Hmm. I wonder why they'd fire on a hostile fleet that sailed halfway around the world and that had basically already declared war on them. Particularly when said fleet previously implemented a blockade that caused a famine, which killed hundreds of thousands, mostly children.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (17 children)

How had the ship "basically declared war on them"? Why is the ship there?

If you fire on someone with a big gun, it should be no surprise when they fire back.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The US & Ansar Allah have been warring for nearly a decade now, regardless of whether the US has formally declared it so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The brackets broke the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)

Edit actually it was that you missed off the last bracket, I think.

In any case, the Yemen civil war is hardly just between two parties, it's a tangled web of proxies. There are actually many allies who are technically fighting against one another through their proxies.

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