@mk@matty@Eiswald won't work there's no possible target they can hit to cause a unifying reaction at best some small group would be upset about it while everyone else is indifferent and at worst, one side will be smug about it and mock the victims online
@skylar@mk@matty@Bunsen@Eiswald Where does the idea that the US respects Human Right or International Law actually come from? It clearly does not come from their actions.
The US spend the last half century+ invading countries at will, napalming villages, bombing weddings, targeting critical infrastructure to maximize civilian casualties and breaking every agreement ever (unless the other guys have nukes). In countries they occupy, US personnel are given legal immunity, allowing nigger GI to rape as many local girls as they want.
The US constantly assassinates political leaders, sometimes under the peace flag like they did with Suleimani. They pump weapons into every fucking civil war (which they make sure just keep going forever if they don't win, casualties be damned), most of which they caused by using their network of homo NGOs and the CIA to force a regime change. They also maintain a network of torture chambers and sometimes grab people based on bad intel and put them into cages in Gitmo and then leave them there for decades for no good reason.
And if all of this was not bad enough, the also do many of the same things to their own people. Firebombing, torture, etcetc. They let Israel sink one of their own ships to try and draw the country into another war and allowed Mossad to blow up buildings full of Americans for a PR stunt.
Also, the CIA also bankrolls a lot of their off the books ops by selling drugs.
Did I forget anything? Probably.
Point being, the will to kill a few hundred million people is clearly there. Billions even, if the people in question were White and/or Christian.
An old episode of South Park actually explains why the US pretends to care about Human Rights. It's the episode where Cartman tries to force a flashback to the colonial era, and they explain it to him: Go to war but pretend to feel bad about it, so people think you can be reasoned with.
@Bunsen@skylar@mk@matty@Eiswald 😩 idk man. I was a very disappointed by the "The Houthis are attacking our boats!" crowd on here... existing. At all. They weren't many, but they wouldn't be many considering the user base of this site.
If you can get people to be pro-war because missiles were fired at WARships in a WARzone that your government ordered there to cover/enable the mass killing of nearby locals, you can get them to be pro-war for pretty much any reason.
They still won't sign up for service, though. Even 9/11 barely made a dent into the recruitment figures.
@Ariovistus@mk@matty@Bunsen@Eiswald best i could do during that arc is point out that it's technically feasible for the US to stomp the shit out of the houthis to the point they could no longer pose a threat to international shipping, but they lack the political will to do so and have spent decades building a military that has only one function, to funnel infinity taxpayer money into defense contractors and then give up. they would not be able to withstand the deep state they created pissing their pants and crying "MUH HOOMAN RIGHTS" over any remotely effective tactics against the houthis, let alone the large scale strikes necessary to actually cripple their ability to resist.