont think so.

[@NavyDood21]

Yup, a big part of doing it that way is to show that there is no way they can win. There isnt a single other country right now that could pull off a combat mission like that. Hell, the entire fleet of B-2s is more than the GDP of Yemen. And that isnt including the other parts of the logistics chain that were required. Just like the B-52s that flew basically the same journey to start off the first Gulf War.

[@kyledabearsfan]

playing fair is for losers. We found that out in the Revolutionary War.

[@mp40submachinegun81]

​@@NavyDood21 B-2 holds the record for furthest bombing mission, from missouri to Afghanistan, landed in diego garcia after dropping. Flew over the pacific, thru the straight of malacca, around india, over pakistan to Afghanistan.

[@bl4z3thefirstone]

So that is what bombed my home and my whole neighbourhood and my grandmother s home from both my dad and my mom and that is why my 5 year old sister has trauma

[@Lirang4nime]

They did the worst sin in military. They shot American boats.

[@BWEEOOP]

Japan: *Sweats nervously*

[@everydaylife5641]

Worst sin? Check the USS Liberty incident 1967

[@Laplata-r9n]

Israel *laughs uncontrollably*

[@Laplata-r9n]

Uss liberty

[@everydaylife5641]

Worst sin? Check the USS Liberty incident 1967

[@isengarde9490]

For those of you who aren't well versed in military hardware here's how it goes. You send the Lancer when you want a few particular buildings in a neighborhood wiped off the map. You send the Buff when you want the entire region to cease existing. You send the Spirit and the Raider when you want to make a *statement.* Specifically one that says 'If you keep on keepin' on, you won't even know your apocalypse is coming until we've already glassed your coastline.'

[@kookoo275]

Why do people like you talk so reverently about such evil instruments of murder? Really drinking the imperialist Kool aid

[@anotherbacklog]

“Fight on the ground, like a man!” - Some rebel, maybe.

[@redherring6154]

What’s the shame in that?

[@craigquann]

"What ground?" US military.

[@ytfeelslikenorthkorea]

They never learn, do they? :)

[@TrueDarkness458]

Terrorist, not rebel.

[@liorgoldshtein2373]

@@redherring6154that there is no way the Houthis will absolutely not fight on the ground like a man they will use guerilla warfare to strike and then hide among civilians

[@mikew3194]

The script makes it sound like the terrorists did stick to attacking Israeli-related vessels. That connection got weaker and weaker every attack to the point where they're just chaotically attacking anything.

[@sten4982]

these ppl arent terrorists, its those rootless invaders called Zio's that are a vile terrorist colony

[@CuriousMisterG]

That's what I thought. It was basically a "Shoot on sight" for the Houthis.

[@SafetySpooon]

Oh, that lie dissipated almost immediately.

[@puraLusa]

Read somewhere that the info for which boat to atack was given to them by russia but that might just be misinfo.

[@thefeof6161]

The connection didnt get weaker and weaker. If there is A connection, they attack it, the ammount of connection irrelevant. "israeli" owned? Israeli crewed? Israeli company? Israeli products? Towards israel? 1% israeli stake? Yes. (Oh, and plug in USA and UK anywhere it says israeli, and its also gonna get sunk).

[@vultureTX001]

$2bln is just a number for accountants to put as capital assets on the ledger. A trillion dollar plus of military infrastructure ground/sea/air/space makes these missions happen.

[@adamredwine774]

Also, even though it may be overkill, it's not like they crashed the bomber into the target suicide style. Not counting pay for soldiers, including for maintenance, the real cost of this strike was probably something in the 10s of thousands for the munitions, fuel, and other ancillary costs.

[@kyledabearsfan]

America is a logistics business that dabbles in war. Without the gears, the machine cant keep turning.

[@weirdshibainu]

@@adamredwine774 I see your point but more like hundreds of thousands

[@adamredwine774]

@@weirdshibainu Fair enough. I haven't priced out bombs recently.

[@weirdshibainu]

@@adamredwine774 Estimated cost per flight hour ( weaponry not included) is around 150,000 per hour. Still a bargain when you think about what it can deliver and get home safe.

[@archmageofmetal8883]

And lets not forget that the B-2 Spirit first flew in 1989. 35 years ago. The thing's basically a cheat code.

[@FunnyNameNumber4]

Just think what we flying for the first time today.

