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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Q: Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, when you say “working,” are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (29 children)

What ever happened to talking and reaching an agreement and asking for favors and scratching each other back.. like now we resort to uncivilized behavior by attacking the poorest countries.

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[–] thecookingsenpai 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The recent US and UK actions can be taken as examples on how to cure the symptom while making the disease worse

[–] BB69 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Here’s an idea:

The Houthi’s can just not launch missiles at ships

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (15 children)

I'm tired of this kind of lazy rhetoric.

Why are the Houthi's committing violence?

I have a feeling it has less to do with a foundational nature of evil, and everything to do with a population being impoverished, oppressed, and forgotten.

Instead of spending 1.2 billion dollars bombing them, maybe purchasing 600 million dollars of their chief export would be a better idea.

Empower the legitimate businesses and the people in the region who aren't launching missiles instead of ravaging the region and creating a new generation of 'militant rebels'.

[–] thecookingsenpai 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And the US could just stop funding Netanyahu's war in Gaza.

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[–] thecookingsenpai 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Good idea! Here's another: UK and US stop interferring in middle east (FYI the palestine problem was worsened by magnitudes by the UK mandate)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Actually they can’t, they have a legal obligation under the UN Convention on Genocide to take extra-territorial actions in order to stop or prevent genocide. They are acting within international law. The ships going to Israel despite the active genocide are violating international law and complicit in the genocide themselves.

[–] JustZ 4 points 10 months ago

I don't even know where to begin with this idiocy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hey, the navy needs to keep their button pushing skills sharp /s

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Every attack strenghten the houthis.

But every attacks also creates shareholder value.

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