Posted on 09/06/2024 9:24:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Shipping giant Maersk said on Thursday that ongoing disruptions to global shipping that attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen have caused are making shipping increasingly expensive.
Maersk’s update confirmed that its predictions in July of a “cascading impact” from the Houthi attacks, affecting far more than shipping lines that run through the Red Sea, have come true.
As for the Red Sea shipping lane, Maersk cited data that conclude transits of the Suez Canal are down by 66 percent since Houthi attacks began prompting shippers to reroute their vessels around Africa.
“These disruptions have led to service reconfigurations and volume shifts, straining infrastructure and resulting in port congestion, delays, and shortages in capacity and equipment,” Maersk said.
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They wanted a proxy war, they got a proxy war.
All the world’s shipping drives by Yemen ? LOL
We’ve seen this before. It costs LOT of money and time to go around Africa rather than the Canal.
Why is exterminating them not an option?
Destroying $50,000 drones with $1,000,000 dollar missiles is not sustainable. Unless the West is willing to root out the Houthi nests with boots on the ground and suffer casualties, there will be no free passage of shipping. The Houthi have the upper hand.
The U.S. should not give a hoot under any circumstances about foreign vessels with foreign crews transporting cargo between foreign ports.
THE END.
Uh, how exactly? Are you suggesting that the U.S. nuke Yemen or something? If so, time to join the real world.
Fact of the matter is, the U.S. is no longer "all powerful," if indeed it ever was. The world has been changing, and the decrepit GAE is slowly but surely falling apart. The simple reality is, the U.S. has attempted to engage the Houthis militarily, and it has failed. Get the picture?
The days of unilateral American hegemony are coming to an end. Like it or not, we're going to have to stop trying to throw our weight around, interfering in matters in other countries that are none of our concern, or else we're going to be made to stop, one way or the other.
Hey, give him and her a break. They are doing something really important ... like campaigning.
You can't be a base for pirate attacks if you are under colonial rule. Under Churchill, the Houthis would be climbing the king's rope. Or the queen's rope.
It’s a gift they’re setting up for Trump.
Among many more.
Remember the mess the Clintons left? (But not the silverware.)
An “accidental” Trident launch followed by effusive apologies and promises to repair the glitch could fix that problem along with many others.
The US military is not currently designed to win wars at all.
And we didn't have "unilateral hegemony" in the days of the Barbary pirates. But we eliminated them.
Maybe if we had a real president & an administration that knew what they were doing, this situation might change a little.
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