The United States and Britain struck at least 30 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked US and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, American officials told the Associated Press.
Ships and fighter jets launched the latest strikes against the Houthis. The strikes follow an air assault in Iraq and Syria on Friday that targeted other Iran-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three US troops – William Jerome Rivers, Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Breonna Alexsondria Moffett – in Jordan last weekend.
US defense secretary Lloyd Austin said the military action “sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels”.
You mean, a country that has made diplomatic requests regarding the foreign nation in question, but isn’t willing to jump right into a complicated foreign conflict that’s being brewing in various ways for centuries, and then does react when a different foreign nation starts taking pot-shots at their own vessels? Yeah I can’t imagine why that might be
No I mean two nations that have been heavily involved in the situation in question from day one, keeping one of those nations afloat financially and making them the main military power in the area standing by and doing nothing whist the gvmt they’ve created and support steamroller a whole set of people but perfectly happy to protect their financial interests. I can imagine why that might be.