My dude this war in Yemen has been going on for like 10 years. If the idea of bombing Yemen sounds out of left field to you, then you are woefully uninformed.
I had the opportunity to live in Berlin for a year. I made friends with a group of Yemen students. All of these people had friends, family or relatives bombed to death. Over the course of 2 weeks, one person lost 3 relatives to the bombings...
These people were sent to Germany to study and be as far away as possible from the horrors at home. Away from friends, family, everyone.
I was told that after flying to somewhere near Yemen, it would have taken another 16 hours to travel by road to get home. Their parents refused them coming to visit because it was just too dangerous.
I don't know how they managed to hold their shit together and carry on even as their families were getting bombed back home.
It broke my heart and I felt powerless to even attempt to comfort them. I'm sure they felt a sense of powerlessness that's beyond anything I could understand at that time.
It's crazy when you realize, "oh, shit, they're just people." I don't mean it in an insulting way. I had that experience, too. Travel certainly helps. It's not even necessarily that you don't believe that before, just maybe that you didn't know or hadn't even thought about it, because who can know everything. But then what was previously vague/unfamiliar words in sporadic headlines in the background is suddenly very real and personal, standing in front of you. It's a gut punch.
Agreed that everybody SHOULD be educated. It’s definitely POSSIBLE to become informed, but holy fuck man, it shouldn’t take this much effort.
Blaming the citizens is insane. If you think that a large enough percentage of the voting population is capable of even FINDING digestible unbiased information… I don’t know what to tell you. I’m more informed than the general public and I didn’t even have a reliable source. I want something that doesn’t just explain the contents of every piece of legislation, but also the impact, knock-on effects, and true underlying motivation. Getting a full picture that I trust involves cobbling together multiple sources and attempting to filter out biases and conspiracy theories.
Who has that kind of time? Most of us out here are trying to keep our head above water and not spiral into unrecoverable debt. There are centuries of people in power molding their constituents into complacency through systemic oppression to ensure this is the case. The average person has a government sponsored education and is religious. They’ve been indoctrinated with a pledge of allegiance and a set of values that everyone around them seems to follow. Few folks have the disposable income or the desire to travel outside their bubble of comfort and develop empathy for someone unlike them. People who are informed know that the root cause is capitalism, which has been peaking in the last few decades with lobbyists and citizens united. The average person wants to ignore politics, if they do vote, they vote like the people in their community. For them, a vote isn’t something that’s done to better the country, it’s something that prevents them from being ostracized.
Congress has every bill ever introduced and its current status, every roll call, all of the contents of it all, etc listed online for all to see.
Wikipedia has summaries of every major political event in the last 3 centuries in great detail and citations to their sources documented.
Finding information is as easy as taking a simple look. Literally everybody can be educated about medical care, citizens united, immigration statistics, election fraud statistics, etc. They're not trying.
Oh, yeah, let me just read entire fucking hundreds or thousands of pages long pieces of legislation in my free time so that I may be an informed voter... smh
You just need to look at a few important ones. Hypothetically, a rural american might be incredibly distressed by Republican economic and healthcare policy. An urban third party voter might be flabbergasted that the things they fight for all these years were actually core DNC platforms constantly called to vote and filibustered by the GOP. Etc.
It's a problem that was fixable 40 years ago. I think it's too late. We're too stupid and too drama thirsty to care about boring things such as public policy.
Anyway, I hear Jane Kardashian has a new bracelet! Did you see it?
Because they "didn't vote for that". They voted for lesser evil, which includes bombing Yemen for a decade. The spoiler effect is obvious to fellow voters, but incomprehensively arcane to lawyers.
For the record, in 2014 Yemen began a civil war and the Obama administration backed the GCC intervention into Yemen, fighting against the Houthi revolutionaries, in 2015 alongside the UN Security Council issuing an Arms Embargo on the Houthis. The US support was logistical and intelligence. This has unfortunately continued to this day, although the previous Biden Administration did publicly announce a withdrawal of that support, but continues sale of armaments to Saudi Arabia who leads the GCC due to condemnation of their strikes on civilians. (The Houthis also strike civilians, mind you).
TBH I think maybe a more forceful approach, a direct intervention to establish a governance complete with minimal casualties and to provide welfare, to the situation at the end of Obama's term or the start of the Trump term might have been better than just pussyfooting around and letting Saudi's commit the warcrimes instead. Either that or doing nothing at all and allowing them to kill each other all on their lonesome so as to keep our own hands clean.
Another thing I'm not taking into account with this retelling is the whole proxy-war angle wherein Houthis and Saudis gaining support from various outside influences impacts their own allegiances in economic policy and that by not participating it would leave a gap for another world power to establish a different governance in the region that explicitly supports said world power. The whole region is an important economic position for oil and gas as well as shipping between Europe and Asia.
Also, the Houthis are being armed by Iran who is financially supported by China in exchange for oil, and I hate China so that's another negative in my book.
You know, I don't question what you have said; however, this group chat has put many asterisks on this whole situation. I believe one person in that chat has said something to the effect of: "remember the narrative, Biden's fault and Iran backed." Makes me less sure about the whole story and motivations.
I mean I'm sure the Trump admin has alternate motives, since they lie about everything, but the US has definitely been bombing the Houthis in Yeman since at least 2016.
The "funny" thing is always when Saudi and Irani diplomats at some point go "hey at the moment this whole proxy war thing really isnt working for us, could we please work together for a while?" and then most of the pointless killing and attacking in the middle east stops for a while.
And you realize once again that they are not actually enemies to death or anything like that. For them, it's just a "power struggle" for influence in the region.
Iran did something similar in the late 80's. Iran began to mine the Persian Gulf, international waters, as part of the Iran-Iraq war threatening oil shipments passing through.
An Iranian mine struck an American warship escorting an oil tanker. Prompting the Americans to bomb the fuck out of the Iranian navy. Don't want to be bombed? Don't attack American warships in international shipping lanes.
Especially with this racist and blood thirsty regime that doesn't give a fuck about silly things like "civilian casualties".
The Federal Records Act was violated several times due to the disappearing messages feature of Signal they were utilizing for their plans. Jeff Goldberg took screenshots of the messages before they were automatically deleted when all Federal Records are legally required to be preserved for archiving and may not be destroyed except under specific parameters that they obviously did not follow.
Also, by using Signal, which is a secure end to end encrypted messenger, the vulnerability that is built into the desktop sync feature where messages aren't locally encrypted can result in enemy and adversarial nation states collecting these messages due to them being stored on an infected device which can compromise the mission and risk lives.
They could also have their accounts and subsequently their messages hacked with their information widely publicly available to hackers.
Firendly reminder that this was the real issue with buttery males/but her emails: that Hillary Clinton was using a private email server to circumvent these laws.
And every other US government employee that knowingly emailed to or from that server is also complicit.
Yet another legitimate problem tossed out with the bathwater because it got associated with the maga crowd. Very handy, that.
Point of order. These laws were written because of Mrs. Clinton's server. She wasn't circumventing shit, because the law hadn't caught up to technology, technically it still hasn't, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
The reason it got "forgotten" is that after they wasted years and tons of money trying to find something to charge her with, they came up empty handed, since it really was just a mistake.
This is bullshit. I'm old enough to remember when the Bush administration setting up their own email servers to avoid these very same exact laws was a big issue for the Democratic Party.
They updated the laws since then. The Clinton administration was the one that passed the laws that W Bush was flirting with breaking. As far as I remember, they also didn't actually break the established law, they just got close enough that the Dems started screaming about their precious rules and norms.
HWBush didn't actually have much in the way of laws binding him, but his administration didn't bother with the Internet. Whitehouse.com was a porn site until '97-'98
The Houthi’s are enforcing their ban on ships headed to or from Israel to enter Yemen’s water territory. They did this as a sanction on Israel because Israel is committing genocide on the Palestinian people. When the US and European countries started bombing Yemen for enforcing their law, they also banned US and some European ships from entering their waters. During the ceasefire they lifted the blockade, and since Israel ended the ceasefire they started banning ships again.
This is like calling the US now a rebel faction in the civil war in the British Empire.
We won.
America is its own country.
Ansarallah won. The conquered basically all of the territory except for a few towns held by another faction with whom Ansarrallah made peace with.
All of this while under continuous air attacks from Saudi Arabia w/ US intelligence, refueling and weapons. Meanwhile the US supported a complete blockade, including food, into a country that at that time imported 90% of its food.
No, they are the world legislative body.
Of course no country can be forced to follow the UN's laws, but they are what we call "international law".
If the UN don't recognize you, you may be the only government in your country, and you may even be the legitimate one, nationally speaking.
But you won't be internationally recognized as legally in charge of things like shipping lanes.
So that means that for a country to be legitimate, it has to be accepted by every member of the security council? You're not a legitimate country unless Russia, China, and the US all like you enough? That's BS.
The Houthis are a tribe. The majority (though not all) represented tribe within the government of Ansarrallah, a government that formed during and won the civil war when Saudi Arabia tried to steal Yemen.
Calling them Houthis is racist and makes as much sense as calling Americans 'Kennedys'
They have not been attacking shipping. They have been enforcing a naval blockade of a country committing genocide, something that is a legal requirement under international law. When Israel was "abiding" (or abiding as much as Israel ever abides) during the peace treaty, Ansarrallah dropped their blockade. If this is about shipping, the easiest way to stop this would be to stop applying arms to a state engaged in ethnic cleansing.
America has never been at war with Yemen. We got sucked into supplying Intel and support and weapons to Saudi Arabia under Obama because of all three weapons purchases from Saudi Arabia.
Finally, Iran has done very little in support of Ansarallah, in comparison to other countries that are majority Shia.
Calling Ansarrallah Iranian controlled is about as accurate as calling Israel American-Controlled. It's just another racist way to try to justify the murder of civilians. You know, the unjustifiable except to fascists like the person I'm responding to.
Yeah, just to be clear. One of the targets hit was a residential high rise building. Local authorities are reporting over 50 people killed.
The target was one, alleged, terrorist and the building, according to the Houthi PC small group message log, was the building of the target's girlfriend.
So, the US just killed at least 50 civilians in order to kill a single target. Just to give you a rough idea of the kind of 'collateral damage' that is acceptable.
The amount of times Republicans said “we killed terrorists” during the congressional hearing, without even once considering that the 53 fatalities from an indiscriminate air strike likely included innocent civilians, is revolting.
You've also just cemented the idea that the West is evil in the families and friends of those 52 innocent people, thereby ensuring a steady supply of fresh new "terrorists".
yeah that's because that's not what happened, there were multiple targets, not just one. that signal chat directly mentions "mutliple targets", it could be 5 it could be 15. if goldberg stayed in this chat maybe we'd know how many exactly
weapons mix suggests that at least some of these were chosen to limit collateral damage (two F18 sorties, Tomahawks launched - these could be used against hardened targets, like bunkers or caves, and targeting shifted from weapons to leadership, but probably not completely - but also drones, and drones can't carry heavy weapons like F18 can)
In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US labeled any "military aged male" casualty as an "enemy combatant" even if there was absolutely zero evidence they were.
Then you wonder why that the case? If they are right now publicly intervening in US politics, what have they done in the past and what leverage do they have over these public figure?
This guy says that like "bombing Yemen" isn't a de facto tradition for U.S. presidents. I'm pretty sure every president since Clinton has bombed Yemen at some point during their term. It's old hat. It's not news. It was Tuesday.
Like, sure, it's terrible and no one will deny that, but we've been doing it for 20+ years. This? This clownfuckery? This was new.
Maybe we should only fight when we have something worth defending. If it's our murderous prick vs their murderous prick, we should give up because who cares, what difference does it make? But if one side is actually helping people in material ways and the other is a murderous prick, then there's actually something worth fighting for.
For me at this point it's just a matter of surprise.
I expect the US to bomb everywhere that isn't Japan, North America, European Union, or Israel
Hell I'm shocked they aren't throwing bombs at Australia because Elon Musk sent a vaguely worded email that implied it.
The reason why I SEEM to care more about the phones than the bombs, is because "US bombing innocent people? Sounds like a Tuesday... but damn how did we elect someone so incompetent that I find out about the specifics?"
Kids were killed but the chat leak was funny and that's what has been the people talk about instead.
Imagine being the poor family, who is stuck living in Yemen because they cannot afford to relocate, whose kid has died by Trump's bombing. Then all you see in the news about how they joked with emojis in chat killing your kid. "Oh your kid was killed in that emoji airstrike." Tell me why the fuck you would grow up anything but radicalized.
Bush and Obama did it too. Historically, it's been a targeted killing thing against Al-Qaeda (or so they have said), with whatever government they have, giving their blessing. If other sites are correct, Trump did it more, but it's kinda hard to pick nits there.
That's why a lot people are more upset over the lack of operational security than the action itself. They're not conducting themselves in a way that keeps our country safe, They skirting monitoring and can't even get that right.
TL;DR: The Houthis are backed by Iran, in direct regional competition to Saudi Arabian (and subsequently US) interests, and the war in Yemen is a direct result of 10 years worth of failed intervention by the Saudis.
