• Muehe@lemmy.ml
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    19 days ago

    Hate to defend Trump, but in this he is kind of innocent. Saudia Arabia was attacking Yemen well before the Iran war started. Plus the timeline of events here is something like this:

    • Yesterday Houthis said “if you attack our oil infrastructure here is a list of retaliation targets”
    • Then Saudi Arabia attacked Houthi oil infrastructure anyway
    • Then Houthis attacked the targets they previously listed

    Besides the Aramco HQ in Dhahran, there were also refineries in the area that were attacked, plus at least three sites in and around Riyadh were attacked as well.

    Source: https://yemen.liveuamap.com/en/2026/13-october-13-the-houthis-have-announced-the-locations-they

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      19 days ago

      Iran was keeping the houthis on a leash. That leash has gotten a lot longer since Trump attacked Iran…

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        19 days ago

        Not disputing that, just saying this one is mostly on the Saudis for overestimating their air defence (yet again).

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      19 days ago

      Saudia Arabia was attacking Yemen well before the Iran war started.

      Well, that supports the point that trump was a complete idiot for starting this war with Iran. The middle east is a Swiss watch of competing factions that are held in place by various methods and when an idiot demented rapist starts blowing things up without any understanding of that - it’s gonna go sPr0iNg!

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        19 days ago

        True, but to switch metaphors Trump may have been the domino that fell a few stones back, but the ones currently tipping each other over are SA and the Houthis. Can’t absolve the Saudis from being warned, doing it anyway, and getting exactly what they were promised, all inside of a day, by saying Trump started it all several months back…