This probably says more about the lack of large scale, peer on peer conflicts since WWII than the capabilities of the Houthis. The Houthis are one of the first groups with the capability, positioning and willingness to directly attack US Navy assets.
"We will randomly attack and kill civilians until you do what we demand" went by another name for quite some time...
But hey... we all know that things like terrorism, war crimes or genocide are suddenly okay once you agree with the cause. So keep being a proud cheerleader for terrorism.
Yes reality of systemic terrorism vs insurgent non-state terrorism. The US is absolutely a terrorist state causing the majority of the insurgent non-state terrorism to which you speak. The US being Team America: World Police will never solve these conflicts, only exacerbate and spread them. If you think these things happen in a vaccum without provocation, then you need start reading more broadly.
The official slogan of the Houthi movement (it’s not just a tribe, it’s more a group on par with Al Qaeda at this point): “God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam”. So yeah, it’s those kind of people. It’s great that they want peace in Gaza and all, but they also want some other not so great things too.
I’ll bet you $100 that if the US ceased all arms shipments to Israel tomorrow, we’d still have months of houthi missile attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
That’s a very convenient excuse for them, yes. Too bad none of the ships they are attacking are aiding Israel in any way or it would be more believable.
They're too indiscriminate, that's for sure, but to say none of the ships they're attacking have anything to do with Israel is just wrong. Israel is currently freaking out over the lack of Red Sea trade.
I’m sure they are, along with every other nation that does trade on the Red Sea.
Israel particularly is dependent on red sea trade, since it's literally next to them. Again, I do acknowledge they're too indiscriminate, but you can't deny the results.
The Houthis were not attacking all ships. They were only attacking ships connected to Israel, the US got directly involved to defend Israel. Now they’re attacking US and UK ships too, but only because of the unlimited support and defense for Israel.
It’s the UKs fault for the unlimited support and defense of Israel’s genocide (not “the Jews” but specifically the settler-colonial Zionist entity literally created from the British mandate). We supposedly have a duty under the genocide convention to prevent genocide, after all.
The Houthis having problematic views about Jews doesn’t change the fact that their attacks are directly motivated by the genocide. If Israel stops the genocide, the Houthis stop attacking. Simple as.
It’s terrorism regardless of who does it. Are you suggesting that allies of the US can fire missiles at random ships and have it not deemed to be terrorism?
I have 0 sympathy for barbaric ideas like executing people for being queer. I cannot imagine they ever act in any measure of good faith, regardless of the scenario.
They literally hit a ship a while back heading to Iran - they “say” they were only targeting ships to Israel but in practice they’re targeting every ship that goes through the area.
They were only attacking ships they claim were related to Israel, no one with a brain stem should believe them. We already know for a fact they weren’t.
Actually if you do a little reading you’ll find out that they are. Ownership of large vessels is intentionally convoluted so as to lower the tax burden of very wealthy people, so when people without a brain stem see a Marshall Islands flagged ship they say “wElL tHAt a’iNT isRaEL tHEm hOOtiES is atTAcKin uNdiSCRiminiTLikE!!1” but actually, well just check it out below.
Link is dead so im gonna list the attacks I looked into and still remember.
So those 2 Russian oil tankers were actually owned by Israel? A few other “connected to Israel” ships I remember were 1 officer on board a UK ship was from Israel and some business guy was a member of the board in the company that owned another ship. The vast majority of ships getting attacked have come from or gone to Saudi Arabia and India.
No they shouldn’t. However, the houthis are still the aggressor in this situation. They are attacking international shipping in international waters, and blaming America for their own actions. To say it is the fault of the US that ships are being attacked in the Red Sea (as you are so heavily implying) is pretty fucking naive, not to mention irresponsible.
Firing at ships. If they were firing directly at civilians there’d have been at least a few deaths, but there haven’t. They’re sabotaging economic supply lines to a genocidal state, part of the reason Israel’s economy has slumped almost 20%
Well yeah, the US hasn’t really clashed with many naval powers since then, and now enemy forces can trivially fly drones and other remote-controlled bomb-delivery devices that previously weren’t accessible.
Have there been any real naval battles since WWII? In Korea and Vietnam, didn’t the Navy mostly just fire missiles from offshore and act as as a platform for launching planes and transporting troops and cargo?