[@josephbravo2590]

The current iteration of the GBU-57 bunker buster bomb is reported to have the capacity to penetrate 200+ feet of earth before penetrating an additional 25 feet of armored concrete. If two B-2’s are deployed, the second plane can drop its ordinance into the colossal crater created by the first bomb thus penetrating an additional 200+ feet underground. This means that GBU-57’s already have greater penetrative power than a nuclear blast, without the radiological complications. Not satisfied with the devastatingly destructive capabilities of these “conventional” munitions, the USAF is continually working to enhance them with each new iteration that emerges every couple of years. If the Iranian regime believes its subterranean facilities provide it any real prophylaxis from aerial bombardment then they are sadly mistaken. In the current era of strategic bombing there is literally no place to safely hide.

[@MUJUNKY]

The best defense is to not be spotted in the first place, really. That's always been true, but these days, it's doubly so. The bunkers that are the standard today make the old WW1 forts look like sandcastles, honestly. They're deeper, larger, and more reinforced than ever, but simultaneously it seems like they're more vulnerable too.

[@Cumdown]

​@@MUJUNKYgood point! Invisibility wins again

[@joelewis1776]

@@MUJUNKYexactly. Nasrallah could build as complex of a bunker possible and I’m sure he did, but Israel found it and we all saw the results. They literally turned the entire block into a sinkhole

[@M3PH11]

a mop has the equivalent of 10 tons of tnt. The smallest nuke the americans have is a couple of kilotons. Also, nukes are air burst weapons. Therefore, the way the explosion works is different. If you air bust a mop it will not make a 200ft+ deep crater and the people will survive. You air bust a single digit kiloton nuke in the same place, everything for a couple of miles will be gone. Tell me again how the mop is more powerful than a nuke

[@e2rqey]

Gotta keep those pilots trained up for when they switch to B-21's. These were definitely B-2's right? Right?

[@Julianna.Domina]

Yes, they were B2s. We already know where the B2 is deployed, same with the B21.

[@Ectomesoendo]

Oh, say can you see! Brings a tear to my eye.

[@NorthernXY]

I think New Zealand has 7 ships now.

[@loganedgeman5905]

Last time I was this early the channel was still called Warographics

[@pyrofloki]

I was wondering if I was crazy or not, because I remembered it being call that lol

[@dugowt9243]

This joke, however, is older than you are. How pathetic.

[@Batmannerz]

No joke, I almost didn't click on this because I am not subbed to WarFronts, I get my geopolotics from Warographiocs and RealLifeLore...but then hovered over it and I was subbed...and when I clicked it was Simon, so I thought it was yet another project Simon is taking part in. This guy is the hardest working narrator on KZbin (and writer/researcher? I know he has a team, but IDK how involved he is with the content research).

[@NoahSteel-wx8ry]

@@BatmannerzSimon is very clear that he does none of the research and only reads what his team gives him for all of his channels

[@Lucifrost8629]

😂

[@mj_aussie_coaster_travels8310]

As a kiwi living in Australia it saddens me to see how far backwards nz has fallen thanks to successive govts inability to see what most other western countries recognise re china. While losing the strike aircraft sucked at the time, in reality it was the right move, how ever the other aspects of the rnzdf was supposed to have been resourced appropriately to ensure nz could still fulfill its defence agreements with its key partners. If we can’t help our friends why would they help us?

[@warrenjohnknight.9831]

Exactly how it's happened, sadly the American culture wouldn't except our rights of nuclear weapons free, if they actually cared about us they could've actually carried on their help with cheap equipment, sadly we have to pay for on the top rated price list, when I was in the army we had everything we needed, American people are very strange,

[@jedipsy]

We can thank the "socialize the cost and privatize the profit" folk for our economic stagnation. Neo-liberalism bent us over a barrel that we haven't been able to recover from. Labour betrayed the working class in NZ and wasted budget surpluses. Now the coalition govt is here to pick the carcass clean. Dark times indeed!

[@tacitus6384]

There are many naive people in government who believe if we're just nice to foreign adversaries and give them money, they'll be nice in return and be our friends. They have the survival instincts of the one in a slasher movie who thinks they can reason with the serial killer, only we're paying for their divorce from reality.

[@fencserx9423]

For comparison, New Zealand’s entire military is only slightly larger than the crew of a single US aircraft carrier

[@generaltom6850]

What a mighty force for when the US needs replacement crew for it’s carriers.

