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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoAnd yet, COSCO is still transiting Bab-el-Mandeb.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoThe world economy can survive without Israel, as COSCO has plainly demonstrated. That’s sort of the goal of sanctions.
minus-square@MaggotylinkEnglish2•9 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•9 months agoExcept, again, they clearly haven’t because COSCO literally just transited it.
minus-square@MaggotylinkEnglish2•9 months agoSomeone running the blockade does not mean there is no blockade.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoCOSCO has been very explicit about how they are complying with Yemeni sanctions. How, exactly, is that running a blockade?
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.
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.