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Exactly a decade ago, Saudi Arabia announced the launch of a military intervention in Yemen, promising to lead a coalition of more than 10 nations—although some would later end their participation—against the Houthi armed group, officially known as Ansar Allah, that had taken over power from President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Backed by the United States, Britain, and other Western states with arms and shared intelligence, on March 26, 2015, the Saudi coalition commenced airstrikes on Houthi-controlled areas, initiating a conflict that would drag on for years. Riyadh’s initial expectation of a swift, six-week military operation to defeat the Houthis became a prolonged and costly entanglement that has tested Saudi Arabia’s ability to impose its will on its neighbor and to force the Houthis to give up their control over a large part of Yemen.
Intervention Inception
Saudi Arabia’s rationale for intervention shifted over time as the conflict unfolded. At the outset, it cast the intervention as a direct response to President Hadi’s urgent appeal to the Gulf states and their international allies that he conveyed in a letter to the UN Security Council in March 2015. Hadi called for states “to provide immediate support in every form and take the necessary measures, including military intervention, to protect Yemen and its people from the ongoing Houthi aggression.” The Saudis initially conceived of the intervention as a decisive effort to reinstate Yemen’s legitimate government in the capital Sanaa. As the situation progressed, Saudi Arabia reframed its objective as restoring Yemen’s political process within the framework of the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative, which in 2011-2012 facilitated the transfer of power from former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Hadi.
The core rationale behind Saudi Arabia’s intervention, however, stemmed from its perception of the Houthis as an Iranian proxy on the kingdom’s border. Riyadh feared that Iran’s influence through the Houthis posed a direct threat to the kingdom’s regional dominance and interests. The kingdom saw the Houthi takeover of Sanaa not just as a challenge to Yemen’s stability but as a potential game changer in the broader Middle East power dynamics. In this context, Saudi Arabia framed its military intervention as a necessary response to protect its own security and regional influence.
Riyadh feared that the Houthis posed a direct threat to the kingdom’s regional dominance and interests.
But while Saudi Arabia believed Iran to be the principal force behind the Houthi takeover, the extent of Iranian influence over the group at the time was, in fact, relatively limited. Although the Houthis depended on Iranian military and logistical support, particularly for weaponry and strategic advice, they were not fully under Iran’s control. Iran, while capable of advising the Houthis on strategic and policy matters, lacked the leverage to dictate their actions. Rather, local factors such as longstanding tribal rivalries in Yemen, the Houthis’ longtime opposition to the central government, and their pursuit of greater political power, were more influential in shaping the Houthis’ behavior. The Houthi alliances with former President Saleh and certain factions of the Yemeni military also played a crucial role in the group’s rise. In other words, Iran’s influence was significant, but it was not all-encompassing, as the Houthis had their own political and strategic goals. Nonetheless, Riyadh persisted in portraying the Houthis as a tool of Iranian expansionism. Paradoxically, Saudi Arabia’s prolonged antagonism may have ultimately strengthened Iran’s influence, as it pushed the Houthi armed group to deepen its reliance on Iranian military and logistical support.
Because it is controlled by the Houthis, Islamist terrorists threatening global trade, overthrowing a quasi-friendly government and REINSTITUTING SLAVERY.
The United States government just sold over 200 people, without trial, into slavery in El Salvador. And the US explicitly allows slavery as part of its own prison system. The US has a large number of legal slaves.
I don't think people understand just how fucking MASSIVE that bullshit is. Any credibility that the US had in human rights is long gone.
What turn is doing is what the original filibusters did prior to the civil war. Basically considering chattel slavery such an important part of their 'liberty' ideal that they wanted to spread it to places where slavery had been abolished. Like the carribbean and Central America.
Yes, and how does that justify anything? I don't understand this logic at all, the US being bad doesn't make the Houthi slavers good. Slavery is wrong regardless of who does it.
It doesn't justify anything. What it does do is point out the absurdity of arguing that the Huthis deserved to be bombed due to slavery. If they deserve to be bombed, so do we.
Incorrect. While the ousted government often overlooked slavery due to corruption, the Houthis have expanded as part of their interpretation of the Quran, one shared by other nutbags like Boko Haram and Daesh.
Why do you assume that the US gov is more trustworthy than the Houthis? After all the horrible shit the US gov has done what will it take for you to stop believing it when it tells you that it's the good guy and the people it's fighting are the bad guys.
First of all, the State Department document is just one of a variety of reports detailing the Houthi reintroduction of slavery.
Second of all, the fact you can't actually attack the contents of the report and solely argue I shouldn't believe it because you, personally, hate America undermines your argument.
Third, rape and slavery are not pasttimes in America, as they are in Houthi controlled Yemen.
It's not because I personally hate America, the US has been helping israel commit a genocide for over a year, apparently that isn't enough for you to question their statements but it is more than enough for me
Media reports referencing muhamasheen activists noted that while social castes and slavery were abolished in the 1960s, tribal justice systems reinforced historical patterns of discrimination. The most recent estimated number of victims of modern slavery in country remained the 2018 report by Walk Free, an NGO focused on ending modern slavery. Walk Free estimated there were 85,000 victims of modern slavery in the country, or 3.1 percent of the population, but that due to the impossibility of conducting surveys under conflict, data likely underestimated the problem. This broad category included forced labor and debt bondage, human trafficking, and forced and early marriage.
This is the Walk Free report mentioned, it's referencing modern-day slavery and how vulnerable the population of Yemen is, the main being political instability. That same article shows Saudi Arabia as having over 4 times per capita more modern day slaves.
The only other article that mentions Slavery under the Houthis is Al-Awsat which is a state propaganda newspaper working at the behest of the Saudi Royal Family.
The Saudi puppet government that did institute slavery are what the Houthis fought and won against, and continue to face a US-Saudi genocide because of it. It'd certainly help to reduce modern day slavery if the entire population of Yemen wasn't facing a genocide.
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Guterres put the crisis in stark perspective, emphasizing the near complete lack of security for the Yemeni people. More than 22 million people out of a total population of 28 million are in need of humanitarian aid and protection. Eighteen million people lack reliable access to food; 8.4 million people “do not know how they will obtain their next meal.”
Besides Saudi Arabia, the coalition attacking Yemen includes the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait and Bahrain. Qatar was part of the coalition but is no longer.
Based on the information available to it using open sources, YDP reports that two-thirds of the coalition’s bombing attacks have been against non-military and unknown targets. The coalition isn’t accidentally attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure – it’s doing it deliberately.
The air and naval blockade, in effect since March 2015, “is essentially using the threat of starvation as a bargaining tool and an instrument of war,” according to the UN panel of experts on Yemen.
The coalition’s genocide in Yemen would not be possible without the complicity of the U.S. This has been a bipartisan presidential effort, covering both the Obama and Trump administrations.
U.S. arms are being used to kill Yemenis and destroy their country. In 2016, well after the coalition began its genocidal assault on Yemen, four of the top five recipients of U.S. arms sales were members of the coalition.
The U.S. has also provided the coalition with logistical support, including mid-air refueling, targeting advice and support, intelligence, expedited munitions resupply and maintenance.
As of February 2018, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the coalition had killed 6,000 people in airstrikes and wounded nearly 10,000 more.
Yet, according to the OHCHR report, these counts are conservative. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have also died from causes related to the war. According to Save the Children, an estimated 85,000 children under five may have died since 2015, with more than 50,000 child deaths in 2017 alone from hunger and related causes.
They're not threatening global trade, they're fulfilling their obligation under international law to prevent genocide by blocking ships of countries that are aiding genocide.
It's a wonder people on Lemmy don't understand why their politics are unpopular, when they openly support slave holding terrorists attacking civilian ships.
Our first-hand observations of the medical and humanitarian catastrophe inflicted on Gaza are consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza.
It examines the killing of civilians, damage to and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcible displacement, the obstruction or denial of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid, and the restriction of power supplies. It analyses Israel’s intent through this pattern of conduct and statements by Israeli decision-makers. It concludes that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
On 26 January 2024, the ICJ said that it was plausible that Israel had breached the Genocide Convention. As an emergency measure, it ordered Israel ensure that its army refrained from genocidal acts against Palestinians.
The ICJ reported, as part of its decisions in March and May, that the situation in Gaza had deteriorated and that Israel had failed to abide by its order in January.
So, when we look at the actions taken, the dropping of thousands and thousands of bombs in a couple of days, including phosphorus bombs, as we heard, on one of the most densely populated areas around the world, together with these proclamations of intent, this indeed constitutes genocidal killing, which is the first act, according to the convention, of genocide. And Israel, I must say, is also perpetrating act number two and three — that is, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and creating condition designed to bring about the destruction of the group by cutting off water, food, supply of energy, bombing hospitals, ordering the fast evictions of hospitals, which the World Health Organization has declared to be, quote, “a death sentence.” So, we’re seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent. This is indeed a textbook case of genocide.
More than 800 scholars of international law and genocide have signed a public statement arguing that the Israeli military may be committing genocidal acts against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as the total siege and relentless airstrikes continue to inflict devastation on the occupied territory.
An independent United Nations expert warned Monday that "Israel's genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole" as Western governments, corporations, and other institutions keep up their support for the Israeli military, which stands accused of grave war crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Our documentation encompasses over 500 incitements of violence and genocidal incitement, appearing in the forms of social media posts, television interviews, and official statements from Israeli politicians, army personnel, journalists, and other influential personalities.
I, Lee Mordechai, a historian by profession and an Israeli citizen, bear witness in this document to the situation in Gaza as events are unfolding. The enormous amount of evidence I have seen, much of it referenced later in this document, has been enough for me to believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza. I explain why I chose to use the term below. Israel’s campaign is ostensibly its reaction to the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, in which war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed within the context of the longstanding conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that can be dated back to 1917 or 1948 (or other dates). In all cases, historical grievances and atrocities do not justify additional atrocities in the present. Therefore, I consider Israel’s response to Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7 utterly disproportionate and criminal.
Not everyone's boats, just the ones of countries facilitating genocide, as they are obligated to under international law. They're not touching Chinese boats, Iranian boats, Turkish boats, etc.
They are targeting indiscriminately. You might hear otherwise from their statements, but the reality is they don't seem to have capacity to distinguish
Edit: this has happened numerous times and there is plenty of evidence. Sorry it's your heroes commiting atrocities
The houthis aren't exactly the best representatives of the movement but still, this issue would be better solved by stopping arms shipments to israel and pushing them to a ceasefire towards a permanent peace. The houthis have shown that they will stop there attacks when the bombs stop dropping on gaza with this last ceasefire.
These strikes don't do shit besides hardening the antagonism against the west in Yemen. Ask Saudi Arabia, you can't take out the houthis with bombs. This is just a way for trump to flex his arms and act like a tough guy.
I do not trust murderous terrorist slavers to keep their word. And even if I did, the mere fact that there are attacking our people is more than justification enough to blow them to Hell.
That doesn't solve the issue, you blow up one terrorist and five civilians then the brothers/fathers of those five civilians become terrorists. The only thing blowing them up does, besides making the leaders and the people of the u.s. feel tough, is enrich the weapons industry.
We bombed Afghanistan for more then a decade and the taliban still control Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia bombed the houthis for years and they now control Yemen, Israel has leveled gaza and hamas is still in control.
No, I'm proposing that we push our client state Israel to stop bombing gaza so the attacks will stop. That's the only way to stop them from attacking us, because again, bombing them won't stop them, it'll just fuel further conflict.
Also we arent being attacked, no one in u.s. territory has been harmed, ships in a war zone are being attacked. Are you proposing that we blow the hell out of anyone that killed an american in a war zone? Because Israel has killed American citizens in its war on gaza, so has hamas, should we just carpet bomb the whole area to show we mean business?
First of all, that comparison is bullshit and you know it. The Houthis are purposefully attacking American citizens abroad.
Second of all, I disagree that destroying their capabilities to attack would accomplish nothing and I have no sympathy for genocidal, rape happy slaver terrorists, so you aren't tugging on my heartstrings by talking about carpet bombings.
Thirdly, as I mentioned, they're genocidal slaver terrorists. So I do not trust them.
Fourth, this is why any politician supported by Lemmy is obviously going to fail. You have no conception of what normal people think is acceptable. For example: the average American does not hear about Americans being attacked abroad by terrorists who commit rape en mass, support genocide and have reintroduced slavery and think, "We should give these people what they want."
oh but that was an accident, they didn't know the truck with there logo that reported there location to the idf was an aid truck. That's not there stated policy to blow up aid trucks.
Israel has implemented a full blockade of Gaza since the ceasefire ended. So if an American tried to drive an aid truck across the Gaza border, Israel would blow it up. That's currently just a threat, and they haven't done that, but the houthis haven't attacked a ship since the ceasefire, they only threatened to which is what prompted this strike.
Are all Yemeni rape happy slavery terrorists? Because these bombings are pretty indiscriminate, a majority of the people are civilians. This latest strike was on an apartment building, not some secret houthi military base. They killed a couple terrorist leaders that will be easily replaced, while killing substantially more civilians.
the average American does not hear about Americans being attacked abroad by terrorists who commit rape en mass, support genocide and have reintroduced slavery and think "we should give these people what they want"
All of those descriptors except for the slavery one apply to israel and half of Americans give them unequivocal support.
This isn't just giving them what they want, the large majority of the world wants a ceasefire in gaza, look at the UN votes. If everyone in the world supports reducing pollution you don't turn that around and say north Korea and the taliban want to reduce pollution, and we can't let them get anything they want so we should pollute more. That's the height of reactionary, oppositional politics that destroys any progress and solidarity.
