“The blockage of sea lanes is like attacking the ‘forces of nature’ as Ned Beatty called them in that famous monologue in the movie ‘Network’.”
No. A hurricane is a force of nature. An earthquake is a force of nature. A bunch of bandits sending rockets and drones and speedboats against international shipping is an attack, not a force of nature.
The Houthis are attacking the “forces of nature” the global economic machine.
This cannot be tolerated.
It’s like some of you got your marching orders from Moscow and Tehran tonight.