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  • Count042@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldwhat are they bombing yemen for?
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    5 days ago

    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.



  • 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.


  • None of what you complained about is the far left, but rather the center/right of the Democratic party.

    To be clear, the far left doesn’t have political representation in America, so you can’t give actual examples because those would require the far left actually had power.

    But if you think Biden, a literal fucking segregationist, represents the far left, then you don’t actually know what the left is.