• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    kill one guy who they’re pretty sure is a terrorist to keep their shipping lanes open for business.

    How does killing a terrorist keep shipping lanes open?

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      4 days ago

      Like for real? Or is a sort of retorical question of how could killing one individual possibly lead to a substantive enough change in the political landscape?

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          4 days ago

          Well as far as understand it’s to do with the strait by Yeman, Bab al-mandab. My very limited “knowledge” is from a very “in the background while doing chores” series of YouTube videos.

          Rockets have been fired from Yeman at ships passing through the strait. Countermeasure missile things exsist to stop ships from being exploded but they cost a literal million dollars a go. A large % of oil going to Europe passes through there or has to go south around the Horn of Africa. Either way is beacoup bucks so the texts were about killing the guy that was getting folks together to fire the rockets.

          I didn’t gleam much relevent beyond that.