Concern grows within Biden administration as Houthis continue attacks despite US strikes | CNN Politics
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The Biden administration is struggling to stop the ongoing attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis against ships in the Red Sea and the group is continuing to fortify its weapons stockpile inside Yemen, even though the US has carried out significant strikes on the group in recent weeks, US officials told CNN.
  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
    191·
    4 months ago

    Hear me out. Maybe on this one we actually DO negotiate with terrorists? It seems like maybe ceasing to facilitate a genocide in order to secure safer shipping routes is actually a good play instead of continuing to facilitate a genocide AND perpetuating yet ANOTHER war in the region. I don’t know, just a thought.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      182·
      4 months ago

      Agree, aside from characterization of the government of Yemen as terrorists. Yemen is interdicting shipping through their waters from countries participating in a genocide. This is their sovereign right.

      • unmagical@lemmy.ml
        10·
        4 months ago

        I was primarily stealing the phrase to poke fun of American Politics. I doubt any real negotiation would actually be necessary though. If we denounced our support of Israel and ceased funding them, I wouldn’t be surprised if the attacks would wane on US affiliated ships (they would persist on ships bound to Israel and on nation ships that still support Israel). Chinese ships seem to not have this problem.

        Furthermore, I was referring to the Houthis attacks, the governance structure of Yemen as a whole remains ambiguous enough, and I wouldn’t consider the attacks as being necessarily sanctioned by the “government.”

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
          112·
          4 months ago

          Ah Poe’s law in action I guess. It’s worth noting that the governance of Yemen isn’t actually that ambiguous. Ansar Allah control the territory where 80% of the population lives and have popular support from vast majority of people in Yemen. The puppet regime that the Saudis and US have been trying to prop up has no legitimacy.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      112·
      4 months ago

      Sorry pardner, there’s only one kind of terrorist we negotiate with round these partsidf-cool howdy-skull idf-coolsus-torment

      Jokes aside yeah, it’s wild how easily this could all be resolved if our government gave a shit about human life

  • asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    101·
    4 months ago

    Yemen is the only country that is actually fulfilling its obligations under the U.N. conventions on genocide. The U.S. has zero moral authority on this issue, and more of the world is beginning to realize that every day.

    The U.N should enact sanctions on the U.S. and Israel when they lose at the ICJ.