• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Not sure about rights, because they are shooting out of their territorial waters. But the “rights”, or perhaps “powers” of any nation only go as far as they can enforce them.

    So right now Yemen is indeed expressing itself, but they are finding out they don’t really have the power?

    Ultimately, protest is valid and what’s happening in Gaza is a genocide. But killing (or endangering) third parties who are just working a shift is always wrong.

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      10 months ago

      AFAIK they didn’t kill anyone. They’re also pretty clear about their condition for allowing ships to pass.

      Shooting violators is just how you enforce a blockade; it’s what the British did against the Germans.

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        10 months ago

        And that’s a good thing, but if you attack ships with people on them, you’ve endangered them. Via some bad luck they could have killed people.

        Also the waters are shared and highly contested, so the blockade isn’t clean.

        And as I said ultimately you can only have a blockade if you can enforce it. Day by day it is becoming clear they cannot.