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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Two points:

  • Reread my post, specifically the very first line were I couldn't be clearer about agreeing with the reasons the previous poster gave for this.
  • That post of yours has a whole lot of absolute certainties about the region, the local actors involved, their weapons stockpiles, how the weapons move between local actors and pretty much everything else as well as the behaviours of the foreign actors involved: with so many absolute statements about that region and situation, all of which are spinning a pro-US position, you're providing a wonderful example for my point about the overabundance of "America, hell yeah!" simplistic nationalistic takes on the whole thing at the moment.

If there is one thing History has shown us in abundance is that the bollocks about "limited intervention" and the "explanations" spun for it by the US and UK politicians and their local Press is almost never the whole truth (often, none of it is true: remember Iraq?!) and their assessments of the impact of those actions and predictions what follows are usually wrong.

Changing the mind of what is already a veteran guerrilla movement with support from a well armed large local actor isn't quite the same as bombing the Presidential Palace in some peaceful nation were the nation itself and the local power elites have a lot to lose, to "convince" them of the dangers of nationalizing some mineral concessions in the hands of US companies.

We'll have to wait and see what the Houthis do on this, which in turn is also dependent on their weapon stockpiles, the continued support of Iran and even just how much the Houthis listen to Iran or not - considering that they haven't just rolled-over and played dead in the face of Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign, plus they have a lot or reasons to want to screw as much as possible the interests of both the US and UK (whose bombs were the ones being dropped by SA), plus there seems to be a lot of popular support in the region for anybody who screws those nations (on account of both supporting the ongowing genocide in Israel) it seems a little premature to expect the Houthis to stop after on single instance of getting from the US and UK that same as what they've already been getting from SA.

[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

What are you going on about? No one thinks that suddenly everything is going to stop because of a bombing run and there's nothing in the works on invading Yemen. You typed a lot of words to say nothing.