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Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by miguelazo on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:50PM (#40908851)
Sometimes genocide is bad for business.
Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by correct_a_loser on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:57PM (#40908948)
What genocide?
Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by delecti on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:59PM (#40908972)
Whether you agree that it is a genocide, surely you're not going to pretend it isn't obvious what they're talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by galactus on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:12PM (#40909133)
I don't know about genocide, but there is no way to see Israel's actions in Gaza as anything other than collective punishment for October the 7th
Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by klipt on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:04PM (#40909026)
The Houthi's civil war in Yemen has killed 377,000 people. And they're the ones shooting missiles at civilian ships.

So I guess they're genociders, and they're bad for business.

Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by pessimizer on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:18PM (#40909211)
I wonder why they're using the Saudis to genocide themselves?
Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by klipt on Monday July 08, 2024 @05:04PM (#40909688)
Warring theocracies. Houthis are a cultish, nominally Shia minority in Sunni majority Yemen. They're trying to impose a Houthi theocracy and force the Sunni majority to become Shia (with Houthi cult aesthetics). Iran, which is majority Shia, gives them weapons and money.

Saudi Arabia is a Sunni theocracy and doesn't want them to do this, so they give weapons and money to their Sunni opponents.

Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by miguelazo on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:07AM (#40916327)
>they give weapons and money to their Sunni opponents.

Understatement of the year. The Saudis ran a multi year bombing campaign that killed tens of thousands of civilians, with direct US support (including mid-air refueling and “targeting”). On top of that, the Saudi/US coalition created a famine via blockade that likely starved 50k children to death. Were the Houthis backed by Iran? Sure. Were the Saudis and their former puppet government in the capital not backed by the US? And they still lost.

Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by miguelazo on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @01:12AM (#40912700)
Wow, now there’s an amazing spin on what happened in Yemen. Do you work directly for MBS?
Re:Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise by dang on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:36PM (#40920801)
No matter how bad or wrong another comment is or you feel like this, you can't post like this on HN. It's clearly against the site rules, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do this (regardless of what they're battling for or against (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations about why). If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you, so it would be good if you'd review the intended spirit of the site and fix this.