They’re using what little leverage they have, and for once, without bombing or killing people. Surprisingly rational. Still a shitty regime, especially the way they treat their own citizens, but anyways…
What are you even talking about!? Nobody gives a shit if they bomb or kill people. Raising gas prices will bring more military consequences in a week than you’d get for a hundred years of genocide.
And how do you suppose you close an entire waterway without killing anyone? You sit in canoes with a stick and tell people to pay the toll?
It’s called a blockade. And the U.S. has a long history of using it.
Which is enforced by threat of force using warships and/or troops that will ask for tolls I guess…
So usually, in a fight/disagreement what have you, the opponents will use whatever leverage they have access to against the other entity. This is exactly the thing everyone said they were going to do and, surprise! They did the thing. Let’s not pretend who the aggressors here are, much like in the Ukraine fiasco. Nobody is a saint, but there is still a “bad guy” vs people just doing their thing. Not being allowed to exist because someone else says nah-uh is just… kinda bullshit.
(I know it’s silly, but the title of the next post made me chuckle - that’s is def how people will think of this & not why do we even still depend on oil.)