[@fencserx9423]

@@generaltom6850 …This comment makes no sense😂

[@warrenjohnknight.9831]

That's definitely a worrying issue, but then again I fully understand that we will never develop anymore, our economy is basically so low it's not possible, plus we haven't got enough people whom possibly wish to serve in the military, 😢😢😢.

[@jedipsy]

@@warrenjohnknight.9831 While our SAS guys are top notch, sadly our conventional military have been nothing special for generations. Having said that, we were never a mighty military force to begin with and have historically relied on political and business treaties. Our economy is weak because our leaders are clueless/beholden to the farmer status quo. If we switched to tech at the same time as Singapore we would be MUCH better off. Embarrassingly, our current leaders extent of technical knowledge ends with their IT guys helping them with their phones. A muppet, a corpse and a human thumb are not the way forward for us as a country.

[@joelewis1776]

@@jedipsyyou guys do have the Five Eyes, but as an American the possibility of Trump becoming president and completely sabotaging our intl deals seems increasingly likely.

[@djsonicc]

"Stealthy US crater maker, that's me B2!"

[@booksbicycles7183]

The B2 is quite literally the US's way of saying f*@ck around and find out 😂

[@jamesm3471]

Houthis found out why none of us have free healthcare

[@Zeppathy]

We spent it on the most advanced un-health care system in the world.

[@rogerpenske2411]

We have totally free healthcare: get off your fat arse and move! There ya go!

[@nosip]

Houthis "look.... Allah has sent us a giant boomerang!" B2 pilots "yeah errrr..... catch this!"

[@bl4z3thefirstone]

Yeah good that is y i lost my home with an added element of trauma

[@jessebailey6290]

That's funny 😁

[@a.b3203]

@@nosip YOU SEE!! This is the power of Allah

[@aymenyahyaoui1771]

Impressive technology you got their sir can't stop from closing the red sea

[@drewmagnet]

I was really hoping this would be the Megaprojects landfill video.

[@militaryknowledgetv]

That’s the U.S. military motto: 'If you didn’t overkill it, you didn’t kill it.

[@Anverse-14]

Well, they certainly overkill it in Afghanistan and Iraq, look how that turned out. Have Americans ever considered that overkill a target make them....immortal?

[@deltatrooper0078]

The b2 pilot finally getting a piece of the action:*insert clip of ted*"my turn aholes"

[@chishmilongo]

That's very funny

[@omarperez4066]

He may have been asleep lol they rotate, and I don't think they need both pilots to press the drop bombs button 😅

[@drbuckley1]

Don't knock the Chair Force.

[@tylerreid1789]

Another chapter of don't touch America's boats.

[@mrsir2254]

New Zealand trying to dance with China is honestly kind of hilarious.

[@darktirkd7395]

Yes especially when a captain crashed one of our only Military ships

[@DrockTheClock]

I continue to appreciate the work of this channel. Thank you!

[@EdmundKempersDartboard]

Cmon, we haven't *officially* been at war for over a decade. When the chance arises to use the coolest stuff you take it. Totally unnecessary and didn't tell iran anything they didn't already know, but still.

[@kfw9257]

Probably just thought the B2s could use some live target practice

[@willh1970]

The Houthi dont store anything in big quantities anywhere. I know. Because I spent 4 months in Houthi controlled Yemen in 2017 and I saw first hand what they do. It was obvious that the Houthi had made strategic decisions to spread not just their bombs in multiple locations but also vehicles of all kind. You can literally see this everywhere. When driving from Sanaa to Hodiedah or Sanaa to Sadaa, both journies I have done, you can see the sides of mountains carved into small tunnels/caves and boxes of weapons stored there. Its not hidden. Anyway, the fact that the Houthis high sea terrorism is actually going to cause Egypt much more economic damage than Israel, and also has sped up the changing of far east sea routes to actually utilise the new Iraq port of Faw ( in construction right now and will be one of the largest container ports in the world allowing for freight to by-pass the Suez canal completely, rendering the Houthi response counter productive) is a moot point now. The dye has been cast. These supply chain routes are going to change. I'm available for middle east geo political consultancies if anyone wishes to reach out... cheers.

[@loresma77]

How does a port in Iraq solve for having to use the Suez canal ?

[@willh1970]

@loresma77 because the new port is going to be directly connected to the Turkish border point in north Iraq once the new railway and motorway are built. These are also in development. The aim was always to offer an additional route to the EU, the actions of the Houthi just confirms it's a great idea. Ta very much khat eating stupid Houthi, that's what I say. 👍.... also Google TIR convention and Iraq... bit technical but it's another supply chain tool that benefits Iraq.

