President says national security adviser Mike Waltz, suspected of adding journalist to chat, ‘has learned a lesson’

Well Obama didn’t have these glitches in 8 years, and Biden didn’t have these glitches for a combined 12 years, so if your level of success is only two months, you’re a fucking failure

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    I have only one objection to the otherwise very welcome criticism of the incompetence and deliberate misconduct, as well as the highly entertaining memes:

    It’s been all too distracting from the question of why we were even bombing Yemen in the first place.

    • 7355608@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 days ago

      If I understand correctly (full disclosure, I may not) there are a group of politically motivated people that are using Yemen as a place to launch missiles at merchant vessels traveling to or from the Suez canal. As an attempt to bring attention to their political ideals.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
        1·
        4 days ago

        there are a group of politically motivated people

        The Houthis are a Yemeni Shi’a extremist group. One reason for their “political motivation” is the genocide that the Saudis have been committing against all Yemeni Shi’as. That has gone on since MBS seized power in Saudi Arabia. The attacks on Red Sea shipping are a way of inflicting economic damage on Saudis and the West and internationalizing the conflict.

        Without the genocide, the Houthis would never have become so powerful or so murderous. Their rise is blowback from MBS’s attempt to make Saudi Arabia a regional imperialist power.

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
      1·
      4 days ago

      The US is aiding in the bombing of Yemen because MBS (Mohammed Bone Saw, of Khashoggi torture-murder infamy) has been conducting a genocidal war against Yemeni Shi’as for several years, and the US has been supplying Saudi Arabia with arms and other arms-length support during that time. Trump has ramped up US involvement.

      The Houthis are an extremist group that has emerged in the course of that genocide. They’re a bloodthirsty bunch of scumbags who murder civilians, both in and out of their tribe, but that’s what you get when you kill off the all the less psychopathic factions.