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Which Russian tanker? One was hit carrying Russian naphtha, the Marlin Luanda, but it was not owned by Russia. AA claims it was British[0]. What ship attacks h

Which Russian tanker? One was hit carrying Russian naphtha, the Marlin Luanda, but it was not owned by Russia. AA claims it was British[0]. What ship attacks happened prior to the 7th? > "It's worth pointing out that if Ansar Allah succeeded in liberating Palestine, their next action would be to burn down all the mosques" No, it wouldn't. This is pure conjecture. The Sunni and Shia conflict in Yemen is far more complex than you are trying to make it sound. The Sunni Saudis have been inflicting a famine on Yemen for years. The Sunni Emiratis have been assassinating and conducting terrorism within Yemen. This is important context to leave out. [0]https://web.archive.org/web/20240127202900/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68110358 https://web.archive.org/web/20240127202900/https://www.bbc.c...

tptacek 2y ago
All you're saying here is that you think Ansar Allah has good reason to attack native Yemeni Sunnis, who make up the majority of the population. I don't think defending or even mitigating the Houthi cult is an especially useful rhetorical hill to die on. Note that I didn't refer to "Sunni Emiratis". They're not blowing up mosques in the Emirates, are they?
kasey_junk 2y ago
The Houthis have been attacking shipping since at least 2015: https://acleddata.com/2024/01/05/qa-why-are-yemens-houthis-attacking-ships-in-the-red-sea/ https://acleddata.com/2024/01/05/qa-why-are-yemens-houthis-a...
- enterprise_cog 2y ago
  That was part of their war with the Saudi coalition. The parent was saying they were attacking random targets and only used the genocide as cover for more random attacks, when it is clear they are targeted attacks and for specific purposes. Appreciate the link.
  - kasey_junk 2y ago
    You’ll note one of the specific purposes the link lists for the shipping attacks is to distract from domestic failures in Yemen. It’s not an outlandish position to say that the Israeli/Hamas conflict is a secondary reason for the Houthi shipping attacks.
    - enterprise_cog 2y ago
      I don't disagree with that. Actions can have many intentions. But that doesn't mean they don't oppose the genocide and are using it unscrupulously to attack ships (which the parent was implying). The majority of muslims In Yemen, regardless of sect, support Gaza and oppose the genocide. This is a good way to take a moral stand, gain public support and further legitimize their government, and be a thorn in the side of the US.
      - runarberg 2y ago
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        nradov 2y ago
        Indiscriminate terrorist attacks against unarmed civilian merchant ships are not a legitimate or effective means of stopping genocide.
        runarberg 2y ago
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        tptacek 2y ago
        I think people sometimes need to be reminded that the Houthis are a race-supremacist religious cult (they're literally named after a guy named Houthi, who very probably saw the movie Die Hard) that employs child soldiers to ethnically cleanse Yemen in a doomed effort to restore a (literally) fascist Imamate. Stop dignifying them. Nothing they're doing is even comparable to bringing a case before the ICJ.

tptacek 2y ago

All you're saying here is that you think Ansar Allah has good reason to attack native Yemeni Sunnis, who make up the majority of the population. I don't think defending or even mitigating the Houthi cult is an especially useful rhetorical hill to die on. Note that I didn't refer to "Sunni Emiratis". They're not blowing up mosques in the Emirates, are they?

kasey_junk 2y ago

The Houthis have been attacking shipping since at least 2015: https://acleddata.com/2024/01/05/qa-why-are-yemens-houthis-attacking-ships-in-the-red-sea/ https://acleddata.com/2024/01/05/qa-why-are-yemens-houthis-a...

enterprise_cog 2y ago
That was part of their war with the Saudi coalition. The parent was saying they were attacking random targets and only used the genocide as cover for more random attacks, when it is clear they are targeted attacks and for specific purposes. Appreciate the link.
- kasey_junk 2y ago
  You’ll note one of the specific purposes the link lists for the shipping attacks is to distract from domestic failures in Yemen. It’s not an outlandish position to say that the Israeli/Hamas conflict is a secondary reason for the Houthi shipping attacks.
  - enterprise_cog 2y ago
    I don't disagree with that. Actions can have many intentions. But that doesn't mean they don't oppose the genocide and are using it unscrupulously to attack ships (which the parent was implying). The majority of muslims In Yemen, regardless of sect, support Gaza and oppose the genocide. This is a good way to take a moral stand, gain public support and further legitimize their government, and be a thorn in the side of the US.
    - runarberg 2y ago
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      - nradov 2y ago
        Indiscriminate terrorist attacks against unarmed civilian merchant ships are not a legitimate or effective means of stopping genocide.
        runarberg 2y ago
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        tptacek 2y ago
        I think people sometimes need to be reminded that the Houthis are a race-supremacist religious cult (they're literally named after a guy named Houthi, who very probably saw the movie Die Hard) that employs child soldiers to ethnically cleanse Yemen in a doomed effort to restore a (literally) fascist Imamate. Stop dignifying them. Nothing they're doing is even comparable to bringing a case before the ICJ.