https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/01/22/how-to-stop-the-houthis-00137030
In Arabic we have a saying يجيبك الموز يا قرد “the bananas will make you come back oh monkey”. The monkey here being the US and the bananas are the hope that China will solve the problems it starts.
There's a Polish saying that translates to "Not my circus, not my monkeys" which means if someone else causes a problem, it isn't my job to try and fix it for them. That also seems appropriate here.
There's an old Chinese saying from google translate that goes something like 不是我的问题
Ben norton coverage on this is great btw, funnily enough its Saudi Arabia the one urging the US to not escalate this conflict further.
Building on this, Saudi arabia was bombing yemen with the US support for years. Yemen managed to develop a way to attack Saudi oil pumps or refineries and thus they stopped their terrorist attacks against yemen. The yemenis understand that economic warfare is the way to deal with these terrorists.
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't it already pretty dangerous to be any sort of leftist in Saudi Arabia?
Who is going to tell the government? You are free to keep your politics to yourself or people you trust not to snitch.
Israel's plan for more targeted operations in Gaza could mean fewer civilian casualties
Openly admitting Israel was just indiscriminately bombing Gaza
I don't think they were indiscriminate at all, i think the evidence is pretty clear that they purposely and carefully targeted civilian objectives to cause as much devastation as possible...hospitals, educational facilities, mosques and churches, bakeries, residential and civil administration buildings, any infrastructure that allows people to live in Gaza. They also laser focused on targeting reporters, and when they couldn't get a reporter they massacred their entire family instead. Doctors and emergency service workers were also high priority. This wasn't a campaign of indiscriminate bombing, this was a targeted campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing aimed at making an entire city of 2 million people uninhabitable while wiping out as much of their history and culture as possible. They knew exactly what they were doing.
As long as the Houthis allow Chinese ships to transit the Red Sea undisturbed, Chinese shipping has a huge competitive advantage over everyone else.
Indeed, and another factor is that this is making rail and BRI more important which boosts China's trade across Eurasia https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202401/1304671.shtml
