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”.

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    10 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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        10 months ago

        America is sure as hell not unrelated. They’re defending Israel politically, economically and militarily right as we speak.

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          10 months ago

          We’re not talking about “America”. We’re talking about individual people who are not engaged in the conflict.

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            What?? They are still American military.

            Do you think everyone the US has killed in their stroked have been ck firmed to be personally involved in the red sea blockade?

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            Crying about individual US soldiers in a thread justifying dozens of airstrikes on Yemen. You think those strikes (or the thousands before it) only killed those directly involved in war? Or do you think only the relatively powerless have a moral obligation to avoid noncombatant (not even nonmilitary lol) casualties?

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              You obviously haven’t read my previous replies because I have said it is all murder.

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                Pro world peace then? Wow, very enlightened and useful opinion. While we all hold our breath waiting for that to happen, the murders will continue, and the belligerents and victims have different degrees of power and culpability.

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            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.