u.s. ambassador tweeting usa thanks india. yeah, because it wasn t american boats that got these americans out, india sent a boat to help get people out of yemen. the united states did not. thanks, india. also, thanks, russia. the americans were also able, apparently some of them, to get on a russian ship, as well because the russians are sending ships, not the americans. it s not that there aren t u.s. ships in the region, u.s. navy vessels are participating in the war. they re there participating in a blockcade with saudi arabia to keep iran from sending weapons into yemen. this weekend the wall street journal reported that the u.s. sailors on an american destroyer had stopped and boarded a freighter that they suspected of delivering iranian weapons into yemen. those u.s. sailors apparently didn t find the weapons they thought would be on the ship, but imagine if they had. that s u.s. sailors on an american destroyer, what, seizing iranian weapons on the open ocean?
government has a duty to evacuate its citizens the same way other countries have evacuated their citizens, but the u.s. has not. this weekend more than 100 americans who had been trapped in yemen, they were finally able to escape into the neighboring country of djibouti and greeted by u.s. embassy staff from djibouti. remember, there s no u.s. embassy in yemen anymore. no diplomatic personnel or military personnel in yemen anymore at all. this is the closest u.s. embassy in the neighboring nation of djibouti, and those embassy personnel did happily greet the american citizens who were able to escape on their own by boat. the u.s. ambassador to djibouti tweeted these pictures of americans being so happy to have managed to escape on their own and get somewhere safe where they could get help from american officials in a different country. it is a little weird to see the u.s. ambassador tweeting usa thanks india. yeah, because it wasn t american boats that got these americans out, india