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[-] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 42 points 9 months ago

Q: Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, when you say “working,” are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.

[-] dan42O@infosec.pub 38 points 9 months ago

What ever happened to talking and reaching an agreement and asking for favors and scratching each other back.. like now we resort to uncivilized behavior by attacking the poorest countries.

[-] CybranM@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago

I don't think there's much negotiating with a terrorist organization indiscriminately attacking international shipping

[-] gastationsushi@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

They've been clear from the start, they will leave the freight alone once the genecide in Gaza stops.

Joe Biden and Bibi are the ones who won't negotiate.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

I don't have to like it, but it's sort of a sound strategy. The Red Sea is on the way to the Suez Canal, and the world had a demonstration a few years ago about what happens when you block the Suez canal.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

The microphone just dropped, we can all go watch One Piece now. /s

[-] dan42O@infosec.pub 27 points 9 months ago

Out of curiosity why did YOU use the word terrorist? Have you ever heard of the movie Avatar, Star Wars, Space Balls? It’s simply too easy to label someone a threat/terrorist, but come on entire countries, like are you agreeing that each creature/living breathing mammal as a terrorist?

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 18 points 9 months ago
[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the laugh.

[-] Space_Racer@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because to further their political agenda they are attacking civilians. you know, the definition of terrorism?

[-] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Like Israel is attacking civilians. Glad we can finally agree. Thanks for playing

[-] Space_Racer@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

I don't disagree. I hate what Israel is doing. But we weren't talking about them. The Houthis are terrorists. Stop acting like you got some sort of trap card. Terrorism is bad no matter the cause.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 5 points 9 months ago

What about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was it also wrong?

[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 11 points 9 months ago

"Hey, do you want you and your families to stop suffering from a lack of food, clean water, healthcare, and housing? We can fix that."

Might be a start. But it's never approached that way.

People don't usually want to be terrorists. The places these people come from are the poorest on earth and don't know anything other than suffering and exploitation.

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

Their flag says "death to America, death to Israel, curse be upon the Jews". In some sense, I think you can't blame an oppressed group for radicalizing in an attempt to improve their situation. But it's hard to sympathize with a militant, anti-semitic terrorist organization.

Personally, I think the US should end the Prosperity Guardian operation. It should end support for Israel. And it should end oil imports. This will push America more towards decarbonization while reducing America's interest in the Middle East. But that will raise gas prices, so it'll never happen.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

The only terrorist organization here is the "coalition" that the burger empire scraped together. Yemen is interdicting shipping from countries supporting a literal genocide through their sovereign waters. Meanwhile, the terrorists from US and UK are bombing Yemen for this.

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[-] thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

The recent US and UK actions can be taken as examples on how to cure the symptom while making the disease worse

[-] BB69@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

Here’s an idea:

The Houthi’s can just not launch missiles at ships

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 41 points 9 months ago

I'm tired of this kind of lazy rhetoric.

Why are the Houthi's committing violence?

I have a feeling it has less to do with a foundational nature of evil, and everything to do with a population being impoverished, oppressed, and forgotten.

Instead of spending 1.2 billion dollars bombing them, maybe purchasing 600 million dollars of their chief export would be a better idea.

Empower the legitimate businesses and the people in the region who aren't launching missiles instead of ravaging the region and creating a new generation of 'militant rebels'.

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[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago

And the US could just stop funding Netanyahu's war in Gaza.

[-] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 22 points 9 months ago

Actually they can’t, they have a legal obligation under the UN Convention on Genocide to take extra-territorial actions in order to stop or prevent genocide. They are acting within international law. The ships going to Israel despite the active genocide are violating international law and complicit in the genocide themselves.

[-] BB69@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

How do the Houthis know which ships are going to Israel? Can you prove they’ve only attacked ships bound for Israel?

Why is there a 39 nation coalition organizing against the Houthis? Aren’t a lot of those nations opposing Israel’s current actions?

Do you know the Houthis slogan of, “Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to the Jews, Victory to Islam”?

You’re fighting for the wrong side buddy

[-] NoLifeGaming@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Oh I wonder why that may be their message? Maybe because those two have a long history in the middle east in destabilizing it and killing innocent people? Do you honestly believe they hate us because they hate our freedom? Unbelievable.

[-] BB69@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Unbelievable that you defend those attacking random supply ships.

If they’re innocent, why is there a coalition formed against them?

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[-] thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Good idea! Here's another: UK and US stop interferring in middle east (FYI the palestine problem was worsened by magnitudes by the UK mandate)

[-] BB69@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I agree, let them just kill each other with reckless abandon

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

Ansar Allah are acting in accordance to international laws and treaties and are trying to stop the genocide in Gaza.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Here's an idea, countries involved in genocide can just not sail ships through Yemeni waters.

[-] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 27 points 9 months ago

Years of Saudi air strikes with US weapons systems ended in a victory for the Houthis. Not to mention causing one of the worst humanitarian situations of the 21st century.

WTF does the US think it's gonna do other than escalate the situation (and continue the next record breaking humanitarian crisis)?

[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago

The US is just making sure the humanitarian crisis in Yemen ISN'T the worst humanitarian situation of the 21st century.

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[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago

I stand with Yemen and the Yemeni government, the only terrorists are the US and Israeli militaries and whoever aids them.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

I stand with anyone doing their part to pressure the US and Israel in ending their genocide. ❤️

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

If you stand with the Yemeni government then you want the Houthis gone.

Can you even find Yemen on a map.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago
  1. Ansar Allah are the legitimate government of Yemen. Anyone who suggests otherwise is delusional.
  2. Not only can I find it, I live directly to the north of it (Saudi Arabia). عاش اليمن الشقيق.
[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Being excited about things doesn't make them real. You'll understand that after the tenth or twentieth disappointment.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yemen has already won, the US has been fighting it since 2004, all that’s left is for the US to understand it lost. Though I predict its crazy politicians will keep repeating their mistakes expecting a different outcome.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

US is a terrorist state, plain and simple.

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