Niiiiccce
lol cry more, russia
I’d like this a lot more if it wasn’t dumping oil into the sea…
100,000 tons of crude. Who’s responsible for mopping this around for PR before it finally sinks to the bottom?
I wouldn’t hold your breath. “People waiting to be saved in the Middle East” is a long list, and I assume the seabirds are low down.
What is a typical rate of actual recovery after an oil spill?
If it’s like oil spills in the U.S., volunteers with Dawn soap and maybe some of the costs will be felt by the oil company after 25 years of litigation.
I don’t think it sinks. I think it floats until it ends up on a coast somewhere.
Good.
Awww but I thought Russia and China were their friend? Did they finally realize the neo-USSR power bloc is an equally uncaring imperialistic resource extractor that only gave a shit because the Houthis were going to be inconvenient for the US?
Houthis are Shia and their friends are Iran and Hezbollah. Russia is an unreliable transactional partner of their friends, and also Russia is doing a lot of licking up to Turks and Sunni terrorists.
So - they know the situation very well.
Right, but they previously had an active diplomatic agreement allowing any Russia or China affiliated ships to pass untouched..
Clearly something has changed since then, something that makes them think receiving any Russian support (even indirectly) is not worth it.
I’m more likely to believe the Houthis just fucked up here, retaliatory strikes disabled their ability to discriminate targets they want to strike and those they don’t. Or the people they have launching the missiles not properly trained and educated on how to confirm targets. While there is a possibility this was an intentional strike on a Russian flagged ship, I have my own doubts given their general history with Russia and China and previous statements.