they've already weathered a decade of CIA drone strikes and Saudi air strikes. did anyone believe these recent strikes were anything but performative actions by a humiliated US administration?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/politics/houthis-yemen-us-airstrikes.html
Understanding the nature of mass propaganda makes you realize that the average journalist is 90% similar to your average Facebook lib regurgitating what they hear without questioning...just with primary sources instead of secondary. Unlike Trump, the natsec apparatus is ✨ professional ✨ with their communications, therefore completely trustworthy to libs...so they regurgitate without question.
Anyone demonstrating an understanding of systemic/structural problems is a threat to capital, so capitalist-owned outlets simply never give them microphone/pen, guaranteeing natsec ghouls can pass their narratives to an amplification machine that gives the authority of a perceived unanimity by "independent" non-government institutions.
I'm sure many natsec fucksticks are aware of this phenomenon and exploit it feeding journalists whatever info is most likely to result in consent for whatever they want to do. Press statements from these officials should be looked at as their wishlist for public opinion rather than an informed scoop.
News reporting any intervention as ineffective won't be passed by an "official" source, thus never getting printed. Only reason to state as much to the press is if you need public support for new escalation. Hence why all these libs still think Ukraine is winning or only isn't because we haven't sent them enough weapons systems...last thing they heard is that Ukraine is one ~~javelin~~ ~~Panzer~~ F16 away from winning or China is one sanction away from their ~~economy~~ semiconductor industry collapsing.