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Let's just clarify: you don't think it's justifiable for Yemen to enforce the sovereignty of its territorial waters?
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.
The world's top navies are Western.
They're the same countries who don't recognize the state of Palestine.
They're a .ml account. Their whole purpose for posting is to argue in bad faith and push BRICS propaganda.
Please refrain from ad hominem attacks and sweeping generalizations. You have been warned.
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.
Yemen's territorial waters bottleneck the Red Sea. By international law, their actions are valid.
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?
They have de facto control, but lack de jure control.
Where have we seen this before...