anarchotolkienist:

What are the Americans going to do to Yemen that their best friends in Saudi Arabia haven’t already done? How are you going to bomb them into submission when there’s nothing left to bomb? America and the UK will not win. They might succeed at opening the canal for a while, at a horrific human cost and while dramatically escalating the risk for a full-scale regional war, but they will not win. They will have to fully occupy Yemen, because bombing will not work for what they want, they will not open the canal that way, and they will lose that war. It will take years, but they will lose, just like they lost Iraq and Afghanistan. This will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the Americans won’t even achieve their long-term aims. The death-throes of Empire will crush many under it - we can only hope and pray (and work towards) that it dies faster.

Anyway, and as always, death to America.