Attack of the Houthis

Apparently, we're retaliating against the Houthis.  They sound like they might be some alien tribe - space nomads who have been raiding the earth, abducting our women and molesting our cattle.  It is great that the West is finding ever more exotic enemies to fight with, rather than those boring and commonplace Iraqis, Russians, Libyans and Chinese.  The Houthis definitely sound as if they might have four arms and green skin and possibly ride around on strange alien beasts with six legs and big teeth.  Frankly, if they really have been going around disintegrating innocent earth people or stealing their brains or whatever else it is these aliens do, then they fully deserve to have the might of earth's military ranged against them.  It's all very well all those middle class virtue signallers going on about how we should 'Stop the War' and not kill alien larvae on social media, but they aren't the one who have had to suffer the alien attiacks.  Believe me, if they were the ones getting buggered by four armed aliens with barbed penises, they'd be singing a different tune.  But no, despite the aliens being the ones committing atrocities these 'peaceniks' are all waving their arms around and wailing about how we should just let the aliens invade and then resist them peacefully.  Yeah, keep resisting as they inject they're eggs into our till living bodies and use us as incubators, they're growing offspring slowly eating us alive, from the inside out.  

Still, while I might not be entirely clear as to who or what the Houthis are, exactly, you can guarantee that there are a horde of people out there on social media willing to educate me on the subject.  Not that they'd ever heard of the Houthis before last week themselves, but in spite of this, they are now experts on the subject and prepared to share their wisdom with the world.  Just like they did when they were instant experts on Covid, US elections, the war in Ukraine and the Gaza crisis.  That 'wisdom', inevitably, will be that the Western nations are all bastard oppressors, that the Houthis are entirely innocent, it's all Israel's fault and that if you support, or at the very least, don't denounce unreservedly, the current action against the Houthis, then you are a fascist.  Personally, I don't feel it necessary to have an opinion on every ongoing conflict currently going on in the world.  I just don't have enough facts about most of them to form an opinion.  But with regard to this business with the Houthis, I would point out that, whatever their grievances with the government of Yemen, (see, I have been paying attention to the news), I'm not entirely sure how harassing and hijacking international shipping is advancing their cause in this regard.  I'd also point out that surely the innocent civilian seamen crewing the merchant ships under threat have the right to expect some kind of protection from the nations under which their ships are registered and/or owned?  Just a thought.  OK, I know - I'm a fascist.