I've heard it called Operation Amazon Prime, which is pretty hilarious. But only like 10% of global trade even goes by this area, even less of you're just considered direct US trade. Combine that with the context from that Signal chat and it's clear they bombed Yemen just because Trump wants to.
The bombing is worse, but using signal instead of official communication channels is still really fucking serious. They want to plan and commit war crimes and avoid any responsibility for it by trying to keep it from ever getting under public scrutiny.
The MAGA movement have no care about what the administration does, especially when it comes to non-americans in a country literally none of them coudl identify on a map. But if you show them "look how poorly this bombing was planned and carried out" then maybe they will listen.
Houthis are the only international actor acting in open military opposition to the genocide in Gaza. They are doing their best to enforce a shipping blockade pending a cessation of Israeli war crimes. The US obviously wants the genocide to continue, as well as all shipping trade through the area.
That's not really true. The US staged a coup in Iran in the 50's to take their oil and give power to the shah, and during the Iranian revolution, Carter allowed the same shah to take refuge in the US (against the advice of foreign policy advisors like Kissinger). This outraged the Iranians who assumed that the US was preparing to reinstall him in another coup, leading them to seize the US embassy and take hostages, causing a breakdown of relations. The US went on to support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. Israel is a major factor, but there's a lot of bad blood besides that, mostly because of the CIA's actions (which were motivated by oil).
Yeah the reason Iran hates us is we killed there democracy and overthrew there very popular president. Because of Communist Allegations which weren't true in the slightest.
Iran had no problem with America, it only had a problem with Britain, since they had been exploiting them as a colonial power. Truman actually forbid the CIA from doing what it wanted because he understood it to be a democratic, anti-colonial struggle. But the CIA and Eisenhower just had to wait for him to leave office, and Eisenhower came in not really understanding the situation and with both the CIA and Churchill asking him to sign off on it. It ended up being a bargaining chip, the US would overthrow Mossadegh to protect BP's profits, and in exchange the UK would join NATO and support the Korean War. The Iranians got completely fucked over, just for trying to get out from under the thumb of colonial exploitation and reassert control over their own resources (and they weren't the only ones). Part of the reason the coup succeeded was because Mossadegh trusted the US, and they exploited that trust to stab him in the back.
And nowadays, Americans are not only completely ignorant of that history, but even have the audacity to say things like "Islam is incompatible with democracy." Like, motherfucker, you are incompatible with democracy.
The current US-Iran relationship is independent of that history. It is PNAC neocon origins, and pure Israel designed policy. History has little to do with the sanctions and axis of hate towards Iran, and it is disingenuous to suggest that Iran's resistance is based on long irrelevant issues.
Chill. I don't disagree with you that the current tensions are heavily impacted by the conflict with Israel, but I'm just supplying additional context that relations have also been bad for decades, for reasons not directly related to that. There's nothing "disingenuous" to providing historical context, and just because tensions currently are related to something else doesn't mean that history is irrelevant or that supplying context is "disingenuous." You don't get to just declare things to be "independent of history," that's not how anything works. If Iran was neutral on Israel, the bad blood would not just disappear overnight.
I'm on your side here, I'm just trying to be accurate about things.
The disingenous harrassment on this issue is that "The US must continue to hate Iran because of their successful coup on the Shah, and Iran never congratulated the US for the favour". Hate against Iran today, since 1999/2001, is pure and simple, part of service to Israel agenda.
I know they have done horrible things and continue to do bad things but if the US would stop propping up all the other bad guys then this situation would resolve itself. We keep sticking our nose in that business and it will never bring about a resolution. The US hasn't won a single war since WWII. They didn't defeat the north Koreans the Vietnamize or the Taliban. They didn't win the domestic 'War on drugs' They won't win their war on freedom of body choice either. The truth is the US is losing and only ones winning are our enemies. Especially the ones we are helping.
Wow crazy how they just attack shipping lanes for no reason other than that they're bigots, also crazy how their attacks just randomly happen to correspond with Israeli violence towards Palestinians and primarily target Israeli shipping. Almost as if they're rational actors acting in retaliation - but no, they're just crazy bigots doing terrorism for no reason other than "they hate us for our freedoms."
It's wild what a childish picture of the world people have.
That is where they are but not where they came from. If we didn't bomb and kill every person who opposes us and prop up the governments who kill and torture them then perhaps they wouldn't be attacking others. Millions of americans in the coming years are going to finally figure out what the rest knows. When the government treats people like criminals many will become criminal. Don't kid yourself about the brown part. If they were white there would be more talking.
To add, this particular region isn't a country as that term is understood by anyone. It is lawless, unincorporated territory without anyone in charge.
It's finders keepers. First country who can bring law and order to the territory gets to keep it, and the Republic of Yemen, has proved either unwilling and incapable.
To be clear, it would be fine if the people in this territory wanted to live like it's the year 600 and kept to themselves, but that's not what they want. They want to be part of a new Islamic caliphate and rule the entire world.
There's a handful of very vocal posters on here that are just cooked. They think that anyone fighting the US is automatically the good guy, and life just isn't that simple.
They think that anyone fighting the US is automatically the good guy, and life just isn’t that simple.
Actually, it kinda is. For the same reason the US, the UK, and the USSR were all allies during WWII, and were all "the good guys" in that conflict, despite having drastically different ideologies. Because the other side was committing a major genocide, and had to be stopped above all else.
The genocide must be stopped, and neither US political party is willing to offer us a chance to vote against it. Therefore, it can only be stopped through military force, and we don't really have the luxury of waiting for some faction to suddenly emerge out of thin air that has the strength to fight and win while also being perfectly aligned ideologically. The very least we can do is offer our verbal support to the anti-genocide side, regardless of their reasons.
But if I'm wrong, then enlighten me. How exactly do you envision stopping the genocide?
The allies fought together in WWII because the axis attacked them. The genocide not only had nothing to do with it, war decisions were explicitly made to leave intact the concentration camp system (for example not bombing railroads that took people to the camps) because any whiff of supporting Jews would have damaged political support for the war. The people in the camps were only freed at the very end of the war.
The allies were the same countries that crippled Germany's economy after WWI, leaving its society vulnerable to the demagogery of Hitler. I don't believe they can be black-and-white described as "the good guys".
Yeah, that's the point. Many of the countries who were part of the Allies were doing it for their own interests, as world-dominating colonial powers. But whatever their motivations, they're still correctly regarded as "the good guys" because the other side was the fucking Nazis. Likewise, Ansar Allah and similar groups may have their own motivations, their own problems, their own sins, but the other side is committing genocide.
And the reason that literally every single conflict from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq and so on is justified by comparing it to WWII is that virtually everyone was and is on the same page about it, for different reasons. Yeah the leadership was motivated more by maintaining power, but that doesn't mean that everyone fighting at the time or that everyone looking back on it supported/supports the Allies on the same motivation.
Once Israel and the US have been defeated and the genocide has stopped, then sure, let's look at Ansar Allah's position on gay rights or whatever. Until then they are some of the only ones doing anything to keep Israel in check, and we desperately need someone to do that, because again, the genocide must stop.
You didn't answer the question. The genocide must stop, how do you envision stopping it? If you denounce every actual, practical solution without offering any other option, then how is your position meaningfully different from just outright supporting it?
That same line about how "they'd be even worse than us if they ever got power," has been used by virtually every colonialist project on earth. It's wild to watch an old school, 1800's style colonial project playing out in 2025 and to see all the same rhetoric being used, it's like getting in a time machine.
Except my solution is not to exterminate Israel. Fighting genocide by supporting a different group of genocidal maniacs is lunacy. Hamas is bad. Israel is bad. I can't even say who is worse, morally. Israel just happens to have greater capacity for inflicting their evil right now.
you describe a decent chunk of the usa and its leaders if you just change "education" to "abortion" (although that's probably not far either), so it's kind of a not good guy doing a good thing vs a not good guy fighting the not good guy for the bad guy
The US would still have chattel slavery if the slaves never resisted their chains. Women would still be the property of their husbands and not be allowed to vote or work if they did not fight for their rights. There is nothing about western "values" that made these things happen, they were not granted upon us by our holy and just rulers or even decided on by the masses in a vacuum. They were hard fought through decades of collective struggle and civil war.
It would be a lot easier for the people of Yemen to do the same if they were allowed to experience the same peace as is experienced in the west, and their efforts weren't constantly thwarted by imperialist powers.
They have not been operating with honesty for some ships but as someone else pointed out, the majority had ties to the US and Israel. They've also been very clear about why they do this. I'm not saying they are admirable, but they are not that wrong.
I don't think it's bad to admit that they are generally doing something good while also committing bad mistakes.
JD Vance was just quoted saying 90% of the traffic was headed to Europe. I’m sure he’s exaggerating as much as you. Not too long ago the United States had good sounds intelligence so…. Idk not my business anyway. Don’t fuck with civilian vessels. Hit real military targets and get hit back with military assets. All I see is a bunch of fucking terrorist and terrorist supporters to be honest.
I can see why you think I might be exaggerating but at some point I checked the wikipedia page listing Houthi attacks on ships and spent a good amount of time checking each one more carefully.
They’re bombing the Houthi’s in Yemen because the Houthis have been launching Iranian missiles at ships in the Red Sea since 2023? Including the US navy (don’t touch the boats) and Israel. The houthis are currently holding hostage a number of crews of merchant ships
The Houthis, is a Zaydi Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydi Shias, with their namesake leadership being drawn largely from the Houthi tribe. The group has been a central player in Yemen's civil war, drawing widespread international condemnation for its human rights abuses, including targeting civilians and using child soldiers. The Houthis are backed by Iran. The Houthis emerged as an opposition movement to Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whom they accused of corruption and being backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States.
I think anyone paying attention expects the US to sacrifice their public image to keep wasting taxpayer dollars helping the Zionists commit a genocide.
The people in that group chat were hired by Russia to do as much damage as possible, so this is them doing their jobs.
Have you ever considered that the accusation of antisemitism might not carry so much weight if you didn't openly align yourself with genocidal terrorist slavers?
And you propose...what, specifically? We let the genocidal, slave-taking, rape happy terrorists that are the Houthis continue to attack us, because we deserve it?
Is it really any wonder why nothing Internet leftists support ever succeeds?
Lmao what a fucking ignorant racist take. What you're saying ironically is actually true, in many cases, such as Iran, they were peaceful and democratic until the US overthrew the government and installed a fascist who would let us take the oil. Iran had zero aggression or animosity towards the US until the CIA overthrew their peaceful, progressive, democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh.
Educate yourself and stop spewing this outdated, hateful propaganda.
I think it's because they keep sinking commercial ships and firing missiles at Israel, no? They also shot missiles at Russian, Chinese, European, Panamanian, Japanese, Korean, and South American ships.
Why were bombing them now is because Trump's a dumbass and needs to distract everyone.
One could say that the group chat that shouldn't be (absolutely everything should be over official channels) has a lot to do with why bombing the poorest countries on Earth is a constant.
This is why the leak because people are talking about it which can be covered up and denied by the shitlords and not the actual attack, which is unjustifiable.
And people continue to think these people are "idiots" and "incompetent" for all these things that they do. All of this is carefully orchestrated and planned to fool the average person. Don't fall for it. We're dealing with serious, horribly evil people with a dangerous agenda to rule the world.
Because zionist central bankers own our politicians through Aipac snd CUFI donations. The houthi are waging against the zionist state of israel to free the Palestinian people under oppressive occupation and genocide funded by our tax dollars
You're putting the horse before the cart here. US politicians fund Israel because they feel Israel is useful for their geopolitical goals in the region. When they want to bomb Iran, they don't do it themselves and risk retaliations to their ships, they have Israel do it. Also Israel is great for the US military industrial complex. Korea can't put "tested in Gaza" on their weapons like Lockheed can.
You may believe this is the case but it really is not. Look at the uss liberty incident. The us allowed Israel to attack a us naval vessel with impunity.
Our entire political system in the us is owned and controlled by transnational multi billion dollar military and prison industry profiteers. they don't have any allegiance to the population of the usa besides their own class who all seem to vehemently support the same cause of the zionist ethno state of israel and the perpetuation of an obvious genocide against the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine.
This all goes back to the rothschild family, the balfour declaration Theodore Herzl and the several
Zionist terrorist paramilitary Groups that waged terror across the levant from the earliest moments of the 20th century until 1948 when the British occupation of palestine ended and the british empire gave control of Palestine to zionist leaders who then condemned the terrorists groups who carried out violent bombings, attacks assassinations and instigated riots that were responsible for the deaths of several thousand Palestinian jews, Christians Muslims as well as American expats, British citizens and British troops stationed in Palestine. But despite condemning these criminals the ranks of their terrorist groups (hagannah, irgun, palmach and lehi) were welcomed into the newly formed govenrment as well as the IDF and mossad and many of the current zionist politicians in the likud party and other Zionist political factions have direct familial ties to members of these terrorist groups. These wealthy individuals who had the power connections and means to form these paramilitary organizations still have family members directly involved in central banking institutions such as the IMF world bank wall street and other connected institutions. These are people who consider themselves far beyond reproach and above governments. The rothschild family has spent a lot on PR to cleverly deflect any criticism of their wealth and how they use it as anti semitism but the Zionist movement would not be what it is today without the blood money of this central banking family of genocidal war mongers
You're just doing antisemitic conspiracy but writing "zionist" instead of Jew.
