This is an argument for the lifting of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. If Israel has the right to blockade Gaza, North Yemen should have the right to blockade Israel.
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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That argument would hold if they were only going after Israeli ships.
In 2011, Israel boarded a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid under Turkish flag and murdered a bunch of people (incl. an American).
Israel are dicks, that doesn’t mean you can go attacking other random countries ships.
That’s like if you punched me so I hit an elderly person down the street in retaliation.
I'm not saying you should hit the elderly person, I am saying I shouldn't have punched you in the first place.
The analogy is more that the same bully who gave me complete impunity and no consequences when I punched you is now going around saying to stop people punching my friends because punching is wrong, but hey not for me, because I still get to punch whomever I like.
Damn, if only they hadn't literally just burned all their diplomatic capital defending Netanyahu.
That's not what's happening here. If anything, this the US flopping it's massive dong on the table and asking if anyone else wants to prove they can dick her down good enough to take over.
The post-WW2 global economic order is built on the security guarantee that maritime trade is secure because the US Navy will fuck anyone's shit up who uses force to interfere with it.
Ironically, the biggest benefactor of this arrangement has been China. That's also who would be most impacted by long term closure of these particular maritime routes.
So knowing that only the USN is currently capable of providing the long term security guarantees for this situation, they are going to make a show of it, or extract something of value their efforts - even if it's just countries voting for some UN resolution that goes against their public statements or political rhetoric.
Please understand that this explanation isn't my personal endorsement, approval, or disapproval, of what's happening, or why, it's just a very high level statement of facts and neutral analysis on the situation.
It's one of the six tenets of the purpose of operating such a widespread Navy, enforce maritime security.
I don't remember the other five, but that one made me chuckle. It always comes back to money.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez told the council that as a result of the Houthi attacks, around 18 shipping companies have rerouted their vessels around South Africa to avoid the risk of being hit.
“It can continue its current course,” Lu said, “or it can withhold its support without which the Houthis would struggle to effectively track and strike commercial vessels navigating shipping lanes through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.”
After the U.S. Navy sank three Houthi boats on Sunday with the loss of 10 of its fighters, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council wouldn’t say what further actions the Biden administration was considering.
A U.S. draft resolution circulated to council members after the open meeting and obtained by The Associated Press would condemn and demand an immediate halt to the Houthi attacks and recognize the right of any country to defend their merchant and naval vessels in accordance with international law.
There was near unanimous condemnation of the Houthi attacks in speeches Wednesday by the 15 council members, and many calls for the rebel group to release the Galaxy Leader, a Japanese-operated cargo ship with links to an Israeli company that it seized on Nov. 19 along with its crew.
“The Houthis will bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, and free flow of commerce in the region’s critical waterways,” the 12 countries said.
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