The Houthis published footage of their attack on the ship "Transworld Navigator" using their new "Toofan 1" kamikaze USV [23.06.2024]
VideoJust declare war already. They have.
They lost 400,000 people between their own civil war but also from the Saudi/US blockade. They have a lot of resolve.
and they're going to lose even more to famine over the next few decades. On the current trajectory, Yemen is projected to effectively run out of water in the next 10 years which will cause their entire agriculture sector to completely collapse. Right now they get the vast majority of their water from fossil water aquifers that are being heavily depleted. 40% of the current water supply gets used to grow khat....just to show how fucked the situation is.
My knowledge of khat is based entirely upon the movie Captain Philips, but are you saying that, essentially, 40% of all the water in Yemen is used to grow what is essentially chew tobacco?
It's quite a bit stronger than chewing tobacco but yeah
Well at least they have their priorities straight
Well at least they have their priorities straight
Drugs can be exchanged for far more money than food harvests. Said money can buy food and more. It is completely fucked up. You see this kind of thing happening everywhere although the cash crops generally are not drugs.
Khat is a stimulant. Drugs made to be similar to Khat's active ingredient are called Cathinones. Remember "bath salts"? Those were unscheduled cathinones like MDPV. Waaay stronger than Khat though
Yes....40% of the water is used to grow a useless stimulant drug lol
Famine is going to get them first. Currently 60% of the population is facing acute food insecurities as of 2023. It is estimated that by 2030 nearly 70% of the country will be relying entirely on foreign food assistance for their entire caloric intake per day. Their agriculture sector only accounts for 15 to 20% of their staple foods per year which is one of the lowest on earth.
At some point the United States and the West in general are just going to stop humanitarian assistance there. The US currently spends 3 billion per year on humanitarian aid to Yemen and is the biggest donator by a considerable margin, while a not so small chunk of the population screams out death to America and lob rockets at passing ships.
It’s fucking insane how we give so much to the world only for them to hate us and scream for our deaths, absolutely insane
As the saying goes...no good deed goes unpunished.
Religion is a hell of a drug
The United States originally sided with the Houthis and then switched sides to back Al Qaeda. It’s such a mess. I agree we should stop giving them humanitarian aid, but also just stop meddling in the Middle East in general. I’m not saying they’re good people but they, like a lot of others in the region, have good reason to hate us.
The Houthis will be fine. They steal all the aid they need. The rest of Yemen? Not so much.
Let them eat sand.
Guess what happens when they run out. They'll all get on a boat headed for Europe. Not looking forward to mixing with those lot.
Invest in war!
Making that number bigger sure won't do them any good or us any harm.