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How it Started vs. How it is Going (lemm.ee)

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-houthis-have-defeated-the-us-navy/ar-AA1pldRJ

Basically, America decided to stop protecting internation shipping for free, and instead we sent our ships to the Middle East to defend Israel for free

Which I don't agree with, but considering the Houthies stated goal was force a ceasefire in Israel (which I wish my country was really working towards) it's hard to claim they "won".

It's a classic example of "won the battle but lost the war".

Houthis isn't accomplishing their goal of a ceasefire, but they are succeeding in attacking civilian merchant shipping vessels, which really ain't that impressive.

Quick edit:

To clarify, by issue is with the journalists shitty headlines.