The White House said Monday that the U.S. may establish a naval task force to escort commercial ships in the Red Sea, a day after three vessels were struck by missiles fired by Iranian-back Houthis in Yemen.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the U.S. has been in active conversations with allies about setting up the escorts though nothing is finalized, describing it as a “natural” response to that sort of incident.
On Sunday, ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck three commercial ships, while a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during an hourslong assault, the U.S. military said. It marked an escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war.
Do people committing genocide often allow time for civilians to leave an area before assaulting it?
Seems really inefficient if the goal is genocide.
Yeah, I mean forcibly displacing people under threat of assault is a common theme with genocide. See e.g. the trail of tears, the armenian genocide, the holocaust.
I forgot about the Jews launching rockets at those poor Nazis. What choice did they have, y’know?
Its not a genocide if the people fight back?
Am I to understand that indiscriminate firing of rockets into purely civilian areas is “fighting back” and is justified in your opinion?
Ill give you my answer if you first condemn the IOF and their genocide.
It should be clear from the thread that I reject the idea that what is happening is genocide in the first place.
Then there is no point in arguing is there? If we cant agree on whether or not what we are witnessing is genocide then what hope is there on us agreeing on anything else.
Agree. If you can’t see a difference between this and the Holocaust I don’t think there’s much I can convince you of.
Yeah exactly. It’s not genocide if you let them grab a backpack of stuff first. Anyone can survive forever with what they can carry.
In fact, I think you should try it. It’s quite freeing.