U.S. launches fourth round of strikes in a week against Houthi targets in Yemen
The U.S. launched a new round of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen after the Houthis struck a U.S. owned and operated commercial ship on Wednesday.
The Biden administration tried to prevent the war from expanding.
At every point in the development of this conflict, his administration has enable Israel to escalate and expand its military attacks upon countries within the region.
Don’t bomb boats then.
I do not know if this is true for sure, but the news reported that Israel wanted to do preemptive military strike against Hezbollah, and did not, because of US presser. Hezbollah itself did not involve (fully) into war with Israel also at least partly because of US carrier group being nearby. I would say, sir, that your statement is false.
Why didn’t the Houthis simply not fuck around to only find out?
A paradox of the universe; how does one find out, if they have not first fucked around?
It seems leveling every military installation in the country would solve the shipping problem quite nicely.,
I know Houthis have their motivations and shit is complicated but when you mess with civilian ships you mess with the economy. The US doesn't like that. When you mess with US civilian ships they really don't like that. About the only thing worse is attacking the US Navy directly.
I guess my point is firing at US related anything in a shipping lane has got to be one the fastest ways to get explosives delivered to your location.
Yep.
Messing with shipping is an act of war, plain and simple. The US had no choice but to respond. What are they supposed to do? Allow people to take pot shots? That sets a very bad precedent.
This being said, the Saudis have been bombing Yemen for almost a decade. The US really isn't going to achieve anything significant with a limited amount of bombings. And they obviously know that. This is simply a proportional and primarily symbolic response, mainly meant to warn others that there's a cost to fucking with the US.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Houthis hit a U.S. owned and operated commercial vessel Wednesday, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command.
It was the latest in a series of attacks the Houthis have launched at commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November 19.
The U.S. and U.K. with support from other nations conducted the initial strikes last week, targeting just under 30 locations and using over 150 different types of munitions.
The U.S. has unilaterally launched two more rounds of strikes — one early Saturday morning in Yemen against a Houthi radar site and another round Tuesday destroying four anti-ship ballistic missiles that were "prepared to launch," according to a statement from U.S. Central Command.
Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, when asked Wednesday if the U.S. led strikes were ineffective considering the Houthis have continued to attack, said the Pentagon believes the strikes have "degraded" the Houthis' ability to attack.
The Biden administration has tried to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from spreading into a wider conflict, but since that war began, there has been a steady drumbeat of attacks against U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria along with the Houthi attacks on commercial ships.
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