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minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoThat’s not how sanctions, blockades, or embargoes work. The world economy would never survive if it was. If you declare war on anyone whose ever set foot in Israel then you are, again, de facto declaring war on the entire world. The Houthis really fucked up.
minus-squarenaturalgasbad@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·10 months agoAnd yet, COSCO is still transiting Bab-el-Mandeb.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoCongratulations you found the exception?
minus-squarenaturalgasbad@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoThe world economy can survive without Israel, as COSCO has plainly demonstrated. That’s sort of the goal of sanctions.
minus-squarenekandro@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoYou do realize that that’s exactly what’s happening to Cuba, and the world economy is still functioning? Oh, wait, are we still pretending that Kennedy didn’t place a blockade on Cuba?
That’s not how sanctions, blockades, or embargoes work. The world economy would never survive if it was. If you declare war on anyone whose ever set foot in Israel then you are, again, de facto declaring war on the entire world.
The Houthis really fucked up.
And yet, COSCO is still transiting Bab-el-Mandeb.
Congratulations you found the exception?
The world economy can survive without Israel, as COSCO has plainly demonstrated.
That’s sort of the goal of sanctions.
You do realize that that’s exactly what’s happening to Cuba, and the world economy is still functioning?
Oh, wait, are we still pretending that Kennedy didn’t place a blockade on Cuba?