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Statement from National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Terrorist Designation of the Houthis

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US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Declares Houthi Militants as Global Terrorists

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This sounds like preparations for a blockade of Yemen’s ports. Am I reading this right?
- Seems like it.
- It's probably the most effective way to prevent them from receiving Iranian weapons and shooting them at civilian ships.
  If the Houthis cease their attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the United States will immediately reevaluate this designation.
  All they gotta do is stop shooting at civilian ships and everyone will go back to not blowing up their assault facilities and preventing weapon shipments.
  
  Dude the Houthis have been getting bombed for a decade
  
  If only we were so resolute to stopping people shooting civilians..... that would solve both problems at the same time
So much fucking stereotyping!
Houthis are a mostly political movement and the de facto government of the most populous parts of Yemen.
Saying "our action targets the Houthis and not the people of Yemen" is straight nonsense deliberately designed to paint the chosen government of most of the Yemeni people as identical to small groups of terrorists within the large movement.
It's straight out of the Dubya/Cheney/Rumsfeld playbook of manufacturing consent for war crimes.
- Their slogan shows they're not as much a political movement but rather a group of religious nuts
  
  Yeah because slogans always tell the whole story and middle eastern politics never mixes with religion 🙄
  Also, even if it IS a group of religious nuts, does that make ALL of them terrorists?
- While true the US has no business calling anyone else a terrorist, they are NOT facing charges at the Hague. Removed for misinformation.

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