“Houthis Are Not Iranian Proxies”: Helen Lackner on the History & Politics of Yemen’s Ansar Allah
I figure the main reason for this murderous aggression towards Iran is to distract from the murderous aggression towards innocent Palestinian civilians by Israel. It’s fucking madness.
Even if the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” and the Houthis are sponsored by Iran, if the US says Iran is fully responsible then the same logic applies to the US. The USA is fully responsible for a potential genocide in Palestine. But of course it’s all murderous hypocrisy.
“Still, the calls for war on Iran are growing, with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) demanding “devastating military retaliation against Iran’s terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East,” and pinning the slain soldiers’ deaths on “Biden’s appeasement.””
Can we just give this motherfucker a parachute and a rifle and push him out of an airplane over Tehran?
He wants a war, he can fight it.
War never accomplished anything.
These latest strikes in Syria and Iraq are playing incredibly badly across the world, outside of the US. Especially in the global South. Those countries have gone through two years of being scolded by the West over not taking sides against Russia for violating Ukrainian sovereignty. This just confirms the already popular view that those arguments were nothing but hypocrisy.
News to me that the Houthis are the recognised government of Yemen that could claim sovereignty. Also what are your sources on the perception of the strikes in the Global South? Why should a person in lets say Laos care more about Yemenis than Ukrainians? As a conflict it’s similarly distant from their own lifes.
