The targeting of another U.S.-owned commercial ship Wednesday shows the militant group remains intent on continuing its attacks in the face of multiple rounds of U.S. military airstrikes.
The Houthis launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at the U.S.-owned, flagged and operated commercial ship Maersk Detroit as it was transiting the Gulf of Aden, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely shot down two missiles and a third fell into the water. There were no indications of damage or injuries in the attack.
The U.S. military has been conducting airstrikes against the Houthis to degrade their capabilities since Jan.11, after several weeks of attacks on commercial ships by the militant group.
I do think this is a strategic miss step from the Hooti Bros. Attacking global trade is the fast track to be on the wrong end of universally approved military actions .
…and I have a horrible feeling Iran might just be about to order in some Freedom & Democracy . US and UK are in election cycles, and tough looking leaders win votes .
I’ll see myself out
Darn Hoothies standing up to Genocide.
America isn’t starting more wars because they can’t afford it, not because they’re so nice. The Hoothies can blow up Saudi’s oil infrastructure which is going to make this global shipping blockade look like a complete joke in comparison.
Ukraine and israel are draining the budget. If America starts escalating the middle east they won’t be able to keep their aircraft carriers next to Taiwan. Fighting one war at a time is easy but it’s starting to stack up.
Middle Eastern issues never seem to get solved with more violence. The freedom and democracy barrage is just going to backfire as it always has.
lol Ukraine is a bargain. I think the US has spent maybe 2% of the entire military budget supplying Ukraine with weapons. In exchange we get to see the last large generation of Russians turned into fertilizer along with all of their frontline hardware.
Israel is perfectly capable of turning the Gaza Strip into a moonscape without much support from the US.
The US hasn’t even touched the hardware needed to take on China (long range missiles and aircraft). On top of that we now have a west that is more united than ever behind the American Hegemony.
I think the US can afford to let a few off the chain and rain some good old fashioned freedom on a few Houthis.
You’re talking like Goku is stronger than One Punch Man because he can go SSJ9001. War isn’t some attack power meter where the party with more attack power just magically wins. Tell me how more about how America just won against the Taliban.
Israel’s iron meme system got wrecked by a bunch of Hamas fireworks. Their wall penetrated like it’s nothing. Just like how israel can flatten Gaza, Hezbollah can flatten israel. Everyone can flatten each other these days. Rockets and Drones are insanely cheap and stopping them is expensive.
The question is if you think that’s a good solution to the problem. From behind your keyboard it must look really funny.
War is never a good solution, but I prefer to be on the side making the craters than getting cratered.
War is never a good solution
Yes.
I prefer to be on the side making the craters than getting cratered.
Everyone is getting cratered.
:Looks up: nope my sky is clear and I’m thousands of miles and an ocean away. That sound like a you problem.
Are you talking about israel vs their neighbours right now or about America?
Not being able to afford it has never deterred the US from taking military action.
Good points each of them, and it’s why I wonder if the US might move to conclude some of them, rather than have them nagging on .
America is probably going to drop and screw over Ukraine if the budget gets tight. But the Hoothi problem looks unsolvable with military force. Saudi tried that for quite a while with American weapons. And America just lost to the Taliban trying to do the same thing.
By for the easiest solution is to reign in Netanyahu and stop the Genocide in Gaza. Hoothi demands are what I would call “normal to anyone that isn’t a genocidal maniac”.
Was about to say the same thing.
Unless they want to keep grinding Putin by proxy, Big Z might be not be getting his calls returned.
Comment is being reported, but I don’t really see anything actionable here. My only request would be to please not minimalize the Houthi movement by calling them “Hoothies”, I mean it’s spelled correctly right there in the subject.
Going down the low hanging fruit road starts butting uncomfortably close to racism and I know you didn’t mean it that way.
The problem so far has been that “more violence” has not been “enough violence”. Apply enough and there will be a peace.
Apply any and there will be martyrs spurring further violence* FTFY
Maersk said both vessels carried cargo belonging to the U.S. Defense and State Departments, as well as other government agencies, meaning they were “afforded the protection of the U.S. Navy for passage through the strait.”
I hope you’re wrong about the regime change bit, but it’s entirely possible you’re right on the money.
Now that you mentioned the freedom and democracy order, I wonder if there’s a connection with Biden sending the CIA director to Israel supposedly for peace negotiations.
They are militant group so do you think they care, or are sophisticated to think about all this?
Man tankies just really infest the fediverse. I wish reality was as simple as they like to pretend it is.
Saying that you support the Houthis in their efforts to stop genocide does not mean you agree with everything they stand for.
You don’t have to unequivocally support a group to encorse one specific action.
Attacking civilian ships with civilian crews does nothing to stop genocide; it’s just terrorism.
