Someone hear something? Nah, must be the wind.
Someone hear something? Nah, must be the wind.
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1737771585153499494
Lmao, not a piracy problem. Just the Yemenis carrying out legitimate naval interdiction operations and interference from Israel's allies. Mfkers pretending this is a piracy problem like off the coast of Somalia when it's just ships affiliated with Israel being interdicted.
there is no such thing as Somali piracy, ignore the psyop
Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia's last functional government in 1991, the country's 3,330 km (2,000 miles) of coastline — the longest in continental Africa — has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country's at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international "free for all," with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country's own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country's coastline each year. "In any context," says Gustavo Carvalho, a London-based researcher with Global Witness, an environmental NGO, "that is a staggering sum."
In the face of this, impoverished Somalis living by the sea have been forced over the years to defend their own fishing expeditions out of ports such as Eyl, Kismayo and Harardhere — all now considered to be pirate dens.
https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1892376,00.html
China has been ignoring our distress calls for years
That's not piracy, therefore they are correct to not engage.
China seems to be taking a "I won't kill you, doesn't mean I have to save you" stance in regards to Israel.
"Chinese naval captain refused to enter a war between two other countries by interfering with a Yemeni naval engagement" doesn't have the same ring to it
China is just responding to Yemeni Sanctions
Why would China take risk of having it's soldiers killed over this silly shit.
China:
not my problem
incredible
NOT MY CIRCUS, NOT MY MONKEYS
HOLY
Even the stuff at coast of Somalia is just coast guarding
Just in case anyone doesn't want to go on twitter.
https://nitter.1d4.us/MarioNawfal/status/1737771585153499494
Damn Israeli ships are not having a good run of it lately
Based
I prefer the explanation that they just blatantly ignored it over the explanation that interfering in the interdiction would have been an act of war.
I am going to have a maybe controversial opinion here on hexbear chapo lemmy and say that uh, I do not like the state of Israel and I do not like the state of China...
...but uh what? This is a nothing burger. Even if a Chinese ship is on an anti piracy mission, and even if this all actually happened as described...
Is China a major ally or in a military alliance with, or even known to militarily cooperate with Israel or its allies?
... No?
Was China probably interested in doing anti piracy for its own state owned shipping company and those that are based in and/or operated by and/or largely shipping to itself and its regional allies / more friendly states?
Yes?
Wow, what a shocking story /s.
This is just plain old geopolitics, you dont even need to have an ideology, just a basic grasp of like international politics 101 to see this.
EDIT: Oh right, I forgot that the vast majority of human beings are not really capable of entertaining any idea more complicated than Our Team Good, Other Team BAD, how silly of me.
Mo
"We are under attack by the Houthis!"