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Solidarity with the people of Yemen. I would rather share the burden than just watch. I predict many share my feelings and some might act on it.
Viva la resistance
✊✊✊ Stand together with Ansar Allah
There is no way this will end well. Mainstream news coverage is already unhinged.
Acts like this typically take Congressional approval. There is no emergency here, this is defending shipping lines. This is illegal.
Biden criticized Trump after the assassination of Soleimani 4 years ago, for the exact same thing.
"Donald Trump does not have the authority to take us into a war with Iran without Congressional approval. A president should never take this nation to war without the informed consent of the American people." -Joe Biden 1/6/2020
This is the US explicitly siding with Israel re: the genocide in Gaza, it's a major escalation.
Biden's a hypocrite, this is nothing new. He had both houses under control and still failed to legislate federal protections for trans people.
the last time the US "declared war" was 1942
There is no emergency here, this is defending shipping lines.
ehh, not just any shipping lines, though
OIL shipping lines o7
Depends whether this is a limited operation or a beginning of another war. Because that will shatter the already worldwide fragile state.
One of the main guarantees of the US-led world order is that the Straight of Hormuz will stay open for commerce. The fact that the Houthis can shut it down is a huge blow to US hegemony.
In the modern age of drone warfare, US aircraft carriers are a liability. Sure, we can send in the USS Medical Bankruptcy carrier strike group and launch a few million dollar missiles, but the blockade stays in place.
There seems to be only two options to stop this blockade: End the genocide, or invade Yemen in a war against the Houthis. Genocide Joe can't afford to start a middle east war in an election year, so this tit-for-tat will continue into the near future.
US aircraft carriers were a liability the moment the nuclear weapon was invented. The only pure-military target that can justify a nuclear strike is a carrier, and a carrier is such a weapon that it might legitimately not trigger MAD protocols.
It's spelled 'Strait of Hormuz', not 'Straight of Hormuz'... And the situation takes place in the Red Sea, not the strait, just saying