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 means the North Yemenese blockade is achieving its aim of applying pressure to the world’s commercial powers to act on the Gazan Genocide. Now the Chinese and the rest of the world have skin in the game. This is an incentive to every country to tell the Americans to get their pet to start behaving. And without any civilian victims either. This is fantastic strategic thinking. Well done indeed.
II could marginally accept the term “piracy”, given that the Houthis in North Yemen are not recognized as a country, but …“islamic terrorism”? Really? If this is islamic terrorism, what is Isis and Boko Haram? This is the same kind of trivialization that passes for Israeli political discourse these days, like calling Hamas “worse than Nazis”?
These people are not disrupting shipping to establish a kalifate, they are at best intervening in a political land dispute, at the worst doing the best they can to stop an ongoing genocide.
I don’t how you don’t see the difference between a political action like a blockade and actual violent Islamic terrorism. There seems to be a disconnect there. The blockade should be praised as a good thing when compared with all the other terrible actions that could’ve been chosen instead.
This means the North Yemenese blockade is achieving its aim of applying pressure to the world’s commercial powers to act on the Gazan Genocide. Now the Chinese and the rest of the world have skin in the game. This is an incentive to every country to tell the Americans to get their pet to start behaving. And without any civilian victims either. This is fantastic strategic thinking. Well done indeed.
The Houthis do this because Iran tells them to. WTF. Can’t believe you’re white-knighting this.
Didn’t expect to see pro-violent Islamic terrorism opinions when I logged into lemmy this morning but here you are
II could marginally accept the term “piracy”, given that the Houthis in North Yemen are not recognized as a country, but …“islamic terrorism”? Really? If this is islamic terrorism, what is Isis and Boko Haram? This is the same kind of trivialization that passes for Israeli political discourse these days, like calling Hamas “worse than Nazis”?
These people are not disrupting shipping to establish a kalifate, they are at best intervening in a political land dispute, at the worst doing the best they can to stop an ongoing genocide.
Really? What’s the Houthi movement slogan then?
I don’t how you don’t see the difference between a political action like a blockade and actual violent Islamic terrorism. There seems to be a disconnect there. The blockade should be praised as a good thing when compared with all the other terrible actions that could’ve been chosen instead.
Quite depressing how many people up here stand with genocidal terrorists (Hamas).