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Houthis, defying U.S. strikes, attempt another attack on U.S.-owned commercial ship
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I don't recall the Houthis ever blockading the red sea before.
Somalia had some pirates but that was just literal theft and extortion. And that's not the Houthis.
Mind linking what you are talking about?
Somalian Pirates were actually often protecting their territorial waters from foreign opportunists plundering in the collapse of the Somalian government. The framing as pirates only works in the sense that these weren’t state-driven fleets, but rather civilian driven in order to protect their livelihoods against corporate raiders.
I just checked the list of ships they attacked. You are right that they are almost all cargo but there was a cruise ship in there
Do you have any good articles or videos explaining the situation with the Somali pirates? I might be wrong about it and would love to know what the actual deal was.
Sure, here’s an updated link from what I knew even.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/10/6/illegal-overfishing-and-the-return-of-somalias-pirates
Hope you find it as interesting as I did just now, cheers!
It's a militia islamic militia, do you think they haven't done the same thing as Israel does to their population, or a subset of their population?
It's just a way to grab the attention span of everyone which helps their recruitment.
You're really trying to defend israel's genocide in any possible way. "No they allowed to stop genocide, they are the bad guys!"
I'm not here to simp for whatever war crimes they did internally. Just this specific action isn't one you should denounce.
There was a Houthi spokesperson on BBC. They told him the same thing. His response was very simple.
If other groups want to enhance their popularity by stopping genocide they're very welcome to do so.
How about you go stop israel's genocide if you don't want the Houthi's to do it?
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