[canuck_conservative]

Houthis assumed that since it was in the Red Sea, it must have been Israeli

Houthis need to get the Hamas treatment

[frank ballenger]

Captain Merrill Stubing got the Purser and the bartender Isaac to trick the hijackers and get the Houthis in handcuffs and held in his cabin. With some stern words to them.

The crisis was over and the passengers and crew danced under the moonlight and ate a festive meal.🛳️🌝🍾🍷🍸🍹
🎼🎷🎷🎺🎻🎺🎻
🍽️🍽️🍽️🍽️🥗🥗🥗🥗🥘🍲🥘🍲🦞🦞🍝🍝🥩🥩🍾🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🍸🍸🍷🍷🍷🍷
🛏️🛏️🛏️🛏️💘💘💘💘💞💕💞💕💞💕💞💕

[End Times Sentinel]

“This is not an Israeli ship,” the IDF adds.

And there's the rub.

Flag could be from any country, Liberia, Cyprus, Isle of Man, it means nothing. Captain could be from Russia, Ukraine, Greece, etc. Crew, probably majority Philippino. Ownership, probably a consortium that may or may not have Israelis included.

This is a car-ship, which is quite valuable, assuming it's fully loaded, easy to off-load, many willing buyers.

Port of Aden has a RO-RO pier (Roll on roll off), and in a jiffy these vehicles will be all throughout the Saudi Peninsula and the arab world.

[tennmountainman]

Houthis probably intercepted boat of Military Age Ukraine men fleeing conscription
in Ukraine Military.
Totally worthless to Houthis.

[texas booster]

Minor update:

A spokesperson for Japan’s Nippon Yusen 9101.T, also known as NYK, confirmed that a car carrier it operates had been seized in the Red Sea, and that it was gathering further information.

Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported there were 22 crew on board including Bulgarians and Filipinos but no Japanese nationals.

[jdege]

Peter Zeihan has been claiming that the US has been backing away from globalization for decades - withdrawing from proving the naval protection of global shipping that it has been proving the world since 1945, and is essential to the maintenance of global supply chains.

This may be an example. If Iran had grabbed merchant ships in the 1980s, what would the USN have done?