• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    So the entire middle east should just be a no go zone for shipping? I’m pretty sure the entire MENA area would blow up if we did that. It would ensure the SA/Iran war we’ve been avoiding for decades. Or, less worse case, Iran cuts the Houthis free and watches the rest of the region obliterate their former clients. Because the oil producing countries are absolutely not going to just stop exporting oil. The tourist countries are not going to accept a halt in cruise ships. And nobody wants to deal with bulk food import via land only.

    The Houthis fucked with the entire world. This is not just about going around or sticking it to some distant government without a local impact.

    • CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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      9 months ago

      Lol, you really don’t like the Houthis. Why do you care? It’s a little ethnic paramilitary, like a bajillion others all across the MENA area and other unstable regions.

      No, I’d say they should keep parking warships in the area and eating all the missiles. It’s expensive as all get out, but said Gulf contries would be obliterated by mass bombardment on the first day if the region really goes boom, and a few more weeks to let things settle and ship Anthony Blinken around would have been great.