The Biden administration is struggling to stop the ongoing attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis against ships in the Red Sea and the group is continuing to fortify its weapons stockpile inside Yemen, even though the US has carried out significant strikes on the group in recent weeks, US officials told CNN.
I mean, it does cite a state department and pentagon official as a source (lowest quality source imaginable), but provides no context. Literally the whole article is written as if Ansar Allah is just doing stuff because … reasons?
Even their publicly stated goal of ending the war in Gaza is treated as a fringe opinion amongst US officials. “Some senior officials concede it is entirely possible the Houthis will stop if Israel does” --> Like wtf do you think the purpose of these attacks even is?
As for ships carrying supplies to Yemen, there are 2 cited examples in the article. One was a ship heading to aden, which this article claims that Ansar Allah said was a mistake. The ship arrived at port and no crew was injured. Important context that CNN leaves out.
The other was the Rubymar, which is owned by a company golden adventure shipping. This does not appear to be a mistake, as it is a UK company. It was also heading for a port in Bulgaria
Doing this research took me literally just 10 minutes. CNN is a rag.
There’s a particularly funny bit in the article where it acknowledges that even some people in the admin acknowledge that support for the genocide is the reason Yemen is interdicting shipping. Also acknowledging that the attacks did indeed stop during the 7 day ceasefire. But then it just proceeds to dismiss all that. Absolute clown shit reporting.
Seems like something CNN just threw in without any actual source cited.
I mean, it does cite a state department and pentagon official as a source (lowest quality source imaginable), but provides no context. Literally the whole article is written as if Ansar Allah is just doing stuff because … reasons?
Even their publicly stated goal of ending the war in Gaza is treated as a fringe opinion amongst US officials. “Some senior officials concede it is entirely possible the Houthis will stop if Israel does” --> Like wtf do you think the purpose of these attacks even is?
As for ships carrying supplies to Yemen, there are 2 cited examples in the article. One was a ship heading to aden, which this article claims that Ansar Allah said was a mistake. The ship arrived at port and no crew was injured. Important context that CNN leaves out.
The other was the Rubymar, which is owned by a company golden adventure shipping. This does not appear to be a mistake, as it is a UK company. It was also heading for a port in Bulgaria
Doing this research took me literally just 10 minutes. CNN is a rag.
There’s a particularly funny bit in the article where it acknowledges that even some people in the admin acknowledge that support for the genocide is the reason Yemen is interdicting shipping. Also acknowledging that the attacks did indeed stop during the 7 day ceasefire. But then it just proceeds to dismiss all that. Absolute clown shit reporting.