• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    8 months ago

    It’s both, Yemenis have shown that they’ve been able to last for 8 years without any clear impact from the bombing strategy. The impact from Yemeni blockade is visible, we see economic costs for the west. The impact from bombing in terms of Yemen being able to pursue its policies is not clear because we don’t see their policies change or become less effective.

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      8 months ago

      So when you meant no impact you were thinking of in the way that if they can still shoot missiles that means there has been no impact?

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        8 months ago

        Right, I’m saying the strikes are not achieving a change in behavior or capability. So, there is no impact in terms of what Yemen is doing whether US carries strikes out or not.

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          8 months ago

          I guess I thought you meant the strikes were having no impact as in genuinely zero impact

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              8 months ago

              Missile firing infrastructure and capability is sorta the target. Luckily first civilian death was just yesterday and so far I think that’s the only one.

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                8 months ago

                If missile firing infrastructure is the target, then it’s pretty clear that US is not capable of doing any meaningful damage to this infrastructure. Again, the original point was that US is unable to achieve its stated goals while Yemen is.

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                  8 months ago

                  Yes, I just misunderstood it as a more literal “no impact” than what you were saying.