They Tell You The Houthis Attack Ships, But They Never Tell You Why
None of the people applauding Trump’s war on Yemen because “the Houthis are attacking ships” will tell you why the Houthis started attacking ships.
The pundits won’t say, and the people don’t know.
After two weeks of interacting with people who support Trump’s war I can confidently say that none of them know why the war is happening. They know it has something to do with the Houthis attacking ships in the Red Sea, but they never have any idea why those attacks started happening in the first place. They generally assume it’s because the Houthis are just plain evil and want to attack ships, or because Iran ordered them to do it in order to take over the middle east. The words “terrorists” and “pirates” come up a lot.
They legitimately do not know it’s a blockade aimed at halting Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza, and that all attacks had ceased while the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was in effect. They have no idea that Ansar Allah only announced the Red Sea blockade would resume after Trump and Netanyahu actively collaborated to sabotage the ceasefire and resume starving Gaza, or that they hadn’t even resumed attacks yet when Trump began bombing them.
My latest piece in @Mondoweiss: Yemen is acting responsibly to stop genocide and the U.S. is bombing them for it https://t.co/STmueYMCdR
— Craig Mokhiber (@CraigMokhiber) April 2, 2025
They do not know that the Houthis succeeded in causing an 85 percent reduction in shipping activity to Israel’s Port Eilat, putting effective pressure on the Netanyahu regime to end the Gaza holocaust. They do not know that Trump’s reason for bombing Yemen is the same reason as Biden’s: because the US empire believes it should be allowed to back Israel’s genocide without any consequences or resistance of any kind.
They’re supporting a war without knowing why they support it. This is possible because they not only don’t know why the war is happening — they also don’t care. They would support literally anything Trump did for any reason whatsoever, because they are mindless infantile cultists and not free thinking adults.
They don’t need to know why Trump is bombing Yemen, all they need is to be assured in a confident-sounding tone that the people he is bombing deserve to be bombed. As long as they receive
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