Maersk said both vessels carried cargo belonging to the U.S. Defense and State Departments, as well as other government agencies, meaning they were “afforded the protection of the U.S. Navy for passage through the strait.”
Don’t fall for propaganda like a dumbass. These two ships were carrying DOD cargo.
Good point. The civilian sailors clearly deserve it. After all, they get to pick and choose which cargo they carry… just like the Palestinians got to pick their own government and chose terrorists.
If they were good little wage-slaves, they’d have quit and starved until they found a morally pure capitalist to work for.
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By that definition my company toyota Corolla is a valid military target. My brother in Christ Google the definition of “civilian”. Literally anyone or anything not government related qualifies. These ships have “relations” with almost every country, that’s how international commerce works you dumbass.
That’s absolutely false all the targets were directly linked with israel. And now it’s expanded to include all countries that fired missles on Yemen.
Try smuggling goods into Iran or Russia with your Toyota Corolla and if you get caught tell them you are driving a civilian vehicle. I hear that makes everything legal.
If you’re delivering supplies to a Nazi group committing genocide you’re not called a “civilian”.
The Yemeni have designed it terrorist ships. Contrary to everything you believe America isn’t the only nation in the world able to design targets as terror.
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False dichotomy.
Genocide stops == Houthis blockade lifts.
That easy. Instead of trying to be a genocide enabler consider criticizing the israelis that just shot a tank at 20 Palestinians waiting in line for food aid.
Palestine removes Hamas == war stops
That easy
Strange there was no Hamas 75 years ago but israel still committed genocide.
You think maybe Hamas exists as a resonse to genocide?
It’d be cool if they started doing things do stop genocide. Instead of just saying it and then doing other stuff.
It’d be cool if you weren’t defending Genocide.
It’d be cool if they started doing things do stop genocide.
Defending genocide
???
The Houthis are doing stuff to stop genocide. Namely ships to nations that are committing genocide.
Here’s an actual video of what’s going on there https://youtu.be/sAApTUChi1g
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Yes cause the houthis are Bear loving kinda of Islamist militia, right. Definitely have never engaged in the same type of actions ever/s
I don’t recall the Houthis ever blockading the red sea before.
Somalia had some pirates but that was just literal theft and extortion. And that’s not the Houthis.
Mind linking what you are talking about?
It’s a militia islamic militia, do you think they haven’t done the same thing as Israel does to their population, or a subset of their population?
It’s just a way to grab the attention span of everyone which helps their recruitment.
You’re really trying to defend israel’s genocide in any possible way. “No they allowed to stop genocide, they are the bad guys!”
I’m not here to simp for whatever war crimes they did internally. Just this specific action isn’t one you should denounce.
There was a Houthi spokesperson on BBC. They told him the same thing. His response was very simple.
If other groups want to enhance their popularity by stopping genocide they’re very welcome to do so.
How about you go stop israel’s genocide if you don’t want the Houthi’s to do it?
Somalian Pirates were actually often protecting their territorial waters from foreign opportunists plundering in the collapse of the Somalian government. The framing as pirates only works in the sense that these weren’t state-driven fleets, but rather civilian driven in order to protect their livelihoods against corporate raiders.
I just checked the list of ships they attacked. You are right that they are almost all cargo but there was a cruise ship in there
Seabourn Spirit, a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers, was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.[12] Riding in two small speedboats, the pirates fired at the ship with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but the crew drove them off with a water hose and a long range acoustic device.
Do you have any good articles or videos explaining the situation with the Somali pirates? I might be wrong about it and would love to know what the actual deal was.
Sure, here’s an updated link from what I knew even.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/10/6/illegal-overfishing-and-the-return-of-somalias-pirates
Hope you find it as interesting as I did just now, cheers!
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Man commies just really infest the fediverse. I wish reality was as simple as they like to pretend it is.
A slur is still a slur.
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So instead of fucking off, they’re still fucking around. Well, there’s plenty of Find Out to go around.
Yeah because more military action is going to stop terrorism! Have people learned NOTHING from the Bush administration and the wars they started??
What’s the play to stop this then?
Not support Israel’s genocide. I’d wager that’d help.
And even if you’re a ghoul and think that complying with that very reasonable demand wouldn’t stop the Houthis, why not call their bluff? It costs us nothing to simply stop allowing the genocide to happen, and if the Houthis continue attacking ships, then you have a much more legitimate reason to go after them.
Or are the people that are in favor of bombing Yemen just really eager to bomb?
The Saudis have been bombing it for Allah knows how long, so it’s business as usual for everyone involved.
That’s neither here, nor there. The answer isn’t to make the bombing in Yemen worse.
If the only demand is to stop genociding Palestinians, then the US government should simply stop supporting Israel in their genocide.
