Meanwhile, we interdict Iranian ships on the high seas and seize their cargoes. We did a blockade on Cuba. The British conducted a blockade on Germany during World War I and would not allow our shipping in the area under threat of sinking even though we were a neutral country.
We enter DICT and seize ships and cargoes headed from Iran to Yemen.
And now comically, everyone is filled with this righteous indignation when Russia stops Ukraine from accessing the sea. Lol
“And now comically, everyone is filled with this righteous indignation when Russia stops Ukraine from accessing the sea. Lol”
Uh, no. We are pointing merely pointing out Russian hypocrisy. And it’s not so much as Russia stopping Ukraine from accessing the Black Sea, it’s Russia playing hall monitor to keep EVERYONE from accessing the Black Sea. Besides Russia and Ukraine, there are four independent and sovereign countries on the Black Sea: Turkey; Georgia; Bulgaria; and Romania. Three of those are NATO countries. And, of course, that doesn’t even include all the shipping from other countries that transit the Bosporus. It’s akin to China declaring complete hegemony over the South China Sea (which it is claiming), or the US doing the same with the Gulf of Mexico; or Greece, or Libya doing the same with the Mediterranean Sea.
Russia — as a signatory to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982) — would be in violation of that very Convention. But, that’s typical of Russia: It is wholly untrustworthy, and any agreements it enters into it can and will ignore. Hence, Reagan’s admonition — when it came to any agreement with the Russians — to “trust, but verify;” and Bismark’s comment that he didn’t trust Russians because the Russian’s didn’t trust themselves.