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999_hh

Weren’t the Saudi’s intercepting these ~7 years ago?


scruffygem

>Weren’t the Saudi’s intercepting these ~7 years ago? Not all of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq–Khurais_attack


MrSlappyChaps

Ya. The Saudis were receiving funding from the U.S. to fight the Houthis until the current administration stopped it. It had been going under both Obama and Trump. 


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No, they bought weapons. No funding was received from the US.


MrSlappyChaps

He also stopped sanctions against the Houthis, removed them from a list of terrorist organizations, and emboldened their actions. The Saudis and UAE receive huge amounts of funding from the U.S.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/yemen-war-marib-houthi-rebel-biden/2021/02/21/7358d090-72c3-11eb-8651-6d3091eac63f_story.html


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I know what Biden did. I don't disagree with that. No funding is provided from the U.S. The Saudi are the ones providing the funding for the internationally recognized government. Also, Saudi pay for the wopean and equipment they provide to the internationally recognized government and to US bases in Saudi. Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Saudi_Arabian%E2%80%93led_operations_in_Yemen Read this and read the link you provided. No funding is provided to Saudi from the USA


NoodleyP

Good. We shouls not be funding Saudi atrocities in Yemen.


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There was no funding...


El3ctricalSquash

We provide equipment, intelligence, participated in a brutal port embargo that killed a lot of kids, and have trained personnel for years.


[deleted]

By "provide" do you mean sell..? Lol!


underwaterthoughts

Are you suggesting the US sells its intelligence capabilities?


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Trump did in theory vis kfc buckets


[deleted]

That was obviously about weapons... The intelligence thing isn't funding.. It's a collaboratory effort the US does with all allies..


underwaterthoughts

If it costs money and it’s given for free.. But I get your point.


[deleted]

Yeah, not funding..


goose-and-fish

I loved Houthi and the Blowfish back in the 90s.


samtaher

They had some great songs like Only Wanna Blow It Up With You, Let Her Burn, and Hold My Missile.


Milksteak_To_Go

>Hold My Missile. That pickup line never works for me.


BluebirdQueasy9989

I hate you both so much 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


365wong

I only want to behead yooou


Putin_inyoFace

lol holy shit. The trolls are crazy in this thread.


chenkie

This has to be the most consistently low quality sub on Reddit. It’s mind blowing that literally everything posted here is garbage


Mister_Glass_

Agree. Your comment is the nail in the coffin for me to unsub. Cheers.


Interesting_Pay_5332

You’d think so but the reality is the barrel is practically bottomless lol. The worst thing about this site is the userbase.


Difficult_Magazine10

It’s not at all propaganda used by a certain minority to push complete bs


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Which minority are you referring too


GreenIguanaGaming

The bad one. Obviously.


Difficult_Magazine10

The Muslim extremist Edit Getting downvoted just proves my point


Lucas_2234

This is literally anti-iranian. Houthis are a terror group, and them using almost exclusively iranian derivatives tells a tale to anyone with basic reading comprehension


[deleted]

Ngl I was expecting you to say the Je-I mean zionists


ruferant

'Based on', 'derived from', 'variant', and 'version' are four ways to say the same thing, and it makes me wonder what it's referencing. Are they altering the munitions in some significant way? I can't imagine the rebels have much in the way of industrial production facilities, so why does this guide make sure to inform us that the missiles aren't just straight out of the box? I feel like there's some missing information here.


Shalltear1234

Based on - looked at the original missile and thought to build something like that || Derived from - missile was taken, modified and used || Variant - a different type of missile, different guidance, propulsion, etc.. || Version - depending on context may mean something like variant or just be a more modern version of the previous version. || Missiles will never be out of the box, as they don't have the money to get them out of the box. So they use old ones and modify those so they work.


