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Just no.
If someone wants to return fire, go for it, but getting NATO to be the new world police force after decades of the US playing that role and fucking it up should give us pause. NATO is there to be a defensive alliance if attacked militarily, not be a mercenary force for Maersk and BP or whoever is getting their cargo attacked.
I’m not paying taxes for NATO to act as world police. It should be a purely defensive force. If you want to get involved then go get your own country involved in it but not mine.
Maybe NATO should prevent the United States from giving Saudi Arabia the weapons they need to eradicate the entirety of the population of Yemen. Maybe this is another one of those problems that we could solve by not propping up the fucking bad guy.
Putin is the bad guy in Ukraine. The United States and Saudi Arabia are the bad guy in Yemen.
The fact that we have chosen to be their antagonist means that it's only natural they would look for somebody to help support them even if that somebody (Putin) is only doing so for the most selfish reasons.
Yemen didn't pick a fight with us. Yemen didn't pick a fight at all.
Saying they are Putin's hired guns makes it seem like Putin is the person who convinced them to join into a conflict that didn't involve them when in reality we have been supplying arms to the people (Saudi Arabia) that have been exterminating them indiscriminately and without consequence.
We chose to be their antagonist. They didn't really have much of a choice between get wiped out or find somebody to help them fight back against getting wiped out.
Putin is a bad guy, He's going to use every resource he can in his invasion of Ukraine. If we were not supplying weapons to the people that are bombing Yemen then Yemen would have no reason find someone to help them resist us.
Putin doesn't have to sell opposition to America to countries that are being bombed by it. That's a problem we create. The easiest way to deradicalize Yemen (and plenty of other anti-western political sentiment) would be to stop enabling Israel and Saudi Arabia to ignore human rights.