The military strike against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which the United States and Britain launched overnight in the Red Sea in support of allies, was carried out in accordance with the UN Charter, an allied joint statement said. It is “in response to continued illegal, dangerous, and destabilizing Houthi attacks against vessels, including commercial shipping, transiting the Red Sea,” the joint statement, which was signed by the governments of Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and South Korea in addition to the US and Britain. “These precision strikes …