[@Anverse-14]

Isn't Iraq entangled deep with Iran? Look in a different way, Iran might benefit even more by putting Egypt on the sidelines.

[@danielclawson2099]

​@@Anverse-14Weakening Egypt would make Iran stronger in relative terms in the greater region: they still have the ability to control the Strait of Hormuz. Shipping out of Iraq would give Iran the ability to threaten both oil transport and freight transport.

[@McZarya]

11:05 sound effects are on point😂😂

[@Willard05]

“Even Irelands military would be like: haha get a load of these idiots!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@eoghanmcloughlin8854]

Woah Ireland punches well above it's weight

[@NoahSteel-wx8ry]

The editing at 10:25 makes it seem as if the guy shooting his machine gun causes that large explosion a second later 😂

[@dzunepwnsipod]

So they say that a B2 is worth 2 Billion Dollars. This is true because the government is rolling in ALL the costs for the program as a whole into that number. Research and development, setting up assembly lines, and 20 years of support/parts from the manufacturer. If the US were to make another B2 the cost for each would go from $2 billion, to $1.9 billion.

[@itsikrafael.]

To be or not to B2.

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

Looks like Iran might lose all three of their proxies.

[@turtleboy4111]

Thank you, Warfronts team.

[@genericfakename8197]

The Saudis have been bombing the shit out of the Houthis for more than a decade now. Any group that was vulnerable to airstrikes got wiped out a long time ago. I'm not sure what these strikes are supposed to do besides provide some real world training for the USAF and USN pilots.

[@l3vi23]

Because we have better munitions that can penetrate much much deeper.

[@acidchronic2211]

Having Jihad as a first name is wild for a political analyst

[@Julianna.Domina]

I have an ex whose first name that was. I don't really see it as that weird. People in the west name their kids "Christian," and all other kinds of biblical names, why wouldn't other cultures do similar?

[@bradysballsack]

​@@Julianna.Domina lots of people called "Holy war" in Christian countries...

[@jessicarichter6436]

⁠​⁠@@Julianna.DominaJihad is an Islamic word meaning holy war & genocide such as Muslim Turks using jihad to justify genocide against Armenians in Ottoman turkey. That’s why you hear “jihad” being shouted when Muslims try to exterminate an ethnic or religious group. It’s ridiculous you tried to downplay its meaning by comparing it to the name Christian which doesn’t mean war, genocide, death or anything sinister like Jihad does. Biblical names like John or Mary don’t call for the destruction of anyone.

[@bl4z3thefirstone]

​@@Julianna.Dominano we have two types of the word jihad one is a verb pronounced with an a like saying ahhhh and one is a softer a like a sudden realisation

[@moritamikamikara3879]

You see Westerners named Christian yes, but you don't see Westerners called "Crusade" or "Crusader" It would be considered cringe at best and offensive at worst.

[@henrygonzalez360]

Hold on, if it was a Stealth Bomber then who can confirm that it was there in the 1st place and not an entirely different platform?

[@smithbilly467]

You KNOW you messed up when the US whips out the polygons

[@drbuckley1]

I think historians will conclude that World War III began in 2008.

[@screechj]

"It's not about the money, it's about the message!" -Joker. It wasn't about Houthis, their ability to fight back or not, or it being overkill. It was a message to other aggressors, the Houthis were just the sounding board.

[@TheFullmetal88m]

"Warheads on foreheads!"

[@tomasgoes]

B-2 is the "Find out", which inevitably comes after "Fucking around".

[@TheFrankHuda]

Nuclear free zone since 1925? I didn't think that Fermi and whoever else had their "yay-i-created-a-new-element-wait-no-oops-actually-i-discovered-how-to-do-a-nuclear-fission" episode, let alone the field be mature enough for relatively disparate and far flung pacific nations to base military doctrine and diplomatic strategy on

[@jedipsy]

1985.

[@M3PH11]

0:25 if you are going to state local time it helps if you state where it's local too. It's been happening a lot lately and i've finally had enough.

[@davidyoung2111]

Simon I am a proud former U.S. Marine I've studied history, economics & current world events for 30 years & ive also been a HUGE fan of all your channels. You definately know what your talking about. Your funny as hell sometimes too. Your line: the B2 Bomber with great stealth capability & flying too high for S.A.M.s, all but guaranteed the B2 would nail its targets! Lol, love it.

