• nekandro
      1419·
      11 months ago

      Let’s just clarify: you don’t think it’s justifiable for Yemen to enforce the sovereignty of its territorial waters?

        • nekandro
          128·
          11 months ago

          Yet, according to the head of the Suez Canal Authority, navigation is proceeding smoothly and 44 ships are expected to transit on Saturday. COSCO is literally sending ships through the Red Sea without a care in the world.

      • PowerCrazyEnglish
        73·
        11 months ago

        This is wrong on a bunch of levels.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
      74·
      11 months ago

      attacking civilian transports

      They are enforcing a blockade, just like any other nation is allowed to enforce a blockade. Israel attacks civilian transports all the time to enforce blockades. This action is not only respectable, it’s legal.

    • nekandro
      1012·
      11 months ago

      Yemen’s territorial waters bottleneck the Red Sea. By international law, their actions are valid.

      • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
        93·
        11 months ago

        Houthis are a rebel group and not the officially recognized government last time I checked. So if you want to bring up international law for rebel groups then I guess we can add thousands of new governments suddenly?

        • nekandro
          54·
          11 months ago

          They have de facto control, but lack de jure control.

          Where have we seen this before…