The British handed the occupation to the Zionists because it was cheaper to have someone else do the colonization and a convenient way to remove Jewish people from Britain. Lord Balfor was wildly antisemitic.
Lmao. Balfour was a puppey for lord rothschild. The balfour declaration pretty much stated they intended to give palestine to the zionists way before 1948.
Theodore herzl went to Rothschild and asked for 15 million pounds (over 2 billion in today’s money) to buy Palestine from the ottomans but rothschild refused because why would they pay for it when he already owned the British empire through financial dominance. So he pressured the british to take it from the ottomans and then clandestinely funded all these Zionist terrorist groups to make it prohibitively expensive for the British to maintain their occupation and subsequently hasten the transfer of the land to the Zionists
Not all people of the jewish faith are Zionists. Many Palestinian jews were slaughtered by Zionists during their terrorism spree before 1948. And there was no such thing as islamic extremism before the 1960’s so zionism created modern islamic extremist terrorism.
You just seem to choose to believe that history books are factual and unbiased when this is far from the truth. Remember ghislane maxwell’s father who was a Mossad asset was involved in the publishing of school textbooks and maxwell herself was even a moderator on many reddit groups pertaining to world events and current news.
And today mossad is funding massive social media troll farms to sway public perception and manipulate the narrative when it suits them. Zionism is evil and to say the rothschild family has not been directly involved with zionism since the late 19th century is just ignorant of reality. The Rothschild family has a long history of funding and arming both sides of military conflicts to profit regardless who wins or loses. They definitely have the wealth to use PR to manipulate their public image to their advantage. The whole “anyone who talks bad about the Rothschild family is an antisemitic nazi” is such clever redirecting propaganda. How can someone who is an anti fascist leftist critical of israel
Be anti semitic? There are many jewish people who are also critical of israel. Israel is definitely a fascist regime committing genocide and ethnic cleansing and the history of who funded and empowered those responsible for israel’s current crimes against humanity is important to dissect snd investigate regardless who it makes angry. hasbarah is a real tactic used by zionists to attack their critics and the whole “anyone who says this and this or this about israel and or the Rothschild family” is just hasbarah misdirection.
I am writing a comment on an internet forum community. not a research essay or thesis. Do you want me to quote sources at the bottom too professor frosty sauce?🧐
Today on neo liberal paridoxical brain rot. “Anyone who identifies as a zionist is therefor jewish and completely absolved of being held accountable, the idea that ultra wealthy zionists who hold extreme
Socio-political and economic power who have publicly spoken of their aims and used their wealth to manipulate and influence others to also serve their interests are very likely working together for a common interest, is just a crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theory and should be discredited immediately because it makes all people who support a genocidal ethno stare look bad and that reflects poorly on judaism as a whole!”
The Balfour declaration was literally addressed to “Lord Rothschild” fuck the Rothschilds. Zionists are evil
Why don't you defend all billionaires and tell me how hard they worked. Obviously anti semitism isnt really a big deal to zionists if they are best friends with trump and Elon musk who did a blatant open seig heil salute not once but twice at the inauguration while espousing all the pro Zionist bullshit he can. The ADL even excused such a disgusting gesture so if doing a seig heil salute isnt anti semitic then clearly calling out the rothschild family cant be either right? Which way is it? Sure the rich Zionists who use their money to further their cause are all good guys because of the magic sky daddy they worship.
Get the Zionist boot out of your mouth and go touch some grass and breathe in some Reality for once.
That youtube link is for anyone who wants to hear the truth. Its from code pink. Obviously you don't want the truth you want to make excuses for genocidal war mongers because you deludedly believe their ethno-religious identity shields them from valid criticism.
US “journalism” since the Reagan and bush sr. administrations both vetoed attempts to legislate the fairness in media doctrine have become blatant capitalist propaganda.
Of course the west is going to condemn any rebel group that aims to re appropriate resources stolen from the people by repressive oligarchs like the saudi’s and other nations complicit in the western exploitation of looted third world resources for pennies on the dollar in the name of maximizing corporate profits.
Im pretty sure the british said some nasty things after the boston tea party too. Rebels are always looked at as terrorists to those in power who commit war crimes with impunity. Those with the money who own the media dictate the narrative.
The us were not the first to start colonizing and pillaging the third world to rape and pillage resources to feed markets. Sure it will harm a third world country if the goods they are producing are destroyed or appropriated by a rebel group but it will harm the multinational conglomerates who aim to profit off the use of these resources for whatever goods they are going to make or repackage and sell.
Its not so much the US as it is western hegemonic influence and multibillion dollar military industry profiteers pillaging the third world for rare earth minerals, raw metal ore, petroleum, textiles and whatever valuables they can get their hands on.
Are you saying the US iran conflict isn’t directly connected to the zionist regime of israel and all the history of the colonization of Palestine since the signing of the Balfour declaration? Because there was no such thing as islamic extremism before zionist terror groups irgun haganah palmach and lehi waged a 3 decades long campaign of assassinations, bombings, riots and other attacks killing approximately between 5000-8000 Palestinian jews, Christians and muslims as well as american and British expats and british troops occupying british mandate palestine.
I mean we can trace this all the way back to the crusades and find WASP ideology as the root and then before then we can go to ancient babylon and egypt to see where the tensions in the fertile crescent came from. But today no other nation state breeds more validated contempt than a fascist ethnostate commiting genocide against a race of humans it deems inferior. This is why the mujahadein funded by the reagan administration to fight the ussr ended up taking their training and money and aiming their ire at the us after the saudis refused to break their ties to the us state whos unholy alliance with israel made them an enemy to arabs since 1948 radicalization and extremism didnt blossom till the conflict with Egypt and it was a result of certain islamic groups reading marxist ideas of resistance and implementing them in their fight against the western world’s domination and support of a criminal zionist state. This is the reality. Youre trying to make this grayer than it is. Its not fully black and white but zionist influence and the unwavering support of zionism by the western banking military profiteering elite sows seeds of discontent and extremism while validating these sentiments. One person has been very concise in their expression of this reality and it was michael scheuyer who was the head of the osama bin laden fbi task force under the bush administration. Islamic extremism(which really is just localized solidarity and resistance towards an evil genocidal ethnostate) would not exist if the us and other western allies didnt give Israel
Carte blanche to commit war crimes and genocide in that part of the world. A lot of money has been spent propagandizing americans to believe anything other than the truth. But the reality is that islamic empires have always been able to thrice and accept multiculturalism look at the moors and how their empire across the Iberian peninsula thrived for centuries before the crusades. Most people just believe what American corporatist influence tells them while they have never read the quran or taken time to understand islam/ arab culture. Which is no more violent or misogynistic than judaism. There is very little difference between the two in reality beaides the quran says allah/god created multiple worlds with civilizations on them.
Within two years this same plot will play out with Israel backed Morocco in the berm vs Algerian fighters defending the native Western Saharan Sahrawi.
It's opec that's the money here, lots and lots of oil goes around there and the major target are opec owned oil tankers held hostage for payment. It's arguably a money laundering scheme but still.
Because frankly, the leak is more shocking than the bombing. I have no knowledge of any regime throughout history that has done anything close to that level of incompetence.
The Signal chat "leak" was 100% arranged and intentional. Every person in that group was typing full copy-edited paragraphs like they were on reddit, not a chat room. They added one of the most conservative and compliant voices in the "liberal" press and somehow nobody in that small group noticed. And then he left to break the story as soon as he could instead of remaining a fly on the wall as long as possible like any real journalist worth their salt would.
Nah man, this was a little stage play to make this cabinet look like tough guys carefully making hard choices. To soften any public backlash against them bombing civilian buildings to rubble without congress even declaring war. I wouldn't trust a damn thing that Jeff Goldberg pens.
And to be honest? If I'm right, this is maybe the most competent op that the Trump II admin has pulled off so far.
Hopefully this leadership is so incompetent that their stupidity like this gives some Ws to countries like Yemen. And by Ws I mean some of our terrorist in the sky dropping bombs instead drop into the ocean themselves. Kerplunk!
Sooooo corporations should actually pay more in taxes and the ultra wealthy that benefit from our subsidizing their global police force should too.
It's pretty disgusting that they on the one hand tell us our gigantic military budget is needed to protect global shipping lanes but also we need to reduce taxes on the ultra wealthy and their corporations too...
they have been attacking shipping long before that cease fire
but they claim their attacks are in line with Israel's war in Gaza. Truth is this is just a proxy war with Iran, Yemen is just stuck as the battlefield.
My dude this war in Yemen has been going on for like 10 years. If the idea of bombing Yemen sounds out of left field to you, then you are woefully uninformed.
I had the opportunity to live in Berlin for a year. I made friends with a group of Yemen students. All of these people had friends, family or relatives bombed to death. Over the course of 2 weeks, one person lost 3 relatives to the bombings...
These people were sent to Germany to study and be as far away as possible from the horrors at home. Away from friends, family, everyone.
I was told that after flying to somewhere near Yemen, it would have taken another 16 hours to travel by road to get home. Their parents refused them coming to visit because it was just too dangerous.
I don't know how they managed to hold their shit together and carry on even as their families were getting bombed back home.
It broke my heart and I felt powerless to even attempt to comfort them. I'm sure they felt a sense of powerlessness that's beyond anything I could understand at that time.
It's crazy when you realize, "oh, shit, they're just people." I don't mean it in an insulting way. I had that experience, too. Travel certainly helps. It's not even necessarily that you don't believe that before, just maybe that you didn't know or hadn't even thought about it, because who can know everything. But then what was previously vague/unfamiliar words in sporadic headlines in the background is suddenly very real and personal, standing in front of you. It's a gut punch.
I love living in a multicultural place. I think I've personally met someone from almost every country on earth.
I realized I very much do, too, as I got older and had more say in the matter, but I didn't grow up like that.
Me neither. Makes me appreciate it more, I think.
To think, we can have all that right here in the US of A.
Thanks MAGA!
Sounds par for the course in the USA.
People are literally surprised when somebody reads out actual policy which was signed into law and who voted for it.
Because our entire election cycle isn't spent on policy, but character attacks.
To be fair, there's plenty of material to attack, so I guess they get distracted.
Yeah I blame the citizens over the candidates at this point. Everybody should be educated on what they're voting for, not whom.
Agreed that everybody SHOULD be educated. It’s definitely POSSIBLE to become informed, but holy fuck man, it shouldn’t take this much effort.
Blaming the citizens is insane. If you think that a large enough percentage of the voting population is capable of even FINDING digestible unbiased information… I don’t know what to tell you. I’m more informed than the general public and I didn’t even have a reliable source. I want something that doesn’t just explain the contents of every piece of legislation, but also the impact, knock-on effects, and true underlying motivation. Getting a full picture that I trust involves cobbling together multiple sources and attempting to filter out biases and conspiracy theories.
Who has that kind of time? Most of us out here are trying to keep our head above water and not spiral into unrecoverable debt. There are centuries of people in power molding their constituents into complacency through systemic oppression to ensure this is the case. The average person has a government sponsored education and is religious. They’ve been indoctrinated with a pledge of allegiance and a set of values that everyone around them seems to follow. Few folks have the disposable income or the desire to travel outside their bubble of comfort and develop empathy for someone unlike them. People who are informed know that the root cause is capitalism, which has been peaking in the last few decades with lobbyists and citizens united. The average person wants to ignore politics, if they do vote, they vote like the people in their community. For them, a vote isn’t something that’s done to better the country, it’s something that prevents them from being ostracized.
Congress has every bill ever introduced and its current status, every roll call, all of the contents of it all, etc listed online for all to see.
Wikipedia has summaries of every major political event in the last 3 centuries in great detail and citations to their sources documented.
Finding information is as easy as taking a simple look. Literally everybody can be educated about medical care, citizens united, immigration statistics, election fraud statistics, etc. They're not trying.
Oh, yeah, let me just read entire fucking hundreds or thousands of pages long pieces of legislation in my free time so that I may be an informed voter... smh
You just need to look at a few important ones. Hypothetically, a rural american might be incredibly distressed by Republican economic and healthcare policy. An urban third party voter might be flabbergasted that the things they fight for all these years were actually core DNC platforms constantly called to vote and filibustered by the GOP. Etc.
It's a problem that was fixable 40 years ago. I think it's too late. We're too stupid and too drama thirsty to care about boring things such as public policy.
Anyway, I hear Jane Kardashian has a new bracelet! Did you see it?
Plenty of blame to go around.
Because they "didn't vote for that". They voted for lesser evil, which includes bombing Yemen for a decade. The spoiler effect is obvious to fellow voters, but incomprehensively arcane to lawyers.
God I fucking wish we voted for the lesser evil.
For the record, in 2014 Yemen began a civil war and the Obama administration backed the GCC intervention into Yemen, fighting against the Houthi revolutionaries, in 2015 alongside the UN Security Council issuing an Arms Embargo on the Houthis. The US support was logistical and intelligence. This has unfortunately continued to this day, although the previous Biden Administration did publicly announce a withdrawal of that support, but continues sale of armaments to Saudi Arabia who leads the GCC due to condemnation of their strikes on civilians. (The Houthis also strike civilians, mind you).
