The United States and Britain struck at least 30 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked US and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, American officials told the Associated Press.
Ships and fighter jets launched the latest strikes against the Houthis. The strikes follow an air assault in Iraq and Syria on Friday that targeted other Iran-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three US troops – William Jerome Rivers, Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Breonna Alexsondria Moffett – in Jordan last weekend.
US defense secretary Lloyd Austin said the military action “sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels”.
I don’t know what these rebel/terrorist groups expected to happen after directly attacking the US military, but I’m pretty sure the rest of us knew almost exactly what was going to happen.
I get it: they hate the US and want them out of the region. Attacking the US brings them to the region.
The US never left the region. Airstrikes have been conducted by the US in Yemen almost every year for nearly a decade.
The US has also bombed Syria and Iraq this year. It is the beginning of February.
There is nothing they can do to keep the US out of the region. They are fucking pissed that the US is fully supporting a genocide in Palestine. They are doing what they can.
Doing what they can by killing Americans in Jordan who are uninvolved in the conflict in Gaza. Justifying murder is still justifying murder regardless of how you feel about the government those people work for.
America is sure as hell not unrelated. They’re defending Israel politically, economically and militarily right as we speak.
We’re not talking about “America”. We’re talking about individual people who are not engaged in the conflict.
American bases in the middle east are part of how they support Israel militarily (and genocide Yemen but let’s set that aside for now). While they weren’t directly involved, they are viable targets.