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A US operation halfway around the planet where no civilian casualties have taken place.
Defense.
No civilian causalities...because we've been shooting down all the missiles. The Houthis have been firing off rockets, drones, and missiles pretty indiscriminately at passing cargo boats, some of which do have US nationals aboard. If the US and allies hadn't been there, there's a good chance there'd be a half dozen cargo ships at the bottom of the Red Sea, and then there would be civilian causalities.
Ansarallah already showed the world what a boarding operation would look like.
The crew is safe and being treated as appropriate by Islamic law.
Yeah that doesn't make hijacking a boat and taking the crew hostage okay by any stretch of the imagination
Does that include Iranian ships, or do you have a double standard for the US?
So you're saying the Houthis are as bad as the US?