Yemeni Houthis target US aircraft carrier in Red Sea in retaliation
Yemeni Houthis target US aircraft carrier in Red Sea in retaliation
Yemeni Houthis have attacked the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea. The strike was carried out in response to US airstrikes on Yemen, reports Al Jazeera and Houthi Brigadier General Yahya Saree.
"The Houthi military spokesperson said that the group has responded to the US bombing of Yemen by attacking the USS Harry S Truman with ballistic missiles and a drone," the report said.
Yahya Saree specified that the Houthis launched 18 missiles. He also claimed that the US had carried out more than 47 airstrikes on several Yemeni provinces, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.
Guys this was always a bad idea, but like right now especially this seems like a very bad choice to make. Christ knows we're looking to make an example out of some more brown people....
I think it's been established that the Houthis are not afraid of American imperialism. I mean they're part of the Axis of Resistance, not the Axis of Acquiescence.
If a movement doesn't understand the difference between picking one's battles and acquiescense it's cause is already long lost.
The rate at which the trump admin is willing to turn Resistance Fighters into Martyr Paste is unsustainable for everyone except the trump admin. Antagonizing that administration now, during one of it's many fits of impotent self-importance, is going to end in more dead civilians than if you'd just waited a few days for it's idiot attention span to burn out. It's not a war of attrition based on the competing political wills of two populaces any more, its an abhorent massacre overseen by a psycho. The name of the game is no longer 'Defeat or Drive Out', its 'Survive'.
Imagine bombing the shit out of a country with the GDP of that aircraft carrier upkeep.
The value of the weapons used exceeds the value of the buildings destroyed by at least one order of magnitude.
It's sad that thanks to shitrael the US is the Evil Empire and the Houthis are the Rebel Alliance.
Undying support for Israel has always been part of it, but it was never the reason. The United States has never not been a colonialist empire.
Still. The fact that the US would rather burn resources not to mention it's global facade of being a benign hegemon propping up a genocidal apartheid state instead of focusing on it's strategic interests is baffling.
"American warship, go fuck yourself!"
Dudes, what did we say about 'muricas boats?
TIL ...
This might get interesting. Where did I put the popcorn?
I got some right here. I too want this to be a Friday so I can just get comfortable in the couch. Gotta watch me some hithues do whatever huthirs do in Summer!