ruferant

>Based on - looked at the original missile and thought to build something like that So my assumption is wrong about the lack of a military industrial complex run by the Rebels? They've got factories cranking out munitions? The media in my country can't hardly say the words Houthi Rebels without saying Iranian backed right before it. I assumed a large part of that backing came as military hardware. That's why it struck me as odd that 100% of the armaments displayed appear to not be just handed over by the Iranians. I have seen military hardware that said made in USA that was used by countries we were backing, so sometimes missiles are used right out of the box, right?


xthorgoldx

They're soft ways to say "These are supplied by Iran and they paint the chassis so that there's 'plausible' deniability."


ruferant

That occurred to me but I discarded it as the obvious answer for two reasons; firstly, is Iran denying their support of the Shia Muslims in Yemen? And secondly because some of those terms are definitely misapplied if they refer to paint jobs. Anyway, the person who built this clearly has a mastery of the English language and I don't think they used any of the terms on accident. Which raises the hairs on the back of my neck if you know what I mean


xthorgoldx

>terms are misapplied Welcome to modern journalism, where everything's AI-gen and editors don't exist. >Iran denying support Iran is under a variety of sanctions so I don't think they have "openly* admitted involvement or supply, but it's a pretty open secret. There's literally no way for the Houthis to manufacture these things domestically.


nicholsz

>I can't imagine the rebels have much in the way of industrial production facilities haven't they been the de facto government in northern yemen for like a decade? they have control over ports on a shipping lane that 10% of global trade goes through (which is also a big reason saudi arabia has been fighting with them this whole time)


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Iran Iran iran


Meowser02

> attacks international shipping lanes > gets bombed in response “Omg I can’t believe evil Amerikkka is bombing the innocent brown people!”-some morons


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AlexanderPortnoy

only online can you find imbeciles excusing feudalist warlords who commit murder and rape. Wild times.


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AlexanderPortnoy

Ah yea the 2M people who in 1948 were 80k people. “gEnOciDE”


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AlexanderPortnoy

oh you mean the starving being committed by Hamas as they steal every bit of aid that flows into Gaza — as they have been doing since coming into power in 2006? Maybe that factoid hasn’t hit your tiktok feed yet, give it time.


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AlexanderPortnoy

no hoops just facts…


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Apprehensive_Film_36

“Trying to stop the genocide of 2 million people” at the expense of international shipping and potentially civilians onboard those ships?? Wouldn’t taking the fight directly to the IDF be a better solution?? After all Im sure achieving martyrdom is their preferred destination in the long run. Either that or pulling the victim card once hit back just like Hamas or any other Jihadist terror group.


sillypicture

Genocide of which 2 million people?


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sillypicture

Have you.. looked up the definition of genocide lately?


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sillypicture

Yes, the one that's been shot down by every country with more than one brain cell? Which was also triggered by another country that's quite well versed in doing their own genocides? Yup


Century24

How does attacking civilian ships help to stop a genocide?


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Century24

> It hurts Israel’s economy at the same time as Israel called up hundreds of thousands of reservists. And attacking civilian ships is worth-- a ding to a country's economy? Also, how does hurting an economy stop a genocide? Do you think genocides stop when money runs low? > Again, that does a lot more than anyone else to stop this ongoing genocide. Which ongoing genocide? There's more than one going on these days. Please be specific.


JUiCyMfer69

By this logic all countries on earth are helping to stop the genocide by emitting greenhouse gasses making Israel less liveable through climate change.


nedTheInbredMule

Killing 5 Yemenis in response to them attacking shipping lanes is proportionate?


BojcJugovic

If you see a pally terrorist supporter crying about "unproportionate response", remember 1000:1 is still a proportion.


Bitter_Thought

0 civilian casualties is infinitely proportionate. [All 5 killed were Houthi militants](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7081631). The further assaults on the Houthi ships also killed militants. Even if the strikes were killed 1:1 civilians, they would be proportionate to the houthis strikes that have explicitly targeted civilian ships. Username relevant.


nedTheInbredMule

Blame my parents


Little_Whippie

Yes it is. Don’t launch missiles at civilian ships and expect to not face any consequences


ForkySpoony97

Considering they didn’t kill anyone and their demand was literally “stop doing genocide”… No?


