Yemenis destroy US Reaper drone, with Jon Elmer

maybe we'll go to the last one here tomorrow I just wanted to bring this to people because this is the houthis U aner Allah the so-called houthis aner Allah and the yemeni armed forces in Yemen yesterday launching a surface to a missile towards uh an American drone an mq9 Reaper drone which is like a you know like a $35 million uh the flagship of of the of the global uh drone uh um product it's the top-of-the line drone and you can see it being hit there um by what uh the yemeni Armed Forces said was an indigenous uh surface to air missile and falling out of the sky um and we saw the Pentagon confirm that this was a US drone uh knocked out of the sky uh $30 million drone knocked out of the sky by um by yeni resistance which has continued and the yeni resistance said yesterday when the US vetoed the security Council or vetoed the UN resolution um that uh that that veto meant that the Red Sea veto would continue and this is parts of the um this is parts of the reaper that the uh yenis pulled out of the uh pulled out of the sea the Red Sea off Huda um so I just wanted to bring that uh that last video in um to show you that um the resistance is continuing uh in Yemen we don't see um what it looks like when they fire um the drones like yesterday uh answer Allah fired a dozen drones at us warships uh had to fire them out of the air because they were on their way to hit the US warships um and so we don't really get videos of that so I just wanted to bring uh that uh answer a law action so people could see that these uh American drones are uh susceptible to this kind of weapon and of course the Americans responded by uh randomly bombing uh with what they believe are surfaced air missile installations um in Yemen so the resistance continues on Israel's Southern front in the Red Sea uh oh their American drones this is the second anser Allah La drone that has been downed they downed one in November um and they managed to catch the video of it which for information operations is pretty incredible to get that uh footage and to show us this footage um and and I waited I I mean Ally we talked about this video and I waited for confirmation because you can't see what's on um the videos and we're we we vet these videos as best as we can to make sure um that we're showing um um that we're showing authentic operations and that we're not um we're not just showing these videos because U the resistance released them um but uh yeah just as a last point there that's the that's the end of the video showing the parts U of the Drone which um the Pentagon presumably because people saw this um had to admit that their their Reaper was down and John if if I can just say uh th that those Reaper drones are weapons of Terror that us Warlords have been using to terrorize people across the region particularly in Yemen in Afghanistan Iraq across the region in Africa in the Horn of Africa across uh the world really for decades so the ability of the resistance to shoot down these Terror weapons is is quite an extraordinary development because the uh ansar states of course we don't have a way to independently verify this that this was a locally manufactured uh anti-aircraft missile and if that's the case that is extraordinary because producing a yine is uh remarkable enough but when you're firing a a yine um at a tank that is either stationary or moving relatively slowly that's one thing but to fire uh an anti-aircraft missile at a Target that is very distant and moving very fast is certainly a a a in my view a game-changing military development yeah it really is but that but that's the thing when when when in the west when we call them the houthis um it it gives this impression that it's just this small group of people named after the leader uh of the group but the the yeni Armed Forces joined um the houi movement um and so the ansar Allah is a National Army because the national Army of Yemen joined this fight um and so they have the resources of a national Army and we've seen them use those resources that's why the Red Sea shipping um the Americans are saying we haven't faced anything like this since World War II when our actual uh warships are under attack not not tangentially but actually under attack um hasn't happened since World War II and they um the ansor movement and the yeni armed forces have access to anti-ship missiles uh surface to- a missiles long range missiles we can ask the Saudis all about that um they know all about uh the missile capabilities of of the yenis um and and so that's something that we're and when and when I just sorry to interrupt when I say that it's been used as a weapon of Terror I'm not being hyperbolic here because I'm talking about all the attacks on wedding parties uh I'm talking about the uh murder of an American citizen a 16-year-old boy ABD rmani who was uh targeted and killed by the Obama Administration in Yemen with a drone so that's the kind of thing I'm talking about we're talking about war crimes around the world and this shootdown comes in the context of the United States sending forces to the region to protect Israel as it exterminates Palestinians so I I just want to provide that context to to my comment yeah they're armed they're armed drones I think that that's an important thing to say to people if they're not aware of that that the reaper is an armed drone it's not simply surveillance it's a hunter killer drone um that