Isn't Yemen currently facing a famine/ major food insecurities? Maybe that should be the focus instead of fake heaven points. Sheesh.
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ccblr06Mar 28, 2026
+23
They’ve been facing that for years now. Houthis dont care, Houthis dont give a shit.
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GarbonzoBeanSproutMar 28, 2026
It's telling. And I wish my country (🇨🇦) would stop sending aid $$ there.
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Hot_Cupcake7787Mar 29, 2026
+4
The famine is the direct result of the Saudi blockade and bombing campaign. What exactly do you propose the Houthis focus on to resolve that?
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ccblr06Mar 29, 2026
+1
Not lobbing missiles at ships. That and being a iranian proxy is why the saudis blockade them. You act in bad faith and the international community holds you accountable in this way which sadly affects millions.
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Hot_Cupcake7787Mar 29, 2026
+3
I'm not a Houthi supporter in any way but calling the Saudi intervention in Yemen "the international community holding you accountable" is wild. The blockade and bombing campaign started long before the Houthis fired a single missile at Israel or a commercial ship on the Red Sea.
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GarbonzoBeanSproutMar 29, 2026
+1
Find a resolution ? it would be a great start.
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FirTree_rMar 29, 2026
-1
Did everyone forget that diplomacy is a thing in this world? Is the solution to everything "terrorist attacks"?
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Future_Speed9727Mar 28, 2026
+25
I hate ALL f****** mindless religions. They can shove their gods up their asses until they bleed out.
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FlyCardinalMar 28, 2026
+15
if religion didn't exist, natural resources would be reason enough to kill each other
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tampapat54Mar 28, 2026
+23
Atleast we’d be honest about it instead of using organized religion as a guise
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FlyCardinalMar 28, 2026
-7
it's mostly cultural and ethnic
religious animosity is just one (very visible) part of xenophobia
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JustChillin3456Mar 28, 2026
Literally does not matter
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double_teel_greenMar 28, 2026
+13
Surely they won't regret it later right?
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SirIAmAlwaysHereMar 28, 2026
+3
I doubt it. it's not like they've got a bunch of friends they might lose here, and the US and others have already been at de-facto war with them for a couple of years.
Plus, it's Yemen. Can't really get worse as a country.
All upside for them; makes them more popular with the radicals.
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OP_Skis_In_JeansMar 28, 2026
+15
> it's Yemen. Can't really get worse as a country.
It can and likely will get a whole lot worse. Even Yemen needs functioning infrastructure, and it can't defend effectively against aerial attacks.
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Perfect-Nail9413Mar 28, 2026
+1
You must be ignorant about the last decade or so about what has been happening in Yemen.
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OP_Skis_In_JeansMar 28, 2026
+1
> You must be ignorant
You're mistaking disagreement for ignorance. Unfortunately, like the old Russian proverb, things can always get worse.
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SirIAmAlwaysHereMar 28, 2026
-4
But it can't (really get worse). Because we've already been bombing the Houthis in Yemen for a couple of years.
Seriously, what else can we do there? We've already blasted the shit out of them with all manner of stuff, and there's not a lot more we can do. Because we can't literally carpet bomb the place.
Don't forget they were shooting at stuff in the Red Sea last year, and we blasted them quite heavily afterwards. You think they have functioning infrastructure now? They don't.
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OP_Skis_In_JeansMar 28, 2026
+6
> But it can't (really get worse).
Seriously? Yes it absolutely can and will. Yemen is in a very vulnerable state right now.
> Seriously, what else can we do there?
Target more dual use infrastructure. So far the Houthi targets that have been hit have been pretty restricted. So far the Saudis aren't involved. The recognized Yemeni government is also itching to take back the territories held by the Houthis, and this would be the perfect chance if the Houthis decide to attack Yanbu or block the Bab Al Mandab.
> You think they have functioning infrastructure now
They absolutely do. They have working ports, working internet, a functional road network, and much more. All of that goes away if the Houthis don't tread carefully.
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SirIAmAlwaysHereMar 28, 2026
+2
Yemen has been in a "very vulnerable state" for almost 4 decades now, and the ongoing civil war/war against the saudis has devastated practically all the infrastructure all around.
There isn't "more dual use infrastructure". We can't target municiple facilities and they don't have anything left that looks like it's "dual use". It's not like they have fertilizers chemical plants or the like. Bombing radio stations and telephone infrastructure is also supposed to be off limiting not to mention Internet and telephone are quite hard to hit these days as most kf that is via mesh network not giant standalone antennae.
As far as the "real" Yemen government and the saudis... well, the Saudis have long proved themselves to be a completely toothless military threat. They've more than got their hands full with the existing Iran-US war and they're not going to start something with the Houthis again when that's going on. The regular government military forces aren't anything to fear either, they're at best on parity with the Houthis and realistically they're more like just holding on themselves.
And you really think that the US has time for the Houthis to use the amount of force needed to really neutralize them?
Rah rah USA doesn't really work when your opponent realy doesn't have much to lose. And the Houthis really don't. Moreover, what makes you think they care about the relatively minimal stuff we can do outside direct military targets? The local populace doesn't seem to really care because they've not cared before when that stuff was hit during the Civil War in the past few years.
But most telling - you seem to assume the Houthis are just stupid. That they've not already calculated the possible damage they might take and consider it more than acceptable in response to what they might lose. We consistently overestimate our ability to damage lesser forces and underestimate how little they care about most of that damage.
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OP_Skis_In_JeansMar 28, 2026
+1
> Yemen has been in a "very vulnerable state" for almost 4 decades now, and the ongoing civil war/war against the saudis has devastated practically all the infrastructure all around.
You're assuming that this somehow insulates them from future attacks rather than making them more vulnerable.
> they don't have anything left that looks like it's "dual use".
You seem to think they've done nothing in terms of reconstruction. You also seem to believe that everything they had was hit last time when the campaign was pretty limited and restrained.
> the Saudis have long proved themselves to be a completely toothless military threat.
Performing below expectations in the previous conflict does not make them toothless lol. The Saudis pose a grave threat to Sa'ana, and they would have wiped the flood with the Houthis were it not for the stupid shortsighted "hands off Yemen" c*** in the West and the falling out with the UAE in terms of strategy.
> they're at best on parity with the Houthis
Flat out wrong on pretty much every level.
> your opponent realy doesn't have much to lose.
Houthi leadership has TONS to lose, first and foremost being their territorial control, their hard assets, their international reputation, and their very lives. Even their civilian supporters have plenty to lose. War is ugly.
> you seem to assume the Houthis are just stupid.
You're assuming they are playing 4d chess when they're simply trying to survive one day at a time. They aren't stupid, but they certainly aren't master tacticians either.
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DungeonDefenseMar 28, 2026
Why would they regret it? They did the same thing last time.
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barf_sellerMar 28, 2026
-5
Somaliland about to get recognized by the world for kicking Houthi in the balls
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Perfect-Nail9413Mar 28, 2026
+3
What the hell are you on about?
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Kenichi2233Mar 28, 2026
+7
Well I guess the Houthis are getting bombed again
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xSaRgEDMar 28, 2026
+1
That time of the year already?
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Funny-Ambition-7631Mar 28, 2026
+17
People on Listnook next week: oh why Israel is bombing Yemen in this illegal war
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