Statement from National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Terrorist Designation of the Houthis
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/17/statement-from-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-on-the-terrorist-designation-of-the-houthis/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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This sounds like preparations for a blockade of Yemen’s ports. Am I reading this right?
Seems like it.
It's probably the most effective way to prevent them from receiving Iranian weapons and shooting them at civilian ships.
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.
Dude the Houthis have been getting bombed for a decade
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.
Well the Saudis have been using US made weapons the entire time. The idea that "we'll quit bombing you" is a good bargaining chip when the bombs are not going to stop is optimistic at best.
The allies of the UK and the US have been bombing them for a decade
If only we were so resolute to stopping people shooting civilians..... that would solve both problems at the same time
Well, we all read that other statement that had no mention of the murder of nearly 25,000 civilians.
Civilians only matter when they're a certain colour or ethnicity.
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.
Their slogan shows they're not as much a political movement but rather a group of religious nuts
Yeah because slogans always tell the whole story and middle eastern politics never mixes with religion 🙄
Also, even if it IS a group of religious nuts, does that make ALL of them terrorists?
How many 'normal political movements' in the middle east have "curse the jewz" in their official emblem?
Do you honestly believe the missile and drone attacks on ships are done by small groups of terrorists without the consent of the Houthi government?
While true the US has no business calling anyone else a terrorist, they are NOT facing charges at the Hague. Removed for misinformation.