[@zkol3287]

Stop giving international aid to yemen, let them understand that if they attack internation shipping they got no aid! That simple

[@pennymayphilip9646]

So it was OK for the Saudi's (major US & UK allies) to bomb the daylights out of Yemen?

[@kyledabearsfan]

Yemen is split between an actual government and Houthi. As far as I know, both sides are still at war and both claim to be the legitimate government of Yemen.

[@banedonrunestar5618]

Houthis are fighting the Yemeni government. Houthis are NOT the Yemeni government (yet anyway).

[@jedipsy]

Speaking as a New Zealander, our leadership has been asleep at the wheel for decades - doubling down on farming and forestry as the main drivers of our economy instead of pivoting to IT and similar like Singapore has shown. The cozying up to China has been a result of real politik as that was giving us our biggest bag but it predictably led to them infiltrating all levels of politics from the regions to the national stage on all sides of the political isle barring some of the smaller parties. This about face of the current leadership - which comprise of a coalition govt formed by a muppet, a corpse and a human thumb - is just a continuation of spineless and talent-less career politicians desperately flailing around to appease their selfish voter base and corporate sponsors. Gone are the days of real leadership as the voting population of this country becomes more disillusioned, apathetic and easily herded into policies that do them more harm than good. Do not believe the hype, NZ is a deeply conservative country that props up our tourist industry via lies while it sells its citizens futures to the lowest bidder. All the while resting on the laurels of political greats of yesteryear that had, not only vision but the spine to see it through, for ALL New Zealanders.

[@nancydelu4061]

Amusing and informative. Carry on!!!!!

[@hiroshi138]

*RNZN now has 7 vessels 🤣

[@fuzzyhair321]

Put it into perspective, NZ has an economy a third of Australia. And Australia has an economy that's 10 times smaller than the USA

[@DeeComrade]

And half of the US multibillioners, so ship numbers can increase rather rapidly

[@Iamthelolrus]

Overkill is underrated.

[@darylb5564]

It’s worth repeating… DONT f with the boats!

[@4362mont]

The Medium is the Message

[@xz2bzy804]

Yeah, the Navy did such a messy job so the Air Force had to come and “ MOP” it up! 😂😂😂

[@thekidfromcleveland3944]

"You'd never hear this thing coming though"

[@Ectomesoendo]

America is the best. They have the moral high ground.the world needs the USA to be the superpower. Thank you to all the men and women who serve.

[@muratoz2931]

Every time someone describes this bomber it seems to value in cost. 900mil, 1 billion, 1.5 billion and now 2 billion. 😂

[@zombieninjapitbull3856]

I thought the only reason the b2 were used was because they are currently the only platform that can carry those particular bombs.

[@normanmadden]

Not sure which is the more reliable delivery, B2 or FedEx......

[@celestinomorgado7946]

Massive Ordenance Penetrator, a.k.a., MOP. Brings a new meaning to the expression "They mopped the floor with the opponent".

[@Strider91]

In reality. There is no such thing as overkill. . .Just over qualified, excessive efficiency.

[@jimp8400]

Thank you

[@Friskni]

its the t word if you hide in your population, but not if you hide thousands of feet in the air with the signature of a bird.

[@Omegatonboom]

It would be a complete baller move to say something like the B2 is now a conventional bomber.

[@Stay4kos]

Houthis been quiet for a while now pmsl They think Saudi was a fight lol.. they are not ready 😆

[@Batmannerz]

Because they lay low on the international scale doesn't mean they're idling and disbanding. Iran is still funneling money to the Houthi leadership, and thew US told them: We know what you're doing, we know how to stop it, knock it off.

[@ARIXANDRE]

They used the B2s just to rev up the engines so the batteries don't die out.

[@Ubique2927]

Overkill. So using 10/15 normal fighter bombers with loads and loads of refueling and other back up instead of one plane is overkill?

[@brianforry5524]

That’s about as American as an apple pie with a hotdog in it.

[@memebigboiii6433]

Just remembered the video of new airforce pilots reacting to their assigned airplanes, I hope that new B2 pilot is out there

[@lawterian]

Is there any way to buy a tourism package to join a B2 pilot during these runs? I heard they have a bed and a microwave in that bad boy

[@JC-hp7pc]

This is the military equivalent of Arnold Schwarzeneger jiggling his pecs around before battle in Conan.

