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”.

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      Okay. Now the Saudis aren’t sold any more US weapons. The Yemeni civil war continues, with sectarian groups funded by the Saudis and Iranians bombing each other to shit.

      What next?

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              I’ll take that as a tacit admission that you don’t actually have a solution, and just wanted to shoot off some feel-good “Can’t we just get along?” shite to avoid actually thinking about the region whilst simultaneously having strong opinions on it.

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                I’d put more effort into it if you actually wanted an answer instead of just being right.

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                  I’d put more effort into it if you actually wanted an answer instead of just being right.

                  What a convenient excuse.

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        The Yemeni civil war continues, with sectarian groups funded by the Saudis and Iranians bombing each other to shit.

        Is the US not selling weapons to the Saudis? I’d love to see evidence of that.

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          We’re discussing a hypothetical. Please read the conversation before commenting.

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              But how is it a solution to the current problem? I explicitly noted that I’m against the sale of arms to the Saudis - but the question is how does that solve the problem of the Houthis attacking civilian ships?

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                  Why don’t you re-read the conversation before defaulting to simping for the “A Curse Upon The Jews” folks.

                  How about instead of violence we give the people a comfortable life so they don’t feel compelled to do dumb shit like this?

                  Okay. So where does Yemen, which is currently in a civil war, start? And what is our proposed role in helping achieve their comfortable life in the next few months?

                  A good start would be to stop selling weapons to the Saudis that then use them to commit genocide in Yemen.