“...ensuring the safety of global trade and shipping.”
This is globalist nonsense. The lesson should have been learned during Corona when the West couldn’t even produce its own PPE.
They are relearning in now with artillery shell production. Where de-industrialization and offshoring has so degraded the West that the 32 countries of NATO plus Australia, Japan and S Korea are being outproduced by Russia and N Korea.
Not only that, the gap is growing and Russian increases already in place (with more to come) are more than the Announced Western shell production increases planned in the future.
Not nonsense at all. There have been real threats to shipping such as Somali pirates, etc...
USA, Canada and numerous other countries ship things across the world all the time for economic benefits.