Hardly for the first time, remote Arab tribesmen are reshaping the world. Piratical attacks on international shipping by Yemen-based Houthi rebels have created a significant security crisis in the Red Sea. The world’s largest shipping lines have been forced to suspend transit through the Red Sea and thus the Suez Canal. And with nearly a third of global container traffic typically flowing through Suez, this has seriously disrupted world trade.
  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    The way they dance around why ships are being attacked is almost dizzying. Why are Chinese ships not being attacked I wonder. Could there be some kind of connection here, some aligned motive? What could that be?

    It's an interesting idea, but China has a history of non intervention. That approach doesn't really align with the title "world police". I wonder why Spain and France wouldn't want to be under the direct command of the US Navy in the region. Could be they don't want to be associated with us policy regarding whatever has Yemen all fired up. Who can say.

  • D61 [any]
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    9 months ago

    The Houthi Ansar Allah is the political party currently in power of the Yemeni government, not "rebels"... silly article writers.

    throws my little brown handbook at computer monitor

    edit: Thanks to u/yogthos@lemmygrad.ml for the correction.

    • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Is this a remnant of the savage practices in Indian Residential fake schools that secretly continued after the Cold War that became the Nazi death camps where the European immigrant slave drivers violently attacked, tortured. molested, raped, murder, and eat Indigenous children under the guise of 'cultural assimilation'?

        • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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          9 months ago

          I am using the same derogatory metophor that the Western European diaspora used in their projection against the Soviets, and thought that the metaphor in context accurately describes the unspeakable horror in the fake schools that the First Nation parents were tricked into funding. With the well-known brutality in the Indian Residential fake schools by the fake school survivors along with savagery that are hidden, it is also possible that the European immigrant, who is the only ethnic groups to manage the fake schools, practice actual cannibalism and not only metaphoric canniballism.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry