NBC news is reporting that the United States and Britain
have launched military strikes against targets in Houthi controlled Yemen,
and that's according to two US officials.
They targeted multiple locations with fighter jets and Tomahawks
fired from Navy ships.
Keep in mind that this is also happening with the backdrop of Israel continuing
to do airstrikes in Lebanon.
So essentially opening a new front of this war, in Lebanon.
They at first took out a Hamas, target and claimed
that they had nothing to do with it.
By the way, they don't want to take responsibility for it,
but now they're specifically going after Hezbollah in Lebanon.
And the reason why you see militant groups like Hezbollah or the, you know,
Iran backed Houthi rebels attacking cargo ships and like the Red sea.
And the reason why they're engaging in this behavior
is because they see what's happening in Gaza and they want it to stop.
So rather than maybe getting Israel to reconsider
how it's carrying out this war in Gaza, the United States has decided to carry
out military strikes on behalf of Israel.
And this could obviously I mean, this is already an escalation
and it could further escalate from here.
And what I'm concerned about is that we're going to be fully involved
in yet another endless regional war with multiple different countries involved,
and it's just not a good sign at all.
President Joe Biden said the strikes, which were supported by Australia,
Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, targeted areas used by Houthi rebels
to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world's most vital waterways.
Ray, this is about, Israel's economic interests.
And, you know, the Houthi rebels have been, holding these ships captive
in response to what Israel's been doing to Palestinian civilians and Gaza.
Again, there's a nonmilitary solution to this, but seems to be the case that the US
isn't interested in carrying that out.
Yeah.
I mean, it's despicable that they would use that as a justification for their
launch when they've shown that, you know, they don't care about the freedoms,
any freedoms for the Palestinian people in Gaza or the West Bank, for that matter,
when they're only willing to tweet out their outrage about what's,
the the ramping up of settler violence in the West Bank and the indiscriminate
bombing in Gaza is as far as they'll go.
But they won't, they won't condition any of their aid to Israel on them actually
improving those conditions whatsoever.
And, you know, they'll say that we don't want Israel to continue to use
2,000 pound bombs, but we will continue to supply them to them.
I mean, to pretend that you care about freedom of of navigation.
It's absurd. It's ridiculous.
But this is a massive escalation.
And it just goes to show that, they don't care about coming together
to do negotiations.
The the nonmilitary response to to any situation.
It's strike first. Ask questions later.
Well, what I'm terrified about is this escalating to a hot war
between the United States and Iran.
And that is something that Netanyahu in particular,
has been goading the United States into pushing the United States to engage in.
He succeeded in getting former President Donald Trump to rip up the Iran nuclear
deal, which actually was keeping Israel and the international community safer
because it ensured that the signatories to that deal, had the ability to engage
in oversight and ensure that, that Iran was not building nuclear weapons.
Once you rip up that deal, well, then there's nothing holding Iran back.
Iran can go ahead and build nuclear weapons.
And if Iran is such a threat, you wouldn't want them to do that, right?
But to me, the way it reads is the instability, the fear of Iran building
nuclear weapons, would be yet another reason to persuade the United States
to engage in a hot war with them.
And that would be a disaster. Guys, this would not be an easy war.
Anyone who thinks that it would be an easy war is absolutely delusional.
And if you think it would be an easy war, then by all means,
go ahead and enlist in the military, and you go ahead and fight that war.
But I don't think that we should risk the lives of our soldiers when this war,
it could very easily be prevented.
And what's so sick is that.
We know that there hasn't been any attempt to engage in, like, negotiations
and try to get Israel to rein in some of their military operations in Gaza.
But instead, you have this statement coming from the Biden administration.
Today's defensive action follows this extensive diplomatic campaign
and Houthi rebels escalating attacks against commercial vessels, Biden said
in a statement Thursday evening.
What what extensive diplomatic campaign? What are you talking about?
I mean, just last week we shared a story about how, well, look,
there were Houthi rebels who were attacking a US ship and the US responded.
These were drones.
The US responded by killing ten of their militants and sinking some of their boats,
like I don't.
There was never any diplomatic talks.
But when I say diplomatic talks, I'm not even talking about the Houthi rebels.
I'm talking about making a deal with Israel and ensuring that as they move
forward, they engage in targeted strikes, actual targeted strikes,
if they're specifically going after Hamas.
You look at Gaza and that does not appear to be the case.
And that is what got Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels all riled up.
So there is another option. I'm just putting that out there.
And the US is pretending like that option doesn't exist.
It's like, yeah, frustrating.
Especially after the reports that the State Department has done no research
on the ground to determine whether or not there the strikes of Israel are targeted
or that they are potentially committing ethnic cleansing or genocide before again
sending them massive amounts of weapons.
So the idea that they would take any sort of steps negotiating before doing
this targeted strike is laughable.
And it reeks of them thinking that we are stupid.
And as the American people, you know, regardless of party.
But, you know, Biden, specifically, the Democratic Party,
80% of people want an end to this.
And you're just continuing, like even out of your own self-interest.
It's an election year.
You think you'd think that even not for any altruistic means,
or out of care for the Palestinian people, but out of your own, self-interest
as Joe Biden or the Democratic Party.
You would have stopped this by now. But it's but they're doing the opposite.
They're ramping it up.
It's it's absolute insanity.
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