• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    8 months ago

    Nobody is forcing these ships to sail through the sovereign territorial waters of Yemen which is where they are being interdicted.

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      8 months ago

      The al-mandeb falls under the general regime of international straits, so no adjacent country can use their territorial claims to prevent passage of ships. Or are you one of those nine dash line kind of people?

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            8 months ago

            Once you bother actually reading your link, you’ll note the part about innocent passage there. Yemen considers itself to be at war with Israel and the entities backing it.

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              8 months ago

              Everyone else on the planet considers merchant ships to be innocent passage by default regardless of cargo or destination. I can smell the copium through my screen, and I’m not sure why you so badly want to defend the attacks against unarmed vessels that are not even carrying weapons. Find a better hill to die on.

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                8 months ago

                Innocent merchant ships from countries that aren’t participating in a genocide, such as ones from China, have no problems getting passage regardless of cargo or destination. All the western countries have to do is to stop participating in a genocide of Palestinian people.

                Seems like all you’re doing here is projecting your own copium onto others. If the hill you’re choosing to die on is that there shouldn’t be any consequences for committing a genocide, then what else is there to say about you.

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                    8 months ago

                    Countries operating those cargo ships do participate in the genocide. The sheer irony that you can’t wrap your head around that while talking about the depth of human stupidity.