The US Just Massacred Civilians In Yemen Without Even Claiming They're Military Targets
The US Just Massacred Civilians In Yemen Without Even Claiming They're Military Targets
If civilian trade vessels are valid military targets, oil and gas depots are too.
The target itself is not really defendible as a non military target, but the double strike should be considered war crime behavior because it specifically targets medical and recovery personnel by intentionally waiting between each strike.
Of course, not of that actually matters because the US doesn't care if they commit war crimes since they're very content with helping to run a genocide.
Yeah I love the 21st century of globalized conflict /s
I'd say the US' attitude towards the ICC is even more direct proof of that.
But the Yemeni navy isn't targeting civilian trade vessels, it is merely enforcing a blockade on Israeli vessels and vessels heading to Israel as a response to the genocide and blockade on Gaza. Yemen even stopped the blockade during the ceasefire and only resumed it after Israel broke the ceasefire and blocked aid into Gaza.
Which are still civilian vessels. They are attacking the trade supply line, which has been a very effective tactic, especially since it also affected the states that back Israel, including the US.
My point is these are both very common warfare tactics. Yes the US is an arse, but they haven't done anything out of the ordinary aside from the double strike method, which even that originated from the first Gulf War when the US was figuring out how to destroy heavily reinforced bunkers deep in the ground.
The attack on medics and civilians who showed up afterwards is something that should be the key issue here, not the fact that the targets are oil depots.
The tactics aren’t comparable neither in intention and purpose, nor harm. No one died from the Yemeni blockade, they did hold crews captives who were later released. Targeting the fuel supply for millions of Yemenis is an attack on civilian infrastructure let alone the innocent people purposefully killed.