TBH I think maybe a more forceful approach, a direct intervention to establish a governance complete with minimal casualties and to provide welfare, to the situation at the end of Obama's term or the start of the Trump term might have been better than just pussyfooting around and letting Saudi's commit the warcrimes instead. Either that or doing nothing at all and allowing them to kill each other all on their lonesome so as to keep our own hands clean.
Another thing I'm not taking into account with this retelling is the whole proxy-war angle wherein Houthis and Saudis gaining support from various outside influences impacts their own allegiances in economic policy and that by not participating it would leave a gap for another world power to establish a different governance in the region that explicitly supports said world power. The whole region is an important economic position for oil and gas as well as shipping between Europe and Asia.
Also, the Houthis are being armed by Iran who is financially supported by China in exchange for oil, and I hate China so that's another negative in my book.
10 years? since 90s more like
What’s your point? The 90s were only 10 years or so ago…
I thought it was like surplus bomb housing country for old USA bombs to retire?
/s
Are you actually asking?
The Houthi's are an Iranian controlled terrorist organization that have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea since November 2023.
The Houthis have sunk two vessels and killed four crew members, forcing a lot of shipping to Europe to be diverted around the South of Africa.
The US and allies have been fighting the Iranian-backed Houthis for over a decade, this is just a recent resurgence following the war in Israel.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67614911.amp
You know, I don't question what you have said; however, this group chat has put many asterisks on this whole situation. I believe one person in that chat has said something to the effect of: "remember the narrative, Biden's fault and Iran backed." Makes me less sure about the whole story and motivations.
I mean I'm sure the Trump admin has alternate motives, since they lie about everything, but the US has definitely been bombing the Houthis in Yeman since at least 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/13/us-enters-yemen-war-bombing-houthis-who-launched-missiles-at-navy-ship
Here's an article from the Guardian dated in late 2016 announcing the US first strike on the rebel group.
If you're not sure about the story and motiviations, did you spend any time on looking up what actually happens in Yemen?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/every-shot-fired-are-yemens-houthis-a-proxy-force-for-iran
And Vance said something to the effect of, he didn't want to do it because it would benefit Europe more than it would benefit America.
It’s always going to be Bidens fault, and Obama’s fault, and Clinton’s fault. Whether it’s terrorism or egg prices or the economy or
But that doesn’t excuse Iran’s behavior either.
The country that is constantly bombed by Isntreal or harrassed by the US?
even the Arab press concludes that Iran is illegally backing the Houthi
the Saudis are the problem
their oil, IS the problem
their strangle hold on their religion is why they are fighting with Iran. It's the Troubles on a much higher scale.
stupid rich assholes fighting over the religion while ganging up to throw shots at the mutual ancient enemy religion of the region
The "funny" thing is always when Saudi and Irani diplomats at some point go "hey at the moment this whole proxy war thing really isnt working for us, could we please work together for a while?" and then most of the pointless killing and attacking in the middle east stops for a while.
And you realize once again that they are not actually enemies to death or anything like that. For them, it's just a "power struggle" for influence in the region.
Sure bro.
That justified blowing up the apartment building the target's girlfriend lived in.
Because it doesn't just make more Houthis every time.
I never said the attack itself was justified. I only answered the question.
A more targeted strike was possible, and it's reprehensible that one was not chosen.
The target himself was a legal target even by the most strict interpretation of armed conflict international law.
That may be true, but there is one consistent lesson we can learn from US history.
Don't. Touch. The. Boats.
Unless you're Israel. Then you can touch whatever boat you feel like.
That is an amazing event.
Why are you responding to tragedy with a fucking meme
Because it's a great way to summarise this ridiculous situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
Iran did something similar in the late 80's. Iran began to mine the Persian Gulf, international waters, as part of the Iran-Iraq war threatening oil shipments passing through.
An Iranian mine struck an American warship escorting an oil tanker. Prompting the Americans to bomb the fuck out of the Iranian navy. Don't want to be bombed? Don't attack American warships in international shipping lanes.
Especially with this racist and blood thirsty regime that doesn't give a fuck about silly things like "civilian casualties".
A targeted strike was absolutely possible. So many innocents did not need to die.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedle6je601o.amp
Claiming that the Houtis are Iranian controlled is sheer missinformation.
It's to make us forget about the "group chat" (see how familiar and nice it sounds too, group chat). Damage control.
Someone else can probably explain better than me why the "group chat" is not just a group chat but a massive abuse and illegal thing to do.
The Federal Records Act was violated several times due to the disappearing messages feature of Signal they were utilizing for their plans. Jeff Goldberg took screenshots of the messages before they were automatically deleted when all Federal Records are legally required to be preserved for archiving and may not be destroyed except under specific parameters that they obviously did not follow.
https://www.ed.gov/about/ed-overview/required-notices/federal-records-act
Also, by using Signal, which is a secure end to end encrypted messenger, the vulnerability that is built into the desktop sync feature where messages aren't locally encrypted can result in enemy and adversarial nation states collecting these messages due to them being stored on an infected device which can compromise the mission and risk lives.
They could also have their accounts and subsequently their messages hacked with their information widely publicly available to hackers.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7
Firendly reminder that this was the real issue with buttery males/but her emails: that Hillary Clinton was using a private email server to circumvent these laws.
And every other US government employee that knowingly emailed to or from that server is also complicit.
Yet another legitimate problem tossed out with the bathwater because it got associated with the maga crowd. Very handy, that.
Point of order. These laws were written because of Mrs. Clinton's server. She wasn't circumventing shit, because the law hadn't caught up to technology, technically it still hasn't, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
The reason it got "forgotten" is that after they wasted years and tons of money trying to find something to charge her with, they came up empty handed, since it really was just a mistake.
This is bullshit. I'm old enough to remember when the Bush administration setting up their own email servers to avoid these very same exact laws was a big issue for the Democratic Party.
They updated the laws since then. The Clinton administration was the one that passed the laws that W Bush was flirting with breaking. As far as I remember, they also didn't actually break the established law, they just got close enough that the Dems started screaming about their precious rules and norms.
HWBush didn't actually have much in the way of laws binding him, but his administration didn't bother with the Internet. Whitehouse.com was a porn site until '97-'98
The Houthi’s are enforcing their ban on ships headed to or from Israel to enter Yemen’s water territory. They did this as a sanction on Israel because Israel is committing genocide on the Palestinian people. When the US and European countries started bombing Yemen for enforcing their law, they also banned US and some European ships from entering their waters. During the ceasefire they lifted the blockade, and since Israel ended the ceasefire they started banning ships again.
This is simply false.
The Houthis are not a state. There are a rebel faction in a civil war in Yemen.
Even if it were the Yemen government banning ships from it's waters it's can't do that by international law. They don't own the whole strait.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb
Lastly, a UN resolution passed that outlaws this behavior.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2722
This is like calling the US now a rebel faction in the civil war in the British Empire.
We won.
America is its own country.
Ansarallah won. The conquered basically all of the territory except for a few towns held by another faction with whom Ansarrallah made peace with.
All of this while under continuous air attacks from Saudi Arabia w/ US intelligence, refueling and weapons. Meanwhile the US supported a complete blockade, including food, into a country that at that time imported 90% of its food.
Once they are recognized by the UN, they can legally act as the legitimate government of Yemen.
The UN isn't the world police, in case you didn't know
No, they are the world legislative body.
Of course no country can be forced to follow the UN's laws, but they are what we call "international law".
If the UN don't recognize you, you may be the only government in your country, and you may even be the legitimate one, nationally speaking.
But you won't be internationally recognized as legally in charge of things like shipping lanes.
So that means that for a country to be legitimate, it has to be accepted by every member of the security council? You're not a legitimate country unless Russia, China, and the US all like you enough? That's BS.
If the Houthi's are going to enact a shipping ban then I assume they're willing to accept the consequences of enforcing the ban.
If the US and UK are going to support genocide, then I assume they are willing to accept the consequences
The Houthis are a tribe. The majority (though not all) represented tribe within the government of Ansarrallah, a government that formed during and won the civil war when Saudi Arabia tried to steal Yemen.
Calling them Houthis is racist and makes as much sense as calling Americans 'Kennedys'
They have not been attacking shipping. They have been enforcing a naval blockade of a country committing genocide, something that is a legal requirement under international law. When Israel was "abiding" (or abiding as much as Israel ever abides) during the peace treaty, Ansarrallah dropped their blockade. If this is about shipping, the easiest way to stop this would be to stop applying arms to a state engaged in ethnic cleansing.
America has never been at war with Yemen. We got sucked into supplying Intel and support and weapons to Saudi Arabia under Obama because of all three weapons purchases from Saudi Arabia.
Finally, Iran has done very little in support of Ansarallah, in comparison to other countries that are majority Shia.
Calling Ansarrallah Iranian controlled is about as accurate as calling Israel American-Controlled. It's just another racist way to try to justify the murder of civilians. You know, the unjustifiable except to fascists like the person I'm responding to.
How do we feel about the Houthis killing civilians on trade vessels not bound for Israel?
I wouldn't know, since a single tribe (a good amount whom aren't members of the government) hasn't done that.
Oh cool. OK, how do we feel about the armed combatants from Yemen repeatedly attacking civilian trade ships not connected to Israel?
I'm genuinely surprised it took this long for the US to retaliate.
The US and international allies have been frequently attacking Houthi rebels since January 2024.
There were even memes about it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis
The memes may have started in 2024. We started attacking the Houthis in 2016-2017
Definitely, but I was more referring to this recent bout.
It didn't. It just took this long for people like you to realize it's been happening.
They have been bombing them since they started. It just didn't stop the blockade, just like how this one won't.
Yeah, just to be clear. One of the targets hit was a residential high rise building. Local authorities are reporting over 50 people killed.
The target was one, alleged, terrorist and the building, according to the Houthi PC small group message log, was the building of the target's girlfriend.
So, the US just killed at least 50 civilians in order to kill a single target. Just to give you a rough idea of the kind of 'collateral damage' that is acceptable.
The amount of times Republicans said “we killed terrorists” during the congressional hearing, without even once considering that the 53 fatalities from an indiscriminate air strike likely included innocent civilians, is revolting.
With US track record a majority if not all of those 53 people were civilians
This is why the US and Israel get along so famously 👍
If you kill 1 terrorist and 52 civilians, um no you didn't, they were all terrorists. Problem solved.
#murder #justkillin
You've also just cemented the idea that the West is evil in the families and friends of those 52 innocent people, thereby ensuring a steady supply of fresh new "terrorists".
And the global war on terror continues forever, and "defense" budgets increase forever. All as planned.
Killing 52 civilians to get one terrorist seems like a bit of a fuck up though.
yeah that's because that's not what happened, there were multiple targets, not just one. that signal chat directly mentions "mutliple targets", it could be 5 it could be 15. if goldberg stayed in this chat maybe we'd know how many exactly
weapons mix suggests that at least some of these were chosen to limit collateral damage (two F18 sorties, Tomahawks launched - these could be used against hardened targets, like bunkers or caves, and targeting shifted from weapons to leadership, but probably not completely - but also drones, and drones can't carry heavy weapons like F18 can)
In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US labeled any "military aged male" casualty as an "enemy combatant" even if there was absolutely zero evidence they were.
As proven by the fact that the young men related to those 52 people all joined terrorist organizations after the fact.
The bombing of Yemen is bipartisan...
Anything to keep israel happy is bipartisan.
Then you wonder why that the case? If they are right now publicly intervening in US politics, what have they done in the past and what leverage do they have over these public figure?
Israel is just a US proxy
You know something's bad when both of our wreched parties support it.
Because Yemen is ruled by murderous terrorist slavers who attacked us first.
Because
YemenAmerica is ruled by murderous terrorist slavers who attacked us first.Does not even make sense.
This guy says that like "bombing Yemen" isn't a de facto tradition for U.S. presidents. I'm pretty sure every president since Clinton has bombed Yemen at some point during their term. It's old hat. It's not news. It was Tuesday.
Like, sure, it's terrible and no one will deny that, but we've been doing it for 20+ years. This? This clownfuckery? This was new.
It is so normal nobody even mentioned the innocent lives being lost as colleteral damage at the hearing
Unfortunately it's always been the case for as long as humans have had war that the civilian casualty ratio is around 50% to 90%.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
Edit: Apparently the 90% figure is a myth. According to the wiki it's much more likely to be 50% to 60%.
Maybe we could try not doing that
That sounds like loser talk
/s
How? Armed conflicts sometimes happen, and I've yet to see a working plan which doesn't endanger any civilians.
Good point. Let's just not do war altogether
Well what are you going to do when some murderous prick like Putin or indeed Trump comes knocking? Give up?
Maybe we should only fight when we have something worth defending. If it's our murderous prick vs their murderous prick, we should give up because who cares, what difference does it make? But if one side is actually helping people in material ways and the other is a murderous prick, then there's actually something worth fighting for.
Or to put it another way, "No war but class war."
We should use assassination markets to pay their own men to kill them.
Their flag literally says "Death to America" on it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkha
Their user name literally says "friend_of_satan" on it
For anyone who did not click the link.
No one is surprised by America indiscriminately bombing and leaving 150 casualties.
For me at this point it's just a matter of surprise.
