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Houthi arsenal shocks the Pentagon's top weapons buyer
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The West is in complete denial that the Houthi movement is one of the most battle hardened and effective factions against US style war tactics in the World. Their ability to procure, build, and strategize and their experience fighting US tactics in sea and air they're punching heavily above their weight limit. It's seriously impressive.
Part of this denial is the heavy investment in the military industrial complex which has effectively destroyed war economics from the US point of view, but nobody wants to admit that it's more expensive field an $11M Aegis launched SM-3 vs the Quds-3/Quds-2. While the Quds-3/Quds-2 has no public dollar amount that I can find, it's unlikely to cost more than a Iranian produced Zolfaghar or Qadr missile which western analysis peg at $0.5 to $1.5 million dollars.
Oh and you launch multiple interceptors per ballistic target if you want to intercept, so the economic comparison is for perfect interception with no backup.
The US likely loses more money by having war ships in target range of the Houthis than the Houthis spend yearly on their weapons production.
The reasons for why Americans don't have healthcare just keep getting dumber.
Americans don't have healthcare because their masters don't want them to have it, not because the money is being spent elsewhere.
The US has one of the world's highest per capita public spendings on healthcare and the highest private. There are more money per capita in the American healthcare system than in any other system in human history. The money is there already. What is lacking is political will to make these money go towards actual healthcare instead of grifts, corruption and rent extraction.
It's a reference to a genre of tweet that was floating around back when the blockade started. After the US announced that it was deploying a carrier group to the area, some very confident idiots posted "[Ansarallah] is about to find out why Americans don't have free healthcare." And they sure did, but probably not in the manner the posters intended.
Unfortunately the US doesn't "lose money" on military conquests. Military spending is a central pillar of US economy. The more of it there is, the better for them. It is why they push for eternal war, and no it's not because of oil, that is secondary.