The U.S. military struck weapons storage facilities in Houthi-controlled Yemen, a U.S. official told ABC News.
  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
    910·
    2 months ago

    US blowing up brown people somewhere in the world is hardly breaking news.

    It’s every Tuesday for the last 23 years.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    24·
    2 months ago

    “U.S. Central Command forces conducted multiple airstrikes on numerous Iran-backed Houthi weapons storage facilities within Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen,” a U.S. defense official said.

    The defense official said the weapons were used to “target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.”

    But the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden aren’t anywhere near US territory.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      2 months ago

      Theyre highly important trade routes and have been for millenia, they are very much in everyone’s domestic interest to keep safe and stable. Its easiest to just throw the US Navy at it since one biggest Navy by a country mile and two easier than organising a multinational effort for it.

      This is quite literally the type of shit the US Navy exists for, it was created for dealing with Barbary pirates fucking with trade. Also Sweden was there for some reason.