• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Finally, they removed the middleman - Saudi Arabia - and started dropping their bombs on the Houthis directly.

    At least it’s less hypocrite than what was going on before.

    Can’t but wonder if the Houthis aren’t used to US and UK bombs being dropped on them by now and if thus this will make that much of a difference (weren’t the Houthis mountain people, same as the Afghans?).

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      8 months ago

      Can’t but wonder if the Houthis aren’t used to US and UK bombs being dropped on them by now and if thus this will make that much of a difference (weren’t the Houthis mountain people, same as the Afghans?).

      Pretty much what the news analysts are saying, even. I’m unsure why Biden and Sunak felt like this was a good idea. I really can’t see any possible upside. Now they look even more crooked in the region than before, because the only thing they acted on are the cargo ships loaded with dumb crap for the West, and the Houthis look cool and relevant directly fighting them. The threat to shipping is even higher than before if anything, and the whole place is even closer to going WWI.

      They could have just parked their warships there and kept eating drones. It would have costed a lot in interceptors, but you’d think even a few more weeks of situation normal would have been worth it.