Hasn't the US been bombing the Houthis already? Unsure how this would result in a further 'escalation'.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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Hey, we only bomb them a little bit... mostly, we just sell bombs to Saudi Arabia so they can bomb them - that's got nothing to do with us!
Also not sure why firing at military vessels is worse than firing at civilians
Yup, this is definitely the worst Middle East Sea conflict in decades. These Houthis are better armed than Sadam, Sadam 2: Electric Boogaloo, Afghanistan, ISIS, Iran and Syria combined.
This. Is. Our. Doomsday.
They are lucky Sadam didn't go after the trade routes and Wall street's profit cow, or else they would have nuked Bagdad, instead of just bombing it to shit with no warning while hundreds of thousands of civilians were sleeping.
I'd assume we've lost more ships to Al Qaeda (see USS Cole) than anything the Houthis could do.
Still, this is an escalation. Last week, we were pretending that the missiles flying at our ships "might have not been aimed at us". This week, we're officially saying that the Houthis are shooting at us. That's an escalation for sure. But we shouldn't have been pretending that the 25+ missiles launched at us last week were... like... what? I don't even know what we were trying to argue.
We've absolutely expended far more resources navally in Sadam, Sadam 2, Iran, Afghan and Isis then we've done with the Houthis... to my knowledge each of those conflicts involved some carrier born air support.
We shot like 700 cruise missiles the first day of Iraq 2003 IIRC.
I do wonder what the Houthis are thinking of here. We're obviously holding back right now.
Calling this a "sea conflict" after a Saudi-led coalition has been committing genocide against the Houthis with weapons and other assistance from the US for almost a decade is either EXTREMELY ignorant or COMPLETELY disingenuous and gross journalistic malpractice either way.
The US media is using this sort of language to manufacture consent for yet another war in the middle east. Is this group the de facto government of Yemen? No, they’re just “Houthi rebels”, so we’re doing Yemenis a favor by getting rid of them. Is it a reasonable military tactic to fire on the warship of a hostile foreign power that’s been bombing the shit out of you? No, it’s an “escalation”! How dare these rebels strike first, we didn’t do anything to them!
The US media is using this sort of language to manufacture consent for yet another war in the middle east.
Absolutely.
Better ar warships than at civilian cargo ships