- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile.
US officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its distress signal.
There were no injuries reported, the US officials said.
Houthi military spokesman Yaha Sarea said the group used “a number of appropriate naval missiles” and Friday’s strike was “direct”.
Why would rewarding people who are blowing up civilian vessels make it stop? Rewarding a behavior simply encourages more of it.
Surprising as it seems, not all problems can be fixed with bombs.
The saudis have been lobbing american weapons at the houthis on an off for a decade or more and still the capital and almost every population center fell. Yet more brutal urban ground-fighting is in no-one’s interests. It’s only getting easier, cheaper and safer to threaten soft targets, and more expensive to defend against.
It could equally be argued that our empire is in the finding out stage of our decades of fucking around. There are no ‘goodies’ here.
But I suppose when our country is a giant gun factory every problem looks like a target.
Yes and other problems cannot be solved through bargaining or appeasement, sometimes such an approach only exacerbates the situation.
Appeasement? They’re not demanding Poland. There are no real demands to appease.
The closest thing to a ‘demand’ is for Israel to stop killing Palestinians. I doubt that’s really the issue, but if stopping war crimes in Gaza is appeasement, let’s try appeasement!
Jokes aside, we know bombing won’t solve this. Maybe bargaining won’t, maybe diplomacy won’t, maybe developing new regional security arrangements won’t, maybe exerting pressure on regional allies won’t.
But as painful as it may be for our arms manufacturers, we’re going to have to try something other than more bombing.