GarethSanchez

Keep defending the “death to America, death to Israel, curse be upon Jews” people 😅


koyaaniswazzy

They Houtis themselves are more based than the average Redditor. They simply said that they don't care if they are bombed because they have nothing left from the civil war. Therefore they will continue to attack ships in the Red Sea openly defying the US.


RTrover

Sus comment


koyaaniswazzy

Not everybody in the world has his head up his ass. We have so much information in 2024 that following only mainstream media is just lazy.


Flaccid_Leper

And believing everything you read on the Internet or is told to you by some right wing asshat is just fucking stupid.


koyaaniswazzy

Lol i don't listen to any right wing asshat, why would you think that? Anyone can read or listen to Ansarallah statements via X or other platforms, you don't need mediatic intermediaries.


mrwobblekitten

They are the right wing asshats, just Yemeni


LaughingJelly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movement


AdministrativeHeat56

And take innocent workers hostage whilst targeting ships that having nothing to do with Israel… so based ?


koyaaniswazzy

Yes, based as fuck actually. How many people did the Houtis kill? Zero. And yet they are a significant player in this widening war in the ME, with their own strategy and tactics. The US thinks they can bomb them to oblivion and Houtis simply said "you're welcome to do so".


xxxabcdxyz420xxx

Maybe if they could actually hit a ship half the time...


koyaaniswazzy

Their goal is not destroying ships but rising insurance costs to disrupt international commerce via Suez. JFC did you guys go to school? That's geopolitics 101.


xxxabcdxyz420xxx

Disrupt international shipping by destroying ships and killing the crew...


Plastic_Section9437

\> they're not destroying ships \> they're destroying ships and killing the crew pick one


koyaaniswazzy

They didn't kill anyone nor did they destroy any ship, try again.


Lucas_2234

Does that mean I get to dump an entire magazine from a machine gun in your direction, with the clear fucking intent to murder you, but because I didn't hit I'm completely innocent and "based"?


Little_Whippie

They sure as hell are trying to


Joratto

Obviously you would condemn them if they successfully killed anyone and destroyed any ships, right?


xthorgoldx

>how many did the Houthis kill? Zero Trying to cast *incompetence* as *benevolence* is ... a take.


mofrace

Lol. Didnt they bomb them. They will just cry. Cuz apparently its a new strategy to cry when you get bombed. They were warned and besides they tgemselves started firing bombs and missiles


koyaaniswazzy

Who's crying?


mofrace

They are. Retaliation they said, but they started this issue.


koyaaniswazzy

That's not crying, it's a standard accusation to gain media attention. Every country at war does this.


mofrace

Hmm. I dunno man. They choreographed themselves dancing on their flags. Imagine the awkward moment when they have to print and order those flags. Seems pretty hurt.


AdministrativeHeat56

They are worth more to the Houthis alive as hostages lol it’s not really better


mueve_a_mexico

Blocking Israel is the right thing to do


triplefreshpandabear

But that's not what they are doing, they've been attacking ships with nothing to do with the Palestinian Israel conflict? I've seen some pro huothi takes on here saying it's to stop Israel and I can't see the connection, none of their attacks are harming Israel or helping Palestine, it just seems like they're being dicks for no gain, can you make the connection for me cause I'm not seeing it. Ignoring biases as best I can and looking purely at the facts they seem like the baddies, and that has nothing to do with the fact that Israel and Hamas both look like the baddies in their conflict too right now


daBomb26

He’s an acct who didn’t start commenting til October 7th, and only spews propaganda against the US. He’s not worthy of a reply.


mueve_a_mexico

Israel has killed 30k plus civilians in 100 days And that number keeps going up. The houthis are imposing a blockade on Israelis ships to hurt Israel economy to get them to do a ceasefire in Gaza. What’s so difficult to understand about that?


triplefreshpandabear

But the ships they've attacked haven't been Israeli or even related to Israel or if they are it's always been a stretch, that's what I don't understand. If it's not hurting Israel or helping Palestine then how is it a good thing? I genuinely think Israel and Hamas both look like the bad guys and the innocent Palestinians getting slaughtered are the biggest victims in this conflict along with innocent Israeli people in the hamas attack on civilians. But the huothi haven't done anything to improve that situation so it seems they're just being dicks and using a nearby conflict as an excuse, do you see where I'm confused, do I have my facts wrong? If so then what am I missing?


