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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.

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[-] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

there is no such thing as Somali piracy, ignore the psyop

https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/africa-archives/root-causes-of-somali-piracy-nuclear-dumping-and-seafood-looting/

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

[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

Oh damn, I feel like this doesn't get explained enough

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Hoping they keep seizing more ships. $300 million worth of food being stolen is insane.

[-] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wojak-nooo "We are under attack by the Houthis!"

xigma-male "Damn that sucks, good luck tho"

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[-] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago

I like how they put a picture of XI as if he was personally listening to the signal

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

China is secretly just Xi and a bunch of cardboard standees

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

terra cotta citizens in terra cotta cities

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

terra cotta

Random Poland fact: in Polish, it's written and pronounced "terakota", which is also homonym for "now the cat".

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Xi has a large room where he monitors each citizen of China

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I know, it's so based

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

They actually texted him personally about it

He just left it on 'read'

[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago

China has been ignoring our distress calls for years
xi-plz

[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago

This is not a good look. China should have intervenedOn the side of ansar allah lmao

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

>Rushes into combat zone

>transfers more anti ship missiles to the houthis

>refuses to explain

>leaves

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago

That's not piracy, therefore they are correct to not engage.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

Three Chinese navy ships in the vessel’s vicinity chose to ignore the 59 distress calls from the Israel-linked ship, Pentagon press secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said

Lmfao

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

"Should we answer? They've called like 60 times"

“不要紧, 美帝会帮他们的”

"Ok"

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Ain't that the damned truth

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

Didn't ansarallah officially declare war? This isn't piracy

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[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

China seems to be taking a "I won't kill you, doesn't mean I have to save you" stance in regards to Israel.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"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

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

China is just responding to Yemeni Sanctions shrug-outta-hecks

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Why would China take risk of having it's soldiers killed over this silly shit.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

xigma-male not my problem

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

I like how this picture dort of implies xi was on board and waving to them

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

NOT MY CIRCUS, NOT MY MONKEYS

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Just in case anyone doesn't want to go on twitter.

https://nitter.1d4.us/MarioNawfal/status/1737771585153499494

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Even the stuff at coast of Somalia is just coast guarding

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Damn Israeli ships are not having a good run of it lately

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