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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Can people maybe admit, just in this thread, that the Houthis might just not be a very good group of people, even if they do claim to be fighting Israeli genocide by shooting at random ships?

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      3 months ago

      Agree 100%. This is a military junta seizing power by force. They have no legitimacy and their near indiscriminate piracy should rule out any legitimacy. I have no special love for Israel but hating Israel is not an excuse for what they do.

      I say send in Seal Team 6 tonight and when their main leadership doesn’t wake up tomorrow the world (and Yemen) will be a better place for it.

      • homura1650@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        And what happens after you kill the Houthi leadership? Do all of the Houthi forces turn over their weapons and go home? Get taken over by a more radical leadership? Split up into a bunch of cells with no centralized leadership?

        The Houthis are not a force for good on the region. However, compared with other terrorist groups, they are relatively rational and constrained. If even half of their forces want to go more extreme, they will have a proximate reason to do so, and no leadership to stop them.

        The likely result is the Gaza war expands into having a full war on the Yemen front (which is, admittadly, on track to happen anyway), against an enemy that no longer has the capacity to negotiate or surrender.

        As a fun side note, a bunch of those cells are also going to be freshly angry at the US, which is very much not in her interest.

        We’ve tried killing terrorist leadership before. It tends to not end well.