“If a blockade is prohibited, just what security measures does Pat recommend to Saudi Arabia, the US, and our other regional allies?”
I think the author is recommending that the whole thing just stop and everybody get along.
We have left behind the old era where wars were actually won and then civilization moved on. It’s just not nice to win wars as you have to hurt people to do it.
When has an urging by remote outsiders to “just stop and everybody get along” actually resolved a conflict? And, as one of those irreducible facts of life, “winning a war requires hurting people.”