I expect the US to bomb everywhere that isn't Japan, North America, European Union, or Israel
Hell I'm shocked they aren't throwing bombs at Australia because Elon Musk sent a vaguely worded email that implied it.
The reason why I SEEM to care more about the phones than the bombs, is because "US bombing innocent people? Sounds like a Tuesday... but damn how did we elect someone so incompetent that I find out about the specifics?"
Kids were killed but the chat leak was funny and that's what has been the people talk about instead.
Imagine being the poor family, who is stuck living in Yemen because they cannot afford to relocate, whose kid has died by Trump's bombing. Then all you see in the news about how they joked with emojis in chat killing your kid. "Oh your kid was killed in that emoji airstrike." Tell me why the fuck you would grow up anything but radicalized.
Bush and Obama did it too. Historically, it's been a targeted killing thing against Al-Qaeda (or so they have said), with whatever government they have, giving their blessing. If other sites are correct, Trump did it more, but it's kinda hard to pick nits there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Yemen
That's why a lot people are more upset over the lack of operational security than the action itself. They're not conducting themselves in a way that keeps our country safe, They skirting monitoring and can't even get that right.
Biden too, a year ago, which liberals seem very quick to forget:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/11/politics/read-biden-statement-airstrikes-houthis-yemen/index.html
Both are really serious problems in their own right, one's just a little closer to home
Political context courtesy of the Arab Center in Washington DC:
TL;DR: The Houthis are backed by Iran, in direct regional competition to Saudi Arabian (and subsequently US) interests, and the war in Yemen is a direct result of 10 years worth of failed intervention by the Saudis.
Excerpt:
Exactly a decade ago, Saudi Arabia announced the launch of a military intervention in Yemen, promising to lead a coalition of more than 10 nations—although some would later end their participation—against the Houthi armed group, officially known as Ansar Allah, that had taken over power from President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Backed by the United States, Britain, and other Western states with arms and shared intelligence, on March 26, 2015, the Saudi coalition commenced airstrikes on Houthi-controlled areas, initiating a conflict that would drag on for years. Riyadh’s initial expectation of a swift, six-week military operation to defeat the Houthis became a prolonged and costly entanglement that has tested Saudi Arabia’s ability to impose its will on its neighbor and to force the Houthis to give up their control over a large part of Yemen. Intervention Inception
Saudi Arabia’s rationale for intervention shifted over time as the conflict unfolded. At the outset, it cast the intervention as a direct response to President Hadi’s urgent appeal to the Gulf states and their international allies that he conveyed in a letter to the UN Security Council in March 2015. Hadi called for states “to provide immediate support in every form and take the necessary measures, including military intervention, to protect Yemen and its people from the ongoing Houthi aggression.” The Saudis initially conceived of the intervention as a decisive effort to reinstate Yemen’s legitimate government in the capital Sanaa. As the situation progressed, Saudi Arabia reframed its objective as restoring Yemen’s political process within the framework of the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative, which in 2011-2012 facilitated the transfer of power from former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Hadi.
The core rationale behind Saudi Arabia’s intervention, however, stemmed from its perception of the Houthis as an Iranian proxy on the kingdom’s border. Riyadh feared that Iran’s influence through the Houthis posed a direct threat to the kingdom’s regional dominance and interests. The kingdom saw the Houthi takeover of Sanaa not just as a challenge to Yemen’s stability but as a potential game changer in the broader Middle East power dynamics. In this context, Saudi Arabia framed its military intervention as a necessary response to protect its own security and regional influence.
Riyadh feared that the Houthis posed a direct threat to the kingdom’s regional dominance and interests.
But while Saudi Arabia believed Iran to be the principal force behind the Houthi takeover, the extent of Iranian influence over the group at the time was, in fact, relatively limited. Although the Houthis depended on Iranian military and logistical support, particularly for weaponry and strategic advice, they were not fully under Iran’s control. Iran, while capable of advising the Houthis on strategic and policy matters, lacked the leverage to dictate their actions. Rather, local factors such as longstanding tribal rivalries in Yemen, the Houthis’ longtime opposition to the central government, and their pursuit of greater political power, were more influential in shaping the Houthis’ behavior. The Houthi alliances with former President Saleh and certain factions of the Yemeni military also played a crucial role in the group’s rise. In other words, Iran’s influence was significant, but it was not all-encompassing, as the Houthis had their own political and strategic goals. Nonetheless, Riyadh persisted in portraying the Houthis as a tool of Iranian expansionism. Paradoxically, Saudi Arabia’s prolonged antagonism may have ultimately strengthened Iran’s influence, as it pushed the Houthi armed group to deepen its reliance on Iranian military and logistical support.
That's because anyone who has been paying attention to geopolitics over the last two years knows why the US is bombing Yemen...
Because it is controlled by the Houthis, Islamist terrorists threatening global trade, overthrowing a quasi-friendly government and REINSTITUTING SLAVERY.
The United States government just sold over 200 people, without trial, into slavery in El Salvador. And the US explicitly allows slavery as part of its own prison system. The US has a large number of legal slaves.
I don't think people understand just how fucking MASSIVE that bullshit is. Any credibility that the US had in human rights is long gone.
What turn is doing is what the original filibusters did prior to the civil war. Basically considering chattel slavery such an important part of their 'liberty' ideal that they wanted to spread it to places where slavery had been abolished. Like the carribbean and Central America.
Yes, and how does that justify anything? I don't understand this logic at all, the US being bad doesn't make the Houthi slavers good. Slavery is wrong regardless of who does it.
It doesn't justify anything. What it does do is point out the absurdity of arguing that the Huthis deserved to be bombed due to slavery. If they deserve to be bombed, so do we.
They overthrew Gaddafi when he was the only thing preventing slavery from returning, and the allies of the West now have open slave markets in Libya.
Non sequitur.
The point: they do not give a fuck about slavery. They are in support of it.
I did not say anything about who care about what. My point what that all these professed leftists siding with slavers is bullshit.
"siding with slavers" is supporting people not getting bombed in this instance.
you people are bloodthirsty maniacs who will use the flimsiest of claims to justify your thirst for human suffering.
"They attacked us" is flimsy?
Houthis did not reinstate slavery. The "legitimate" Yemeni government that the Houthis are rebelling against reinstituted slavery
Incorrect. While the ousted government often overlooked slavery due to corruption, the Houthis have expanded as part of their interpretation of the Quran, one shared by other nutbags like Boko Haram and Daesh.
https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/yemen/
I'm sure the pro-genocide us state department wouldn't lie
Whereas the pro-genocide Houthis are totally beyond reproach.
Why do you assume that the US gov is more trustworthy than the Houthis? After all the horrible shit the US gov has done what will it take for you to stop believing it when it tells you that it's the good guy and the people it's fighting are the bad guys.
First of all, the State Department document is just one of a variety of reports detailing the Houthi reintroduction of slavery.
Second of all, the fact you can't actually attack the contents of the report and solely argue I shouldn't believe it because you, personally, hate America undermines your argument.
Third, rape and slavery are not pasttimes in America, as they are in Houthi controlled Yemen.
America literally has penal slavery as legal within our constitution.
It's not because I personally hate America, the US has been helping israel commit a genocide for over a year, apparently that isn't enough for you to question their statements but it is more than enough for me
From the US State Department report:
This is the Walk Free report mentioned, it's referencing modern-day slavery and how vulnerable the population of Yemen is, the main being political instability. That same article shows Saudi Arabia as having over 4 times per capita more modern day slaves.
The only other article that mentions Slavery under the Houthis is Al-Awsat which is a state propaganda newspaper working at the behest of the Saudi Royal Family.
There is no mention of slavery in the 2024 HRW Report Or 2023 Amnesty Report
The Saudi puppet government that did institute slavery are what the Houthis fought and won against, and continue to face a US-Saudi genocide because of it. It'd certainly help to reduce modern day slavery if the entire population of Yemen wasn't facing a genocide.
::: spoiler Quotes
:::
US complicity in the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen spans Obama, Trump administrations
They're not threatening global trade, they're fulfilling their obligation under international law to prevent genocide by blocking ships of countries that are aiding genocide.
It's a wonder people on Lemmy don't understand why their politics are unpopular, when they openly support slave holding terrorists attacking civilian ships.
Preventing genocide is very popular outside of boomers and/or Zionists.
To be clear, the ICJ has ruled that Israel is committing a genocide, every state is obligated to prevent Israel from doing so.
And yet I will bet you nobody supporting the Houthis will ever win an election.
No, the ICJ has ruled that it is plausible.
And there it is, Zionist genocide denial
It's a genocide
::: spoiler Israel's Genocide on Occupied Palestine
Others: AP News, Time, Reuters, Vox, CBC
:::
Nowhere in there does the ICJ label it genocide.
What lead them to be on position to be able to do such a thing?
Who helped to stabilise the previous gov & infrastructure (hospitals) ... and stopped overnight destabilising the country early pre-covid?
That is a different topic not relevant for the current discission.
I don't know, but I presume the answer is us.
But that doesn't mean it is at all reasonable to just let them shoot at our boats and, I reiterate, REINSTITUTE SLAVERY.
Everyone’s boats
Not everyone's boats, just the ones of countries facilitating genocide, as they are obligated to under international law. They're not touching Chinese boats, Iranian boats, Turkish boats, etc.
Boats marked with a specific country are not strictly captained, crewed, or even owned by individuals from that country.
They aren't targeting boats based on their flags, nor their captain, nor their crew, nor their ownership, but based on their connection to Israel.
They are targeting indiscriminately. You might hear otherwise from their statements, but the reality is they don't seem to have capacity to distinguish
Edit: this has happened numerous times and there is plenty of evidence. Sorry it's your heroes commiting atrocities
The houthis aren't exactly the best representatives of the movement but still, this issue would be better solved by stopping arms shipments to israel and pushing them to a ceasefire towards a permanent peace. The houthis have shown that they will stop there attacks when the bombs stop dropping on gaza with this last ceasefire.
These strikes don't do shit besides hardening the antagonism against the west in Yemen. Ask Saudi Arabia, you can't take out the houthis with bombs. This is just a way for trump to flex his arms and act like a tough guy.
I do not trust murderous terrorist slavers to keep their word. And even if I did, the mere fact that there are attacking our people is more than justification enough to blow them to Hell.
That doesn't solve the issue, you blow up one terrorist and five civilians then the brothers/fathers of those five civilians become terrorists. The only thing blowing them up does, besides making the leaders and the people of the u.s. feel tough, is enrich the weapons industry.
We bombed Afghanistan for more then a decade and the taliban still control Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia bombed the houthis for years and they now control Yemen, Israel has leveled gaza and hamas is still in control.
YOU CANT BOMB AWAY TERRORISTS.
So you propose we just let ourselves be attacked?
No, I'm proposing that we push our client state Israel to stop bombing gaza so the attacks will stop. That's the only way to stop them from attacking us, because again, bombing them won't stop them, it'll just fuel further conflict.
Also we arent being attacked, no one in u.s. territory has been harmed, ships in a war zone are being attacked. Are you proposing that we blow the hell out of anyone that killed an american in a war zone? Because Israel has killed American citizens in its war on gaza, so has hamas, should we just carpet bomb the whole area to show we mean business?
First of all, that comparison is bullshit and you know it. The Houthis are purposefully attacking American citizens abroad.
Second of all, I disagree that destroying their capabilities to attack would accomplish nothing and I have no sympathy for genocidal, rape happy slaver terrorists, so you aren't tugging on my heartstrings by talking about carpet bombings.
Thirdly, as I mentioned, they're genocidal slaver terrorists. So I do not trust them.
Fourth, this is why any politician supported by Lemmy is obviously going to fail. You have no conception of what normal people think is acceptable. For example: the average American does not hear about Americans being attacked abroad by terrorists who commit rape en mass, support genocide and have reintroduced slavery and think, "We should give these people what they want."
Explain to me how Israel blowing up a food aid convoy is different then the houthis attacking merchant ships.
Israel has implemented a full blockade of Gaza since the ceasefire ended. So if an American tried to drive an aid truck across the Gaza border, Israel would blow it up. That's currently just a threat, and they haven't done that, but the houthis haven't attacked a ship since the ceasefire, they only threatened to which is what prompted this strike.
Are all Yemeni rape happy slavery terrorists? Because these bombings are pretty indiscriminate, a majority of the people are civilians. This latest strike was on an apartment building, not some secret houthi military base. They killed a couple terrorist leaders that will be easily replaced, while killing substantially more civilians.
All of those descriptors except for the slavery one apply to israel and half of Americans give them unequivocal support.
This isn't just giving them what they want, the large majority of the world wants a ceasefire in gaza, look at the UN votes. If everyone in the world supports reducing pollution you don't turn that around and say north Korea and the taliban want to reduce pollution, and we can't let them get anything they want so we should pollute more. That's the height of reactionary, oppositional politics that destroys any progress and solidarity.
Ah yes, the moderate "kill them all" approach
They attacked us. My heart does not bleed.
Hopefully it does soon.
A tankie resorting to violence in immediate reaction to a political disagreement?
Must be a day ending in "Y."
I've heard it called Operation Amazon Prime, which is pretty hilarious. But only like 10% of global trade even goes by this area, even less of you're just considered direct US trade. Combine that with the context from that Signal chat and it's clear they bombed Yemen just because Trump wants to.