they use yeah I mean you said it you said it as well as it could be said that yenis were the first people to experience drone attacks um they were the people who experiened what an actual blockade um does to a civilian population when they were starved for um five years under a blockade um and they're um turning that knowledge that experience um around and saying we refuse to be allow the Palestinians to be blockaded we refuse to do nothing like the world is doing uh about this genocide um and and so I think that they should be saluted for that and and it's um yeah I think it's unfortunate that there's not um another way of redressing the slow starvation of Palestinians that we're watching um it's just it's just appalling I I yeah I just want to back up the point that you made John about um Yemen and the so-called houthis because this this is a really important point that you made that it just by by how the mainstream media in the west calling them the Iran back houth it gives a really misleading impression and this is not even a value judgment right of whether you you know people support or don't support what um the yemeni armed forces are doing in in their um armed blockade of the of the of Israeli shipping in the Red Sea it's nothing to do with that it's just a factual matter of the that this is this is a government you know yes there is you know there there is another government based in the South and but the the government in basting the capital S has the the Armed Forces like you said the Armed Forces defected to the ansar Allah movement and uh you know now runs territory in which there's 80% of the population of Yemen so by the mainstream media just saying oh it's the houthis it gives a really misleading impression is this this is just sort of some armed Rebel group that you know has a scrap of territory this is the de facto government for most people in Yemen for most of the the vast majority of the population in Yemen whether people in the west like that or not that's just the factual matter and ju just to show again because the there is also uh an effort to diminish the significance of of these uh things that we're seeing I just put in the chat tomor if you're able to put this story up on screen that Egypt just announced that uh it's um fees that it earns for ships passing through the sewers Canal have declined by uh half uh because of the uh humanitarian intervention of Yemen to try to stop the uh genocide in Gaza so this is a an unintended uh let's say or unexpected consequence of us British and European support for the genocide that this is a significant impact on global trade and shipping and um you know the European Union well first of all let's say the Americans and the British already sent their aircraft carriers and their ships to the region in an attempt to stop this and it had no impact the the yemenis are continuing and now the EU has announced that they're sending uh whatever boats they have whatever ships they have I don't think the European Union navies amount to very much and let's see what luck they have but the point here is that they are rushing uh sending their navies in order to protect uh I don't know shipping of goods uh consumer goods uh from uh China to Europe uh but they have done nothing to break the uh 16 17 year Israeli Naval blockade of Gaza or even longer uh they they don't mind a blockade that uh starves civilians and cuts them off from the rest of planet Earth but uh you know stop stop a shipping container if only Palestinian children in Gaza were shipping containers the European Union would be much more upset they might send their navies to uh to intervene so again it's this is uh it's no longer a world where the United States and the Europeans can simply impose their will anymore even a country like Yemen which has been subjected to uh bombardment blockade and uh true savagery for uh A decade is able now to fight back just as Palestinians in Gaza are are uh still fighting almost five months after the us-backed Israeli army with all the weapons in the world all the most sophisticated and powerful weapons went at them with everything they have so what I'm saying is that the it's no longer a foregone conclusion what the outcome of Engagement with a superpower will be yeah it's true it's true and mean and I mean this is the the the the yemeni Armed Forces didn't operate uh in this way previously this is a a result of the outcome uh of the domestic situation um in Yemen so um but but if this was 15 years ago and they did have that capability maybe they would have uh started this um blockade um trying to end the blockade um before it was begun in Gaza that has just become completely normalized and all the things that we talk about in Gaza the dismantling um of all the civilian infrastructure this has been going on since um you know at least 2005 the hospitals um you know if Dr tyer was talking to us five years ago he would be talking about the impact of the blockade on the hospitals so this dismantling has come on uh after uh the brutality of the blockade on Jaa that's been going on for half a generation now thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel hit like leave a comment these engagements help us with the YouTube algorithm and it helps us to get around Silicon Valley censorship as much as possible it does make a difference you can also support our journalism by going to electronic in.net and clicking on donate now thank you