Next up: US asks China to tell Iran to ask Yemen to lift the blockade on the Red Sea
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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Here’s what was actually “asked”:
“We have also engaged with European allies and partners over the past few days and urged them as well to send a clear message to Iran: that escalation is not in Iran’s interest, it’s not in the region’s interest and it’s not in the world’s interest,”
Asking countries not to retaliate against the US proxy's escalations — and a bombing of a foreign embassy at that.
Iran has been indirectly responsible for terrorist attacks on innocent cargo ships.
The US is just trying to get other countries that communicate with Iran to relay the message that their escalations are not in anyone’s best interest.
"Terrorism" is when you're blocking supplies to a genocide lmao. Yemen has mainly just been attacking western-aligned ships, particularly those related to israel, US and the UK — the main ones committing the genocide; they're not "innocent", they're complicit. They've reassured that they won't attack Russian or Chinese ships for example (though that has led to instances of UK ships masquerading as Chinese to not be attacked).
Ansarallah's leader, Abdel Malik al-Houthi's position has consistently been that the blockade will stop when the US support for israel's genocide of Gaza stops.
their escalations are not in anyone’s best interest
Yet the US proxy is escalating by bombing an embassy. They would be talking to israel instead of Iran if they actually cared lol.
The houthis attacked a Chinese oil tanker in the Red Sea. Is China sending supplies to a genocide?
Probably the result of some UK ships masquerading as Chinese in the Red Sea to not be attacked. China has not complained about it though, and sure as hell hasn't bombed Yemen in response, unlike the western crybaby countries.
So China supports terrorism even if it hurts their own people. That’s sad
? No Chinese people were hurt from that afaik.
And why would that matter? Is a Chinese person's life more valuable than the Palestinian lives the blockade is saving?
What you're thinking of is nationalism, and the nationalist/fascist party fled to Taiwan in the Chinese civil war lol
The blockade hasn’t saved any Palestinian lives. It is just escalating the situation.
The fact that the US is crying this hard about it means it is successfully pressuring them and their proxy.
Again, if the US actually cared, they would just stop funding and supporting the genocide.
The US doesn’t negotiate with terrorists
Yet they're funding and supporting them? What a weird government
The attacks on the cargo ships that are not related in any way to the Gaza situation? The US isn’t funding those terrorists.
The US isn’t funding those terrorists
Biden bypasses congress to send weapons to the israeli terrorists faster
That is patently untrue
So it's not really asking, sounds more like threat plus begging, that is crybullying.
The Houthis also attacked a Chinese oil tanker in the Red Sea.
Like the US said in the article. Iran's escalations are not in anyone’s best interest.
But if you think the US is both so strong they are a bully and so weak that they are begging at the same time then you are totally not pushing a narrative.
Lmao, US just begged Houthis to stop. And yes, they were and still are bullying entire world for decades, and they still try to, but now it's literally crybullying because the times change and now they are being opposed with success. This is not to say they still don't have a lot for them to go.
I’m sorry that you were bullied. I hope things get better for you.
Come on man, you can do better than that.
You should beg him to stop like the us is doing to Ukraine.
We don’t want to support them but we don’t want them to use their best tactics because it hurts baby biden
Aren’t we begging Ukraine to stop their most effective tactic against Russia because it is raising gas prices and hurting bidens reelectability?
Purple monkey dishwasher?
"Nobody can have any interest in regional escalation [except Israel],” the German ministry said. “All players in the region [except Israel] are called upon to act responsibly and exercise restraint.”
Did we mention Israel is exempt from international law? That's called supremacy.
Next up, US asks Japan to talk with Australia to see if they would go to prom together