[JumpCrisscross]

> why are we even bombing Yemen?

Houthis are bombing unarmed civilian ships in the Red Sea. This makes zero sense for Yemen. But it does, politically, for the Houthis. Put another way, the extremists in one government are bombing another country because of what the extremists in that country are up to.

[mvdtnz]

I wish the government would stop calling them rebels and call them what they are - the defacto government of Yemen.

[JumpCrisscross]

> what they are - the defacto government of Yemen

The Houthis are a belligerent in a civil war with multiple sides [1], none of which could stand without external backing. They're not a ragtag group of rebels. But they're also not the government of Yemen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%9...

[TremendousJudge]

But then it would sound as if they were bombing a sovereign nation instead of doing pacekeeping