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I’ve got no problem, and in fact I want, hammering Houthis back to prehistory with extreme prejudice when there is an attack on American shipping or military.
OTOH, why a U.S. vessel carrying military cargo to Kuwait?
and could not Kuwait arrange it’s own transport for said cargo?
must be a MIC Lockheed,Raytheon,Boeing,GeneralAtomics, et al. donor class delivery.
The ship that sailed through the Suez Canal and then turned around to sail around Africa was the MV Liberty Power, a U.S.-flagged ship that was hauling cargo from the U.S. to Kuwait I don’t think it was carrying military cargo.
There were U.S.-flagged ships that were carrying military cargo that were turned back after unsuccessfully being targeted by the Houthis.
Ships entering the Red Sea are now being charged higher insurance rates due to the risk. The higher the value of the ship and cargo, the higher the insurance costs. The cost to sail around Africa is now lower, even with the E.U. charging ships for the extra ‘carbon emissions the extra sailing entails.
The nation getting hardest hit by all of this is Egypt, which gets a lot of money from Suez tolls. But they can’t do much for fear of getting missiles from Gaza.