• Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Yeah but they’re trying that. The Saudis tried that for like a decade before they started. It’s harder than it appears to bomb a nation into submission.

    Edit: just in case someone says some genocidal thing about collectively punishing an entire ethnic group, if you’re from certain communities in the fediverse I probably can’t see your comments, but that would obviously be a horrific crime to actually do.

    • Philo@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Yemen has a population of 34 million and it is just under 204 thousand square miles. Believe me, if the US told them starting in 2 weeks from today bombs would be dropped starting from the southern border and advancing north. Yemen could easily be leveled or the Houthi bullshit stopped immediately. The best part is any civilian who wanted to get out of harm’s way would have plenty of notice.