...and Yemen!

[teqniq]

Hang on, we're bombing another country without anybody telling Parliament? Are we declaring war? What the fucks going on?

What a fucking joke our so-called democracy is.

 

[agricola]

I surmise this isn't just about Israel now but protecting global capital.

I doubt it, it doesn't make any sense to do this as protecting global capital because it risks vastly more damage to that than the Houthis ever could. It reeks of leaders feeling that they have to do something.

 

[magneze]

Electioneering with bombs. Classy.

 

[tommers]

What a fucking joke our so-called democracy is.

We're doing it cos the Americans are doing it. Pitiful.

 

[planetgeli]

Fuck's sake

 

[PTK]

I surmise this isn't just about Israel now but protecting global capital.

It always was about protecting the interests of capital.

 

[PTK]

It was reported that Parliament would be convened tomorrow to vote on authorising UK military action, but now it seems that it will not.

 

[PTK]

In the contest between the heroes of the British Royal Air Force and the children collateral damage of Yemen, there can be only one winner.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hang on, we're bombing another country without anybody telling Parliament? Are we declaring war? What the fucks going on?

Thank God corbyn wasn't elected, who knows what sort of mess the country would be in

 

[tommers]

 

[PTK]

On X, formerly Twitter, Yemeni freelance journalist Ali al-Sakani says: "Air strikes on Houthi positions in Sanaa, Saada, Dhamar and Hudaydah governorates, locals told me."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-67952029

 

[PTK]

'Massive strike' with ship-launched missiles and jets - AP report​

"US officials quoted by the Associated Press spoke of a massive retaliatory strike using warship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles and fighter jets.
The Houthi targets included logistical hubs, air defence systems and arms depots, they said.
AP journalists in Sanaa heard four explosions, but saw no sign of warplanes. Two residents of Hudaydah said they heard five strong explosions.
It is the first US military strike against the Houthis in Yemen since the Iran-backed group began firing drones and missiles at cargo ships in the Red Sea in November."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-67952029

 

[T & P]

'Massive strike' with ship-launched missiles and jets - AP report​

"US officials quoted by the Associated Press spoke of a massive retaliatory strike using warship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles and fighter jets.
The Houthi targets included logistical hubs, air defence systems and arms depots, they said.
AP journalists in Sanaa heard four explosions, but saw no sign of warplanes. Two residents of Hudaydah said they heard five strong explosions.
It is the first US military strike against the Houthis in Yemen since the Iran-backed group began firing drones and missiles at cargo ships in the Red Sea in November."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-67952029

Happy to admit I know fuck all about the size and sophistication of the Houthi rebels’ weapons and resources, but that statement makes them sound far more formidable than I would have thought. ‘Air defence systems’? Really?

 

[PTK]

Happy to admit I know fuck all about the size and sophistication of the Houthi rebels’ weapons and resources, but that statement makes them sound far more formidable than I would have thought. ‘Air defence systems’? Really?

They have dozens of kites, with some very sharp razor blades, that could give a nasty cut to any paratroopers who came into contact with them.

 

[bcuster]

US, British militaries launch massive retaliatory strike against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen

U.S. and British militaries are bombing more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, in a retaliatory strike.

apnews.com

 

[bcuster]

This is what I was most afraid of…

 

[Humberto]

This is what I was most afraid of…

As proud as I am yank it's an Americana move

 

[Humberto]

Unless you supressed south America with torturing death squads to live as a shitty non entity.

 

[PTK]

It was good that in a recent Dr Who special, the song known as Wild Blue Yonder, the anthem of the US Air Force, was condemned as being warmongering.

 

[krtek a houby]

The US/UK should be targeting IDF forces, instead.

 

[Wookey]

I mean, this should calm everything down.

Yes, like a bomb balm.

 

[tim]

Electioneering with bombs. Classy.

I can't see bombing Yemen being a huge vote winner, which is probably want Sir Haircut inside the tent.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Hang on, we're bombing another country without anybody telling Parliament? Are we declaring war? What the fucks going on?

It’s not a declaration of war, Labour were briefed and agreed so there’s little chance Parliament will take a substantially different view.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I can't see bombing Yemen being a huge vote winner, which is probably want Sir Haircut inside the tent.

It’s not bombing Yemen as a whole, it’s targeted at rebel weapon storage etc. this is being done to reduce their capacity to fuck with the global trade system (something that if they do will cause higher inflation and impact poor people massively).

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I mean, this should calm everything down.

What choice do they have? Those shipping routes being disrupted will cause massive pain for poor people around the world.

 

[tim]

A reminder if the wickedness of British colonialism in Yemen within my lifetime. This may be posted elsewhere on the thread, but this seems a pertinent time to reflect upon it.

 

[Silas Loom]

I can't see bombing Yemen being a huge vote winner, which is probably want Sir Haircut inside the tent.

No polling yet of course, but YouGov should have some within a week. I’d expect a strong majority in favour, and little correlation with views on Gaza. Protecting international shipping from piratical types on boats is a reassuringly traditional thing for Britain to get involved in, and the prior Saudi-Houthi conflict would not have interested most people.

 

[tim]

It’s not bombing Yemen as a whole, it’s targeted at rebel weapon storage etc. this is being done to reduce their capacity to fuck with the global trade system (something that if they do will cause higher inflation and impact poor people massively).

I've heard that one before. In this case though it's weapons of mild destruction.

 

[teqniq]

It’s not bombing Yemen as a whole, it’s targeted at rebel weapon storage etc. this is being done to reduce their capacity to fuck with the global trade system (something that if they do will cause higher inflation and impact poor people massively).

How little you actually know of the situation there. Indeed they started off as rebels but currently they control about half of Yemen including the capital Sana'a.

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s not bombing Yemen as a whole, it’s targeted at rebel weapon storage etc. this is being done to reduce their capacity to fuck with the global trade system (something that if they do will cause higher inflation and impact poor people massively).

So they're dying for our cost of living, having neither sunk ships nor killed mariners