🇺🇸 🇾🇪 💵 US Has Spent $1B on Houthi Attacks But Militants’ Arsenal Unfazed: Intel

🔶️ American warships have spent a great deal of munitions to intercept Houthi drones and missiles targeting civilian and military ships in retaliation for Israel’s war in Gaza.

🔶️ “Houthi stockpiles appear nowhere near exhausted, even as sporadic US and UK strikes against them continue,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank.

🔶️ The assessment is contrary to a previous statement by US Air Forces Central Commander Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, who said the Iran-backed rebels appeared to be running low on drones and anti-ship ballistic missiles.

🔶️ Earlier this year, Pentagon undersecretary for acquisition William LaPlante hinted that the cost of countering Houthi attacks in the Red Sea was increasing.

🔶️ He said at a defense conference that efforts to take out hostile drones exceed $100,000 per shot.

🔶️ Even the Yemeni group had mocked its American adversary, saying Washington is launching $2 million defense missiles to stop $2,000 Houthi drones.

🔶️ Because of this, the US military is being urged to find alternative counter-attack solutions that only cost tens of thousands of dollars per shot.

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/06/18/us-houthi-attacks-intel/

🔦🇵🇰 - Al Shabaab offcially releases the long awaited documentary, most likely on the importance of Jihad and the consequences of sitting idly while the Ummah is getting massacred in many countries.

Summary of the documentary :

Part 1

Part 2

Or read on Telegraph

And some screenshots.

@saheliananalysis

📢 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Israel's foreign minister says 'we are very close' to 'changing the rules of the game' and that in a 'total war' Hezbollah will 'be destroyed' and Lebanon will 'be hit hard'

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/fm-says-hezbollah-would-be-destroyed-in-a-total-war

🇺🇸 🌍 City sued for paying hundreds of Black residents $25,000 in reparations

🔶️ Evanston, a Chicago suburb, has been credited with launching the country’s first government-funded reparations program for Black Americans. It has paid out nearly $5 million to 193 of the town’s Black residents over the past two years.

🔶️ But now a conservative advocacy group has filed a class-action lawsuit to kill the program, arguing that it discriminates against the suburb’s non-Black residents.

🔶️ The lawsuit is part of a wave of cases spurred on the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions. Conservative groups have since targeted diversity fellowships and waged a legal battle to force the federal Minority Business Development Agency to open up to White business owners.

🔶️ “This lawsuit is part of a larger movement to challenge race-conscious programs in all aspects of society,” said Jason Schwartz, a lawyer with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who is representing the Fearless Fund, a venture capital firm that provides grants to Black female entrepreneurs, against a similar lawsuit.

🔶️ In recent years, more than a dozen states and cities, including New York and Boston, have begun studying the possibility of offering reparations to their Black residents. California lawmakers are considering legislation to establish a state agency to oversee potential reparations programs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/04/evanston-reparations-lawsuit/

https://archive.ph/S2wCc

🇫🇷 French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin wants to dissolve the Groupe union défense (GUD) for being an ”extreme right-wing organisation”

Darmanin is joined by Jordan Bardella from Le Pen's, National Rally (RN) who promises that, if RN performs well in the upcoming election, he, as prime-minister, will dissolve GUD and other "extremist left-wing groups".

🔗 https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/gouvernement/gerald-darmanin-va-proposer-a-emmanuel-macron-la-dissolution-du-gud-organisation-d-extreme-droite_AN-202406190294.html

🇫🇷 National Rally withdraws support for a candidate in Morbihan Department, Bretagne, suspected of antisemitism!

🔗 leparisien

🇫🇷 🌐 🇺🇦 Bardella backpedals on taking France out of NATO strategic military command

🔶️ National Rally President Jordan Bardella said at the Eurosatory arms show outside Paris in Villepinte that he “doesn’t plan to question the commitments France has made on the international stage” if voters give his party a majority that enables him to lead a new government, in what would be an awkward power-sharing arrangement with President Emmanuel Macron.

🔶️ Referring to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bardella said that "France mustn’t leave NATO’s military command while we are at war, because it would considerably weaken France’s responsibility on the European scene and, obviously, its credibility with regard to its allies.”

🔶️ The comments pulled back from a campaign promise made by his party in its manifesto for the 2022 French presidential election. “The priority will be to leave the integrated NATO command,” the 2022 manifesto read, a move that would have taken French military staff out of the NATO body that plans operations, and weakened France’s role and influence within NATO.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/leader-bardella-backpedals-taking-france-nato-strategic-military-111247163