https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1737771585153499494

Lmao, not a piracy problem. Just the Yemenis carrying out legitimate naval interdiction operations and interference from Israel’s allies. Mfkers pretending this is a piracy problem like off the coast of Somalia when it’s just ships affiliated with Israel being interdicted.

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there is no such thing as Somali piracy, ignore the psyop

https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/africa-archives/root-causes-of-somali-piracy-nuclear-dumping-and-seafood-looting/

Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia’s last functional government in 1991, the country’s 3,330 km (2,000 miles) of coastline — the longest in continental Africa — has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country’s at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international “free for all,” with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country’s own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country’s coastline each year. “In any context,” says Gustavo Carvalho, a London-based researcher with Global Witness, an environmental NGO, “that is a staggering sum.”

In the face of this, impoverished Somalis living by the sea have been forced over the years to defend their own fishing expeditions out of ports such as Eyl, Kismayo and Harardhere — all now considered to be pirate dens.

https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1892376,00.html

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62 points

Oh damn, I feel like this doesn’t get explained enough

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44 points

Hoping they keep seizing more ships. $300 million worth of food being stolen is insane.

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“We are under attack by the Houthis!”

“Damn that sucks, good luck tho”

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“They’re not attacking our ships, so sucks to suck.”

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97 points

I like how they put a picture of XI as if he was personally listening to the signal

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63 points

China is secretly just Xi and a bunch of cardboard standees

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32 points

terra cotta citizens in terra cotta cities

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31 points

terra cotta

Random Poland fact: in Polish, it’s written and pronounced “terakota”, which is also homonym for “now the cat”.

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28 points

Xi has a large room where he monitors each citizen of China

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13 points

the name of that room? china.

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10 points

Thays the Chinese room you hear so much about

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I know, it’s so based

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They actually texted him personally about it

He just left it on ‘read’

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86 points

China has been ignoring our distress calls for years

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This is not a good look. China should have intervened

On the side of ansar allah lmao

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>Rushes into combat zone

>transfers more anti ship missiles to the houthis

>refuses to explain

>leaves

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We responded to the distress call, just not the way you wanted us to

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