Ansar Allah fight extracts heavy cost from Pentagon

PanArab , 3 months ago

More than two months of direct fighting with the Houthis has heavily taxed the U.S. military, which is spending a significant amount of money to take down cheap drones, launch retaliatory strikes and defend against rebels who are, in turn, shooting down pricey American drones.

This is the first time in centuries that the region ever had any kind of naval deterrence. What a time to be alive!

In most cases, the U.S. is launching $2 million defense missiles to stop $2,000 Houthi drones, a discrepancy that the Yemeni rebel group has noted in its statements mocking Washington.

Good.

Still, he noted that Maersk has hiked its shipping cost for a 40-foot container from $2,000 to $6,200, and a drawn-out conflict could impose costs on countries like Egypt, which gets a large share of its tax revenue from ships in the Suez Canal.

Prosperity Guardian? Enjoy your inflation on top of your inflation!

davel , 3 months ago

It seems thehill.com is rejecting based on User-Agent. Anyone know what User-Agent Lemmy claims to be?

<span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sI https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 403 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sIA </span><span style="color:#183691;">'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0'</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 200
</span>

yogthos OP , 3 months ago

Looks like Lemmy/<version> github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/…/request.rs#L35

davel , 3 months ago

<span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sIA </span><span style="color:#183691;">'Lemmy/0.19.3; blah blah'</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 200 
</span>

Must be something else. I’m not familiar with “px-captcha”. It seems to come up in HUMAN’s docs: duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aedocs.humansecurity.com+“px-captcha”

yogthos OP , 3 months ago

oh interesting, I guess there’s some heuristic it does to detect non browser clients.

plinky , 3 months ago

blob-no-thoughts no shit houthis can’t hurt usa economy, they don’t intend to