US/UK launch strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen

[Scottyboi]

You have to remember that this is barely a conflict. We've launched 4 aircraft and bombed a handful of sheds in a field.

There's zero chance of boots on the ground or similar and this isn't about regime change or interference in Yemen. If the Houthis launch more attacks then they'll now face consequences and that's pretty much it.

I agree but it can be spun into the west meddling in the middle east again, people will just read the headlines and make up their minds from that. This is nothing like the Falklands.

 

[lee_wsm]

You have to remember that this is barely a conflict. We've launched 4 aircraft and bombed a handful of sheds in a field.

There's zero chance of boots on the ground or similar and this isn't about regime change or interference in Yemen. If the Houthis launch more attacks then they'll now face consequences and that's pretty much it.

No but it raises chances of terrorist attacks here in the uk

 

[blueinsa]

Thing I don't get with that theory is, we have zero appetite as a general population to have another conflict in the middle east. So it isn't a vote winner or a distraction if anything it is just more scrutiny.

It’s utter nonsense is what it is.

 

[metalblue]

So ignore drone attacks on Royal Navy warships and personnel then and instead, do the tin foil hat and claim it’s some Tory conspiracy again?

I love how the yanks dance to our tune.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

So ignore drone attacks on Royal Navy warships and personnel then and instead, do the tin foil hat and claim it’s some Tory conspiracy again?

I think we're playing right into Irans hands myself. And Russia. Ukraine will be less of a focus.

 

[SWP's back]

So ignore drone attacks on Royal Navy warships and personnel then and instead, do the tin foil hat and claim it’s some Tory conspiracy again?

A conspiracy Labour are joining in on.



If Keir carries on like this then I can see me voting Labour again for the first time since Blair.

 

[SWP's back]

You say Palestinians should absorb themselves in Israel, why shouldn’t Israel absorb itself in Palestinian state?

Because it’s the legitimate sovereign state.

 

[SWP's back]

No but it raises chances of terrorist attacks here in the uk

More people die falling down the stairs each year on average than from terrorist attacks so chill the fuck out.

 

[west didsblue]

More people die falling down the stairs each year on average than from terrorist attacks so chill the fuck out.

Ban stairs then!

 

[BayernMan]

I'm not saying that Iran should align to the west, that's a problem for Iran. However, what I am saying is that we in the west of course should welcome alignment if it was possible, anything else would be idiotic foreign policy. How many of these countries are better off for not doing so? Do they have better human rights or democracy? No, they don't have any of those and they're far worse off, the poverty rate in Iran has increased massively over the last decade or two.

I'm not saying either that Palestinians should absorb into Israel. What I am saying is that Israel is an internationally recognised state and that must be considered. If it's a question of who absorbs who then you're essentially leading yourself down a path which assumes that one of either Palestine or Israel cannot exist. Such ideologies are precisely why Israel is likely nuclear armed and is armed to the teeth by the west.

I believe a state of Palestine should also exist by the way! However a state of Palestine must coexist with Israel but that is not the view of many in the Muslim world and it is definitely not the view of the main aggressors towards Israel which is Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

Given the aggression around this it's completely unsurprising that the first action of the west is to protect itself and its interests. We can't exactly tell the Iranians to vote their Ayatollah out can we? So what do we do, just accept that a few dead sailors 1000 miles from Israel is the price of supporting Israel? No chance.

The part I feel many people ignore or forget is that the same way Israel isn’t going anywhere neither are its immediate neighbors Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and obviously the Palestinians. Being nuclear armed is nice and all but what is the end game? Israel/the West can’t eliminate all the bad actors and it’s not like they haven’t tried over several decades. End of the day some sort of settlement will need to be reached the question is we will be around to tell the story…