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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoThe world economy can survive without Israel, as COSCO has plainly demonstrated. That’s sort of the goal of sanctions.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months agoNobody said shit about surviving without Israel. The Houthis shut down the straight leading to the Suez Canal. That is not a blockade of Israel. It is a blockade of the busiest international shipping route in the world.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoExcept, again, they clearly haven’t because COSCO literally just transited it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months agoSomeone running the blockade does not mean there is no blockade.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoCOSCO has been very explicit about how they are complying with Yemeni sanctions. How, exactly, is that running a blockade?
The world economy can survive without Israel, as COSCO has plainly demonstrated.
That’s sort of the goal of sanctions.
Nobody said shit about surviving without Israel. The Houthis shut down the straight leading to the Suez Canal. That is not a blockade of Israel. It is a blockade of the busiest international shipping route in the world.
Except, again, they clearly haven’t because COSCO literally just transited it.
Someone running the blockade does not mean there is no blockade.
COSCO has been very explicit about how they are complying with Yemeni sanctions. How, exactly, is that running a blockade?
They’re just lucky.