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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

Where have we seen this before...