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An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile.
US officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its distress signal.
There were no injuries reported, the US officials said.
Houthi military spokesman Yaha Sarea said the group used “a number of appropriate naval missiles” and Friday’s strike was “direct”.
And that will lead to Yemen having a comfortable life where they don’t feel compelled to do ‘dumb shit’ like this?
For the record, I am completely in support of cutting off the Saudis entirely from US arms sales. But it’s not a solution to the immediate, or, for that matter, the long-term problem here. Though arguably the long-term problem isn’t our concern, considering the amount of vitriol the US gets for ‘meddling’ in the affairs of foreign countries.
It’s hard to have a good life getting bombed to shit
Okay. Now the Saudis aren’t sold any more US weapons. The Yemeni civil war continues, with sectarian groups funded by the Saudis and Iranians bombing each other to shit.
What next?
We invade Iraq
I fail to see how that solves anything.
See, you already forgot about Yemen! Problem solved!
I’ll take that as a tacit admission that you don’t actually have a solution, and just wanted to shoot off some feel-good “Can’t we just get along?” shite to avoid actually thinking about the region whilst simultaneously having strong opinions on it.
I’d put more effort into it if you actually wanted an answer instead of just being right.
What a convenient excuse.
Is the US not selling weapons to the Saudis? I’d love to see evidence of that.
We’re discussing a hypothetical. Please read the conversation before commenting.
In that case it’d help if SA doesn’t have a superpower backing it.
But how is it a solution to the current problem? I explicitly noted that I’m against the sale of arms to the Saudis - but the question is how does that solve the problem of the Houthis attacking civilian ships?
Not support Israel’s genocide. They’ve been pretty clear about it.
Why don’t you re-read the conversation before defaulting to simping for the “A Curse Upon The Jews” folks.