“The US and UK airstrikes on Yemen are absolutely stupid and is likely to ignite a spiral of violence that will leave Americans and Brits dead. The cable news shows absolutely love this story. They get to show video footage of F-18s zooming off the deck of a carrier and pictures of boiling clouds of black smoke risking above the cities of Sana’a and Al-Hudaydah,” writes some asshole Gateway Pundit contributor who claims to be a national security or intel expert or something.
“But what does this accomplish? From a military standpoint, it is unlikely that these bombings destroyed or damaged any Houthi rocket/drone/missile warehouses. Why? Because Antony Blinken briefed the leaders of Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on the US plan to hit Yemen. What are the odds that at least one senior person in the know passed that info along to folks in Yemen? I put it at 100%. So what? That gave Yemen time to disperse its assets or hide them in a secure location,” the “expert” editorial continues.
The government of Yemen has been fighting the Houthis for nearly a decade now. Of course Blinken fucking told them and even if he didn’t do you think they’d complain that the US just made their lives a little easier by blasting a few dozens enemy insurgents? Who the hell prints this shit?