[mschuster91]

Given the tensions in the region, anything is risky. Perhaps the only ones who could pull it off are the Swiss, but that doesn't solve the question who will pay for the effort, and who will get whatever remains when the salvaged cargo and ship is sold off.

My personal wild guess: nothing will happen, the ship will break apart, no one will dare and try to contain it for fear of getting targeted by someone's warship or drone, and only the nations who can afford it will clean up their coasts.

[ars]

The Swiss? They don't even have a navy as far as I know.

Realistically the only one who could do this is the US. But the US may not want to fight the Houthi, which would probably be necessary.

[ISL]

The US paid the Russians to help them secure their nuclear material in the greatest masterstroke of nonproliferation of all human history, we can do a similar thing with the Houthi. Everyone wins.

If a major food supply fails in the Middle East, we might see another mass-migration like that driven by the Syrian conflict.

Whether we like it or not, everything today is global.

[nradov]

Why is this a US responsibility? The UK, France, India, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, and China are all closer and have significant naval forces which could reach that tanker.

[ISL]

Because we live on the planet and others haven't yet stepped up.

[nradov]

So on that basis you're willing to sign up US military personnel to risk their lives, and US taxpayers to foot the bill? The Yemeni littorals are an active combat zone.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5497/us-destroyer-atta...