The United States and Britain launched dozens of military strikes on Yemen on Thursday, raising fears of an escalation of conflict in the region. The strikes, launched in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea that have disrupted global trade, left at least five people dead. The Houthi movement began targeting ships in November “essentially using a naval blockade in the Red Sea to prevent the blockade against civilians in Gaza,” according to our guest, Yemeni American scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi. “This is an offensive act. This is a breach of Yemeni sovereignty,” she says about the U.S. coalition’s strikes, which were launched without approval from Congress, and which Al-Adeimi additionally characterizes as “a defense of capitalism.”
Which civilians? The retaliatory strike targeted military targets only, and was intentionally telegraphed to destroy weapons with minimal loss of life.
If you’re talking about previous conflicts in Yemen, those are completely irrelevant to the recent attacks on commercial shipping.
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And this is relevant to indiscriminately firing into international shipping lanes how?
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How did they not? Surely you can’t be arguing that the civilian shipping vessels did something to deserve being fired upon?
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Which civilians? The retaliatory strike targeted military targets only, and was intentionally telegraphed to destroy weapons with minimal loss of life.
If you’re talking about previous conflicts in Yemen, those are completely irrelevant to the recent attacks on commercial shipping.
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