• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The Houthis attacked international trade ships, including US trade ships. Why should the US not be involved?

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      9 months ago

      I thought they attacked because Biden is supporting a genocide. If that’s the case more power to them.

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        9 months ago

        That’s a very convenient excuse for them, yes. Too bad none of the ships they are attacking are aiding Israel in any way or it would be more believable.

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          They’re too indiscriminate, that’s for sure, but to say none of the ships they’re attacking have anything to do with Israel is just wrong. Israel is currently freaking out over the lack of Red Sea trade.

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            I’m sure they are, along with every other nation that does trade on the Red Sea. What genocide is Eritrea committing right now?

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              I’m sure they are, along with every other nation that does trade on the Red Sea.

              Israel particularly is dependent on red sea trade, since it’s literally next to them. Again, I do acknowledge they’re too indiscriminate, but you can’t deny the results.

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                The results of probably bankrupting Eritrea? Because I’m pretty sure they don’t deserve that.

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            They’re more precise at messaging and delivering the pain where it is best applied than most of the climate protestors.

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        No they shouldn’t. However, the houthis are still the aggressor in this situation. They are attacking international shipping in international waters, and blaming America for their own actions. To say it is the fault of the US that ships are being attacked in the Red Sea (as you are so heavily implying) is pretty fucking naive, not to mention irresponsible.

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        Is the admiral in charge of that decision? Are the crews of the trade ships in charge of that?

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          The Houthis were not attacking all ships. They were only attacking ships connected to Israel, the US got directly involved to defend Israel. Now they’re attacking US and UK ships too, but only because of the unlimited support and defense for Israel.

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            They were only attacking ships they claim were related to Israel, no one with a brain stem should believe them. We already know for a fact they weren’t.

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              Actually if you do a little reading you’ll find out that they are. Ownership of large vessels is intentionally convoluted so as to lower the tax burden of very wealthy people, so when people without a brain stem see a Marshall Islands flagged ship they say “wElL tHAt a’iNT isRaEL tHEm hOOtiES is atTAcKin uNdiSCRiminiTLikE!!1” but actually, well just check it out below.

              https://suppo.fi/comment/2333753

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                Link is dead so im gonna list the attacks I looked into and still remember.

                So those 2 Russian oil tankers were actually owned by Israel? A few other “connected to Israel” ships I remember were 1 officer on board a UK ship was from Israel and some business guy was a member of the board in the company that owned another ship. The vast majority of ships getting attacked have come from or gone to Saudi Arabia and India.

                They are just doing Somali pirates 2.

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            They don’t get to launch missiles at any ships lol, that’s terrorism regardless of their stated motive.

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            They literally hit a ship a while back heading to Iran - they “say” they were only targeting ships to Israel but in practice they’re targeting every ship that goes through the area.

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            Got it, when Houthis attack British civilian ships, it’s the Jews’ fault.

            /s

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              🙄

              It’s the UKs fault for the unlimited support and defense of Israel’s genocide (not “the Jews” but specifically the settler-colonial Zionist entity literally created from the British mandate). We supposedly have a duty under the genocide convention to prevent genocide, after all.