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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.
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
You do realise I'm not American, right?
degeneracy in plain sight.
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 should probably stop fucking with our boats then.
The west has had their hands in Yemen for much longer than the houthis have been firing on ships bound for Israel.
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.
No, not unless you don't know what those words mean.
Places have to be good neighbors if they want security. Can't be belligerent and be safe. It's an either or thing. Nothing colonial about that.
But aren't you saying that some countries can be disinfranchized because they don't abide by Western ideals and that some stronger nation can swoop in and colonize them and are right to do so?
You also expressed the opinion thta generalized Yemeni people (predominantly Muslim) and shows them to be culturally defective... but you provide no evidence except for them being Yemeni.