Houthis Continue Atrocities, Knowing Western Progressives Will Still Stan Them

A good number are the same useful idiots who have always proved so easy to manipulate through Soviet and soviet-style propaganda.

Sanaa, Yemen, March 23 – A group of Iran-backed rebels in this impoverished country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula announced today that they will maintain their policy of torturing, executing, oppressing, and otherwise harming anyone and everyone, especially civilians, secure in the knowledge that Leftists in the West will, as they have for some time, ignore, minimize, or even defend those actions and thus make any effective international measures to counter or prevent them unlikely.

Houthi leaders voiced confidence this week that leading influential progressive voices in Europe and the US will continue to argue against redesignation of their group as a terrorist entity, following the Biden administration’s removal of the Houthis from the list of designated terrorist organizations last month, because those voices are more interested in appeasing the Iranian regime than in the human rights they purport to promote, and despite Houthi use of child soldiers and perpetration of atrocities.

“The reasons these ‘progressives’ cite, or are ashamed to cite, vary,” acknowledged Houthi spokesman Mustafa Massikr. “Mostly, their arguments amount to it being none of the West’s business and it’s probably the West’s fault to begin with, as if we brown people have no morality and no volition of our own, which is hella racist, but we don’t care, because that allows us to further our political, ideological, and territorial ambitions. Some of them also admit an economic motive behind the stanning, that they want good trade relations with Iran.”

“A good number of them though,” continued Massikr, “are the same useful idiots who have always proved so easy to manipulate through Soviet and soviet-style propaganda aimed at weakening and ultimately undermining American power on the global stage. Some of them do genuinely sympathize with anti-American goals, but mostly it’s folks who can’t reason their way out of a paper bag and you just have to push the right rhetorical buttons and they’re eating out of your hand and crying over how your brutal terrorist organization is actually a victim who needs support. They’re fools, but I’ll take it.”

Former UK Labour Party leader MP Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) concurred. “Some of us really do believe we share progressive values with groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah,” he explained. “We might even call them our friends. But not everyone understands the dynamic the same way, and some merely feel that the West should focus less on what’s going on far away, leaving benevolent forces such as Iran, Turkey, and Russia, for example, to assert their influence in various strategic regions with energy, security, trade, and stability importance. I mean, why should anyone worry if Putin is calling the shots in the international energy market? He’s a sweet guy, never done anything wrong.”

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