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You can't attack civilian transport, that's terrorism!
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If the infrastructure is key to the war effort, fair game. But like, the nether the Houthis nor the British are directly involved in the Israeli invasion of Palestine. Whereas I'm pretty sure Ukraine–having been invaded by Russia on false pretenses–has limited their targets to inside Ukraine and Russia.
Also, like, terrorism has a definition. The purpose behind Ukrainian attacks are direct military goals, while the Houthis are trying to generate pressure on the international community to drop support for Israel. The Houthis are using bottom-tier logic, but it is fundamentally different from what Ukraine is doing both in terms of actions and reasoning.
Initially the Houthis only blocked ships related to israel which is completely fair game and heroic as they are standing up against Genocide.
Then America and Britain decided to bomb Yemen in order to help israel in their Genocide.
Now follow me here:
since Britain has bombed yemen they are directly at war with Yemen.
And these British ships are as directly involved in the war with the Houthis, as Russian trains are with the war in Ukraine.
Well shit, I wager the vast majority of people didn't know most of that (including myself). I still think the situations aren't a 1:1 comparison, but the Houthi logic is at least more reasonable.
Good to know.
For more information this 5 minute video is very informative