• HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    The Houthis are blocking Israeli ports in response to genocide.

    Why were US ships going to the ports of a country actively committing genocide?

    The US is now bombing a sovereign nation to stop trade sanctions on a genocide.

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      10 months ago

      They’re attacking commercial shipping vessels passing through the suez canal that have nothing to do with Israel or Palestine or the US. If you knew how how to read or think you’d already know this.

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      10 months ago

      You don’t get to seal off a critical global shipping route just because you happen to be living next to it and don’t like where some of the cargo is going. This isn’t like the bosphorous, even a recognized Yemeni government wouldn’t have control over who can transit the strait unless they invaded Djibouti