Iran backed rebels are attacking civilian transports, and here’s Turkey telling them off for attacking back.
This is the same bullshit that’s happening in the Israel-Hamas fight, Hamas is being financially backed by a bunch of Arab nations that think it’s perfectly fine to attack civilians, then getting mad when they get punched in the face.
This is a small world war, it may not be listed as such yet, but the governments all know what’s happening and it will be recorded in the history books as such.
Houthis are a rebel group and not the officially recognized government last time I checked. So if you want to bring up international law for rebel groups then I guess we can add thousands of new governments suddenly?
They are enforcing a blockade, just like any other nation is allowed to enforce a blockade. Israel attacks civilian transports all the time to enforce blockades. This action is not only respectable, it’s legal.
Yet, according to the head of the Suez Canal Authority, navigation is proceeding smoothly and 44 ships are expected to transit on Saturday. COSCO is literally sending ships through the Red Sea without a care in the world.