Chapo Trap House - 795 Teaser - Red Sea Rebels

Episode Date: January 5, 2024

Will and guest Séamus Malekafzali discuss the Houthi Red Sea blockade. Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse

Like I kept having to see the statements from God damn it Eli Lake. We remember you I like I am the Ed man Kuku Kuku. Choo got them he was talking about like he's a real real class from the past And I've had to see his tweets recently because he's like yeah, he's really feeling himself He's really feeling himself again because yeah like he whenever there's not some insane bloodletting going on in the world, Eli Lake is just like a non-entity, totally forgettable. But man, on man, when the United States or Israel is really feeling themselves, you're going to be seeing Eli on the timeline. He's going to be feeling himself too. And he's, he's feeling himself right now because a group that he hasn't to think about for a long time, is now threatening something. And he's talking about like, why don't we strike

the Houthi military positions, level them, and we'll show them what we mean. Like nobody in the world has ever thought about that before. It just got through. Just like Yemen. Yeah. They just got through like one of the other worst wars

of the 21st century. I mean, and Shema is like, the common response that I heard over the past couple of weeks as this Yemeni naval blockade has begun in the Red Sea is a lot of people just being like, yeah, sounds pretty good, but they're about to find out the reason why America's Americans don't have health care. All right, and it's just like, well, yeah, I mean, like our Navy is vastly more powerful than theirs in terms of like men, weapons, material, resources, etc.

But they've just got done facing nearly the full force of like all of the best weapons that we could have on offer to raid directly at them with like no restrictions, whatsoever, and they won. So, I mean, like, yeah, it's powerful. Yeah, it's kind of an empty threat. No, it's so boring. Oh my God. Oh my God.

It's, we have to, we have to like, I need, sorry, I need to, I need to set her myself and I need to, I need to go back like, like, what are the points need to hit on? Yeah. The thing about the, the, the cause that they've had to, they've had to narrow down for why the Houthis need to be eliminated this time. Because they can't reference what the actual cause is. Because if you explain the cause to anyone with a, with a functioning brain, they're like,

I feel like this could be avoided. It's like, it's like this could be avoided. It's like, you just fire for a while. And not just that, but I feel like this is the way that we're told that good nations use their military force. Yeah. This is the way that we're told responsible democratic nations conduct themselves when a genocide is happening in the world.

Yeah. They put on the stops. They're not curpit bombing anything. They, they're not um, carpet bombing, anything. They're, they're doing what they can. They gave out, they gave out their delicious cut to the, the crews of the galaxy, the galaxy, the specials, their loving it. Oh my God.

Oh my God. Other Oscars are not getting that kind of tree, but it's for real. And, but they have to, they have to say that this is not, not just a trade, but that the Houthis are our pirates. They're engaging their national privacy. Do you ever see the letter like Mark from

And the idea is that it conjures up images in your mind of I think primarily Somali pirates. And we saw Captain Phillips, we remember the scourge of the Seven Seas, how evil they were, how money hungry they were. But then you put it under like any amount of scrutiny and it's like, okay, well they seized the one ship, but the ship didn't really have any cargo on it. It was mostly the send of message and they're not seizing any other ships really. They're just striking them after numerous warnings, but they're also not killing anyone on these ships. They're not like, technically, if we put it under the magnifying glass, technically, that is quote unquote, piracy, but it's not piracy in the way that we would

understand it and the way in which we would get gung ho about countering it. Like, again, they have to, with everything in regards to Gaza, they have to disconnect it from Israel in some way, all the suffering, all the knockdown effects, all the escalation, it has to happen in its own sort of vacuum, in which the acts of resistance and its factions and its nations have to be attacking Israel in some way that is entirely unrelated to the situation that is present at this current moment, and as well the situation that existed before October 7th.

I mean, you see a similar dynamic with the protests in America or Europe, like the large and still ongoing acts of civil disobedience and widespread protests, it has to be about something other than the very clear moral stand and ask that's being, you know, the why people are demonstrating is because like this needs to stop and our government shows absolutely no indication that they will lift a finger to not just stop it, but to like, you know, cease to facilitate it's ongoing, you know, this ongoing massacre.