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Personally I'm beyond thrilled to live in a country that ignores what's happening to people in Palestine but jumps into action the very second profits are in jeopardy.
You mean, a country that has made diplomatic requests regarding the foreign nation in question, but isn't willing to jump right into a complicated foreign conflict that's being brewing in various ways for centuries, and then does react when a different foreign nation starts taking pot-shots at their own vessels? Yeah I can't imagine why that might be
No I mean two nations that have been heavily involved in the situation in question from day one, keeping one of those nations afloat financially and making them the main military power in the area standing by and doing nothing whist the gvmt they've created and support steamroller a whole set of people but perfectly happy to protect their financial interests. I can imagine why that might be.
I don't know what these rebel/terrorist groups expected to happen after directly attacking the US military, but I'm pretty sure the rest of us knew almost exactly what was going to happen.
I get it: they hate the US and want them out of the region. Attacking the US brings them to the region.
It's Iran's asymmetrical warfare playbook.
Not only this, but the US has more firepower in the region than the rebel groups by such a wide measure that launching any laughing an attack against the ships is essentially a suicide note for that particular neighborhood block.
Attacking the US brings them to the region.
The US never left the region. Airstrikes have been conducted by the US in Yemen almost every year for nearly a decade.
The US has also bombed Syria and Iraq this year. It is the beginning of February.
"About a decade" also being the length of time that the Houthis have been attacking ships in the strait.
There is nothing they can do to keep the US out of the region. They are fucking pissed that the US is fully supporting a genocide in Palestine. They are doing what they can.
Doing what they can by killing Americans in Jordan who are uninvolved in the conflict in Gaza. Justifying murder is still justifying murder regardless of how you feel about the government those people work for.
America is sure as hell not unrelated. They're defending Israel politically, economically and militarily right as we speak.
We're not talking about "America". We're talking about individual people who are not engaged in the conflict.
What?? They are still American military.
Do you think everyone the US has killed in their stroked have been ck firmed to be personally involved in the red sea blockade?
American bases in the middle east are part of how they support Israel militarily (and genocide Yemen but let's set that aside for now). While they weren't directly involved, they are viable targets.
Crying about individual US soldiers in a thread justifying dozens of airstrikes on Yemen. You think those strikes (or the thousands before it) only killed those directly involved in war? Or do you think only the relatively powerless have a moral obligation to avoid noncombatant (not even nonmilitary lol) casualties?
You obviously haven't read my previous replies because I have said it is all murder.
Pro world peace then? Wow, very enlightened and useful opinion. While we all hold our breath waiting for that to happen, the murders will continue, and the belligerents and victims have different degrees of power and culpability.
What a useful reply.
As useful as your opinion.
Sympathizing with human suffering and being against violence, terrible opinion.
It's not bad, it's just useless in this context. Honestly, worse than useless. If you're just saying "all this killing is bad", then it seems an awful lot like 'both-sidesing'. Like no shit it's bad, but it isn't going to stop until we address the root causes. If you put for example, the Yemenis and the US on equal standing for the problems in the region, you are perpetuating the roots of this violence.
Sure, but I haven't done that. You seem to be doing some projecting.
Maybe so. Sorry.
Remember that "Houthis" are just an ethnic group in Yemen. The organisation co ducting these attacks is called "ansar allah" the west purposely calls them houthis instead of Ansar Allah to justify indiacrimite attacks on civil populations.
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