• brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    The West spent a decade sponsoring a genocide against Yemen, now they’re attacking it directly for the sake of supporting a different genocide.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Solidarity with the people of Yemen. I would rather share the burden than just watch. I predict many share my feelings and some might act on it.

    Viva la resistance

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    11 months ago

    Depends whether this is a limited operation or a beginning of another war. Because that will shatter the already worldwide fragile state.

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    11 months ago

    One of the main guarantees of the US-led world order is that the Straight of Hormuz will stay open for commerce. The fact that the Houthis can shut it down is a huge blow to US hegemony.

    In the modern age of drone warfare, US aircraft carriers are a liability. Sure, we can send in the USS Medical Bankruptcy carrier strike group and launch a few million dollar missiles, but the blockade stays in place.

    There seems to be only two options to stop this blockade: End the genocide, or invade Yemen in a war against the Houthis. Genocide Joe can’t afford to start a middle east war in an election year, so this tit-for-tat will continue into the near future.

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      11 months ago

      It’s spelled ‘Strait of Hormuz’, not ‘Straight of Hormuz’… And the situation takes place in the Red Sea, not the strait, just saying

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      11 months ago

      US aircraft carriers were a liability the moment the nuclear weapon was invented. The only pure-military target that can justify a nuclear strike is a carrier, and a carrier is such a weapon that it might legitimately not trigger MAD protocols.