by Chris Black
It is super bizarre to list Seychelles as one of the countries in their “coalition.”
RT:
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has derided the US effort to make its Red Sea intervention appear more powerful and international by involving countries such as the Seychelles.
In a televised speech on Friday, the Lebanon-based cleric took aim at ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’, the effort Washington announced last month to counter the Yemeni blockade of Israeli-linked shipping.
“To make the coalition seem powerful, they added some country, the Seychelles or Meychelles or whatever, and I had to Google what it even was!” Nasrallah said, according to translations by local media outlets. In Arabic, the names sounded like “Sin-shell” and “Min-shell.”
“Turns out it’s some island at the end of the world, with a population of less than 100,000,” he added.
The smallest African country in Africa, the Seychelles consist of 115 islands about 1,500 kilometers (800 nautical miles) off the coast of the continent. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin listed the former British colony as one of the participants in ‘Prosperity Guardian’ last month, alongside Canada, Bahrain, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, and Spain.
In reality, the island nation said it would limit its participation to “providing and receiving information” to the naval armada, which at this point consists of three US warships and one British destroyer.
Italy and Spain have since backed out of the endeavor entirely, while only Denmark has promised to send a frigate. Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Norway pledged officers, but no ships.
This is legit funny af.
However, why would he use that language?
BIZARRE: WH spox John Kirby says US military actions in the Red Sea are supported by a "coalition of the willing" 😳 pic.twitter.com/mq9lis6BL1
— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) January 5, 2024
The only possible reason is that he wanted to reference the Iraq War.
You can figure out yourself why he would want to do that.
The Biden Entity is going to escalate seriously in Yemen.
The US regime is stressing itself to the limit, while being hated by more or less the entire world.
Everyone wants to see these people fail.
He just said “a coalition of the willing”… we’re SO back. pic.twitter.com/IRqI5yOCO7
— Lenny Briscoe (@onekayeighty) January 4, 2024