The bombing is worse, but using signal instead of official communication channels is still really fucking serious. They want to plan and commit war crimes and avoid any responsibility for it by trying to keep it from ever getting under public scrutiny.
One way to look at it: Yemen's current conflict is a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Put it another way, it's their Vietnam
The MAGA movement have no care about what the administration does, especially when it comes to non-americans in a country literally none of them coudl identify on a map. But if you show them "look how poorly this bombing was planned and carried out" then maybe they will listen.
They leveled a building to hit 1 target
Because the houthis are raiding merchant ships
Because bombing the Houthis for terrorism or attacking Gulf states/western interests has been the status quo for over a decade.
I mean, Houthis have been striking passing civilian ships with missiles and kidnapped people. Not terribly concerned they got shot back tbh.
people feel there is more of a chance to hold people accountable for the group chat than the bombing
Houthis are the only international actor acting in open military opposition to the genocide in Gaza. They are doing their best to enforce a shipping blockade pending a cessation of Israeli war crimes. The US obviously wants the genocide to continue, as well as all shipping trade through the area.
They stopped the blockade when there was a ceasefire in Gaza, then they started it up again when the ceasefire ended.
They are doing whatever they can to stop a "a dark-age group of bigots" (israel) from continuing it's genocidal actions
Then why did the blockade stop and start at the same time ceasefire started and ended
Also: iran also wants the genocide to end
The real "dark-age bigots" are the people who don't want to end the genocide
Then WHY did the blockade stop and start at the same time ceasefire started and ended.
Doing anything you can to bring international attention to a genocide is not only a good thing, it is every country's duty under international law
This mf spittin.
LITERALLY specifically to fool low-information people like you.
Source?
Oh, honey
Iran is US enemy only because it objects to Israel policies.
That's not really true. The US staged a coup in Iran in the 50's to take their oil and give power to the shah, and during the Iranian revolution, Carter allowed the same shah to take refuge in the US (against the advice of foreign policy advisors like Kissinger). This outraged the Iranians who assumed that the US was preparing to reinstall him in another coup, leading them to seize the US embassy and take hostages, causing a breakdown of relations. The US went on to support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. Israel is a major factor, but there's a lot of bad blood besides that, mostly because of the CIA's actions (which were motivated by oil).
Yeah the reason Iran hates us is we killed there democracy and overthrew there very popular president. Because of Communist Allegations which weren't true in the slightest.
100%.
Iran had no problem with America, it only had a problem with Britain, since they had been exploiting them as a colonial power. Truman actually forbid the CIA from doing what it wanted because he understood it to be a democratic, anti-colonial struggle. But the CIA and Eisenhower just had to wait for him to leave office, and Eisenhower came in not really understanding the situation and with both the CIA and Churchill asking him to sign off on it. It ended up being a bargaining chip, the US would overthrow Mossadegh to protect BP's profits, and in exchange the UK would join NATO and support the Korean War. The Iranians got completely fucked over, just for trying to get out from under the thumb of colonial exploitation and reassert control over their own resources (and they weren't the only ones). Part of the reason the coup succeeded was because Mossadegh trusted the US, and they exploited that trust to stab him in the back.
And nowadays, Americans are not only completely ignorant of that history, but even have the audacity to say things like "Islam is incompatible with democracy." Like, motherfucker, you are incompatible with democracy.
The current US-Iran relationship is independent of that history. It is PNAC neocon origins, and pure Israel designed policy. History has little to do with the sanctions and axis of hate towards Iran, and it is disingenuous to suggest that Iran's resistance is based on long irrelevant issues.
Chill. I don't disagree with you that the current tensions are heavily impacted by the conflict with Israel, but I'm just supplying additional context that relations have also been bad for decades, for reasons not directly related to that. There's nothing "disingenuous" to providing historical context, and just because tensions currently are related to something else doesn't mean that history is irrelevant or that supplying context is "disingenuous." You don't get to just declare things to be "independent of history," that's not how anything works. If Iran was neutral on Israel, the bad blood would not just disappear overnight.
I'm on your side here, I'm just trying to be accurate about things.
The disingenous harrassment on this issue is that "The US must continue to hate Iran because of their successful coup on the Shah, and Iran never congratulated the US for the favour". Hate against Iran today, since 1999/2001, is pure and simple, part of service to Israel agenda.
I know they have done horrible things and continue to do bad things but if the US would stop propping up all the other bad guys then this situation would resolve itself. We keep sticking our nose in that business and it will never bring about a resolution. The US hasn't won a single war since WWII. They didn't defeat the north Koreans the Vietnamize or the Taliban. They didn't win the domestic 'War on drugs' They won't win their war on freedom of body choice either. The truth is the US is losing and only ones winning are our enemies. Especially the ones we are helping.
Wow crazy how they just attack shipping lanes for no reason other than that they're bigots, also crazy how their attacks just randomly happen to correspond with Israeli violence towards Palestinians and primarily target Israeli shipping. Almost as if they're rational actors acting in retaliation - but no, they're just crazy bigots doing terrorism for no reason other than "they hate us for our freedoms."
It's wild what a childish picture of the world people have.
Is that what you think you're doing? Not taking a side by justifying one side bombing the other?
They're attacking ships in international waters, killing sailors.
They're not the good guys.
If I was a sailor, I simply wouldn't work for a ship associated with Israel.
They're not attacking Chinese ships, they're not attacking Turkish ships, they're not attacking South African ships.
That is where they are but not where they came from. If we didn't bomb and kill every person who opposes us and prop up the governments who kill and torture them then perhaps they wouldn't be attacking others. Millions of americans in the coming years are going to finally figure out what the rest knows. When the government treats people like criminals many will become criminal. Don't kid yourself about the brown part. If they were white there would be more talking.
Why are they doing it?
To add, this particular region isn't a country as that term is understood by anyone. It is lawless, unincorporated territory without anyone in charge.
It's finders keepers. First country who can bring law and order to the territory gets to keep it, and the Republic of Yemen, has proved either unwilling and incapable.
To be clear, it would be fine if the people in this territory wanted to live like it's the year 600 and kept to themselves, but that's not what they want. They want to be part of a new Islamic caliphate and rule the entire world.
Not gonna happen ✅.
There's a handful of very vocal posters on here that are just cooked. They think that anyone fighting the US is automatically the good guy, and life just isn't that simple.
Actually, it kinda is. For the same reason the US, the UK, and the USSR were all allies during WWII, and were all "the good guys" in that conflict, despite having drastically different ideologies. Because the other side was committing a major genocide, and had to be stopped above all else.
The genocide must be stopped, and neither US political party is willing to offer us a chance to vote against it. Therefore, it can only be stopped through military force, and we don't really have the luxury of waiting for some faction to suddenly emerge out of thin air that has the strength to fight and win while also being perfectly aligned ideologically. The very least we can do is offer our verbal support to the anti-genocide side, regardless of their reasons.
But if I'm wrong, then enlighten me. How exactly do you envision stopping the genocide?
The allies fought together in WWII because the axis attacked them. The genocide not only had nothing to do with it, war decisions were explicitly made to leave intact the concentration camp system (for example not bombing railroads that took people to the camps) because any whiff of supporting Jews would have damaged political support for the war. The people in the camps were only freed at the very end of the war.
The allies were the same countries that crippled Germany's economy after WWI, leaving its society vulnerable to the demagogery of Hitler. I don't believe they can be black-and-white described as "the good guys".
Yeah, that's the point. Many of the countries who were part of the Allies were doing it for their own interests, as world-dominating colonial powers. But whatever their motivations, they're still correctly regarded as "the good guys" because the other side was the fucking Nazis. Likewise, Ansar Allah and similar groups may have their own motivations, their own problems, their own sins, but the other side is committing genocide.
And the reason that literally every single conflict from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq and so on is justified by comparing it to WWII is that virtually everyone was and is on the same page about it, for different reasons. Yeah the leadership was motivated more by maintaining power, but that doesn't mean that everyone fighting at the time or that everyone looking back on it supported/supports the Allies on the same motivation.
Once Israel and the US have been defeated and the genocide has stopped, then sure, let's look at Ansar Allah's position on gay rights or whatever. Until then they are some of the only ones doing anything to keep Israel in check, and we desperately need someone to do that, because again, the genocide must stop.
You didn't answer the question. The genocide must stop, how do you envision stopping it? If you denounce every actual, practical solution without offering any other option, then how is your position meaningfully different from just outright supporting it?
That same line about how "they'd be even worse than us if they ever got power," has been used by virtually every colonialist project on earth. It's wild to watch an old school, 1800's style colonial project playing out in 2025 and to see all the same rhetoric being used, it's like getting in a time machine.
I don't have an answer. I just know supporting Islamists is not the answer.
We don't owe you an answer to that question.
Except my solution is not to exterminate Israel. Fighting genocide by supporting a different group of genocidal maniacs is lunacy. Hamas is bad. Israel is bad. I can't even say who is worse, morally. Israel just happens to have greater capacity for inflicting their evil right now.
Sometimes, there are no good guys.
til fighting against a genocide doesn't make someone a good guy
we have to be respectful i guess
If you still believe in slavery, treating women as property and making it illegal for them to have an education etc, then you're not the good guy.
Awful people do occasionally end up on the right side of an issue.
you describe a decent chunk of the usa and its leaders if you just change "education" to "abortion" (although that's probably not far either), so it's kind of a not good guy doing a good thing vs a not good guy fighting the not good guy for the bad guy
The US would still have chattel slavery if the slaves never resisted their chains. Women would still be the property of their husbands and not be allowed to vote or work if they did not fight for their rights. There is nothing about western "values" that made these things happen, they were not granted upon us by our holy and just rulers or even decided on by the masses in a vacuum. They were hard fought through decades of collective struggle and civil war.
It would be a lot easier for the people of Yemen to do the same if they were allowed to experience the same peace as is experienced in the west, and their efforts weren't constantly thwarted by imperialist powers.
They are attacking Norwegian boats. The majority of the boats they are attacking aren’t even from the USA or going to the USA…
Also false. The majority of boats when the US blockade was active had direct ties to the countries on the blockade list.
Notable example True Confidence was owned by US Oaktree Capital until it was sold right before passing through the Red Sea. https://www.ft.com/content/7968438c-ec7c-424d-aaed-42d99e2a51a7
They have not been operating with honesty for some ships but as someone else pointed out, the majority had ties to the US and Israel. They've also been very clear about why they do this. I'm not saying they are admirable, but they are not that wrong.
I don't think it's bad to admit that they are generally doing something good while also committing bad mistakes.
JD Vance was just quoted saying 90% of the traffic was headed to Europe. I’m sure he’s exaggerating as much as you. Not too long ago the United States had good sounds intelligence so…. Idk not my business anyway. Don’t fuck with civilian vessels. Hit real military targets and get hit back with military assets. All I see is a bunch of fucking terrorist and terrorist supporters to be honest.
I can see why you think I might be exaggerating but at some point I checked the wikipedia page listing Houthi attacks on ships and spent a good amount of time checking each one more carefully.
Isn't that a bit... Islamophobic and colonialist? You're also making a lot of assumptions about Yemen here.
They’re bombing the Houthi’s in Yemen because the Houthis have been launching Iranian missiles at ships in the Red Sea since 2023? Including the US navy (don’t touch the boats) and Israel. The houthis are currently holding hostage a number of crews of merchant ships
Because it’s sensational that so incompetent people are in charge.
Launching a $2 million dollar missile and crushing a few children to death should also be sensational.
Unfortunately here in America that's just another Saturday.
The fact that sensation is the motivating factor for reporting is a problem
The Houthis, is a Zaydi Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydi Shias, with their namesake leadership being drawn largely from the Houthi tribe. The group has been a central player in Yemen's civil war, drawing widespread international condemnation for its human rights abuses, including targeting civilians and using child soldiers. The Houthis are backed by Iran. The Houthis emerged as an opposition movement to Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whom they accused of corruption and being backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Are the airstrikes working? No. Are they gonna continue? Yes.
I think anyone paying attention expects the US to sacrifice their public image to keep wasting taxpayer dollars helping the Zionists commit a genocide.
The people in that group chat were hired by Russia to do as much damage as possible, so this is them doing their jobs.
So, we should let our ships get attacked by terrorist slavers, to spite Israel?
If we told our vassal state to stop committing genocide, the Houthis wouldn't be bombing ships. Please try to keep up.
Have you ever considered that the accusation of antisemitism might not carry so much weight if you didn't openly align yourself with genocidal terrorist slavers?
The people of Yemen are the victims of genocide, perpetrated by Israel and Saudi Arabia, and supplied by America.
And you propose...what, specifically? We let the genocidal, slave-taking, rape happy terrorists that are the Houthis continue to attack us, because we deserve it?
Is it really any wonder why nothing Internet leftists support ever succeeds?
I propose we stop helping Israel facilitate genocide so they will go back to not attacking us.
I propose you explain why I should trust genocidal, terrorist slavers.
Lmao what a fucking ignorant racist take. What you're saying ironically is actually true, in many cases, such as Iran, they were peaceful and democratic until the US overthrew the government and installed a fascist who would let us take the oil. Iran had zero aggression or animosity towards the US until the CIA overthrew their peaceful, progressive, democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh.
Educate yourself and stop spewing this outdated, hateful propaganda.
