UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route

UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route

Countries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options but without making commitments after the US president, Donald Trump, urged them to send warships to the strait of Hormuz to secure the vital shipping route.

The effective closure of the strait of Hormuz by Tehran, in retaliation for airstrikes by the US and Israel, has proved catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing the largest oil supply disruption in history and soaring global oil prices.

However, the international response to Trump’s call for the dispatch of warships has so far proved vague and reluctant, with countries unwilling to commit to a military response that could prove treacherous for their navies.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
    311·
    3 days ago

    Don’t you laugh, damn you.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

    “NATO framed its bombing as a humanitarian intervention”

    A purely defensive humanitarian bombing, mind you, according to astute international affairs observer TheObviousSolution.

    Now, let me tell you about a country called Russia. They don’t do humanitarian bombings. That’s quite silly of them since all they needed to do is “frame” it as such.

    But what can you expect from a country that can apparently invade all of Europe with a single washing machine CPU.

    • bobzer@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Let’s ask one related question so everyone can decide whether any argument here will be handled in good faith or not.

      Do you believe Bosnian Serbs were commiting genocide?

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Original conflict was about Kosovo. 1000 years of progroms by both Ottomans and Serbia to the region. Serbian claims of Albanian gangs doing mean stuff certainly had a basis. Serbian army intervening is like Russia defending Donbas, or like NATO intervention for Kosovo/Albania (both picking a side), and more legitimate than US recent bombing of Carribean fishing boats.

        Fighting in Bosnia, even if groups had arms supply support from different sides is much harder to make the usual political BS warcrime accusations that comes from home grown political narratives, and political BS against specifically Bosnian Serbs is an extreme stretch that has never stopped US+Colonial empire scum before.

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        WHAT!! It was “ethnic cleansing”. And what does NATO have to do with this? They have these humanity-loving impulses only in certain cases, it seems.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
      85·
      3 days ago

      Sorry to offend your favorite country’s pedoking ally that you had to go several decades into the past. Funny though, the love relationship between Trump and Putin, and how offended people like you seem to get when either are criticized.

      NATO is a defense alliance. That it has or hasn’t lived up to the designation isn’t a good segue into your propaganda spins and attempts at talking bullshit about other users, it can be criticized when it hasn’t just as it is being criticized now.

      • Tolc@lemmy.zipBannedEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        NATO was formed by america to control Europe as pawn against soviet union, it has nothing to do with defense.

        NATO had many nazis as generals initially, had it been defence alliance they wouldve accepted soviet union in NATO just after WW2 when soviet union asked so, but no their whole intention was to make an enemy and fund lockheed martin

        Death to NATO