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US military strikes another Houthi-controlled site after warning ships to avoid parts of Red Sea

www.kcrg.com US military strikes another Houthi-controlled site after warning ships to avoid parts of Red Sea

The U.S. military early Saturday struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk, two U.S. officials said, a day after the U.S. and Britain launched multiple airstrikes targeting Houthi rebels.

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I mean stop touching the damn boats. People be touching US boats like 4 times in history and it always turns out bad.
The Imperial Japanese Navy sank 8 US boats and we dropped the Sun on them. Twice.
- That’s the problem, you touch a US boat and you get bombed, the US fucks an entire region over and they face no consequence
  
  Guess nobody wanted to mess with the US?
- The Houthis are blocking Israeli ports in response to genocide.
  Why were US ships going to the ports of a country actively committing genocide?
  The US is now bombing a sovereign nation to stop trade sanctions on a genocide.
  
  They're attacking commercial shipping vessels passing through the suez canal that have nothing to do with Israel or Palestine or the US. If you knew how how to read or think you'd already know this.
  
  You don't get to seal off a critical global shipping route just because you happen to be living next to it and don't like where some of the cargo is going. This isn't like the bosphorous, even a recognized Yemeni government wouldn't have control over who can transit the strait unless they invaded Djibouti
  
  Why were US ships going to
  They weren’t. While you may disagree with US Navy hanging out in the area, they’re in international waters and not trying to go to Israel. You could argue that attacking US ships proves the blockade story is a farce
- America has been supplying Saudi with weapons to attack the Houthis with for many years.
  The Houthis didn't lose.
  Why are people so mad that someone is actually standing up for human rights? The demands of the Houthis are very reasonable.
  
  What are the demands of the Houthis? I know they are Iranian-funded and trained, and that they've been warring with the Saudis for years. But now all of a sudden they are world news for attacking global shipping. I also know they say they are supporting the Palestinians, but that seems like a fig leaf.
  
  "standing up for human rights"
  Meanwhile, on the Houthis flags: "death to Israel, death to America, Jews are a curse upon the land"
  You, a joke of a person who needs to look in the mirror and laugh at yourself: "very reasonable people"
- The US is willing to kill untold number of people because otherwise the cheap shirts made by children in Bangladesh will arrive slightly late. I do hope for this evil empire to fucking die already.
  
  No civilians died in the first strikes, and I'm not aware of any sources claiming any civilian deaths in these strikes either, which is probably to be expected given that they were against a military air base.
  
  For Bangladesh it's probably faster to go east to get to the US. The majority of ships going through the Suez Canal are trading with Europe.

Idk seems like these airstrikes are doing more to fuck over shipping than the Houthis are.
Shipping Advised to Avoid Key Global Trade Way Point After Airstrikes
- Looked at a non paywall source, it was the US advising ships to avoid the area for the next couple days because they plan on doing more strikes and don’t want other ships caught in the crossfire
- It’s paywalled, but the US (and UK) are always bad news
  
  Am I missing something? Seems like they're defineding civilians here

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