US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker
US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker
Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.
Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.
The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.
The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.
“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.
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All because Israel, that country is as much of an ally as Pakistan. Edit: For those that don't know, the US was responding to the high jacking of a tanker owned by an Israeli billionaire. Israeli billionaires are using our military assets to protect their business
This is about Saudi Arabia and Iran's proxy war in Yemen, not Israel
They destroyers presence is a direct response to Hamas' attack, along with all of the other attacks against US assets in the region.
The tanker is owned by an Israeli billionaire family, dingus. Israeli businesses are using our military as their personal police.
US navy does indeed insure the safety of maritime travel and trade, as that is a net benefit for the US.
Yeah, protecting billionaires is the status quo. The fact they happen to be Israeli this time doesn't factor in.
Do you have issues with reading or understanding?
¿Por que no los dos?
:P
Possibly? I was agreeing with you, I thought?
You somehow made protecting international shipping, something that is very much in the vital national interests of the world's largest importer and second largest exporter, about "protecting billionaires"
Yes - reductive and asinine of me. Sorry!
The Houthi hate the US for reasons other than Israel. They kind of view us as at the same level of Israel.
Well we have been selling arms to the Saudis for a proxy war that by now has led to the starvation death of children numbered at almost 100,000. Atleast it was around 70,000 a few years ago. So it must be more now
Yeah, death to America on their flag and all that. I'm talking about US presence in the sea. And that tanker is owned by a billionaire Israeli family business. Israel is using US as their personal police on top of the foreign aid they already receive, I'm fucking sick of it.
The US navy combats piracy world wide. The destroyer's response has nothing to do with it being an Israeli tanker.
regarding the current genocide, it does
The US would have responded the same for a large number of different counties' ship if they were hijacked in a similar way.