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The targeting of another U.S.-owned commercial ship Wednesday shows the militant group remains intent on continuing its attacks in the face of multiple rounds of U.S. military airstrikes.

The Houthis launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at the U.S.-owned, flagged and operated commercial ship Maersk Detroit as it was transiting the Gulf of Aden, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely shot down two missiles and a third fell into the water. There were no indications of damage or injuries in the attack.

The U.S. military has been conducting airstrikes against the Houthis to degrade their capabilities since Jan.11, after several weeks of attacks on commercial ships by the militant group.

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[-] cooljacob204@kbin.social 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Man tankies just really infest the fediverse. I wish reality was as simple as they like to pretend it is.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Saying that you support the Houthis in their efforts to stop genocide does not mean you agree with everything they stand for.

You don't have to unequivocally support a group to encorse one specific action.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

It'd be cool if they started doing things do stop genocide. Instead of just saying it and then doing other stuff.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

It'd be cool if you weren't defending Genocide.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

It’d be cool if they started doing things do stop genocide.

Defending genocide

???

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

The Houthis are doing stuff to stop genocide. Namely ships to nations that are committing genocide.

Here's an actual video of what's going on there https://youtu.be/sAApTUChi1g

[-] viking@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago

They are attacking civilian vessels. They do fuck all to stop genocide.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Poor civilian oil tankers transporting oil to a nation committing genocide :( if only there was a way they could safely pass again. How about not committing genocide?

[-] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 0 points 5 months ago

Attacking civilian ships with civilian crews does nothing to stop genocide; it's just terrorism.

[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago

Maersk said both vessels carried cargo belonging to the U.S. Defense and State Departments, as well as other government agencies, meaning they were “afforded the protection of the U.S. Navy for passage through the strait.”

Don't fall for propaganda like a dumbass. These two ships were carrying DOD cargo.

[-] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Yes cause the houthis are Bear loving kinda of Islamist militia, right. Definitely have never engaged in the same type of actions ever/s

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

I don't recall the Houthis ever blockading the red sea before.

Somalia had some pirates but that was just literal theft and extortion. And that's not the Houthis.

Mind linking what you are talking about?

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Somalian Pirates were actually often protecting their territorial waters from foreign opportunists plundering in the collapse of the Somalian government. The framing as pirates only works in the sense that these weren’t state-driven fleets, but rather civilian driven in order to protect their livelihoods against corporate raiders.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

I just checked the list of ships they attacked. You are right that they are almost all cargo but there was a cruise ship in there

Seabourn Spirit, a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers, was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.[12] Riding in two small speedboats, the pirates fired at the ship with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but the crew drove them off with a water hose and a long range acoustic device.

Do you have any good articles or videos explaining the situation with the Somali pirates? I might be wrong about it and would love to know what the actual deal was.

[-] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

It's a militia islamic militia, do you think they haven't done the same thing as Israel does to their population, or a subset of their population?

It's just a way to grab the attention span of everyone which helps their recruitment.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You're really trying to defend israel's genocide in any possible way. "No they allowed to stop genocide, they are the bad guys!"

I'm not here to simp for whatever war crimes they did internally. Just this specific action isn't one you should denounce.

There was a Houthi spokesperson on BBC. They told him the same thing. His response was very simple.

If other groups want to enhance their popularity by stopping genocide they're very welcome to do so.

How about you go stop israel's genocide if you don't want the Houthi's to do it?

https://youtu.be/z4HguzMRW1M

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