they’ve already weathered a decade of CIA drone strikes and Saudi air strikes. did anyone believe these recent strikes were anything but performative actions by a humiliated US administration?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/politics/houthis-yemen-us-airstrikes.html
“Identifying targets proved to be a challenge”
AKA
“We basically just bombed a bunch of civilian centers and hoped that would stop them, we didn’t want to go near their military bases because we could’ve been shot down if we tried that.”