Companies are rerouting around South Africa to avoid militia attacks in Yemen in one of the biggest disruptions to world trade since the Covid-19 pandemic
This isn’t like the Somali pirates. It is a political issue. If Israel puts its dick back in its pants, the problem goes away. So it is israel’s mess and its allies’. Why the fuck should third countries be spending resources to clean up after Israel and the US?
Every major country is affected by this. India and China have as much interest in free passage through the Red See as the US or the EU.
And yet China, who has a naval base in Djibouti, seems to just be sitting back and letting everyone else tackle this
This isn’t like the Somali pirates. It is a political issue. If Israel puts its dick back in its pants, the problem goes away. So it is israel’s mess and its allies’. Why the fuck should third countries be spending resources to clean up after Israel and the US?
Bingo. They know that someone else will do something eventually is my guess.