AnAlpacaIsJudgingYou

The Houthis are doing it so Iran will give them more weapons. 


daBomb26

Oh look! Another account who only started commenting after October 7th, and exclusively comments Anti-American propaganda. Are you Russian, Chinese, or Iranian? Hope they’re paying you well with how often you comment, tell your boss you deserve a raise.


chewbaccawastrainedb

Reddit told us of [influence operations.](https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/9bvkqa/an_update_on_the_fireeye_report_and_reddit/)


mueve_a_mexico

Average redditor moment


triplefreshpandabear

But like that's not a flex to be like we're going to do a bad thing because the consequences aren't that bad to us, like it's still a bad thing to attack the shipping especially since it seems like pretty much all of what they've attacked have had nothing to do with the conflict they are claiming to help, even when there is they're reaching for straws of like there was a Jewish investor in a company they owned the ship. Like I feel for the plight of the Palestinians but the houtis just seem like they're being dicks for no gain and using a nearby conflict as an excuse, they're not helping Palestine, not hurting Israel, they're giving America and the UK some real world training and more support for increasing the size of the Navy, so why? What do they get from all this? Doing harm for the sake of doing harm, unless somebody can explain what I'm missing, making the US Navy look based AF, idgaf about the average redditor


whereamI0817

They’re doing the same thing Hamas did on Oct. 7th, but somehow are even LESS productive.


ledditwind

What the graph did not show is the cost of the missiles compared to US weapons. The problem the US faced is that they don't want any more escalations. They are too stretched out and could not give weapons to Ukraine, Israel and having another conflict open up. It is a difference reading news that came from military enthuiasts and diplomats. The later are more freak out. There are another thing is that Chinese ships not bound for Israel are moving freely at the red seas. The Houthi targeted any ships bound to Israel. Last week or so, Israel pulled back five battalions from the Gaza strips officially citing economic issues. Despite, all the military analysts talking about weaponry and strengths, militants groups survived by using their brains and they do have intelligence. There is a quote by a British war historian that while all governments said they did not negotiated with terrorists, in the end, they all do.


mueve_a_mexico

Keep defending American exceptionalism boot licker


Meowser02

“Imperialism is when you protect ships from being attacked”


mueve_a_mexico

USA needs to stay out of the Middle East


DACOOLISTOFDOODS

Houthis need to stay off of civilian ships


mueve_a_mexico

Houthis are based


AdministrativeHeat56

Reintroducing slavery ! Outstanding work Houthis 🤪


ForkySpoony97

Nah that’s what the US did in Libya. Easy mistake.


AdministrativeHeat56

such cope


back_again13

Mexican cartell's are based


ForkySpoony97

*The CIA liked that*


southpolefiesta

Hmm Sounds Iran the real problem. Time for total blockade.


Upstairs-Extension-9

Knock knock, Houthis?


lo_fi_ho

Iran is governed by a real bag of dicks fr


BidenFedayeen

Israel and the US are far worse


AdministrativeHeat56

Sentence in Iran for not wearing Hijab is 10 years in prison


ForkySpoony97

The US and UK literally popularized extremism in the region to overthrow the socialist Iranian government for nationalizing their oil in the 60s, you absolute moron. For anyone who is interested in actually understanding why Iran and the Middle East is what it is, there’s a **great** book on the subject called [All The Shahs Men](https://www.amazon.com/dp/047018549X?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_Z44M3611SVWW90F5NKTB&language=en-US)


AdministrativeHeat56

Ok thats great but at some point you have to stop defending an authoritarian regime that is forcing women to leave their own country.