2001 called. They want you back.
This, if we stopped allowing Isreal to colonize their neighbors then their neighbors would stop fighting back.
Great, more fucking nazis from reddit. Didn't they make Gab and Truth social for you cockroaches?
I think it's because they keep sinking commercial ships and firing missiles at Israel, no? They also shot missiles at Russian, Chinese, European, Panamanian, Japanese, Korean, and South American ships.
Why were bombing them now is because Trump's a dumbass and needs to distract everyone.
Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen for years
It's exhausting to keep track of everything that is wrong about this.
Because they couldn't fight back
One could say that the group chat that shouldn't be (absolutely everything should be over official channels) has a lot to do with why bombing the poorest countries on Earth is a constant.
The Yemen people aren’t white so they don’t care
opens a post with question in the title that is lamenting that news don't give any real answers and focus just on "trump bad" story.
all top comments are just "trump bad" and "all bad government" and has to scroll deep down to find an actual answer to the question posted.
leaves understanding much better why news don't focus on context and give just emotional side stories.
To open a sea route or something
This is why the leak because people are talking about it which can be covered up and denied by the shitlords and not the actual attack, which is unjustifiable.
And people continue to think these people are "idiots" and "incompetent" for all these things that they do. All of this is carefully orchestrated and planned to fool the average person. Don't fall for it. We're dealing with serious, horribly evil people with a dangerous agenda to rule the world.
Because zionist central bankers own our politicians through Aipac snd CUFI donations. The houthi are waging against the zionist state of israel to free the Palestinian people under oppressive occupation and genocide funded by our tax dollars
You're putting the horse before the cart here. US politicians fund Israel because they feel Israel is useful for their geopolitical goals in the region. When they want to bomb Iran, they don't do it themselves and risk retaliations to their ships, they have Israel do it. Also Israel is great for the US military industrial complex. Korea can't put "tested in Gaza" on their weapons like Lockheed can.
You may believe this is the case but it really is not. Look at the uss liberty incident. The us allowed Israel to attack a us naval vessel with impunity. Our entire political system in the us is owned and controlled by transnational multi billion dollar military and prison industry profiteers. they don't have any allegiance to the population of the usa besides their own class who all seem to vehemently support the same cause of the zionist ethno state of israel and the perpetuation of an obvious genocide against the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine. This all goes back to the rothschild family, the balfour declaration Theodore Herzl and the several Zionist terrorist paramilitary Groups that waged terror across the levant from the earliest moments of the 20th century until 1948 when the British occupation of palestine ended and the british empire gave control of Palestine to zionist leaders who then condemned the terrorists groups who carried out violent bombings, attacks assassinations and instigated riots that were responsible for the deaths of several thousand Palestinian jews, Christians Muslims as well as American expats, British citizens and British troops stationed in Palestine. But despite condemning these criminals the ranks of their terrorist groups (hagannah, irgun, palmach and lehi) were welcomed into the newly formed govenrment as well as the IDF and mossad and many of the current zionist politicians in the likud party and other Zionist political factions have direct familial ties to members of these terrorist groups. These wealthy individuals who had the power connections and means to form these paramilitary organizations still have family members directly involved in central banking institutions such as the IMF world bank wall street and other connected institutions. These are people who consider themselves far beyond reproach and above governments. The rothschild family has spent a lot on PR to cleverly deflect any criticism of their wealth and how they use it as anti semitism but the Zionist movement would not be what it is today without the blood money of this central banking family of genocidal war mongers
You're just doing antisemitic conspiracy but writing "zionist" instead of Jew.
The British handed the occupation to the Zionists because it was cheaper to have someone else do the colonization and a convenient way to remove Jewish people from Britain. Lord Balfor was wildly antisemitic.
Lmao. Balfour was a puppey for lord rothschild. The balfour declaration pretty much stated they intended to give palestine to the zionists way before 1948.
Theodore herzl went to Rothschild and asked for 15 million pounds (over 2 billion in today’s money) to buy Palestine from the ottomans but rothschild refused because why would they pay for it when he already owned the British empire through financial dominance. So he pressured the british to take it from the ottomans and then clandestinely funded all these Zionist terrorist groups to make it prohibitively expensive for the British to maintain their occupation and subsequently hasten the transfer of the land to the Zionists
Not all people of the jewish faith are Zionists. Many Palestinian jews were slaughtered by Zionists during their terrorism spree before 1948. And there was no such thing as islamic extremism before the 1960’s so zionism created modern islamic extremist terrorism.
You just seem to choose to believe that history books are factual and unbiased when this is far from the truth. Remember ghislane maxwell’s father who was a Mossad asset was involved in the publishing of school textbooks and maxwell herself was even a moderator on many reddit groups pertaining to world events and current news.
And today mossad is funding massive social media troll farms to sway public perception and manipulate the narrative when it suits them. Zionism is evil and to say the rothschild family has not been directly involved with zionism since the late 19th century is just ignorant of reality. The Rothschild family has a long history of funding and arming both sides of military conflicts to profit regardless who wins or loses. They definitely have the wealth to use PR to manipulate their public image to their advantage. The whole “anyone who talks bad about the Rothschild family is an antisemitic nazi” is such clever redirecting propaganda. How can someone who is an anti fascist leftist critical of israel Be anti semitic? There are many jewish people who are also critical of israel. Israel is definitely a fascist regime committing genocide and ethnic cleansing and the history of who funded and empowered those responsible for israel’s current crimes against humanity is important to dissect snd investigate regardless who it makes angry. hasbarah is a real tactic used by zionists to attack their critics and the whole “anyone who says this and this or this about israel and or the Rothschild family” is just hasbarah misdirection.
Paragraphs are a thing.
I am writing a comment on an internet forum community. not a research essay or thesis. Do you want me to quote sources at the bottom too professor frosty sauce?🧐
Today on "Is it Lemmy or 4chan" : Zionist Bankers!
https://youtu.be/OiopyxPHS-g
Today on neo liberal paridoxical brain rot. “Anyone who identifies as a zionist is therefor jewish and completely absolved of being held accountable, the idea that ultra wealthy zionists who hold extreme Socio-political and economic power who have publicly spoken of their aims and used their wealth to manipulate and influence others to also serve their interests are very likely working together for a common interest, is just a crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theory and should be discredited immediately because it makes all people who support a genocidal ethno stare look bad and that reflects poorly on judaism as a whole!”
Not clicking a random YouTube link
OK Adolf. Did the uber rich Jews who run all the banks use space lasers to burn down Australia too?
The Balfour declaration was literally addressed to “Lord Rothschild” fuck the Rothschilds. Zionists are evil
Why don't you defend all billionaires and tell me how hard they worked. Obviously anti semitism isnt really a big deal to zionists if they are best friends with trump and Elon musk who did a blatant open seig heil salute not once but twice at the inauguration while espousing all the pro Zionist bullshit he can. The ADL even excused such a disgusting gesture so if doing a seig heil salute isnt anti semitic then clearly calling out the rothschild family cant be either right? Which way is it? Sure the rich Zionists who use their money to further their cause are all good guys because of the magic sky daddy they worship.
Get the Zionist boot out of your mouth and go touch some grass and breathe in some Reality for once.
That youtube link is for anyone who wants to hear the truth. Its from code pink. Obviously you don't want the truth you want to make excuses for genocidal war mongers because you deludedly believe their ethno-religious identity shields them from valid criticism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/houthi-leader-condemns-us-israeli-aggression-vows-support-gaza
US “journalism” since the Reagan and bush sr. administrations both vetoed attempts to legislate the fairness in media doctrine have become blatant capitalist propaganda. Of course the west is going to condemn any rebel group that aims to re appropriate resources stolen from the people by repressive oligarchs like the saudi’s and other nations complicit in the western exploitation of looted third world resources for pennies on the dollar in the name of maximizing corporate profits. Im pretty sure the british said some nasty things after the boston tea party too. Rebels are always looked at as terrorists to those in power who commit war crimes with impunity. Those with the money who own the media dictate the narrative.
The us were not the first to start colonizing and pillaging the third world to rape and pillage resources to feed markets. Sure it will harm a third world country if the goods they are producing are destroyed or appropriated by a rebel group but it will harm the multinational conglomerates who aim to profit off the use of these resources for whatever goods they are going to make or repackage and sell.
Its not so much the US as it is western hegemonic influence and multibillion dollar military industry profiteers pillaging the third world for rare earth minerals, raw metal ore, petroleum, textiles and whatever valuables they can get their hands on.
Are you saying the US iran conflict isn’t directly connected to the zionist regime of israel and all the history of the colonization of Palestine since the signing of the Balfour declaration? Because there was no such thing as islamic extremism before zionist terror groups irgun haganah palmach and lehi waged a 3 decades long campaign of assassinations, bombings, riots and other attacks killing approximately between 5000-8000 Palestinian jews, Christians and muslims as well as american and British expats and british troops occupying british mandate palestine. I mean we can trace this all the way back to the crusades and find WASP ideology as the root and then before then we can go to ancient babylon and egypt to see where the tensions in the fertile crescent came from. But today no other nation state breeds more validated contempt than a fascist ethnostate commiting genocide against a race of humans it deems inferior. This is why the mujahadein funded by the reagan administration to fight the ussr ended up taking their training and money and aiming their ire at the us after the saudis refused to break their ties to the us state whos unholy alliance with israel made them an enemy to arabs since 1948 radicalization and extremism didnt blossom till the conflict with Egypt and it was a result of certain islamic groups reading marxist ideas of resistance and implementing them in their fight against the western world’s domination and support of a criminal zionist state. This is the reality. Youre trying to make this grayer than it is. Its not fully black and white but zionist influence and the unwavering support of zionism by the western banking military profiteering elite sows seeds of discontent and extremism while validating these sentiments. One person has been very concise in their expression of this reality and it was michael scheuyer who was the head of the osama bin laden fbi task force under the bush administration. Islamic extremism(which really is just localized solidarity and resistance towards an evil genocidal ethnostate) would not exist if the us and other western allies didnt give Israel Carte blanche to commit war crimes and genocide in that part of the world. A lot of money has been spent propagandizing americans to believe anything other than the truth. But the reality is that islamic empires have always been able to thrice and accept multiculturalism look at the moors and how their empire across the Iberian peninsula thrived for centuries before the crusades. Most people just believe what American corporatist influence tells them while they have never read the quran or taken time to understand islam/ arab culture. Which is no more violent or misogynistic than judaism. There is very little difference between the two in reality beaides the quran says allah/god created multiple worlds with civilizations on them.
Within two years this same plot will play out with Israel backed Morocco in the berm vs Algerian fighters defending the native Western Saharan Sahrawi.
It's opec that's the money here, lots and lots of oil goes around there and the major target are opec owned oil tankers held hostage for payment. It's arguably a money laundering scheme but still.
for the headlines. don't you remember the daily headlines. ran out of inflamatory bs.
They are bombing Yemen, because the houthis are attacking our boats. Transportation ships. Never fuck with US international commerce.
Those chat logs show that we're only bombing them because of the Suez canal. That is ridiculous.
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apparently it has something to do with a lot of world's trade passing through the channel between the mediterranean sea and the indian ocean.
Because frankly, the leak is more shocking than the bombing. I have no knowledge of any regime throughout history that has done anything close to that level of incompetence.
The Signal chat "leak" was 100% arranged and intentional. Every person in that group was typing full copy-edited paragraphs like they were on reddit, not a chat room. They added one of the most conservative and compliant voices in the "liberal" press and somehow nobody in that small group noticed. And then he left to break the story as soon as he could instead of remaining a fly on the wall as long as possible like any real journalist worth their salt would.
Nah man, this was a little stage play to make this cabinet look like tough guys carefully making hard choices. To soften any public backlash against them bombing civilian buildings to rubble without congress even declaring war. I wouldn't trust a damn thing that Jeff Goldberg pens.
And to be honest? If I'm right, this is maybe the most competent op that the Trump II admin has pulled off so far.
Because they can
Hopefully this leadership is so incompetent that their stupidity like this gives some Ws to countries like Yemen. And by Ws I mean some of our terrorist in the sky dropping bombs instead drop into the ocean themselves. Kerplunk!
Scoreboard!
Because they can. That's it. That's the only reason.
They are bombing because bombing stops all these wars.
Calm down. Americans only recently learned where Palestine was. The grey mush they call a brain can only handle so much.
lib priorities
Peace, democracy, and freedom.
Well they are attacking our shipping sooo...
Sooooo corporations should actually pay more in taxes and the ultra wealthy that benefit from our subsidizing their global police force should too.
It's pretty disgusting that they on the one hand tell us our gigantic military budget is needed to protect global shipping lanes but also we need to reduce taxes on the ultra wealthy and their corporations too...
Because of the breakdown of the Cease Fire in Gaza
they have been attacking shipping long before that cease fire
but they claim their attacks are in line with Israel's war in Gaza. Truth is this is just a proxy war with Iran, Yemen is just stuck as the battlefield.
You're shipping? As in you have any legitimate borders or control of the red sea? No? Just an imperial bootlicker then?
I'm not shipping, you're shipping.
Zero surprise.
The dems have always supported genocide very openly.
These memes about the "leak" represent the only principles that they have - violent support for the procedures of the status quo.
Yeah why bomb terrorists who fire missiles at ships?