The US said it would consider revoking its recent designation of Yemen’s Houthis as terrorists if the Iran-backed militants cease their shipping attacks in and around the Red Sea.
In case y’all wondering how the whole operation Prosperity Guardian is going.
It’s disrupted badly needed aid to Yemen by making one of their ports too dangerous to deliver to. It’s also disrupting aid flows to Ethiopia and Sudan. In normal times, 15% of world trade flows through the Red Sea, much of it involving countries that have no involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict or which have sided with Palestine. Despite what they say, the Houthis still have been hitting neutral vessels. making insurance rates too expensive for many trips. Obviously the US is partly just defending its own interests, but the Houthis are also just being destructive against the wrong targets.
Sure, but what about the 500,000 people facing genocide and famine conditions in Gaza while the world just sends ships right on by into Israeli ports? It’s not great. I’m sure there’s food and medicine that’s really needed not getting to the people who do. However, foreign aid hasn’t fixed any of the issues in these regions and it’s wrong to assume that will change in the future.
Furthermore, westerners will always pour out sympathies now that it’s a problem for them. In the past decade we’ve seen the Saudis ruthlessly murder the yemeni people at the behest of the United States. I’m not saying yours are, but most of this is crocodile tears and to pretend otherwise is deliberately ignorant or dangerously naive.
It’s disrupted badly needed aid to Yemen by making one of their ports too dangerous to deliver to. It’s also disrupting aid flows to Ethiopia and Sudan. In normal times, 15% of world trade flows through the Red Sea, much of it involving countries that have no involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict or which have sided with Palestine. Despite what they say, the Houthis still have been hitting neutral vessels. making insurance rates too expensive for many trips. Obviously the US is partly just defending its own interests, but the Houthis are also just being destructive against the wrong targets.
Sure, but what about the 500,000 people facing genocide and famine conditions in Gaza while the world just sends ships right on by into Israeli ports? It’s not great. I’m sure there’s food and medicine that’s really needed not getting to the people who do. However, foreign aid hasn’t fixed any of the issues in these regions and it’s wrong to assume that will change in the future.
Furthermore, westerners will always pour out sympathies now that it’s a problem for them. In the past decade we’ve seen the Saudis ruthlessly murder the yemeni people at the behest of the United States. I’m not saying yours are, but most of this is crocodile tears and to pretend otherwise is deliberately ignorant or dangerously naive.