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An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile.
US officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its distress signal.
There were no injuries reported, the US officials said.
Houthi military spokesman Yaha Sarea said the group used “a number of appropriate naval missiles” and Friday’s strike was “direct”.
En Route from Greece to Singapore. Flagged in the Marshall Islands and owned by a MNC with no offices in Israel.
Any terrorist apologists wanna take a run at this one with your blockading Israel rhetoric? It wasn’t even going the right way.
Sure, imperialism is the major cause of suffering in this world. Trading routes of the west symbolise it. If being righteous is defined as supremacy based on military might… then there’s no greater terrorism in the world than that of Rich Oil Barrons and the Imperial nations that enable and protect it.
Terrorism is the label given to people who use violence for their political goals… by people who use state-sponsored violence to maintain their version of “peace”, the one in which they are righteous and thus can control others or commit the same atrocities… only their terrorism is accepted by a totally corrupt process such as voting. (Actually voting does nothing as all the important stuff is several layers removed from public office holders)
Which of those countries is the imperialist power again? Marshall Islands? Singapore? I suppose we’re holding grudges against Greece from a couple thousand years ago?
Those countries do not own the ships. They are just registered there to dodge taxes and evade sanctions among other things.
Owned by a multinational, registered at a flag of convenience, trading between two non-involved small countries m, yet y’all are trying to claim this is a legit strike back against “imperialism”or “Zionism”. BS it’s classic attention-seeking. They’re striking out at random passersby at the instigation of Iran trying to benefit from Chaos
It’s linked with the UK. It’s right there in the Article. And UK ships got blocked after they started bombing Yemen.
If Yemen bombed UK soil directly, do you think the UK should also let ships of Yemen pass through their waters?
Dropping the world economy into the pot isn’t going to make imperialism better. It just brings back colonialism, mercantilism, and trade wars with actual fighting. You can feel smug all day long in the rubble.
Countries selling stuff to each other is imperialism? Care to check the logic on that?
Do you think France cares about Democracy in Africa? These countries just use democracy as a dogwhistle and steal natural resources. Don’t think that these westerners care more about you than some religious dictators.>
Globalization is just some rich industrialists trying to cut costs and rip off people in rich countries. The fact that it uplifted people in other countries from poverty is a side effect and an instrument to make people believe that capitalism is the best way of life and convince people to ditch their simple life. Whereas in reality it’s just that extracting untold amounts of stuff from the ground is going to inevitably lead to material gain, regardless of whether some giant corporation struck a deal with a poor country or not.
Rampant consumerism is destroying the planet and keeping the masses from acting against rich people. Global trade is just exacerbating the problem.
You don’t NEED something from across the globe. People used to not consime anything that wasnt available locally. Manufacturing used to be local. But some asshole decided that it saved $5/hr in labour costs to ship some part half way across the globe and reship the finished product back to their country for assembly. Now we have untold amounts of garbage being dumped and floating around in all of our water bodies.
Yah, actually, blowing up oil tankers is based as fuck. Bring back the Somali pirates too.
Sure buddy, you go celebrate the end of modern medicine.
I dunno about that other guy, but humans have driven 70% of species to extinction. The faster we get this collapse over with, the better the earth will be in the long run.
Fair enough. I’m still hoping to pull out of it but at least that’s a logical position.
Different strokes 🤷
First line in the article:
A tanker with links to the UK
Eeryone and their moms have ships registered on tax havens. The Houthi’s are looking at actual ownership and/or destination.
After America and UK have started bombing Yemen they have been banned from passing. This is a direct consequence of UK’s support for war crimes. The UK fucked around and are now the ones finding out.
There isn’t a shipping MNC in the world without links to the US or UK. That’s like saying humans with a link to Oxygen.
So the crew on board was British. They thought it was somehow okay to attack a third country’s ship because the civilians on board were British. Maybe.
That’s not a blockade. That’s a war crime.
a blockade without willingness to follow up on the threat to shoot, is not a blockade
That idea of a blockade is a war crime unless you can prove it’s carrying war material directly to the blockaded country or it’s a military ship. Modern blockades thus generally require boarding the ship. Just shooting at cargo ships is a war crime and/or terrorism.
You are completely right, a blockade is a war crime when part of a war of aggression or against civilian vessels.
Now remind me, who is blockading Gaza, and has for over a decade now?
By no means are Iran and their proxies the good guys. But anyone supporting what Israel is doing to Palestine has orders of magnitude more innocent blood on their hands.
The only connection this has to Israel is your idiotic assertion.
The more attacks on oil infrastructure the better
Not while they’re out on the open water thank you very much, I’d rather avoid massive oil spills.