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EU wants to send warships to Red Sea to tackle Houthi attacks (www.politico.eu)

submitted 9 months ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why governments feel they need to hide their involvement? What they are scared of?

[–] Syntha@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Retaliation and political backlash

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 9 months ago

In what timeline are we living where protecting civilian shipping lanes from terrorists is seen as controversial? Yes, any sort of armed conflict sucks, but it isn't like you always have the choice not to get involved like that.

[–] Adubya@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

For the EU my speculation would be Qatar. They have taken over for the loss of Russian natural gas with their large LNG exports. Qatar also seeks to mediate a lot of the issues see them housing Hamas & their agenda setting with their state-funded Al Jazeera. After that they probably don't want to risk having their flagged vessels subject to a swarm of drones like US & UK endured.