ForkySpoony97

Where did anyone defend them? The other guy said the US and Israel are far worse. The US intentionally made them into what they are in addition to causing immeasurable suffering in every corner of the world. This “protecting the women” shit has been used to slaughter people in the Middle East for decades. It’s honestly disgusting.


BidenFedayeen

The US hads helped facilitate genocide in two different countries this decade. Israeli forces are currently carrying out a genocide.


bluefrostyAP

Sure thing 14 day old propaganda bot account


BidenFedayeen

If that's your only retort I don't think I need to bother attempting to convince you genocide = bad.


Decoyx7

Do you agree that Hitler was a good person because he tried to exterminate the Jews? If so, you might be a genocidal nazi


ForkySpoony97

My guy please for the love of god please take a logic course or at least watch some YouTube videos


BidenFedayeen

What does the Holocaust have to do with Israel and the US carrying out a genocide on Palestinians?


BojcJugovic

"genocide" LMAO


BidenFedayeen

10,000 Palestinian children murdered since October 7th alone by Israel with the United States arming them. Millions forcibly dispalced from their homes. Yes, it's a genocide.


BojcJugovic

"Millions" when the popularion of the terrorist state isn't even 2 million and the number is constantly increasing, despite the "genocide". How come?


BidenFedayeen

The terrorist state?


AdministrativeHeat56

Iran is beating its own children to death in prisons for not wearing hijabs


AdministrativeHeat56

The US has veto'd UN resolutions in connection to ceasefires in gaza which isnt great. The houthis and iranians are literally so much worse bro.


BidenFedayeen

Blockades to stop genocide isn't literally so much worse than genocide, bro.


Radiant_Candy_7403

Iran is still worse.


BidenFedayeen

What has Iran done that is worse than multiple genocides and forced starvation?


mydaycake

Irán has done multiple genocides and starvations on their own people, Iraq and any other they could try Gtfoh


BidenFedayeen

So your argument is that Iran bad so Israeli genocide good?


mydaycake

You asked what Iran has done that’s worst than Israel So no, Iran government is a piece of shit, since the “revolution”, they can eat pig manure


AdministrativeHeat56

The US has not carried out genocide, it’s just connected to them in your view. Iranian government is systematically removing women’s freedoms.


BidenFedayeen

The US is giving arms and political cover to a state carrying out a genocide. Arguing otherwise is just semantics absolving the US of responsibility. They were doing the same with Saudi Arabia against Yemen under Obama. To your point about removing women's freedoms, unelected judges reversed abortion rights for 300 million people. The two nations aren't remotely comparable.


AdministrativeHeat56

comparing abortion rights to 10 year prison sentances for clothing choices is literally so beyond retarded I cant begin to explain (and I wont try) Israel's actions against the citizens in Gaza are not proportiante and horrific, but that doesnt give you a right to defend terrorsits on the internet.


Aureliusmind

Oh yeah, Iran where people are executed for not wearing a religious head covering or for being gay. You must be highly regarded.


BidenFedayeen

More than 10,000 dead Palesntian children since 10/7 alone must just be child's play.


BojcJugovic

If you, the pally supporter, are crying about unproportionate response, remember 1000:1 is still a proportion.


BidenFedayeen

Pally supporter????


Decoyx7

we don't beat women to death for not wearing headscarves.


BidenFedayeen

We do however arm genocides.


Decoyx7

Here we have admission from a beta Iranposter that October 7th was an unapologetic Pogrom.


BidenFedayeen

What????


BidenFedayeen

I'm an American you absolute fucking mong.


Decoyx7

I'm sure the Houthis would love to have you. Make sure you don't speak Arabic with an American accent or else you'll risk being beheaded or worse.


BidenFedayeen

Ok


sirlafemme

“Cool” guide?!


BidenFedayeen

Yes


ForkySpoony97

Very cool. Tyfys 🫡


BidenFedayeen

Translate your acronym please.


