In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the current situation in and around the Red Sea and should the US continue to protect ships in the region or shift and focus on US-flagged or allied vessels.

His conclusion is that the US is losing as NATO ships are still avoiding the Suez Canal transit while BRICS countries identify themselves as such on the transponder to sail through. joker-amerikkklap gun-hubris

  • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I don't know if it's the one you're thinking of, but there was one registered in Hong Kong that got hit - but on closer inspection, it had been owned by a British company before being 'sold' to a Hong Kong shipping company... that had opened a couple of weeks earlier and only had that one ship. So in fact, it shows the detail of the intelligence used by Yemen to select targets that they were able to see through that ruse.

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      Looking it up, this was the Chinese-owned but Panamanian-flagged MV Huang Pu.