If the Houthis continue attacking ships after that, then by all means, do what you need to do to handle the Houthis. But the US government can’t even be bothered to call for a ceasefire, so they leave it up to militant groups to act.
They are actually in the process of calling for a ceasefire. Biden pissed off Netanyahu as well. There’s diplomacy in the background to get a ceasefire and more hostages freed.
And were doing it with bombs sold to them by the US and UK.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the serial numbers on some of the stuff the US and UK is now dropping directly on the Houtis shows them to be from the same batches as some of the stuff that was dropped on them via the Saudis.
The idea that the US and UK cutting off the middleman to keep on doing to the Houtis what has been done to them for a decade, is going to make the Houtis change their minds, is hilarious.
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You really don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to policy. It’s not just a simple “okay let’s cut ties with Israel”.
Calling for a cease fire isn’t “cutting ties with Israel”, and if you think that funding a genocidal ethnostate is a necessary part of foreign policy, your foreign policy would have been very helpful for the Axis Powers, you absolute monster.
They actually might throw a hissy fit if we withhold aid and expel US diplomats or something. We’d lose a major base in the middle east, but (if you’ll allow for a little American exceptionalism) they don’t call the fucking shots here.
Sure, agreed, probably. I don’t believe one atrocity justifies another though (like the holocaust doesn’t justify… Literally anything they’ve used it as justification for), and the problem is the houthis aren’t just fucking with US and Israeli related ships, they’re impacting global trade.
Backing down in the face of violence (even if it is the correct thing to do in this particular situation) only empowers them to cause more violence because it works. That’s why the US doesn’t (typically) negotiate with terrorists.
Yeah I’m not saying the Houthis are right here (they’re being too indiscriminate), but giving into their demands is objectively the morally correct action. They’re using a wrong method to make a correct point.
Am I mistaken, or is the situation with the Houthis and Saudis in Yemen entirely unrelated to the current conflict in Gaza? These are two separate things. The Houthis aren’t disrupting international trade as a statement about Gaza… Like do you have any idea what we’re even talking about in this thread?
I don’t know. I don’t have to in order to recognize the fact that military action only exacerbates the problem by making it easier to radicalize the people whose loved ones are killed, though.
Normally I’d agree, but the Houthis can stop all hostilities by stopping attacking international trade vessels. That isn’t a difficult ask. They can even try to use this as leverage to get other things they want.
the Houthis can stop all hostilities by stopping attacking international trade vessels.
Yeah, that’s bullshit. A Saudi-led coalition has been bombing the shit out of them with American weapons for several years now.
I don’t in any way condone terrorism under any circumstances, but to pretend that there’s not been any previous acts of oppressive violence to radicalize them is as unhelpful as it is (wilfully?) ignorant.
I don’t disagree there, but this is what I meant by leverage. “We’ll stop attacking if you stop helping the Saudis”. It wasn’t too long ago that the Houthis actually considered the US as a friendly state.
Wilfully ignorant it is.
There’s no way the US government is ever going to make any such deal, much less honor it.
You do realize that Americans get boners from this, right? Americans LOVE getting attacked so they can use their billions of dollars worth of weapons that they’ve been hoarding. Then resell it.
Some do, yeah. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to point out the futility of it.
You’re telling me military action doesn’t stop terrorism??
It doesn’t prevent terrorism, but where the hits land it does usually stop whatever is going on.
In the very short term yeah, but in the longer term it INCREASES terrorism by making it easier for terrorists to radicalize people who lost loved ones.
Q: Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?
Biden: Well, when you say “working”. Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.
Typical US anti-terrorism policy
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The entire city of Detroit is about to ask “The fuck you doing fuckin’ with our big ass ship?”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The targeting of another U.S.-owned commercial ship Wednesday shows the militant group remains intent on continuing its attacks in the face of multiple rounds of U.S. military airstrikes.
The Houthis launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at the U.S.-owned, flagged and operated commercial ship Maersk Detroit as it was transiting the Gulf of Aden, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command.
The U.S. has launched multiple rounds of two different types of airstrikes — those hitting a wider range of targets, like storage sites and radar capabilities, and also preemptive strikes aiming at Houthi missiles as they’re loaded onto launchers to prepare for an attack.
But again, our hope is that we can restore security and stability to the Red Sea, and we’ll continue to work toward that end," Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said this week.
The Houthis began launching these attacks in November to protest the war in Gaza, but many of the commercial ships they’ve targeted have no connection to Israel, U.S. officials say.
These attacks, combined with the others that Iran-backed groups are launching at U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria add to the widening tensions in the Middle East since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas.
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The US needs to put out some “Bait Ships” where they just sail around the seas in the hope that pirates try and take it, but instead of a crew of civilians there’s a military crew just waiting to strike.
Or let’s just station a flock of Reapers over where they tend to launch so the response is fast enough to catch the perpetrators