[@rogerpenske2411]

I’ll be back

[@kyledabearsfan]

The only issue i have with all the attitude about how capable the B2 is, eventualy it will get old, we will lose one and everyone will freak out. Just like they did the F117 after it was in flight forever. Im just waiting to hear people get excited for knocking down a 30-40-50 year old plane. But that shows how crazy the B2 was on first draft. Imagine being the first person to see the designs for the thing 🤣

[@peripheralparadox4218]

Wow. Someone in the administration was allowed to use their brain.

[@juliajavier]

Love your videos...how I get a shirt of "cusimashelaem"??

[@Crimea_River]

"The US is PAY TO WIN!" -The Houthis, probably

[@BrouDog]

I wonder, what was the whole cost of this b2 bombing mission in particular

[@ChrisFarrell]

Really curious about this too, but I think it must be basically impossible to quantify. The actual cost probably wasn’t insane, maybe $1-5M, but that’s just a crazy guess. But how do you account for things like pro-rated research costs? Or its value as deterrent? I remember when these things were first introduced in the late 80s and the cost just seemed utterly insane, far out of proportion to any value we might get out of them even as deterrence, and that instinct has been proven 100% correct over the system’s lifetime so far. It’s hard to not factor that outlandish initial investment into the cost of the mission. But given that we did make that decision however long ago it was and that money has already been spent, the incremental cost of running one mission was probably only extravagant and not completely outrageous.

[@admiralekul8303]

Huh I never heard about the Americans performing any B2 strikes....Although I guess that means the plane worked perfectly.

[@stewartknoll2338]

This man has so many channels you just know hes loaded, and cant spend half the money he does make cuz hes always making content.

[@drbuckley1]

Are the graphics at 1:05 and 29:59 identical?

[@walnzell9328]

I don't see why Iran needs Sudan to have access to the Red Sea. They have Houthi Yemen.

[@banedonrunestar5618]

It’s one thing to control something via a proxy. It’s another to openly control something yourself directly.

[@sywrexile3078]

Is Hong Kong, right now, "having a go" at China at the moment?

[@poppyrider5541]

Simon, You should make a Good News channel.

[@evilras]

Its called F around and find out. These are terrorists not rebels. There are cheers from residents when this happen as theyre sick of it too

[@UtahButImTaller]

Saying houthis are blockading in solidarity with hamas is so disingenuous and gross

[@Scalabrio]

how many channels does this guy have

[@adamstockton9438]

As an American you don’t want to root vs America but they make it so hard

[@petermcguire8260]

We knew the b2's were a threat. Because it was just six or eight months ago that they flew the b2's to Turkey let him sit there overnight and then flew him back to England. As far as the US military is concerned we really don't have any idea where the B2 came from.

[@Julianna.Domina]

The US's stationing of bombers is a fairly public phenomenon, there's almost always a couple news articles about it.

[@Everfrost1000]

How many channels does Simon Whistler have?

[@Zeppathy]

Yes

[@manoro420]

That sweater is a vibe

[@chishmilongo]

Thanks Si 😊

[@corbenoneill3092]

Ouch the irish reference, no need of it simon lol

[@SquadHunta117]

Not the b-2 I guess they found out about that budget

[@petermiller7978]

Trade embargoes, sanctions & lawfare & dependency patronage/Bribery economic war. All predictable. Opium wars a good example. Great stuff Simon. Thanks. Cheers 🥂

[@jhaywood5810]

Con-o-co. Continental Oil Company which is now ConocoPhillips Phillips I believe had been Oklahoma based and Continental Oil was Texas based. ConocoPhillips is now based in Houston, TX--- like most big Oil companies. Simon .... it's just NOT pronounced 'co-no-co'.

[@bertb.t318]

Need to take a look again to Bolivia.

[@davisoneill]

Shows the desperation of the Yanks - they use 2 billion dollar bombers - and the Houthis still defeat them every day in the Red Sea.

[@halo129830]

Desperation beating us? How many Americans have the houthis killed and how many USM or colalitoon ships for that matter have been sunk?

[@ArchangelXCI]

NZ isn’t taking sides with China or the US. Choosing between your largest trading partner of your traditional Anglophile allies is a bad position to find yourself in. NZ and the rest of the pacific islands don’t want to get involved in these spats as it is bad for the South Pacific.

[@jedipsy]

Historically, you'd be correct. However, the muppet the corpse and the human thumb are not the most adroit international players. They have effectively pissed their pants and gone running to our historical allies.