An attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a Belize-flagged ship earlier this month caused an 18-mile (29-kilometer) oil slick, the U.S. military said Saturday.
“The Houthis continue to demonstrate disregard for the regional impact of their indiscriminate attacks, threatening the fishing industry, coastal communities, and imports of food supplies,” it said.
The Associated Press, relying on satellite images from Planet Labs PBC of the stricken vessel, reported Tuesday that the vessel was leaking oil in the Red Sea.
BP. Just to piss off that one dude that got upset when I said BP last time.
This is such blatant propaganda
An attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels
The Houthi are the ruling regime in Yemen, not rebels. This is a way to make them sound illegitimate. I don’t like them at all but they did oust foreign imperial powers from their country (Saudi Arabia and the USA).
They claim to be acting over Israel’s war targeting Hamas in the Gaza Strip, however they have frequently targeted vessels with tenuous or no clear links to Israel
They are trying impose sanctions against Israel and say they will stop as soon as there is a ceasefire. They are doing this to win domestic support.
I really wish more countries would impose sanctions against Israel.
Again they are pretty bad islamists and apparently pretty incompetent, but the overall framing here is propaganda.
The Houthi are the ruling regime in Yemen, not rebels. This is a way to make them sound illegitimate.
The legitimate government of Yemen still exists, is still recognised as the government of Yemen by the United Nations, and is still controlling significant amounts of territory roughly equivalent to former South Yemen.
They are trying impose sanctions against Israel
They are attacking random civilian ships that are not headed to or from Israel. That’s not “sanctioning Israel”, that’s declaring war on the entire world.
How can the government be legit if it’s backed by the US? :D
Thanks for the info, I didn’t know they still are clinging on. Afaik they started with sanctions against Israel bound ships, then got attacked and now attack any US or UK ships. No doubt further escalations are coming instead of a ceasefire.
Calling PBS and AP - two of the most highly regarded news sources - “blatent propaganda” says more about this comment than the article.
You linked the Wikipedia article:
The Houthi movement is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s.
In 2003, influenced by the Lebanese Shia political and military organization Hezbollah, the Houthis adopted their official slogan against the United States, Israel, and the Jews.
In late 2014, the Houthis repaired their relationship with [former president Ali Abdullah] Saleh, and with his help they took control of the capital city. The takeover prompted a Saudi-led military intervention to restore the internationally recognized government, leading to an ongoing civil war
As far as I know, even their allies Iran and North Korea don’t recognize them as the legitimate government of Yemen. I’m not sure where you got your information, but I believe perhaps you misread or misunderstood something that you read.
Maybe they should stop “helping” Palestinians by creating environmental disasters on ships that weren’t even going to Israel.
The article isn’t propaganda. Your post is the propaganda.
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Lol I remember the burning oilfields of Iraq. To take one example. Of course the US are radical environmentalists haha
That was Saddam Hussein who did that anyway.
Trust me, the us government has done enough shitty things what without needing to make up stuff.
Lol , yea cause and effect you know. Want to take a look at just the environmental effect of the US warmachine? Like environmental effect been ever considered at any missile launch ever . Fuck off with the propaganda
Sorry… are you saying America forced Saddam Hussein to set fire to his oil fields?
Well let see we can of course go back to who put him in power in the first place… who was that now again?
I mean if we’re going to keep going back in time to blame cause after cause, blame the British for colonizing the part of North America that the U.S. broke away from. Or blame the Spanish for beginning European colonization of the Americas in the first place. Etc.
At some point, you need to blame the person who was there at the time and made the decision to do it.
Ok depleted uranium , agent orange… any specific example of the bullshit environmental stance you want? Hiroshima maybe? US is a fucking oil company with weapons. Anyhow I’m going to put the blame on the imperialist pigs that starts the wars.
So Saddam Hussein didn’t have any agency?
Fuck off with the propaganda
But it’s you that’s spreading falsehoods as facts.
Hey now, he feels as if those acts are true!
looks at instance
Yea, that checks out.
Yea fuck of bootlicker https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/ Buhuu they caused a oilspill in their attack wooont someone think of the children!
Do you even read, he agreed with you that the US doesn’t give a shit about the environment when it attacks. He just said your example sucked, pick a better one.
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I thought the US military was the greatest fighting force in the world? How could this have happened?
What does the US military have to do with a Belize-flagged tanker?
Something about the US military bombing their bases.
So… nothing
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