If President Jefferson had authorized the U.S. Navy to protect Danish ships flying a Panamanian flag and transporting cargo from Asia to Europe with a crew of Filipino sailors, he would have been set on fire on the front lawn of Monticello.
This is one more situation where the U.S. should just break out the popcorn and be a spectator.
You do have a way with words.
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Unfortunately we can’t just afford to sit and eat popcorn because disruption of Suez and other international shipping is one of the causes of our current inflation. Biden or his handlers are well aware that disrupted shipping significantly contributes to supply chain problems and thus to the current increase in prices that has US voters looking at change. I’m not sure even a President Trump will have more success in dealing with this issue. He will have to reconcile his anti war position with his tough guy inclinations to achieve success dealing with some of these monsters.
At least we can be glad that we are in better shape than Europe regarding inflation. Our regular gasoline prices seem to have stabalized around $3 a gallon, at least in the mid Atlantic area. The bird flu epidemic here seems to have subsided, and as laying hens increase the price of eggs will come down as will the price of chicken. Our low unemployment rate means more money in the hands of consumers, so prices for imported items will not go down unless supply chain movements become more efficient. The strike against Suez shipping has certainly been a clever Houthi move. Fifteen percent of world shipping goes through Suez and 30% of container shipping. Most don’t realize there are 20 million Houthis in Yemen. They may have an unlimited amount of Iran supplied drones to play with. Perhaps some clever Mossad agents can get the drone works in Iran blown up. A happy result for Ukrainians as well.