Sure. And if Israel is directly threatened by invasion and destruction, it would issue similar warnings against its assailant(s), and maybe even carry them out. But that's not the scenario you're describing.
I think it might be more accurate to say "Hamas triggered the recent intensification of this decades-long conflict."
Again it seems like you don't care about countries that will face famines if free trade is stopped, but you do care about Gaza, You do realize people die from starvation too. You seem to have a selective morality when it comes to unnecessary deaths, I don't.
And if IRGC troops and Syrian troops invade Israel alongside Hezbollah in Lebanon via a military buildup.
Then it sounds like we should be stopping Israel now. Because your selective morality is to enable a genocide. It doesn't help that you're also talking out your ass because the Houthis have been trying to target Israel with their raids.
I don’t like the Israeli carpet bombing Gaza, but your own link states that Energy going to India is being targeted I guess I am unaware of what the Indian people have to do with the massacres in Gaza.Then it sounds like we should be stopping Israel now. Because your selective morality is to enable a genocide. It doesn't help that you're also talking out your ass because the Houthis have been trying to target Israel with their raids.
Your repeating the fun neolib talking point that profits are more important than people by trying to cloak those profits as humanist. In reality, whatever problems the Houthis have (and they aren't friends), they're taking one good stance and it's very telling that it's that stance that gets rebuked.
This is ludicrous.
Ah yes, Iran which has sent missiles to damn near every Shia group in the region, arms them, funds them, and has fought a war in Syria has no logistics. Also, everyone says the same thing about Russia as they do Syria, in reality, armed groups that fight and win gain valuable experience. As for Hezbollah, they could easily form the infantry complement of a war to Tel Aviv.
Their military efforts are dependent on US donation and support, pull the support, it's the first and easiest step. And stop talking about it like the Houthis are singlehandedly destroying global trade, doom mongering your militarist fantasy isn't impressive or persuasive. Play less Modern Warfare games.
"Between 10 to 15% of the world's shipping goes through this area."
So they are disrupting what is that, 1% (generously) of 10% of global traffic? Oh wow, I'm so worried. You're really convinced me they're a menace and need to stop trying to stop an ongoing genocide.
And I guess if you were around in 2010 or 2014 with the Republicans winning both houses of Congress you would argue the same thing. (It's just Republicans participating in democracy, who cares if they win both houses, they haven't won the presidency, and most governments are still democracies including the US)
An astute observer would point out A) both houses of congress make up 33% of the federal government, not a fraction of a fraction of the government and B) Obama was shit and wanted to do that shit anyway.
Correct. But the end of free trade isn't remotely on the table.
Yes, but they control the creation of new laws, judges can't be appointed without them, Supreme Court justices need their approval, and long-term international treaties can't be made without them. And every republican congressman is someone who can influence America via the news, and drive it further into a polarized hellscape like this year will be.
"Between 10 to 15% of the world's shipping goes through this area."
Even if they could somehow stop that 10-15% (which they can't), and they didn't go via another route (which they would), that's still not an end to free-trade. It's a local disruption. There's various places in the world you don't send your cargo through, that hasn't ended the world.
Like I stated it's a precedent being set, some jackass in another country could start by doing the same thing such as Iran in the Straits of Homez as has happened in the past due to the Iraq-Iran War with Saudi Tankers. Plus it's a shitty thing to end 10 to 15% of trade or even to raise food prices for that region of the world where for example in Sudan where there is famine that is projected to happen or Eygpt which has 100 million people that need the revenue, trade from the Suez Canal. Plus Ukrainian grains go through the Bosphorus then down the Red Sea to countries in Africa and South Asia.
As you say, this has happened in the past, and did not lead to an end of international trade. The submarine piracy of the early 20th century is all but forgotten, as that also didn't end trade.
But if the Houthis can raise the price of trade, and stop 75%-90% or so of ships from going through that strait, and Iran can stop trade from the Strait of Hormuz, then what you telling people in power is...
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Congrats on coming around to my point? Trying to compare disruption of a third of the government to Houthi's impact on global trade is farcical?
Words words words that mean nothing and aren't important to the topic. Based Houthis made Israel cry. The Houthis can be and are despicable right-wing reactionaries, but they accomplished something meaningful by disrupting trade to the one country that needs it's trade disrupted right now. None of this global trade nonsense holds water, Israel's trade was hurt because that's who the Houthis were targeting and for that crime alone we bombed them.But yes the truth and levelheaded thinking is very boring, it's why I didn't read a lot of the Neoliberal institutionalism papers I was assigned. The realism papers were more about the stuff that interested me like F-22s for example, but they are too old and outdated. The constructivism papers sucked were too dense to the laymen, too abstract, and not at all relatable to the real world. My economics assignments/reading papers and doing equations made no sense in an interconnected world and were quite outdated. It made sense for a single business, and the econometrics gave in data analysis skills and were generally good.
Also to know which ships are headed to Israel, and which are headed just to Sudan you need intelligence you know the type that warned Ukraine about a Russian invasion. You need satellites in space either by renting them or your own the Houthis are short on very precise optical ones, and likely can't afford Russian or Chinese commercial ones because they are fighting in a civil war against the other factions in the civil war. You also need capable human intelligence which the Houthis also don't have enough to precision strike which merchant vessel is headed to which port, the US is the only one who knows.
Again where is your evidence that they are just targeting Israel and the West, India is a part of BRICS, Russia is in CSTO, SCO, and BRICS, and both THEIR ships were targeted.
Venezuela and Cuba shouldn't have sanctions. Cuba's sanctions are a Cold War relic meant to both appease the Cuban ethnic enclave of parts of Miami and to counter the fact that Cuba could in theory be used to invade the US via Florida, but I already mentioned sanctions don't work. Venezuela has poor economic policies, but it's their country, and if they want to have crappy policies I don't think they should be sanctioned, plus I think Biden overlooked the fact that they stole multinational oil companies' assets and is negotiating a deal to stop the sanctions. Plus Venezuela's oil output is lower which you may agree to but it's been bad for the people there who need oil revenue for social programs.
North Korea should never have existed, and South Korea should have won the Korean War based on the fact that a UN-sanctioned intervention was created because they invaded the South first, and fascist dictatorships are still fascist if they call themselves a different name. Plus it's a poorly run country, they could trade with China, and the Kims are the worst example of a supposed left-wing dictatorship.
Edit: most of this is like Journal articles, YouTube videos by sites like Covert Cabal, and this book. Not Reddit Neolib
Edit better link.
America in the World
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