[ALittleLight]

That assumes the US won't fight back. US contributes ~6% of Yemen GDP in foreign aid. Yemen is a big food importer. US could shut off foreign aid and blockade Yemen and collapse their economy - they wouldn't be able to afford food, let alone 20k drones.

The Houthi strategy isn't an economic strategy, it's a "hope the US isn't willing to kill us" strategy.

[logicchains]

>US could shut off foreign aid and blockade Yemen and collapse their economy - they wouldn't be able to afford food, let alone 20k drones

Yemen's already in famine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%.... The drones are supplied by Iran.

[hef19898]

Yes, of course, let's starve even more people, that will sure gain us more friends...

[robotomir]

There is a non-zero chance we are headed for a situation where global warming and sea level rise will make hundreds of millions, mostly from equatorial regions, desperate refugees. It could be that an attitude of self-righteousness might become impossible to maintain. Friends come and go.

[hef19898]

So, you propose to do what? Let those people drown? Or actively shooting them? Or maybe proactively let the starve? Either way, it would be genocide.

[robotomir]

Yes, we might need to shoot at them.

[hef19898]

What is it with you people just casually argueing for genocide? Do you think this is, I don't know, tough or edgy?

[pbhjpbhj]

Do you propose doing nothing about the people firing rockets at shipping? What about the lives of the sailors on those ships?

Is there some intrinsic right that the rocket-firers are defending that warrants treating them as other than aggressors in this situation?

Why do you call it genocide? Surely if you shoot at ships in international waters, and it is not defence, then you're bringing whatever acts of defence follow on your own head. Acts of defence seem impossible to class as genocide (but I'd like to hear arguments to the contrary if you have them).

[karpatic]

You set up a straw man. An insincere response to an insincere question.

[l3mure]

HN has always had a core of fascist affinity but it's quickly becoming more open, unfortunately.

[dragonelite]

The Saudis with help of the US has already tried to get rid of the Houthis. That didn't exactly went well.

Never in my wildest dream would i think that the Houthis would be one doing the first modern blockade of a strait. I always expected the US to do the first modern block in the Malacca strait, when China is forced to do a Armed reunification with Taiwan.

[nradov]

China would never be "forced" to invade Taiwan. If that happens it will be a choice.