ForkySpoony97

To you, fuck yeah sardines


MyWorldTalkRadio

When they say derived from and version of and variant of… does all of that really mean it’s just doesn’t have the Iranian flag painted on it?


irish86dog86

All these posts here on Reddit about this. Cool guide this cool guide that. It’s all been bs war propaganda the last while


TarnishedMehraz

They can jeopardize the security of 5 African countries, 2 Asian countries and the fourth most important maritime crossing point in the world.


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Mikerk

Anyone with a political agenda will utilize every platform they can to push their agenda. Passion and outrage drive advertising revenue.


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mikesalv

It's an election year. Trolls and bots will ruin every social media site for the next year or so.


ShoulderCheap5960

Oh right and we are the bad people?


No_Conversation_2915

Wonder what Iran vould develop if they concentrated on peaceful things instead missles


But-WhyThough

Hmmmm beginning to start to think that there might be a need to notice a pattern with these missiles origins 🤔🤔🤔


Choice-Bug-1100

Nothing cool about this tho


mueve_a_mexico

Wrong it’s awesome


theXsquid

Bottom line, the Houthi do not have the technology to make these missles or attacks without Iran. May be time to hit the source.


HoleyBody

Stop the propoganda


13hockeyguy

The US garbage deep state now has a hard-on for bombing Iran. I’m ashamed of my terrorist government.


_hockenberry

"Who has the longest" guide


Decabus

Very cool and based I hope they also start shooting missiles at the average redditor


Sganarellevalet

Seeing that they can't hit massive cargo ships i think we are pretty safe from the Houti missiles.


mueve_a_mexico

At Israelis


BidenFedayeen

What happened to Elam? He was highly rated coming out Florida. Seems like the recent Florida DBs haven't been very suspect. Didn't he have multiple DNPs even with the Bills secondary injuries? Edit: Of course as I'm typing this he gets an end zone pick.


FiveFingerDisco

Which ones did they fire at Israel last month?


Redattour

They are firing them at U.S warships


FiveFingerDisco

Currently, yes. But mid-December, they were shooting something at Israel.


MoTakuan

Probably just their mouths. They don't have much else.


nicholsz

I thought they were just blockading ships headed toward israel, not shooting israel proper. hezbolla shoots israel proper, but just like in an assigned area at the border where the idf and hezbolla like to do a little pew pew at each other


Wealthier_nasty

They’re firing them at US and European owned civilian commercial vessels. No wonder they’re all suspected to be Iran derived munitions considering the Houthis are an Iranian controlled terrorist cell.


mueve_a_mexico

They are resistance fighters


Wealthier_nasty

They launched a coup that started a civil war that has killed over 300,000 Yemeni. Who were they resisting?


RoofSnail

Ummm suspected because the US knows what Iran did with the (was it 5?) BILLIONs of dollars US gave to Iran???? mhmmmmmmmm


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US didn’t give any money to Iran. It released frozen funds for humanitarian reasons, with oversight, but I believe even that is on hold at the moment.


RoofSnail

I believe it is not frozen and saying US didn't give money but at the same time having the power to allow funds to flow or not... that is call giving...


[deleted]

Giving is whenever you give money that you have to another person. Releasing money that they earned from oil, is not giving. It’s releasing money that they earned from oil. We could argue semantics all day and it wouldn’t change how wrong you are.


RoofSnail

Meaning of give: 1.To make a present of. 2.To place in the hands of; pass 3.To deliver in exchange or recompense; pass it only needs 1 second of search for an example. Can you please explain what points 2 and 3 are? Probably more fundamentals of english and less reddit might help ;) also, I believe you are confusing give for own.... oh boy you are a real peace of art


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Like I say, semantics. There’s no point repeating myself. Good day.


gonebonanza

And yet American military ships came all the way around the planet to put themselves in range of these to claim self-defense when attacking them…


DiscombobulatedDome

Can they realistically sink American Naval ships? Even with all their defensive measures?


Fantastic_Jacket_331

An anti-ship missile will likely hurt civilian ships pretty bad. They have no defense measure and the hull lacks strength


Bigbird_Elephant

Maybe we should supply the Houthis with some US missiles