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The US has been bombing Yemen using two aircraft carriers in the region and B-2 bombers stationed at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The Pentagon has shared virtually no details about its war, which has not been authorized by Congress, but it's likely the bombing campaign has already cost billions in just over one month.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I'm editing this because I don't have the bandwidth to read about this right now but why are we fighting these wars when they're hardly ever / never moral

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Because Ansar Allah is denying maritime trade with the Zionist entity in response to their ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Y are they considered baddies?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Capital demands an enemy so capital creates an enemy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yup, gotta support the “defense“ industry somehow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

And accomplished very little honestly. How do they expect to win a near-peer conflict, let alone a peer conflict