Energy company follows decisions by five big shipping firms as Houthi militants step up attacks on vessels
BP has halted all shipments of oil and gas through the Red Sea after a step-up in attacks on cargo ships by Houthi militants in Yemen.
The British oil company said on Tuesday that it had paused shipping in the region indefinitely, citing a “deteriorating security situation” amid tensions in the Middle East.
BP becomes the first oil company to directly halt its own shipping, after five big shipping companies stopped their vessels passing through the waters between Asia and Africa which connect Asia and Europe, with the Suez canal at the tip.
Saying they are Putin’s hired guns makes it seem like Putin is the person who convinced them to join into a conflict that didn’t involve them when in reality we have been supplying arms to the people (Saudi Arabia) that have been exterminating them indiscriminately and without consequence.
We chose to be their antagonist. They didn’t really have much of a choice between get wiped out or find somebody to help them fight back against getting wiped out.
Putin is a bad guy, He’s going to use every resource he can in his invasion of Ukraine. If we were not supplying weapons to the people that are bombing Yemen then Yemen would have no reason find someone to help them resist us.
Putin doesn’t have to sell opposition to America to countries that are being bombed by it. That’s a problem we create. The easiest way to deradicalize Yemen (and plenty of other anti-western political sentiment) would be to stop enabling Israel and Saudi Arabia to ignore human rights.