Houthi militia unsuccessfully retaliates after it said U.S. strikes on Yemen killed 53
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“We are confronting this criminal aggression and responding to escalation with escalation,” the Iran-backed militia said in a media statement.

Summary

U.S. airstrikes on Houthi-held areas of Yemen killed at least 31 and injured 101, according to the Houthi health ministry.

The strikes followed renewed Houthi attacks on shipping, which they say are in response to Israel’s blockade of Gaza.

A Houthi spokesperson vowed retaliation, stating, “Our response will not be delayed.” Trump warned Iran to stop supporting the Houthis, while Iran distanced itself from the group.

The conflict has disrupted Red Sea shipping, prompting the U.S. to redesignate the Houthis as a terrorist organization earlier this month.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    10 hours ago

    It is a lot simper than you are trying to make it out to be. People hold a country of people who are victim of the previous genocide and is now standing up to a new one to an impossibly high standard, while the country genociding all over the world is never held to the same standard.

    The only reason it is not black and white because it is brown and white.

    • elatedCatfish@lemm.eeEnglish
      42·
      6 hours ago

      So… you’re just cool with the whole gender apartheid thing? Islam and Christianity need to go with both - the world would be a lot better off

      It should go without saying, obviously genocide is awful and I don’t support that.

      Edit: and not partaking in gender apartheid doesn’t sound like too crazy of a standard to hold a society to with its own people…

      • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        3 hours ago

        Watch out the pinkwashining brigade has arrived.

        Tad hard to take le epic atheism seriously when secularism is at its umpteenth genocide since its prominence on the world stage.

        The Houthis are risking their lives to stop a genocide and somehow you believe people will take you seriously if you tell them that they are not good enough to do so?

        • elatedCatfish@lemm.eeEnglish
          22·
          3 hours ago

          Said by the person that seems to look up to Iran and their buddies lol dude you whack

          I just find it laughable to call them the “leaders of the free world” when half of their own population isn’t even free lmao

          • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            3 hours ago

            You are supporting governments perpetrating a genocide over governments standing up against genocide. You might one day notice your words about freedom ring a tad hollow when you support the worlds largest concentration camp. “lmao”.

            • elatedCatfish@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              3 hours ago

              … who said I support them? I certainly didn’t. I just think Iran/Russia and their proxies are shit as well.

              By all means if people rise up in the US against our corrupt government, I’ll be one of the first to grab my gun and be out on the streets.

              • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                2 hours ago

                By all means if people rise up in the US against our corrupt government, I’ll be one of the first to grab my gun and be out on the streets.

                Sure Iran and Yemen have plenty of faults. But they are the people grabbing the gun and rising up against the US backed genocide. By all means you or any other party is extremely welcome to showcase their moral superiority by outdoing Iran or Yemen in this.

                • elatedCatfish@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  2 hours ago

                  Problem here is that conservatives are the armed ones and they’re the ones running the show with the govt. Anything that isn’t planned on a massive scale would be for naught and end up with us dead or in prison for life.

                  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    52 minutes ago

                    I do not recall Americans being more receptive to violent resistance against genocide under the Democrats. If anything even less.

                    But the Houthis were doing this under the Democrats as well. They are nonpartisan like that.

                    Anything that isn’t planned on a massive scale would be for naught and end up with us dead or in prison for life.

                    Like for example a collective demand to massively hinder the economies of participating countries with a shipping blockade unless the genocide ends?