Talk about intersectionality. Highlighting new military alliances for 2024, the sinking of a Russian ship in Crimea in the Black Sea is prompting calls for Yemen’s Houthi rebels to take out a British destroyer 2,000 miles to the south, in the Red Sea.

“We should, through the Iranian proxies of the Houthis, sink the British [HMS] Diamond in the Red Sea,” Moscow military analyst Yuri Barantchik wrote to his 58,000 followers on Telegram. “Russia can transfer both the latest anti-ship weapons and instructors from among the retired Russian Defense Ministry specialists.”