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UK-US air strikes launched against Houthis in Yemen
(www.bbc.com)
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Shooting at more civilians is not the way to do it.
Please provide a source for that claim that they are shooting civilians?
The crew on the container ships??? The ones they are launching missiles at
Look at the front page of literally any newspaper. Fuck off with unserious requests for sources.
Blockades are usually enforced by shooting at violating ships. And "shooting at more civilians isn't the way to do it" then what is? Because there's no world where "Just shut up and watch genocide happen" is the right answer.
What? Shooting civilians is never the answer. Did you really just advocate for that???
2 wrongs don't make a right.
Then what is the right answer? Because as long as they're not directly shooting and killing people they're well within their rights to do anything to stop the genocide of Gaza.
Not sure about rights, because they are shooting out of their territorial waters. But the "rights", or perhaps "powers" of any nation only go as far as they can enforce them.
So right now Yemen is indeed expressing itself, but they are finding out they don't really have the power?
Ultimately, protest is valid and what's happening in Gaza is a genocide. But killing (or endangering) third parties who are just working a shift is always wrong.
AFAIK they didn't kill anyone. They're also pretty clear about their condition for allowing ships to pass.
Shooting violators is just how you enforce a blockade; it's what the British did against the Germans.
And that's a good thing, but if you attack ships with people on them, you've endangered them. Via some bad luck they could have killed people.
Also the waters are shared and highly contested, so the blockade isn't clean.
And as I said ultimately you can only have a blockade if you can enforce it. Day by day it is becoming clear they cannot.
A blockade is an act of war. A blockade of the suez canal is an act of war against the 90% of the planet.
They're only blockading ships that are going to dock in Israel, are owned by Israelis or are flying the Israeli flag. It's more targeted than just "we're shooting rockets at any ship that passes".
Two seconds on Google. Just two seconds. Stop lying.
Yeah I learned this after posting my comment. What the hell are the Houthis doing?
The Yemeni armed forces did not shoot or iniure anyone in their operations. The United States has killed 10 in its first operation and who knows how many it has killed in it's recent bombing of civilian areas in Yemen.
Not for lack of trying. I said "shot at"
Wrong. They could have hurt people when they boarded ships but they did not. In fact they were entirely friendly and courteous towards the crew.
And the launched weapons?
Are you really claiming the houthis have not launched any missiles or drones?
When do you clock out?