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what are they bombing yemen for? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For me at this point it's just a matter of surprise.

I expect the US to bomb everywhere that isn't Japan, North America, European Union, or Israel

Hell I'm shocked they aren't throwing bombs at Australia because Elon Musk sent a vaguely worded email that implied it.

The reason why I SEEM to care more about the phones than the bombs, is because "US bombing innocent people? Sounds like a Tuesday... but damn how did we elect someone so incompetent that I find out about the specifics?"

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Calm down. Americans only recently learned where Palestine was. The grey mush they call a brain can only handle so much.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Peace, democracy, and freedom.

[+] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (64 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

They're not exactly bastions of freedom-fighting rebels against tyranny, they are a dark-age group of bigots and legitimate threats to worldwide infrastructure by attacking shipping lanes. Shipping lanes keep food and medicine moving around the world, it's not just about the USA, most developed nations are supportive of responding to the Houthis with force.

edit: The situation with the Houthis is more about Iran and US than it is about Gaza/israel, PLEASE I beg of you to read up on the timeline and history before trying to argue with me and understand that the world is more nuanced than you want it to be, and in fact I challenge you to read up on this story and its history and NOT be disappointed on some level. There is no “good guy” in this, everyone is shit. Also I am turning off inbox replies so I don’t have to argue with reactionaries. Save your energy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They stopped the blockade when there was a ceasefire in Gaza, then they started it up again when the ceasefire ended.

They are doing whatever they can to stop a "a dark-age group of bigots" (israel) from continuing it's genocidal actions

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My friend, that was between US and Iran and had NOTHING to do with Gaza, the Houthis were proxy players and as a result were treated like pawns. Seriously, read up on events and understand that what we're told is never the truth.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

Then why did the blockade stop and start at the same time ceasefire started and ended

Also: iran also wants the genocide to end

The real "dark-age bigots" are the people who don't want to end the genocide

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

US and Iran and had NOTHING to do with Gaza

Iran is US enemy only because it objects to Israel policies.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That's not really true. The US staged a coup in Iran in the 50's to take their oil and give power to the shah, and during the Iranian revolution, Carter allowed the same shah to take refuge in the US (against the advice of foreign policy advisors like Kissinger). This outraged the Iranians who assumed that the US was preparing to reinstall him in another coup, leading them to seize the US embassy and take hostages, causing a breakdown of relations. The US went on to support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. Israel is a major factor, but there's a lot of bad blood besides that, mostly because of the CIA's actions (which were motivated by oil).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah the reason Iran hates us is we killed there democracy and overthrew there very popular president. Because of Communist Allegations which weren't true in the slightest.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

100%.

Iran had no problem with America, it only had a problem with Britain, since they had been exploiting them as a colonial power. Truman actually forbid the CIA from doing what it wanted because he understood it to be a democratic, anti-colonial struggle. But the CIA and Eisenhower just had to wait for him to leave office, and Eisenhower came in not really understanding the situation and with both the CIA and Churchill asking him to sign off on it. It ended up being a bargaining chip, the US would overthrow Mossadegh to protect BP's profits, and in exchange the UK would join NATO and support the Korean War. The Iranians got completely fucked over, just for trying to get out from under the thumb of colonial exploitation and reassert control over their own resources (and they weren't the only ones). Part of the reason the coup succeeded was because Mossadegh trusted the US, and they exploited that trust to stab him in the back.

And nowadays, Americans are not only completely ignorant of that history, but even have the audacity to say things like "Islam is incompatible with democracy." Like, motherfucker, you are incompatible with democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I promise you, there is a lot more between the US and Iran than Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow crazy how they just attack shipping lanes for no reason other than that they're bigots, also crazy how their attacks just randomly happen to correspond with Israeli violence towards Palestinians and primarily target Israeli shipping. Almost as if they're rational actors acting in retaliation - but no, they're just crazy bigots doing terrorism for no reason other than "they hate us for our freedoms."

It's wild what a childish picture of the world people have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am against Israel's government also, but "anyone who attacks israel is my friend" is an even more childish picture, I am providing realistic nuance, not mindless hugboxes ineffectual armchair political strategists. You don't HAVE to have a black-and-white picture of the world, I promise it's okay to NOT take a side about some issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I promise it’s okay to NOT take a side about some issues.

Is that what you think you're doing? Not taking a side by justifying one side bombing the other?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, I'm saying the reality is more nuanced than you or I know, and if you're out cheering every time a Houthi sinks a shipping vessel you're as dumb as the right. The situation is complicated and not as cartoonishly simple as most people in this post are making it out to be. Don't view this as "good guys and bad guys" or you will be another mindless drone complicite in the agendas of powerful assholes.