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      11 months ago

      Yemen’s territorial waters bottleneck the Red Sea. By international law, their actions are valid.

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        11 months ago

        Houthis are a rebel group and not the officially recognized government last time I checked. So if you want to bring up international law for rebel groups then I guess we can add thousands of new governments suddenly?

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          11 months ago

          They have de facto control, but lack de jure control.

          Where have we seen this before…