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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This sounds like preparations for a blockade of Yemen’s ports. Am I reading this right?

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's probably the most effective way to prevent them from receiving Iranian weapons and shooting them at civilian ships.

If the Houthis cease their attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the United States will immediately reevaluate this designation.

All they gotta do is stop shooting at civilian ships and everyone will go back to not blowing up their assault facilities and preventing weapon shipments.

[–] crypticthree@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dude the Houthis have been getting bombed for a decade

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They have only been getting bombed by the US/UK for a week after attacking civilian shipping since November. Other people might have been bombing them earlier, but the US/UK would be happy to go back to not bombing them if they stop touching the boats.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So much fucking stereotyping!

Houthis are a mostly political movement and the de facto government of the most populous parts of Yemen.

Saying "our action targets the Houthis and not the people of Yemen" is straight nonsense deliberately designed to paint the chosen government of most of the Yemeni people as identical to small groups of terrorists within the large movement.

It's straight out of the Dubya/Cheney/Rumsfeld playbook of manufacturing consent for war crimes.