If attacking civilians is the mark of psychopathology then the US does a good job of arming such nations. What the Houthis are doing is not happening in a vacuum. They have a history of resisting regimes propped up by the US. Does that make them saints? No. But we're not any better.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

I agree, it's not happening in a vacuum. The Houthis are doing the old fascist plot of blaming the Jews to gain power. We've seen it all before. This is what the biggest losers in history do again and again.

A movement under a flag of "Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews", is a movement based on hate and it's destruction is inevitable. Attacking global shipping is just them speeding up the timetable, but the end result was always going to be the same.

A lot of antisemitism mixed with a feeling of religious exceptionalism has resulted in hate movement in Yemen that thinks they won't go the same way as similar movements in the past. They're wrong.